| Barozi said: longer movie and more stuff from the books can find their way into them. How's that a bad thing? Deathly Hollows is combined 276 minutes or 4 hours and 36 minutes. Subtract ~10 minutes for one of the credits and you still got a movie that is unattractive for any movie theatre to show. It would draw far less viewers. |
Don't cut anything off. Long movies are fine being long movies if they have a story to tell. Don't split because of the money. Which was the case. The final movie, the final payout. BTW, the following are UK book counts per page. First book: 223 pages. Second book: 251 pages. Third book: 317 pages. Fourth book: 636 pages. Fifth book: 766. Sixth book: 607 pages. Seventh book: 607 pages.
Really, how many movie goers go into a movie knowning how long it's going to be. And even then, movies like Lord of the Ring Fellowship which was just shy a few minutes from being 3 hours, still saw a big crowd of people gather to watch it. Made about $875 million. By the second movie, Towers, fans watched that as well, despite already being informed on how long it would be. Grossed 926 Million. Same with the third. Why? Because they're movies people were willing to stay and sit through. So, why would a franchise as huge and well known as Harry Potter, with it's final swan song, fail to do the same as all the other Harry Potter movies.
