Superhero Movies Are Getting Way Too Long

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Movies generally have an accepted time range, from around 90 minutes to just over two hours, but in or outside that range, the length of a film has a huge effect on its pacing and impact. Unfortunately, Marvel and DC have eschewed the tight 90-minute action movie in favor of increasingly bloated running times.

Recently, the runtime of Matt Reeves's upcoming film The Batman was revealed to be 2 hours and 47 minutes before the end credits. This would make the film the third-longest running superhero film yet released, but it also serves as a hallmark of a distressing ongoing trend.

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As of the release of Eternals last year, the entirety of the Marvel Cinematic Universe film saga would take a whopping 59 hours and 29 minutes to watch. That's 27 films with an average running time of 2 hours and 12 minutes. The DC Extended Universe, on the other hand, would take a total of 26 hours and 28 minutes. About half the runtime of the MCU, but with only 11 films, leading to a higher average running time of 2 hours and 24 minutes.

Of course, the totals and averages are slightly weighted by the outliers, the two longest superhero films of all time. Marvel's Avengers: Endgame sat just over 3 hours. This was theoretically justified by the fact that the film was a triumphant fireworks display celebrating the franchise's success, but it was still an unwieldy beast of a film. Fans were sharing bathroom break schedules because simple human biology would disallow most from enjoying the whole thing in one sitting. DC's longest project trumps even that length with the ridiculous 4 hours and 2-minute runtime of Zack Snyder's Justice League. These are outliers, but the entirety of the