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> Esp long movies like "Wolf of Wall Street" are not practical to watch in a single sitting.

Ha ha, some moviebuffs will skewer you for saying that (about any movie). I feel your pain on the 48h limit though.

Meh, Lawrence of Arabia had an intermission and I doubt many film buffs would say that ruined the art of it.

Oh, I took OPs comments to mean several sittings per movie. While Lawrence of Arabia is an outlier imo, most Indian movies have an intermission (and make up the majority of what I watch)

That’s really interesting. Is running length generally more common in Indian cinema?

Yes (and it's probably also good for snack sales.)

Yeah, most movies hit almost 2.5 hours. For me, many movies build up really well to the intermission and then take some time to get back to that intensity and setting up for the climax. Then how well the climax is done determines where it ends up, rating wise.

It's also standard to spend money on snacks during the intermission.

Agreed. I wish more movies were 3-5 hours long with maybe a 10 minute intermission where the director shows something metaphorical.

I love deep story telling and will gladly sit through a 3-4 hour movie

Avengers Endgame is over 3 hours long.

I assume he or she has a child. I know for us, with a two year old, it's very rare to have 3 hours of uninterrupted free time. We used to be big movie watchers, but no longer.

Haha, we are watching a movie with a close friend couple that have a kid. We went from a movie a week to once in 6 months or so

> I assume he or she has a child

LOL. I have cats.

> Netflix, Comcast, Amazon Prime and other video streaming service charge you the same as the DVD rental, but force you to watch the entire video within 48 hours from 1st starting it.

I haven't encountered this behavior in Netflix; under what circumstances are you experiencing it?

EDIT: A cursory search informed me that this seems to apply to viewing streaming movies which have been downloaded to a device and watched while offline. The expiration timer is reset when the viewing device has a WAN connection. I guess this is a mechanism to discourage hoarding a large number of movies, then cancelling your subscription? Not sure.

> "People assume that our customers must either be super seniors or folks that live in the boonies with no internet access," she says. "Actually, our biggest hot spots are the coasts, like the Bay Area and New York."

"Geographic profile maps which are basically just population maps"

https://xkcd.com/1138/