I think that Arcane’s three acts of three episodes each to be the perfect binge. Sure, you could binge the entire season, but stopping at the end of each act and letting it process is a much more impactful way to watch.
I’m talking about Season 1.
Season 1 was great.
Thing with series is that the episodes are usually at least somewhat, well, episodic, and you have obvious breakpoints.
If a movie has the usual three act structure, each act of a ten hour movie would be over three hours long.
Which is honestly kinda perfect for an evening but I still like a break every hour for fluid exchange
I, too, like to spit into my fellow humans
Hey 😘
Please, let me brush my teeth first! 😄 (But seriously, I like your beaver pics)
Lord of the Rings Extended Trilogy checks this box nicely.
If you factor in the usual trilogy structure, that’s only nine acts at an hour+ each
I guess, honestly I’ve started watching movies in pieces and it doesn’t bother me. Like start watching it, pause it and leave the rest for tomorrow if I feel like I’ve had enough for now.
I haven’t binged a show in ages. Without actively intending to fall asleep to it, at least.
Am I alone here? Did the whole binge watch thing phase all the way out for anybody else?
I doubt you’re alone, but I certainly can’t join you. My most recent binge was last weekend, and I thought it was the whole season in one sitting, but it turned out there were 3 more episodes that released during the week…which I then watched all in one day.
I’ve found (with some exceptions of course) 2-3 episodes in one go is enough binge for me.
Beyond that and a lot of the stuff that happens earlier in the season tends to get pushed out or blended together and plot holes and other issues build up too much ‘pressure’ and ruin my enjoyment and I practically hate watch.
Same. Just feels so… gluttonous? Lazy? Like, I really feel disgusted at myself if I realize I’ve been sitting watching TV for more than an hour or two
I can do it with a good miniseries, but only because I watch TV so rarely. 8 hours in one day doesn’t really seem so bad when I don’t watch any at all for the rest of the week, if not most of the month. If it weren’t for my wife, I would probably only watch TV as binges a couple times a year.
Complete lack of anything decent to watch
It takes me 3/4 sessions to watch a movie and I actually felt always like I was weird.
Thx Netflix meme.
Would you like to eat a whole bag of chips while you watch the 10-hour show?
How about if we break it up into into handfuls and you don’t look down to see how much is left when you reach for more?
Extended cut Lord Of The Rings trilogy is like 9 hours long.
Fuck Netflix, I have my own copy!
I used to do a Godfather-Lord of the Rings marathon on sundays
The extended editions are almost 12 hours long. 9 hours is the theatrical cut.
You must have obtained a different version then, because I ripped the DVDs myself, and I know how to read.
Also, in case you haven’t noticed my username, I know how to keep time.
Extended version is around 9 hours, unless you can provide a link to the longer version you mentioned…
One year after the theatrical cut of each Lord of the Rings movie, an extended version arrived. These editions add tons of new footage, increasing the Lord of the Rings extended editions’ length from the theatrical runtime of 9 hours and 3 minutes to 11 hours and 36 minutes.
It’s not even that hard to google. Why act so rude and so definitively about something you can so easily be proven wrong about?
Nothing is that hard to Google, except fuck Google
As far as I’m concerned, the verb to google is genericised. You can google on Google, or you can google on Kagi or whatever your preferred search engine is.
Regardless, I think you’re attempting to distract from your own rather poor behaviour and factual error. Why be like this?
So they made an extended version of the extended version? Gotcha. I didn’t have the good luck of seeing the extended² version that you mention.
You pointed out the 9 hour version I mentioned, which means you know exactly what version I was mentioning, which indeed was released as an extended version.
So shoot the guy that never saw the extended² version…
The entire post was about who the fuck wants to spend 10 hours watching a movie, and how that content is delivered.
No, I think the only version you’ve seen is probably just the regular theatrical version. Which was also available, at least at one point, on DVD.
This sorta gets me about the wheel of time. How did peter jackson do the lord of the rings book by book so well. I mean yeah they were long and he cut some stuff and made one major change im not wild about but overall very good. Wheel of time has a whole season per book and so much time dedicated to character interactions that never happened.
What major change you don’t like?
sauruman dying
Did they change the death from the books, or are you upset they cut it out of the theatrical release?
They changed his death. In the book he begrudgingly leaves Isengard, only to plan a petty revenge and mess up the Shire while the party is on their way to Mordor.
Saruman is known to do a bit of trolling.
