patrickivan
Sr Member
I think it's the opposite for me. The better the film, the shorter it feels. ANH and most Star Wars just flies by. Some Star Trek movies are the same. The Undiscovered Country, one I've seen so many times it's stupid, goes by so fast for me, I am always a little sad at the end. And it's not a movie that's worn out its welcome either.
I'd say some things that I loved when younger, like the Transformers series *I know- not a movie*, is something that I tried to watch now and couldn't get past the first episode. It was just horrible, and I'll just leave it at an enjoyable memory as a child.
So many movies I used to love are quite hard to get through now. Gremlins is one. It's a great movie in a lot of regards, but it just drags on for me now. Even more recent movies like, the Transformers... Just a blur or shaky scenes that never ends. The Bourne series. I loved those. But they're hard as well now unfortunately, and the latest one was so stuck on the old formula, that one dragged on for me a bit too.
I'd say some things that I loved when younger, like the Transformers series *I know- not a movie*, is something that I tried to watch now and couldn't get past the first episode. It was just horrible, and I'll just leave it at an enjoyable memory as a child.
So many movies I used to love are quite hard to get through now. Gremlins is one. It's a great movie in a lot of regards, but it just drags on for me now. Even more recent movies like, the Transformers... Just a blur or shaky scenes that never ends. The Bourne series. I loved those. But they're hard as well now unfortunately, and the latest one was so stuck on the old formula, that one dragged on for me a bit too.
I mentioned this in the Solo thread and I wonder if it's just weird'ol me being....well weird'ol me :lol
Basically here's how it goes: we'll take SW a new hope as an example-when I got a VCR back in the mid 80's (around '87) I watched ANH a lot,a whole LOT and even back then I kinda liked it and yet could see that for all the hoopla it wasn't that wonderful of a film,good yes but not amazing.
The way it goes and it's been this way since my binge watching the first ever SW film that when I really don't like a film and I watch it too much I get to the point that I'll notice the thing feels shorter and shorter even if it's a two plus hour film.
With SW it's tattooine,the death star,attack on the death star,the end in that order and what is a two hour movie feels like an hour and a half or less...still that way today if I watch it (and it's been five years about since I watched it last)
It's worse for films I look at now and cringe like back to the future or raising Arizona if I sit and watch them it feels like the worst ten minutes of my life.
Yet some dumb films I really liked,love even,don't suffer from this for example a few of the 60's Toho rubber monster movies like Godzilla Vs the Astro monster are still slow and last...does this make sense?
Anybody else? You have films that seem way shorter then when you watched them the first time? Films you liked? Or ones that you didn't? Is it just me?