Do films really have to be so long, wonders Peter Bradshaw today, before going on to cite a catalogue of sprawling monstrosities including King Kong ("indecently long"), Greek arthouse number The Travelling Players and the soon-to-be released Les Amants Reguliers ("a rambling piece of Nouvelle Vaguery"). And, of course, The Da Vinci Code. Always The Da Vinci Code.
But we want to know what you lot think too. Is this just one critic's moaning, or is Bradshaw on to something? Are too many bloated movies making it past the producers and into multiplexes?
And what we really want to know is: what are the films you'd love to take a scalpel to and razor down to within an inch of their life? Do tell us. The bigger, more magisterial and - whisper it - serious, the better.
