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ride home for thursday march 17th 2022 i'm jackson bird today why have movies gotten so long recently

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So I still have a tendency to think of movies as being 90 minutes long, even though

that is so rarely the case anymore. Two hours, two and a half, three hours, three and a half,

looking at you, the Irishman. Why have movies gotten so much longer? Rebecca Rubin dug into this question recently for Variety, and an important thing that she reminds us is that movies used to be just as long, if not longer.

Lawrence of Arabia and Ben Hur did not just feel like they went on forever when you were a kid.

They were both over three and a half hours long.

Gone with the Wind, which came out in 1939, was just two minutes shy of four hours.

Even in recent decades, there have occasionally been longer movies. I always remember that

Titanic and the Right Stuff were super long, not because they necessarily felt too long,

but because they came on two VHS tapes.

You knew you were in for a long one when it came in one of those double boxes. And Rubin points out

that most of the highest grossing films in history fall somewhere between two and three hours.

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