Slight drift — I can if I like, I'm the OP!

Suibhne has a very good point — a lot of films are just much too long nowadays: best e.g. that comes to my mind — I bought dvd of 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' [titles are too long too btw!]. It would have been quite a good movie of 85 minutes. But it went on for over 2½ hrs, by which time, boy had I ever nodded off. Why will they do that?!