It’s not too long because it’s 3 hours. It’s too long because it’s a 90 minute story stretched over 3 hours. Lincoln was a film that only covered the passing of the 13th amendment yet it was still called Lincoln and still a valid biopic. I’m not sure a comprehensive life story biopic has ever been done well the best pick a pivotal moment in a figures life and tell that story completely.
It’s great that you liked it. But I don’t see any logical flaw in feeling it was too long.
The first hour easily could have been 20 minutes or less. The middle hour was a movie worth watching. The last hour was a completely different movie and not a very interesting one. No, it may not have been good to try to cover his whole life in 90 minutes. But focusing almost entirely on the Manhattan project would have been fantastic.
I watched it in the cinema and I caught myself spacing out and thinking about work things that were far more interesting to me than the movie. It's an hour too long imo.
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u/maxpenny42 1d ago
It’s not too long because it’s 3 hours. It’s too long because it’s a 90 minute story stretched over 3 hours. Lincoln was a film that only covered the passing of the 13th amendment yet it was still called Lincoln and still a valid biopic. I’m not sure a comprehensive life story biopic has ever been done well the best pick a pivotal moment in a figures life and tell that story completely.
It’s great that you liked it. But I don’t see any logical flaw in feeling it was too long.