James Cameron has heard quite enough from Avatar runtime haters
After watching his kids binge-watch TV, Cameron says he's had enough of hearing fans complain they can't sit through his movies
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In the era of the Great American TV Binge Watch, James Cameron is sick of hearing complaints about his three-hour epics. Now that it’s socially acceptable to devour a days worth of Stranger Things episodes the second they’re released, the Avatar: The Way of Water director doesn’t want any more flack for his runtimes.
“I don’t want anybody whining about length when they sit and binge-watch [television] for eight hours,” he tells Empire. “I can almost write this part of the review. ‘The agonizingly long three-hour movie…’ It’s like, give me a fucking break. I’ve watched my kids sit and do five one-hour episodes in a row. Here’s the big social paradigm shift that has to happen: It’s okay to get up and go pee.”