Action-Adventure Uncharted

[Stringer]

I cannot think of any recent box office smashes that received high praise that are around a 90 minute runtime. Even Fury Road which is as light on story as you can get is 2 hours. I'm not sure what the reason is for it, but there's something to it.

 

[Filmfan93]

I cannot think of any recent box office smashes that received high praise that are around a 90 minute runtime. Even Fury Road which is as light on story as you can get is 2 hours. I'm not sure what the reason is for it, but there's something to it.

It's because a 90-min runtime nowadays makes every action/adventure film feel like it's rushed and doesn't have enough time to breath in.

 

[MadVillainy]

A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Pt 2

And then there are movies that are almost 2 hours or over that flop. Runtime has no bearing on the success or lack of financially for a movie. Just the quality. And that depends on the franchise/story

90 minute for something like Uncharted? Yeah ok
90 minute for something Endgame or Dune? Hold on now.

But to each their own. I have no faith in this movie regardless of runtime

 

[Prison Mike]

This movie being 90 minutes doesn’t make it a bad movie. Runtime has nothing to do with the quality IMO.

 

[Stringer]

A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Pt 2

And then there are movies that are almost 2 hours or over that flop. Runtime has no bearing on the success or lack of financially for a movie. Just the quality. And that depends on the franchise/story

90 minute for something like Uncharted? Yeah ok
90 minute for something Endgame or Dune? Hold on now.

But to each their own

Quiet Place 2 may have been a more expected blockbuster but the first one certainly wasn't, and I don't recall 2 setting the world on fire which was more of the same anyway.

 

[Drizzle]

I don't count A Quiet Place 2. Yes, it's 90 minutes but it doesn't tell a complete story since it picks up right where the first one left off and ends on a cliffhanger, which it really didn't have to do if they had tacked on an extra 15-20 minutes.

 

[MadVillainy]

Quiet Place 2 may have been a more expected blockbuster but the first one certainly wasn't, and I don't recall 2 setting the world on fire which was more of the same anyway.

You didn't say "blockbuster" you said "recent box office smashes that received high praise that are around a 90 minute runtime"
Quiet Place 1 (2017) grossed 350 mill on a 17 mill budget
Quiet Place 2 (2021) grossed 298 mill on a 55-60 mill budget and that was during COVID (pre widespread vaccine COVID too).
Those are box office "smashes"

Both under 100 mins, both critically acclaimed.


EDIT: Get Out is another example. Was only 100 mins and was very successful critically and commercially

 

[MadVillainy]

I don't count A Quiet Place 2. Yes, it's 90 minutes but it doesn't tell a complete story since it picks up right where the first one left off and ends on a cliffhanger, which it really didn't have to do if they had tacked on an extra 15-20 minutes.

That's moving the goal posts tho. We're not talking about whether they told a complete story

Someone said "I cannot think of any recent box office smashes that received high praise that are around a 90 minute runtime." So i named the Quiet Place movies
Both Quiet Places did that. Good box office results and both well liked by critics. So they count

 

[MadVillainy]

At the end of the day, all I'm saying is runtime depends on the story.

Looping this back to Uncharted, I feel like Uncharted is a story that can be told well in 90 mins because it's not that deep, it's not that intricate, and the main cast isn't that large.At least with a first installment

Something like Dune needs a longer time. EDIT: Many Saints of Newark is an example of a movie that has way too much story to fit in 2 hours and it suffered there

 

[Stringer]

You didn't say "blockbuster" you said "recent box office smashes that received high praise that are around a 90 minute runtime"
Quiet Place 1 grossed 350 mill on a 17 mill budget
Quiet Place 2 grossed 298 mill on a 55-60 mill budget and that was during COVID (pre vaccine COVID too).
Those are box office "smashes"

Both under 100 mins, both critically acclaimed.

You can finesse some examples in there that go against what I'm saying, fine, but Uncharted obviously is going to fall in line with something closer to Assassins Creed than a Quiet Place.

Runtime isn't important to a film's quality but let's not try to act like we don't say "uh oh" when a movie like this, or Morbuis, or Venom (which I enjoyed) comes in with a 90 minute runtime.

 

[MadVillainy]

You can finesse some examples in there that go against what I'm saying, fine, but Uncharted obviously is going to fall in line with something closer to Assassins Creed than a Quiet Place.

Runtime isn't important to a film's quality but let's not try to act like we don't say "uh oh" when a movie like this, or Morbuis, or Venom (which I enjoyed) comes in with a 90 minute runtime.

Well it's not finessing at all. I answered the statement you posed straight up.
You said :

I cannot think of any recent box office smashes that received high praise that are around a 90 minute runtime.

