Pirates of the Carribean length time!

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The length time for pirates of the carribean is 3 minutes short of 3 HOURS! I cant wait that long in a chair! the popcorn only lasts me the adverts! I didnt expect it to be that long! Who aggrees?

hehe, it is the same with me. but i like long movies, though. you can watch longer for the same price

Yup, that was a cursed blessing for LOTR and King Kong. The length allows deeper immersion and story telling in the movie, whereas the usual hour and a half makes the movie feel either rushed or just a peek. However, Return of the King's ending kinda suffered... but of course they had WAAAY more footage than that and it's a very stripped down version of the original ending!

Me and my dad went to see Rotk. We thought it was over when the screen went black and we stood up, then there was another scene. Again screen went black we stood up and then Boom, another scene. I think we did this like 3 times. We were ready to get out of there I guess.

Yeah, the fade to black got me too!

Like that wildly entertaining friend who takes forever to get to the end of a story, Pirates is a rollicking good time—key word being time. As in, too much of it. War and Peace should clock in at over two hours; a pirate movie featuring wacky men in eyeliner?
Ninety minutes, max.

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I think if the movie is done right, and is compelling enough, you get so pulled into the movie that you don't notice the time. Of course, if it is going to be longet than 2 hours, they should plan an intermission because at some point your bladder is going to remind you how long you have been sitting there, especially if you get the extra-large soda. I have not yet seen PotC3, nor did I see either LotR3 or KK, but I did endure Titanic and The Right Stuff, and LotR2 and PotC2 were both fairly long as well.

My personal barometer for how compelling a movie is is how much soda I have left over at the end, since on very good movies I forget to drink. Or if I run out, it must not have been that good of a movie, or at least had long dull periods.

I have nothing against long movies, as long as they are compelling enough, and some movies, like the Harry Potter ones, need to be longer just to get the entire plot in. After the initial joy of Seeing Harry Potter come to the screen and being thrilled by the cinematography of it (they were all very pretty), I was disappointed by each and everyone since they were too short. But since the first book was the shortest, and the first movie was around 2 hours (sorry, don't have exact time at my fingertips), I knew I would be disappointed by all of them merely because the stories were too big to fit within the time frame.

I think the movie should be judged not on its time length, but on its content. I liked Piraes 2 because they did take the time to go into the story a bit; I'm sure Pirates 3 did the same thing. I'm sorry if you prefer movies that stick to an alloted time that people are familiar with instead of telling the complete story. And if it is too long to sit through at the cinema, then just wait a month and rent it on DVD. It's not like you have to wait very long anymore.

I'm buying it on DVD now because NO WAY! would I last 3 hours without going to the loo and it looks like such a good movie I wont want to