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Today, AMC theaters announced a special Mega Marvel event for April 29th where audiences will be given the chance to relive the Marvel Cinematic Universe and watch all 10 theatrically released films starting with "Iron Man" before ending with the premiere of "Avengers: Age of Ultron" on April 30th. The full announcement and schedule is as follows:
And here's the link:
https://www.amctheatres.com/avengers
I wanted to open up a discussion about the process of movie marathons in general because between this announcement and other things, I've been thinking about it lately. I'm starting to get the sense that the practice of movie marathons, whether for profit through theaters or just at home, has become a bubble unto itself...and this 25 hour long Marvel binge, for me, has popped it.
At what point is it going too far when you're watching movies from 6 pm to 5:30 am and you're giving yourself maybe an hour if that between "The Avengers" and "Iron Man 3"...at which point watching movies stops being about watching them for entertainment and enjoyment and starts being about watching for sport, or for the sake of...what? I don't know.
Through Netflix and Hulu, the act of marathoning and binging has become this gradually larger thing.
Now I'm not saying marathons of movies, be it entire franchises or a director's filmography, aren't fun but I'm getting older. Sleep is nice. Time is becoming more precious because it's moving faster and faster with each year.
But in all seriousness, and this is where the discussion angle comes in, how much marathoning do we feel is too much?
I mean instead of going through 25 hours and 11 Marvel movies, what if you tone the pace down to a movie or two a weekend until May? Then you've taken the same journey but mapped out over a more substantial period...in a way where the re-investment doesn't feel obligatory.
I can't begin to tell people how many times I've worked through the Batman movies, through Star Wars, through other franchises, through House of Cards just this last weekend...over and over and over. That's a lot of time.
And now what? My roommate and I finished House of Cards in a day and instead of pacing it out and having something to look forward to (yeah we could go back, but still), we blew through it and have nothing as far as that one show's concerned.
Speaking for myself, I love movies and television and content but there's so much. And the one thing we're not getting any more of is time. So aside from a few exceptions here and there (all six Star Wars episodes prior to "The Force Awakens" has to happen) I think the time of marathoning is over for me.
Or rather impulsive marathoning I should say. Now thoughtful, mapped out marathoning over a period of time still works.
But yeah. How do others feel about it? Do others still enjoy it or do you find yourself feeling a similar way about it that I do?
Feel free to discuss marathons and the process of doing so in all its aspects.
AMC Theatres said:
And here's the link:
https://www.amctheatres.com/avengers
I wanted to open up a discussion about the process of movie marathons in general because between this announcement and other things, I've been thinking about it lately. I'm starting to get the sense that the practice of movie marathons, whether for profit through theaters or just at home, has become a bubble unto itself...and this 25 hour long Marvel binge, for me, has popped it.
At what point is it going too far when you're watching movies from 6 pm to 5:30 am and you're giving yourself maybe an hour if that between "The Avengers" and "Iron Man 3"...at which point watching movies stops being about watching them for entertainment and enjoyment and starts being about watching for sport, or for the sake of...what? I don't know.
Through Netflix and Hulu, the act of marathoning and binging has become this gradually larger thing.
Now I'm not saying marathons of movies, be it entire franchises or a director's filmography, aren't fun but I'm getting older. Sleep is nice. Time is becoming more precious because it's moving faster and faster with each year.
But in all seriousness, and this is where the discussion angle comes in, how much marathoning do we feel is too much?
I mean instead of going through 25 hours and 11 Marvel movies, what if you tone the pace down to a movie or two a weekend until May? Then you've taken the same journey but mapped out over a more substantial period...in a way where the re-investment doesn't feel obligatory.
I can't begin to tell people how many times I've worked through the Batman movies, through Star Wars, through other franchises, through House of Cards just this last weekend...over and over and over. That's a lot of time.
And now what? My roommate and I finished House of Cards in a day and instead of pacing it out and having something to look forward to (yeah we could go back, but still), we blew through it and have nothing as far as that one show's concerned.
Speaking for myself, I love movies and television and content but there's so much. And the one thing we're not getting any more of is time. So aside from a few exceptions here and there (all six Star Wars episodes prior to "The Force Awakens" has to happen) I think the time of marathoning is over for me.
Or rather impulsive marathoning I should say. Now thoughtful, mapped out marathoning over a period of time still works.
But yeah. How do others feel about it? Do others still enjoy it or do you find yourself feeling a similar way about it that I do?
Feel free to discuss marathons and the process of doing so in all its aspects.
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