This is actually a related reason. Most movies are set at about 120 minutes (up and down can be appropriately floated), which is a more suitable range for the movie itself, the producer, and the audience.
Regarding the movie itself,
is now on the market, and there are three types of movies with the widest audience, which are comic (that is, superhero), science fiction, and action.
What do these movies have in common? It is special effects and big scenes that are the focus. The story and the plot itself are not unimportant, but relatively speaking, the requirements are not that high.
Even for some commercial films, literary drama is just a transitional bridge connecting martial arts.
Under this premise, what happens if the movie is too long?
means that the film will have to lengthen the drama, making the film irrelevant. If
has children's shoes, you can just add more special effects, scenes, and martial arts instead of verse.
But it involves another problem, which is budget.
special effects blockbusters burn real money. In many cases, a single shot takes a long time to render and costs a lot of money. The so-called "additional special effects scenes" are easy to say, but the actual operation is often limited by funds. After all, not all commercial films can have the production cost of the "Reunion" level. If
compresses the quality of the special effects of the whole film, then you can add more scenes, but the consequence is to make the scenes and special effects look inaccurate, which is commonly known as "five cents special effects", which is obviously not worth the loss. After all,
is now an era of "quality but not weight", and the aesthetic level of the audience is always improving.
Therefore, for most movies, 120 minutes is just the right time.
For the producer,
is a general commercial movie, about 2 hours is enough to tell a complete story, and for a movie that exceeds 120 minutes, the script usually has a lot of clues or multiple lines in parallel. This type of script is compared with ordinary scripts. Not only is the length of the story lengthened, but also a lot of extra preparation work for the producer.
For example, "Reunion 3" is a typical two-line story. One line is Titan and the other line is Wakanda. If the story of "Reunion 3" is designed as a single line, it is obviously for the producer. The budget, preliminary preparations, and the workload of the cast can be reduced a lot. Of course, given the positioning of the movie "Reunion 3", the single-line story obviously does not conform to the plan of the Marvel Universe, but this is not in the topic. So skip it. If
is a feature film, the longer the movie is, the more difficult it will be to make the story script. The screenwriter needs to have a high level of skill and the director has a very high level of script review.
On the other hand, the shorter the duration of the movie, the more films will be arranged when it goes online in the theater. As long as the audience’s reputation is good, its box office revenue will have a clear advantage compared with the long movie, and the film party will naturally make money. More, after all, movies like "Avengers 4", "Avatar", and "Titanic" that can win high box office in 3 hours are very few and cannot be used as a standard for normal situations.
In other words, if a movie lasts more than 120 minutes, the producer’s workload will increase significantly, and it will also be slightly detrimental to the film arrangement. Therefore, unless the positioning of the film itself requires more than 2 hours of time, the producer generally wants to increase the duration Control within 120 minutes.
For the audience, the main force of
going to the theater to watch movies is teenagers, but nowadays the pace of life in society is quite fast. If the movie is short, it is in line with the rhythm of life of teenagers.
Suppose there is a child's shoes who intends to go to the movie after get off work at night. He is an office worker from 9 to 6. After dinner at 7 o'clock, he goes to the theater to watch 2 hours of movie at 9 o'clock, and then he comes home to take a shower and almost to rest. It's time.
What if the movie is too long? Time will be even more pressing for him, and maybe they will simply cancel this plan.
In addition, there is a link in the so-called movie viewing experience, and movie viewing experience involves the overall distribution of literary and martial arts in the film. The longer the movie, the higher the requirements for the distribution of the film’s literary and martial arts. Insufficient balance will make the audience's viewing experience very bad.
Even if you look at Hollywood, the film is very long but its rhythm is controlledVery well-made movies are also in the minority. Therefore, for the audience, even if the tempo of a two-hour movie is poor, it is still in the category that they can continue to watch. I am afraid that many spectators will leave directly.
To sum up, the length of about 120 minutes is a relatively standard length for the movie itself, the producer or the audience, and it is also a time that is generally accepted by the public.
