My point is that the movie feels like it’s rushing through itself enough as it is. I don’t think that making it go FASTER is the way to resolve the pacing issues.
shorter isn’t the same as faster. The movie as it stands feels like it’s rushing because it’s constantly stopping to address a bunch of unnecessary shit all the time
Streamlining the narrative might make it shorter, but also might make it way more coherent, focused, and intentional, as opposed to jumbled, scattered, and distracted by every “HEY COOL IDEA THIS IS A COOL IDEA LETS PUT IT IN NO MATTER WHAT” moment it can think of.
I’m mainly advocating that runtime shouldn’t be a target anyone’s aiming at. Let it be the length that it is when the best version of it seems to have been arrived at - and you can’t really get a feel for what that is until you try a bunch of ideas out and see how they flow in the larger context.
If you stop yourself from making cuts for not much more reason than “Well now it’s too short” (as if “too short” really means anything in a context where there aren’t tickets being sold or timeslots being filled) I don’t know if that’s a good enough reason in and of itself.