Running time of movie, Weddings

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amber ?" <inviziblegirl at h...> wrote:
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> >From: prefectmarcus at y...
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> >This just in.  It would appear that WB is not going to mess around
> >with their potential gold-mine.  All the rumors have been that the
> >cut is long.  Apparently the time has been set at 142 minutes, 
> >nearly two and a half hours!
 
A post on the main list (which probably should have been here, but oh 
well...) said the same, and that the previous record holders were 
Mary Poppins and the remake of the Parent Trap (139 mins and 127 
mins).  However, I always thought that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was 
the longest kid movie.  It even has an intermission (on the video, 
too).  So I checked the video box (we have a large collection of 
tapes for our kids, who aren't really allowed to watch prime time TV 
with rare exceptions) and it says that the running time is 2 hours 24 
minutes (144 mins).  This makes it two minutes longer than the Harry 
Potter movie.  Is someone not counting CCBB as a kid film or 
something?  This was my favorite movie as a kid, and one can imagine 
that Rowling may have liked it also, considering that her physical 
descriptions of Snape could just as easily fit the Child Catcher (and 
that's not the only similarity).  Could it be it's being ignored 
because it was written by Ian Fleming, also the creator of James 
Bond?  Who knows...the media just prints whatever it wants.  I 
learned that a long time ago.

--Barb
(feeling a little cynical today)