Maybe it would have worked better it I could not imagine sitting through four and a. Half more hours of that.
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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I liked the movie but it was definitely too long as it was. Adding that much more would have made it unmatchably slow.
I think part of the appeal of a TV serial is how it breaks individual events down into self-contained arcs and strings them together into a series, rather than trying to weld them all together into a massive epic.
Eight one-hour episodes can be watched over weeks. One four hour movie is a lot harder to get down in a single sitting.
Wait! Did they just say "Jodie Foster Suggests Martin Scorsese's 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' Would Have Worked Better As An 8-Hour Streaming Series"?
I mean Scorsese can tell his story how ever he wants but Killers sure did feel too long and too short at the same time.
So did The Irishman. The idea that a film gets better with footage has got to end. Tarantino split Kill Bill and our asses are better for it.
Yeah Scorsese has shit he wants to say, and it’s interesting and compelling stuff. But it doesn’t fit in a tight ninety minutes and I miss a tight ninety minutes.
His films have rarely been that short, though. Even before streaming allowed him to make very long films like The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, he was still averaging well over 2 hours.
Not really. There are people that enjoy it. :-(
Release the supercut!!!
Basically he's just making movies at the point for me to fall asleep to. I haven't gotten through either of his last two movies. Just can't do it