rather dissapointing run time

Aaronlif10

i just read through a twitter post from Devin Faraci that jurassic world is 117 minutes. this is suposedly the official run time according to universal. i really hope this turns out to be false, but if its true i find it rather dissapointing. i was really excited about the idea of a jurassic world movie being 150 miinutes long. 117 minutes seems awfuly short for a movie of this scale. i had previously heard it was 123-124 minutes, which was just shy of being the same length of the first film. but at least that would have been past the 2 hr mark. it seems really odd that a movie of this scope would be less than two hours, especially when you see all these recent action movies like transformers, pirates of the carribean and avengers being at least two and a half hours long. it would have given plenty of time to show them exploring the park and building character development before everything falls apart. i would expect a pixar or disney film to fall below the two hour mark. i am still excited for the movie and im sure it will be amazing, but i really wish they kept the film longer. i can ony imagine how much must have been cut if it was originaly supposedly 150 minutes long. that would mean they may have cut up to 30 minutes of the film. what are your thoughts on this? im sure opinion will be mixed.

Sci-Fi King25

Eh. As long as they maintain the action an don't rush it, it's fine.

Lord Vader

2 hours ain't too shabby. Maybe 15 minutes shorter than the original, so not bad. 

Raptor-401

I think 2 hours is perfect, so to speak.

Yesterday I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes which (without credits) fell below just 2 hours, and the movie was still extremely good, even afetr seeing 3 times prior.

THe first movie is BARELY 2 hours without credits, and movies like Transformers are rather boring and too long. The recent Avengers movie could have been shorter.

Unless the Run Time is below 100 minutes, I don't think it should be taken too seriously.

Lord Vader

*reads 401's last remark*

*glares angrily at JP3, who's run time was something like 90 minutes*

Chris

Yeah, I don't understand the disappointment. It's longer than JP3. I mention the comparisons of all three previous JP films in this new article I just posted. The difference really isn't that big. 

Jhawkins1987

Yeah I can see while u4 disappointed! 150 mins would be epically awesome ! 

BUT if u look at the pacing of the original at 124 mins, everyone loved the pacing,, character development and u were always on the edge of ur seat! 

With a longer running timeu risk losing interest as the scenes r too long,too much dialogue and not enough action. Despite personally that being what I love about the first two that the third didn't (dialogue!

Also its only JP fans that would love longer cos we've waited 14 bloody years! I could watch itbfor 4 hours but there are ppl out there who generally couldn't give a shit even if there was another movie ! So if u take that into consideration the timings probably suitable :-P 

Aaronlif10

the run time has now officially been revealed by the director to be 124 minutes. i feel like that is a pretty solid run time. its only just barely shorter than the first two films. somehow the 117 just felt really short to me (not nearly as short as jp3, but not what i would have hoped). 124 feels right. i think it will be more balanced than the lost world also.

Raptor-401

@Lord Vader-

*Laughs hysterically at the truthfulness

Peter Zanetti

124 minutes with credits, which means the film's runtime before fade-to-black is indeed about 117-118 minutes.

That is a solid run time.