>or would you say it's too long for a generation with a limited
>attention span?

I guess someone could lodge a compalint that it's too slow and that for a time--although not as much as Part 2--it features subtitles (but that section in Italy is supplemented by some great Sicilian boobs).

>btw, I can live without Godard, but I shudder to imagine a
>life without John Hughes

I don't watch Breathless or Contempt as often as I watch The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles, but they're both of near-equal importance to my movie palette.