• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Tbf you don’t need to watch a 4.5 hour movie in one go either. Many films used to incorporate intermissions for this very purpose.

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            Maybe they could split it up into even more watchable bits, call them "episodes”. It could be like a series. Not like a whole series, maybe some sort of miniature series.

            It’s OK to make a TV show, Ridley.

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              1 year ago

              Why not make it two separate parts, released fairly close together, like a month apart? You’d build up hype and make people want to see the first one before part two comes out, then offer some double feature screenings alongside the normal release to encourage viewings of the second one. It would then also gain a surge in ticket sales as people finally went to see part onento get caught up.

              Effectively it would mean a single film taking up twice as many screens and pulling in twice as many tickets.

              All of that’s assuming it’s any good, of course. But I would think by this point with Ridley Scott that’s a decent bet.

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      1 year ago

      For a theater, yes. But for home video, where people can and often do watch movies in chunks anyway, length doesn’t matter as much.

      I’d love it if he just dropped it as two films, released a month apart. That would drive people to see the first part so that they can be caught up for part two.

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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately that likely wouldn’t work great. The only people that would be interested in watching part 2 are the people that watched (and liked) part 1. And business is often a numbers game

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          That’s fair. But presumably the same number of people would watch part 1 as would watch the whole thing. And maybe even more, because of the lower time commitment.