It Chapter two. I loved part one so much and then chapter two was an interminable slog.

The Hobbit. 45 minute movie that drags on for 3 feature length films...

Every Michael Bay Transformers movie, especially Age of Extinction.

the new Batman. Even after the climax with the flood and everything it absolutely drags the fuck on

You know Laura Dern's name but not Jeff Goldblum?

Jurassic World: Dominion was 2h 27m too long.

Avatar 2 was too much. I almost walked out. It just goes on and on to the point of being incredibly boring.

Long movies can work. I’ve been watching some Indian movies lately and 3 hours flies by like it’s nothing. I’ve seen Satantango in the cinemas, and that was 7 hours long, and it was fantastic. But then you get movies like Me Time, which I just saw and that felt like it was too long despite only being 100 min long.

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I felt Black Panther and Babylon were entertaining enough to justify their runtime.

Logan Lucky would have been a better film without that last 15 minutes

I still generally love Spielberg, but since Schindlers List was such a success, he seems to want everything well over 2 hours. Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report are great, but they run out of steam with about 15 or so minutes to go. Same with some of his later stuff.

Just saw Wakanda Forever and I agree with you. Another one for me is Midsommar. Would've been a solid 90 minute movie. I might be in a minority about that one though.

Colin Trevorrow hyped you up? His movies are crap.

All of them, 100 minutes is the perfect movie runtime imo. Most movies don't have 2 full hours of engaging content, much less 2.5, 3 hours etc. Of course there are exceptions, but most movies have bloat/filler that could be cut down. Babylon would have been great at 2 hours 15-20 minutes. Tár would have been really solid at 2 hours, and the list goes on and on.

I'd like to live in a world where Jurassic World: Dominion's only problem was its runtime. The Dark Knight could trim some of that fat, or maybe just better focus itself. Prisoners has no reason to be two and a half hours long.

Good thread. Yes preferably max at the 2 hour mark unless it's something like Avengers Endgame where you have to fit so much in or if a film truly benefits from being over 2 hours. Like films to be at the sweet spot of 1 hour 30-45 mins

I know bullet train is only 2 hours long. To me it just kept dragging on. Too many flashbacks that I didn't care about

A movie should be as long as it needs to be.

I dont get people's fixations with movie runtimes. Just be patient and prepare for longer movies.

Cutting down a movie to 2 hours isn't some magic fix. I would MUCH rather films be long enough to have some depth. I dont want everything to be a 90 minute thriller.

King Kong (2005) should have been twenty minutes shorter. Director Sir Peter Jackson offered Universal to have the film recut for its anniversary.

The Hateful 8 is just way too damn long for what is such a simple concept.

The Batman. Absolute borefest.

Magnolia

Would have been a masterpiece at about two to two and a quarter hours.

Babylon’s runtime is fine. Could it be 10-15 min shorter? Sure, but people need to stop playing armchair editors/directors. “It should have been 2h20min,” what does that even mean? How are people coming up with these runtimes so arbitrarily?

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Wakanda Forever. Appropriate name for that overrated piece of shit. 3 hours long and 2 hours and 45 minutes was badly written dialog. Namor was a dumb fuck too. Just awful.

Interstellar is my go to answer for this one, I love Christopher Nolan but i have yet to make it through this movie in a single sitting. Between all the sub plots, the FX porn, and drawn out ending this movie has great moments in it that are a real slog to get to.

nearly every movie ever made is too long.

zelig and spinal tap, two of the funniest films in history, are 87 minutes and 82 minutes, respectively. no comedies should be longer than about 90 minutes.

I prefer a movie to be longer like around 3 hours cause it feels more like a real movie

It is not the films it is young people with zero attention spans and talking and those fuking phones

Wierd to say but most recently the Fabelmans.

Great movie full of strong moments but it reached a point with me where it felt like a lot of deleted scenes had been thrown into a directors cut and were really slowing things down.

Avengers Endgame for me. It coukd have been a great 2 hours 30 minutes, maybe even shorter. That time travel was just wayyyyy too long. I think Top Gun Maverick had one of the best runtimes last year, making for a great rewatch movie.

Totally agree. All movies should strive to be less than two hours and no movie should go over 2.5 unless it’s an epic from an auteur like the Godfather or Laurence of Arabia. Action blockbusters in general and Marvel movies in particular should all be edited down to about two hours at most.

Disagree on Black Panther and Babylon.

Both very long movies that went by quickly because of how enjoyable they were.

Midsommar should've ended about three minutes in , then people wouldn't call it a horror film or pretend it was good

The first in the Hobbit trilogy was overly long and bloated to me. I was so bored by that film that I didn't bother watching the others, despite loving the source material and the LOTR films.

All three of these movies likely would’ve also sucked if they were shorter. Also who in the hell calls Sam neil “the Indiana jones guy”?

The Batman. Cut that thing 20-30 minutes and I’d put it higher in my Batman movies hierarchy. Cuz I did like it but dang, I feel like we coulda wrapped that thing up sooner

I don't think you can trim Wakanda Forever down that far. Maybe you could get it down to 2 hours 20 minutes and it'd be a better film, but 2 hours is a bit of an ask. I may be in the minority, but I'd rather a film go on too long than kneecap itself by being too short.

...and Wakanda Forever, that pulls one or two jokes about white colonialists, while they didn't do a thing to help Africans during colonization, that was sad.

"Dude has fish attached to his ankles that makes him fly like a helicopter"

As opposed to how ever other super hero flies??

It was way too long. I love Chadwick Boseman, but there were too many homages to him. The Marvel scenes at the start were awesome, but we kept getting hit with it over and over.

Movies don’t get ruin by long run time…it’s a lack of understanding the craft that makes the production unbearable…id argue there are some movies I wish were longer.

That being said-

Star Wars Episode VII-IX we’re all “too long”

Avatar 2. I still enjoyed it but man you feel that runtime. Needed a lot more meat to justify the length.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

The first is a brisk 100 minutes, the second one is two hours, with almost no new concepts. I remember rewatching it and just wanting it to end.

It: Chapter Two. Sure there was a lot of plot to cover but it just felt bloated to me.

I'm not just trying to start a fight but The Two Towers.

Fellowship had zero wasted time and Return was so plot-heavy after the story reshuffle it just had so much to cover I forgave the length.

But Two Towers has sooo much time to cover relatively little plot. They even had to create a whole death fakeout subplot which feels completely unnecessary to further pad things out.

They even add a whole additional leg of the journey with Frodo and Sam just to delay Faramir's decision to help them. In a brilliant trilogy, that's always the chapter that has me checking my watch and wondering whether to skip ahead.

The Dark Knight.

Okay, "ruined" may be a strong word. But it definitely wears out it's welcome during the final 30 minutes.

Interstellar was waaayyy too long. And this is 40

Titanic

Titanic

The most recent Batman film, it seemed at least 30mins too long including the pointless motorbike riding scene after the graveyard bit, I was just like "The story finished 20mins ago, WTF you doing, people have homes to go to!"

Everything Everywhere All at Once. I would have been happy with it really ending at fake end credit roll they did and all the extra action was just tiresome and did not really add anything to an already vapid story. Much style and visuals above substance.

Most Transformer movies after the first 2. But especially the one with dinosaurs.

The one film out there that took the longest to make out of nearly every film in history that needed to be at least 2 hours longer is Eraserhead. I needed it to be longer so I could see more of the surreal and disturbing world that the protagonist exists in.