They may be great, but some still had us checking our watches and rushing to the washroom before the sweet bliss of their end credits. For this list of the longest Hollywood movies ever made, I have narrowed my picks to only mainstream Hollywood movies that must have been over 200 minutes long when shown originally in theaters. We’re also excluding experimental films, director’s cuts and extended versions.
The 2010s Only Had Two Hollywood Movies Go Over 3 Hours in Length; In Comparison, the 1990s Had 15
“Avengers: Endgame” is the only American studio movie that hit the 3 hour mark this decade. That’s right, the American epic is all but extinct. We know the “epic” was all the rage in 20th century Hollywood, with grand sweeping statements invading almost every genre including the musical, but to have just one 3 hour movie this decade feels depressing.
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