I just tried to watch Rich and Strange. The first 39 minutes are mostly vacation footage.

I usually like anything Hitchcock worked on. Maybe I should have given it another 30 minutes.

Anyway, it doesn’t give me the impression that they were worried about burning film stock, even though the movie is only 1:39.

I was hoping someone would call me out on that

https://stephenfollows.com/are-hollywood-movies-getting-long...

https://filmandmovielists.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/are-movie...

I track all the films I watch in a spreadsheet, half of them are in 1990-2010, which the last link shows films were becoming shorter for awhile

We watched Jingle All The Way yesterday, and even the kids noticed it was shorter than most of today’s films. It’s not even 90 minutes.

And Titanic (1997) was 3 hours, 15 minutes, and Che (2008 film) had some road show screenings at 4 hours, 27 minutes.

But Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) was only 80 minutes.

Road show movies, with an intermission between the two acts of the film, don't have good economics. Lord of the Rings as three movies sells more ticket than one long one, and you can offer both evening and late shows.

Well if we’re having a contest for posting long movies, Siberiade is an excellent film that will take 4h35m of your time.