Couldn't get passed 45 minutes

My biggest complaint about many movies over the 2 hour mark is that they're too long. Horror and comedy in particular seem to be movies that I feel should be able to tell their story in under 2 hours. It Chapter 2 really missed the mark for me and I felt that could've been cut by a good 30-40 minutes.

That said, I really liked Hereditary and it didn't drag for me at all. I get why this one didn't work for some people but it was one of my top movies of 2018.

I have seen the movie a few times and know that so much that goes on is important to what happens toward the end of the movie. I love longer movies as long as they are justifiable long. IT Chapter 2 was long and it felt long. Hereditary was over two hours but it didn't feel that way to me. The movie is filled with little touches throughout that complete the puzzle at the end. You just may not be into that kind of movie. I don't know, but for me, I enjoyed every moment of being in that world.

I think Hereditary suffered from word-of-mouth labeling it the scariest film of the century, I feel many people would have gone in expecting a high octane horror thrill ride, rather than the thoughtful and cerebral drama it actually is. Not to say I didn't find it terrifying myself, but I've always been more scared by a carefully created atmosphere of tension and by what you don't see. By the end of the film the pieces fall together and you realise how masterful all the preceding scenes were building to the insane climax, and even that forgoes the usual horror movie trappings and leaves everything on an ambiguous and unsettling note. To me, it's a masterpiece that follows in the tradition of similar classics like Rosemary's Baby, rather than going for the Paranormal Activity-like cheap scare tactics that I think people may have anticipated.

I think checking out at 45 is doing it and yourself a great disservice.

You don't appreciate real horror!

If you didnt watch the whole moie, just stfu..

"Couldn't get passed 45 minutes"

REALLY?...I COULDN'T GET PASSED YOUR FIRST SENTENCE.

>I often ask myself why directors spend so much time showing us NOTHING until about 20 minutes from the end.

Essentially it's the same in modern music and modern movies, the "artists" are so void of any courage that they start every song and every movie as if they had to explain at first what a song or a movie is. That's why movies have an hour of nothing, and songs have a 2 minutes intro beat now.