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Plagiarism and You(Tube) [hbomberguy] (www.youtube.com)
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four hour harrisbomberguy video dropped

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Okay well you actually have more substantive objections than just "it's long", most of which are coming from people who probably don't care for the author anyway (I don't particularly like him myself) and would probably happily watch a long ass video from someone else on a topic they find interesting.

Regardless, you can make you criticism, even try and make it to Hbomber directly if you like, and/or not watch the video and unsub to try and send him the message that he needs to edit these down a bit. You could make your own video essay on why video essays are too long. You can also post on HexBear about it but that has little to no chance of actually affecting this trend. But at the end of the day clearly some people either are fine with or even enjoy these long videos cuz they keep getting views.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    not here to change anything but your mind, the substantive objections are beneath all the 'it's long' debates, whether the people formulate it that way or not. film isn't science exactly but it can be understood better than flattening it to matters of taste. the non-debate-y version of this lecture is simply "how do people watch all that TV but not 6 hour movies?"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    film isn't science exactly but it can be understood better than flattening it to matters of taste.

    True but I think debates over what is and isn't too long are more subjective. I've made the point elsewhere, but there plenty of narratives movies as long or longer than this video that are very good, and if anything it's harder to make a good long narrative film cuz there's less good points to pause if you need to take a wiz or grab a beer.

    If you think it would be better broken into a multi part series fine, I just don't agree with the idea that long form is inherently bad. If you want to argue the length is detrimental in conjunction with other flaws, like poor pacing and structure, that'd be fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    i just watched War and Peace (for like the fourth time, it's really good), that's 7 hours long but it's well paced, and subdivided into normal film length chunks. but i absolutely could not have watched it back to back, it'd be murder, especially if you excised the connecting tissue at the beginning and end of each part.

    the removal of intermissions has actually happened with the extended cuts of the lord of the rings films. those were on DVD originally, and each film was broken up by the need to switch discs, a physically-imposed sort of intermission, but one nonetheless. but these days the whole damn things are on streaming and they are noticeably more interminable.

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