if they just got rid of those looooong brooding shots

I'm not sure Terrence Malick knows you're allowed to leave those out.

Those shots are genuinely the only thing I remember from that movie. So maybe it's good that he left them in?

I want intermissions to come back for long movies.

I find most of Terrence Malick films eye-rolly (granted, I haven't seen Tree of Life, which is... YEP, over 3 hours long) but the man used to know how to include those long lingering shots *and* make it a reasonable length. Days of Heaven, which is gorgeous and which I still think is his best film, is like 90-something minute long.

Sigh. I found Infinity War pretty tiring (I didn't really care for it and had about 3x more fun watching Ant-Man and the Wasp to be honest) and fully expect to be exhausted watching Endgame.

I once sat through the director's (Bertolucci's) cut of 1900, which I believe came in at 4 hours 20 minutes ... there WAS an intermission.

Longest movie I watched in a theater was the Italian movie Tree of Wooden Clogs. It was more than 4 hours long. (Masterpiece, though, if you've never seen it. Better to treat it like a short miniseries.)

The longest I've ever sat through anything though was watching the entire Singing Detective miniseries at the SF Film Fest with the producers there for the Q&A. There was a break for dinner in the middle for that.

I think the longest movie I've watched in a theater was Belfast, Maine (4+ hourlong documentary). It was exhausting but also amazing.

I don't expect that kind of artistry from Endgame, and so I would like it to be shorter!

Shir, I feel like the US government *in the 90s* was a very different world in that regard. I wouldn't be surprised if there were masses of paper records sitting somewhere at that time, because they had the space and that's easier than doing anything else with them, no?

Sort-of example: when I went to grad school in 2004, my childhood medical records were unavailable to me, because the paper files had been archived. When I went back to the same health center I went to as a child, in 2010, the records had been digitized. Not the government, but still! My paper files from childhood apparently sat somewhere for 30 years!

Jesse, I have no idea. It makes a lot of sense if it's an archive and they have the space for it. The thing is, in this case, it isn't organized as an official archive. (Also: they have reels, not just paper, so they are transferring information to magnetic media). And if it is not an archive, there's really no reason to waste money on Hollinger boxes for paper to sit and wait in when it can sit and wait in regular boxes/folders.

So... maybe, information-wise, they are a stop in the supply chain, but not the end of it. I just want to know who is in the end of that chain and to what end, because this whole floor? Is not the end of the supply chain of the information stored there (if and only if the classification is mostly alphabetical according to what was on screen. Or that they have connections to a very cheap signage factory and a lot of people to move boxes between shelves and build new shelves every quarter.)

The new posters for Endgame show who lived (color) and who died (b/w): [link] I feel like this is the first confirmation we have that Pepper survived (so maybe we get Rescue in Endgame???). Also Valkyrie, which: WOOT!!! And I assume it confirms that Loki really is dead (there are a LOT of theories on the ol' interwebs that he didn't really die in Infinity War).

It also reminds me that I don't give a single crap about Vision.

t edit I thought these posters were the first confirmation that Shuri died (I am NOT okay with that), but Victor said on FB that one of the trailers showed her among the pictures of those who got dusted. I didn't notice that at all (obviously), so the posters broke the news to me.

I was unhappy that apparently Shuri got snapped, partly because it happened off-screen, and partly because I really wanted a tech snark-off with Tony, Shuri and Rocket.