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The usual 30 mins and nothing's happened complaint


1 hr 50 run time could have been shorter, it seems.

"Worthington, we're being attacked by giant bats!"

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It could have been trimmed down, the question is whether it's because we are seeing it now or people back then perceived it so. I hate to think that my brain is conditioned for a faster pace, I hate that, and I've seen old movies that have me at the edge of my seat from the get go like Double Indemnity, so I'm going to say the movie needs more editing.

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So, what would the two of you have cut from the existing print?

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Nothing needed to be cut.

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SPOILERS


There were really long, lingering shots of JC after the discovery of the betrayal, I wondered if a bit of that might have been cut, but I think they wanted to give a sense of how helpless and shattered - and trapped - she was. Her entire life collapsed in a minute's time!

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