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This is why I haven't seen "The Irishman" yet. I like Scorsese, it has a great cast, and I've heard good things about the movie, but I can't find the time to sit down for three and a half hours.
Between work, kids, and just generally trying to keep on top of stuff it leaves little time to commit to a film that long. Recently I've been just watching series'. It's easy to watch an hour long episode, or two, than to strap in for a really long movie.
I have a long list of movies I've been "meaning to catch up on", but the trend of longer runtimes is making that list longer and longer.
What if I told you that you can pause movies after watching for an hour and then come back to it later?
Yep. Recently watched Apocalypse Now Redux with my wife on a Saturday night and we got tired half way through. We just stopped it there and watched the second half on a Saturday night one week later.
Neither of us had seen Apocalypse Now before. Hell of a movie!
I did this with the LOTR trilogy recently. Excellent experience. There's definitely spots where it made sense to pause depending on how much time I had to spare. Watching it in 45-90 minute chunks and stopping at logical transitions made it feasible and enjoyable for me
That's pretty much what I do with streaming stuff as well. Long movies and sometimes show eps.
Yes, I know you can pause movies on your TV, and sometimes that's how I watch them. I think it takes something away from the movie by watching it in segments, but maybe that's just me.
And then you end up on binging 4episodes and the film would have been shorter.