This movie is not long, unless you consider 104 minutes long... and that's the longest version of this movie. If you think 104 minutes are long, you better not watch movies like the LOTR movies because those clock at 3 hours... in their theatrical versions, which are the shorter ones.
Boring? Well, certainly, back in the 70s they made movies that were a bit slower paced then the ones amde today and inspired by the MTV music videos. But slow pacing in itself is not a cause for boredom. Some movies do demand a slower pacing (like ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST) because they go for a moody and gritty feel. This movie goes for that as well, it wants to be moody, and you can only achieve that by slowing down the pacing. You can't have mood and atmosphere in a movie if you fast cut it to hell!
As for the porn shots, yes, they are indeed unnecessary to the plot. And it seems they were used only to milk the exploitation factor of this movie, as this was originally made to be shown in the exploitation circuits of the 70s, where porn and ultra-violent movies were exibited side by side. Sometimes this movies had elements of both, and Thriller is one of them.
"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes" Howard Hawks
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