^^^This is what you said that I replied to

Those are the Quiet Place movies. Factually they made money. Factually they received high praise. I could throw Get Out in there but that's 100 minutes. How is that "finessing"
EDIT: If you specified "blockbusters" in the post quoted, I'd get how you would say I'm finessing or whatever. But you didn't. For blockbusters, I don't know any off the top of my head that were recent that were 90-100 mins that made money

And I don't know who "we" is because I didn't balk at Venom 2 or Morbius because of their runtimes. I balked because they looked bad. Or at least Morbius did/does

I think Uncharted is gonna be more Assassin's Creed too. But not because of the runtime

 

[Drizzle]

That's moving the goal posts tho. We're not talking about whether they told a complete story

Someone said "I cannot think of any recent box office smashes that received high praise that are around a 90 minute runtime." So i named the Quiet Place movies
Both Quiet Places did that. Good box office results and both well liked by critics. So they count

Fair enough. The first one works just as well as a standalone and it didn't particularly need any more than 90 minutes to tell the story. The second one was successful because it kept to the formula that worked and there was still the goodwill of the first film to go off of but I do think it would have benefitted from an additional 15-20 minutes.

 

[MadVillainy]

Fair enough. The first one works just as well as a standalone and it didn't particularly need any more than 90 minutes to tell the story. The second one was successful because it kept to the formula that worked and there was still the goodwill of the first film to go off of but I do think it would have benefitted from an additional 15-20 minutes.

YMMV. This isn't the Quiet Place thread so I don't wanna get into what we personally think of the movies. What we think of the movies doesn't really matter to the discussion at hand.
They were successes (critically and commercially) and they were around 90 mins, which is what was brought up before

 

[Evil Twin]

Most animated movies have runtimes around or under 100 minutes. There are a ton of recent hits there.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

90 min movies is a prime Tom Rothman trick to get more showings per day and so make more money.

Fox did plenty from the late 90's until he left and most of their movies under him were poor. Isn't he at Sony still?

So yeah, this having that run time doesn't bode well. Not to mention the total mis casting of the main characters.

 

[Drizzle]

I mean ok. YMMV. This isn't the Quiet Place thread. What we think of the movies doesn't really matter to the discussion at hand.
They were successes (critically and commercially) and they were around 90 mins, which is what was brought up before

To bring it back to Uncharted, the Venom movies were also successful with 90-minute runtimes, which is probably the reason why Sony was aiming for a similar runtime for this. Uncharted could very well be a box office success not just from the games being popular enough but also thanks to Tom Holland being fresh off of No Way Home.

In terms of quality and pacing, I just find it odd that a film with this many locations according to the Imax poster (Manhattan, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, Agra, Giza and Singapore) is being squeezed into a 90-minute runtime.

 

[Evil Twin]

I don't think anyone think it's going to be a great film. Only, that runtime is no indicator of quality. 95 minutes is the same ballpark of films that are action-adventure classics and duds. Heck, John Wick is a whopping 101 minutes. Nobody is 92 minutes.

It's probably not going to be good, although the fact that Sony held on to it instead of selling it to streaming, implies they believe it has some potential. Sony hasn't been shy about selling off films to streaming.

 

[TheVileOne]

Where is everyone getting 90 minute runtime?

 

[MadVillainy]

1hr58 mins per Fandango
Uncharted (2022)

 

[MadVillainy]

I don't think anyone think it's going to be a great film. Only, that runtime is no indicator of quality. 95 minutes is the same ballpark of films that are action-adventure classics and duds. Heck, John Wick is a whopping 101 minutes. Nobody is 92 minutes.

It's probably not going to be good, although the fact that Sony held on to it instead of selling it to streaming, implies they believe it has some potential. Sony hasn't been shy about selling off films to streaming.

Exactly it depends on the story that is told. And Uncharted's story at least for a first outing is fine at 90 minutes...which apparently this movie isn't even 90 mins

 

[TheVileOne]

The runtime I read is 116 minutes.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I remember back before they released Black Panther, Deadpool and a number of other high profile movies in February, this month was generally seen as a dumping ground for garbage films that studios were embarrassed of. Glad to see that Uncharted, Moonfall, Jennifer Lopez/Owen Wilson Generic Rom-Com from 2006, and Liam Neeson Kills Bad Guys Episode 27 are bringing things back to the good old days.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

The runtime I read is 116 minutes.

Yeah got the same when I looked it up.

 

[Mysteryman]

So what is that, 1 hour and 46 minutes?
I hope that doesn't count the credits!

 

[Iceman]

Uncharted

Uncharted

Terrible start to reviews.