re: Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

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It's a great movie, but I will stand up for the "its boring" crowd. That is legitimate criticism. a director is responsible for pacing, and a movie that needlessly drags is a failure of the director. Now, I find this movie to be intricate, not boring. It slowly reveals itself, but I am sympathetic to the argument that a movie takes too long to get to its destination. I don't think its unreasonable for a movie to wrap itself up in 100 to 120 minutes. If you go beyond 120 minutes, there better be a good reason.

Many longish films could stand to be edited. This isn't short attention span, it's just good storytelling. Using the space just because you can is not a good reason.

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I agree that many movies can be edited in length and actually make them better movies. However, I'm not sure I can specify a definite time limit. Depends.

But this movie was very, very good. Not boring at all, imo.