MOVIE: Running Time (was Re: Running time of movie final cut announced)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., prefectmarcus at y... wrote:
> 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!

I too saw this news when perusing The Leaky Cauldron and just figured 
I'd add a quick cautionary note.  This is still only a rumor, so don't 
get your hopes too high.  An earlier rumor on Leaky Cauldron (based on 
information from the below link (apparently the largest British cinema 
chain) gave the running time as 107 minutes.

http://www.odeon.co.uk/pls/Odeon/Odeon_general.film_x?FILM=harry_potte
r_and_the_philsophers_sto

One may be right, BOTH may be wrong.  Just take it as an indication 
that we still don't know.  AFAIK, the final cut has not yet been made, 
so in actuality both are only goals anyway.

And on a personal note, I refuse to make any judgment calls on the 
movie's quality based on its running time.  I would hate to see the 
studio impose some superficial time limit on it just because they 
don't think kids have the attention span.  But I can also tell you 
that as a general rule for movies, some scenes deserve to be 
shortened.  In the case of HP they may not be cutting scenes so much 
as tightening them up.  A longer or shorter running time does not 
directly correlate with how accurate the adaptation is.

Okay, I'm done now.

-Luke