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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Set to release on Nov 22 in major markets for anyone else about to ask in the thread like I almost did instead of just looking it up.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The true hero. Preempting your own well-earned laziness to spare us all the same effort. I thank you.

[–] lou_profile@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The normal cut btw, not the long one mentioned in the title. In case someone, like me, thinks the long will be released in November. Not to downplay your comment though

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just know they are going to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well now I want to wait for the director's cut to watch.

[–] potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn Napoleon going to be shorter than this cut of the movie.

(Yeah yeah i know he was average height for his time)

[–] panchzila@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Akchua.... Dammit.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A good response to historical inaccuracies found in the trailer from the Waterloo Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbXiYLi1ys

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in the day, the Soviet Red Army trained 16,000 troops in Napoleonic Era artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics. They were first used in the Russian movie 'War And Peace.' Hollywood hired them out for 'Waterloo' with Rod Steiger.

If you want to see a great reenactment of the battle, watch that movie. I'm speaking specifically about military tactics.

https://youtu.be/rt4mYUKjzn0

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Christ, if the video is an hour long how long is the trailer??

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Aha, three minutes I think? There is so much history in that period, that even the appearance and the fact that there is a speaking part for one person in the trailer gives those in the video hope for the movie.

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[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk Ridley, maybe it's great but directors have a lot of hubris in thinking anyone would want to sit through a 4.5 hour film. at that point your best bet is to release it as a miniseries like the extended cut of Hateful Eight

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Releasing Napoleon as a short film would be wrong on multiple levels.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wasn’t Kubrick originally going to make this movie?

[–] LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There has been many Napoleon projects, starting with the 1927 silent epic. Kubrick researched a long time for his project but never had time to do it. Spielberg is collaborating with HBO to use that script for a miniseries though.

[–] brsrklf@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is it with Spielberg finishing Kubrick's stuff? No disrespect to either, but it's not like their works are very similar.

[–] LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Because they were friends (or at least knew each other).

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yea I remember seeing something about that. Wonder if the script ever ended up anywhere. Like how Spielberg ended up directing Ai which was a Kubrick script or idea? I can’t remember.

[–] ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

4 and a half hours is too long

[–] Zibobwa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?

[–] regular_human@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Shalakushka@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

The key words being used to. We need to bring it back, but I fear that's unlikely

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Will it also be in black and white so you can't tell how bad the effects are?

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Of course Ridley Scott has multiple different cuts.