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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zeus posted...

Really depends on the genre. Horror movies and comedies still tend to clock in at around 90 minutes (including the newly released Unfriended: Dark Web, The First Purge, and Hotel Transylvania 3).

I wouldn't count low-budget horror (which is 99% of horror, honestly) as "major blockbuster". And most modern horror is aimed at a teenage demo that is basically just jump-scares and hyperkinetic cinematography because most young people today have the attention span of a gnat.

The same logic applies to most kid-aimed movies (which is where I'd toss Hotel Transylvania), because the idea of a kid who can sit still and watch a movie for more than 90 minutes would be like finding the city of El Dorado.

Originally I had just quoted the first part of that sentence, but realized that I should leave in the second half in because it pertained to my remark about action/adventure movies. At any rate, the majority of films in theaters at any given moment aren't "blockbusters" and the first reference didn't specify blockbusters.

More importantly, blockbusters (or at least action/adventure blockbusters) were *always* longer so implying that this is some new trend is misleading. Even something like Die Hard -- which came out a full 20 years ago -- was 132 minutes.
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