Just watch the movie 1917 at an AMC theatre in North Fort Myers. Thought it was great! It is a 2 hr movie but it is so well done that the time passed quickly. The show was advertised to begin at 3 pm. Only after 30 minutes of forthcoming movies so DAMN loud (ear plugs suggested), did 1917 begin.
It is a great movie, but there are some things that are hard to believe. In a war where advancing a thousand yards would have been considered a great breakthrough, having miles and miles of unoccupied land between the German and Allied lines is hard to believe. Still a great movie worth watching. Loved the cinematography. The night scenes were stunning. The continuous shots were extremely impressive.
Probably not going to see it until it comes out on TV or red box. Not really interested in this type of movie. Now if it was Star Wars or some other SciFi, That'd be different!
I'd love to see that one, but I rarely go to the movies for just the reasons you suggested. I don't feel that I should have to pay to watch commercials, and the sound is painfully loud. Our AMC theater just reopened after a nearly two year overhaul due to hurricane Irma in 2017. Sadly, they "improved" the sound system so that it's even louder. Is everyone deaf?
The super long sequences are an interesting shift from modern editing - 0.5 second sequences non-stop. I almost get seizures when someone is playing Transformers in my vecinity. Long gone are the days of carefully telling a story and watching the characters evolve. I wonder what came first, goldfish-like attention spans from the public, or movies made this way?
I liked it. I did get a little light dizzy when for the first 10 minutes all they did was walk thru a maze of trenches....I find anyhting around WWI or WII intriguing....... even though it's not all true I admire the men and what they had to go through like Hacksaw Ridge or Saving Private Ryan... takes a big set of ^@*$, to get off the boat and onto shore...
The previews and now ads are annoying as hell IMO.... I guess only way they can make ends meet these days.....
We know to expect 30 mins of ads and previews so if the show time is 7:30 we dont go into the theater until 7:50
A couple of comments - SAVING PRIVATE RYAN did have several master shots. Long sequences are nothing new - when Cecil B. Demille filmed BEN HUR back in the '50's, the chariot race was a one shot deal because of the cost of having to reshoot it. Although the sequence is shown on-screen as a series of shorter takes, the whole thing was filmed as one master shot. Demille had cameras everywhere, and backups for the backups when he shot it. One of his biggest problems with the shoot was hiding all of the cameras. I remember hearing a story that when he was asked about the cost of all of the cameras, he responded that film was the cheapest thing in the shot. Comment two - Having said that I hate the commercials at the beginning, the theater probably does need to run them; the cost of renting a first-run film is astronomical - sometimes as high as 90% of the gate. Movie houses make their money from the wildly overpriced concession stands and commercials. More and more theaters are actually installing sit-down restaurants and/or delivering restaurant food to the seats. The film is pretty much the hook to get you into the theater.
