Godfather II, Doctor Zhivago, Titanic: 14 films that actually deserve to be 3.5 hours long

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Godfather II, Doctor Zhivago, Titanic: 14 films that actually deserve to be 3.5 hours long
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Bad news for short attention spans: Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon has an astonishing three-hour and 26-minute run-time. Sorry Marty, no film should ever be that long. Except for these...

The Godfather Part II is worth every minute over three hours. But it’s one of very few Bad news for short attention spans: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has an astonishing three-hour and 26-minute run-time. Sorry Marty, no film should ever be that long. Except for these…In three hours and 26 minutes, you could run the London Marathon. You could fly from the UK to New York on the “Son of Concorde” .

A quick scan of the IMDb’s list of top-ranking films more than three and a half hours long unfortunately confirms that I have missed out on many bloated so-called classics. – to my shame, fell asleep .snorting cocaine from various of Margot Robbie’s exposed body parts I rather wished I had fallen asleep rather than sat in the cinema, uncomfortably alert, with my dad .

After all, this is the big, dramatic close to a trilogy that dominated cinema in the early noughties – and its plot is more intricate than that of any of the previous films. We don’t just follow Frodo, Sam and Gollum legging it to Mordor to destroy the ring; we see Aragorn, Legolas, Gandalf, Merry and Pippin venture to Minas Tirith to wage war against Sauron’s armies.

Equally important: it has an intermission. So long as people know it’s coming, they shouldn’t have clambered over your knees to pay a visit in the first half. When it does come, you can safely stretch your legs, buy a drink, have a chat and settle back down – an incredible film is far from over and you won’t have to miss a minute.is just the right length: especially since it justifies the decadence of a break in the middle.

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