if your movie is more than 150 minutes, you have fucked up. you made a mini series. don't pretend its a movie. there are rules to media forms that seek to capture our undivided attention. film school art house clowns transgressed this back in like the 1970s and made "movies" about themselves sleeping for 9 hours. riveting stuff, let me tell you. very provocative.

keeping a story tight in the telling and presentation takes serious creativity and skills. in my work i do public presentations and the insider joke among colleagues is if someone says they need me to do a "15 minute talk", it'll take me an hour or so to prepare. but if they need me to do a full hour on a topic? hell, i'm ready to go right now.

because rambling around with all the time in the world is easy. maybe if i was one of those treatboys in a floating chair suckling on sugar paste in Wall-E, i wouldn't care about a 4 hour Snyder Cut couch coma. but if a normal human needs to stretch their legs during your story, cut it down or cut it a part.