23 Movies With Runtimes That Seem to Last Years

According to our bladders, movies are a lot longer than they were 20 or 30 years ago, and while the truth is a little more complicated for the film industry across the board, it’s true that the most successful movies are nearly half an hour longer on average than they were in 1993. That can be a good thing in some cases — no longer restrained by the limitations of VHS, true artists can take as long as their vision needs, and it leaves room for a sharp left turn halfway through the film.

But it can also give permission to lazy filmmakers to release a bloated corpse of a movie that should have ended up mostly on the cutting room floor. “For me it was The Many Saints of Newark,” user Plus-Statistician80 told r/AskReddit. “Huge Sopranos fan, but good Lord, that movie was trash. Only redeeming quality was Vera Farmiga as Livia.”

They then asked, “What film made you say, ‘Holy shit there is still an hour left’?” and their fellow Redditors quickly came up with too many holy shits to count.