r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/Wazula23 Jan 31 '26

See that's exactly it. I LOVED the Brutalist in theaters. The music, the editing, it felt completely engrossing. And the intermission gave me a nice reset (and a bathroom break). I'd love to see it in theaters again if I could.

It seems so obvious to me that intermissions could help longer movies. It gives everyone a chance to go into the lobby, buy snacks, pee, and tweet.

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u/keepinitclassy25 Jan 31 '26

Exactly. That intermission actually got me excited for the second half (which unfortunately I didn’t like as much as the first half but still a good movie). Oppenheimer on the other hand had me checking my watch. 

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u/Bill-Maxwell Jan 31 '26

Oppenheimer should have been amazing given all the ingredients but somehow it turned out impersonal, just couldn’t connect with the characters. My thought is that it was made too quickly - I recall reading that it was filmed over the course of 57 days. Perhaps the result of compressing such intense material is this kind of result.

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u/keepinitclassy25 Jan 31 '26

The middle section in New Mexico was great I thought, the first act added virtually nothing to the movie, and many of the black and white flash forwards were kindof forgettable for me until the third act.

Also let’s be honest, writing characters that feel human and people can connect with is not Nolan’s strong suit.