The past two nights my husband and I watched Avatar. Yes, TWO nights. We got about halfway through it Monday night, and decided we had to go to bed. It was 9:30pm. We resumed last night and again, finished around 9:30 and headed up to bed.
Maybe we are lightweights... but maybe, just maybe, that movie was too dang long! Don't get me wrong, I liked it. But I probably would have liked it more had I been able to watch it in a theater.
Why couldn't I watch it in a theater, you might be asking me. Well, since my husband and I are the only two people on this planet who can put our son to bed, that means we cannot leave our house any earlier than 7:30pm. Which also means we are shooting for an 8:30 movie. If we go to an 8:30 movie that is THREE hours long, we won't be leaving the movie theater until 11:45 (giving 15 minutes for previews). Then drive home, then feed cats, clean up, go to bed. That means, probably going to bed past 12:30am. Our kids wake up at 6. By my calculations, that is not a lot of sleep.
Hollywood needs to have a time limit for movies. 2 hours tops, in my opinion (maybe 2.5 for exceptional movies). As much as I dislike the 7th Harry Potter book being put into two movies, at least then less is lost from the books but I don't have to be in the theater ALL freakin night! I am willing to pay the price of waiting a year to see the two movies.
Although seeing Lord Of The Rings in theater was AWESOME, I didn't have kids then. So it wasn't such a big deal. Now that I am a mom, sadly I can only watch those long movies at home, which totally looses the cool effect. Avatar was kinda lame on my tv and no movie theater popcorn and candy!
So please do me, and many moms out there a favor, movie makers... and make your movies shorter!
Thanks.
Rant over now!
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