GoF in two parts? How long is Long?

[irene_mikhlin]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> 
> Well, that is a step in the right direction, but the 'powers that be'
> at Warner seem to think that 2.5hrs is a 'long' movie. Both
> 'Sorcerer's Stone' and 'Chamber of Sercets' would have gone from good
> to great movies if they had been stretched to 3 full hours. 
> 
> This is especially true of CoS. If you look at the DVD extras, you
> will see that many elements that would have explained the plot and
> allowed some character developemnt were there, but had to be cut to
> fit WB's assumption that the TV generation can't sit still and remain
> attentive from more than a few minutes at a time.

I agree with your general sentiment, but I find it hard to blame the
studio for CoS decisions.
If you cut one minute of the stupid "flying car chases Hogwarts
express sequence", one minute of the spiders sequence and one minute
of the final basilisk battle, you have sufficient time for the
plot-advancing DVD extras and the same total running time.
Nope, can't blame studio for that. Now, maybe they forced Columbus's
hand in this kind of decisions as well, but we don't know.

Irene