“Feast” famously had tons of problems, but the end result was pretty badass.

“Feast” famously had tons of problems, but the end result was pretty badass.

There was a time when you shot a movie and the story and the way a scene was shot that dictated its length, now we destroy films by cutting out whole sections and shortening scenes (Removing any artform of the editor) in order to fit it within a crappy 90 minute timeframe.

I haven’t watched a movie more then twice in the last 10-20 years, not so of movies made before then.

There was a time when you shot a movie and the story and the way a scene was shot that dictated its length, now we destroy films by cutting out whole sections and shortening scenes (Removing any artform of the editor) in order to fit it within a crappy 90 minute timeframe.

I haven’t watched a movie more then twice in the last 10-20 years, not so of movies made before then.

The guy lost me when talking about action driven by metaphysical points of view. Mostly because that word is tossed around so much without people understanding what it means, and because I generally feel the French have difficulty comprehending action flicks. Violence and stupidity is the goal. Trenches of thought action is incredibly difficult to pull off, and the French attempts I’ve seen spend too much time talking and not enough time blowing stuff up. District B13 works – flat characters, lots of cool stunt work.

But…La Haine is genius. Incredible work. So there might be something to the question of whether an extra 15 minutes could take a film like this from total crap to incredibly entertaining.

The guy lost me when talking about action driven by metaphysical points of view. Mostly because that word is tossed around so much without people understanding what it means, and because I generally feel the French have difficulty comprehending action flicks. Violence and stupidity is the goal. Trenches of thought action is incredibly difficult to pull off, and the French attempts I’ve seen spend too much time talking and not enough time blowing stuff up. District B13 works – flat characters, lots of cool stunt work.

But…La Haine is genius. Incredible work. So there might be something to the question of whether an extra 15 minutes could take a film like this from total crap to incredibly entertaining.