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I tried to watch the premiere of The Event, but the first half hour was slower than zombies playing monopoly, and I fell asleep for the rest. Clearly, no one explained editing to them, as cutting back and forth between action and really slow boring backstory scenes that could have been summed up in a minute or two just made it excruciatingly dull. Modern audiences are well trained to pick up basic relationships with cues they had already embedded in their footage. They could have boiled everything in the first 30 minutes or so to a 5-7 minute first act and then actually moved on to plot. When I fell asleep there were n signs that they planned to move on to actual stuff worth watching. If I'm checking my watch every minute or so and wishing for a fast forward button nigh constantly? Time to pick up the pace, folks. Keep the stuff with the president. Keep the stuff with the meetings with the spokeswoman, and the footage of the agent trying to stop the plane. boil down the cruise stuff to essentials establishing characters and relationships using shorthand. Shorten the plane footage a little since it won't need to stretch so hard to try and fail to hold up all the long boring cruise stuff, then get on with it.

Obviously, I won't be watching, as I have better things to do than watch paint dry.