Why do you think Rambo and Cloverfield were so short?!
Question: 85 minutes for each. My only ideas are that the makers ran out of ideas, or following the disappointing box office of Grindhouse last year, the movie makers were appealing to the action fan's short attention span?
Answers: 85 minutes for each. My only ideas are that the makers ran out of ideas, or following the disappointing box office of Grindhouse last year, the movie makers were appealing to the action fan's short attention span?
You right on the money. Thats exactly what they said in the Hollywood Reporter.
Well, a lot of action movies tend to be short. I think that the reason these movies are short is because they lack any real content. They don't really have any real themes, just shock value.
Cloverfield was short because it was shot on a Panasonic HVX200 that had a 74-minute recording time. It made sense, with all the times that Hud turned it off and on, that it lasted for the entire 7 hours of the monster attack. That's why at the end, they ran out of battery and did their sign-offs.
That's why I saw both movies on the same day, last weekend.
I believe Rambo was 93 minutes long. This was in fact the first Rambo that Sylvester Stallone Directed and wrote. Having no other directing experience other than Rocky Balboa, it was probably difficult for him to make an in depth storyline spanning out over the course of 2 or 2 and a half hours. This was a change to a Ranbo movie though. It was definitely gory, way more then the older ones, and it was almost too brutal to watch at times. Stallone did a good job creating a current day Burma genocide zone. As for Cloverfield, it was made to look like it was on a handheld camera, those types of cameras never have too much memory on them, especially since footage of Conney island was already on there. The camera was buried under debris at the end. Maybe to leave others to find it? I applaud you Mr. Abrams on a cliffhanger ending leaving people wanting more.
shorter movies = more actioned packed and more exciting to watch.
why drag on if theres nothing more to add?
i applaud rambo and cloverfield for their short screenplays.
Rambo ran out of people to kill.
I think Rambo was too short, but not Cloverfield