I grew up with, and still watch semi-regularly, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lawrence of Arabia. I've loved those since I was a kid. One of the reasons my folks felt able to take me to movies with them when I was little was because I
did sit still through what Jar-Jar would call a long-o tell-o. So I, instinctively and through experience/exposure, have never had a problem with slower-paced films, so long as they take the time they need to tell their story and don't drag it out for the mere sake of being plodding. I was more enthralled with BR'49 than even Lawrence of Arabia. When it comes out on home-video I'm probably going to watch the hell out of it, and I'm curious to see how often I'm able to look away to work on other things when there's so much visual information on the screen that's talking in place of dialogue.
About the only thing that feels weird to me, and that I don't know whether is coincidence or deliberate, is that not too long before I saw BR'49 I stumbled across the porn term "JOI" and what it stands for. I can't help but wonder... :behave
The only fanedit I want to see is one that seamlessly replaces Jared Leto with a digital David Bowie.
--Jonah