Matt, I agree with you that the brutalist is slow and way too long.

However, each Lord of the Rings movie is three and a half hours long or longer, and that's more than justified.

But I'll concede that no other movie has any right to be that long.

A lot of comments about this too saying, you know, I said no movie should be three and a half hours long, like the brutalist, that awful movie was.

And a few attempts to come up with exceptions to the rule. And Lord of the Rings was mentioned by several people.

Sorry, not only is Lord of the Rings not an exception, but it's actually a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

And you know what this dwarf says to that?

Okay, so let's just take Return of the King,

which I think was the longest one of all three movies.

And I liked those movies, by the way. But the theatrical release of Return of the King, which I think was the longest one of all three movies. And I like those movies,

by the way. But the theatrical release of Return of the King was about three and a half hours.

It was about what the brutalist is. And then there are all these extended cuts that are four

and a half hours long, which is just obscene. That's offensive. I'm offended. If I pick up

the Blu-ray, not that I watch Blu-ray anymore, and it says four and a half hours long, I'm offended. If I pick up the Blu-ray, not that I would watch Blu-ray anymore, and it says four and a half hours long, I'm offended by that. That's so insanely long.

How would you, how do you, that you would dare even sell that, that you would put that on the shelf

for anyone to watch. Four and a half hours. So, but no, let's just take three and a half hours. That was way too long. Okay. That you could have cut,

Return to the King, you could have cut at least 45 minutes out of that movie, at least 45 minutes,

and it would have been a better movie. And if you cut 45 minutes, it's still a movie that's

two, two hours and 45 minutes long. It's still a long movie. Can you just

cut it down from epic marathon length to very long? Can we just make that? It would be a better

movie.

I hate you. Why would you be without me?

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