Historically, in the history of cinema there has been a tug-of-war between the creative side of movies and the purely business side. While the former recorded and recorded shots for increasingly longer films, the latter, fearful of getting hit at the box office, cut and cut until they left things in 90 minutes, or 120 at most, which, they said, was the limit that the spectators endured sitting in the halls.
More minutes, more fun
That cut imposed by the production companies caused that, some time later, when the film reached domestic formats (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) they took the opportunity to offer us the director’s cut, or the extended edition and those things that were invented to justify the first cut in theaters. But there was a moment when things changed, although films with an extraordinary length had been released before. But the difference of this moment is that it meant a general change in the industry, do you know when?
Well , we can officially date that moment to the beginning of the century , when The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers were just one minute short of three hours each in their theatrical version, while The Return del Rey comfortably surpassed them until staying in a colossal 201 minutes. It was, therefore, Peter Jackson (who would later release the extended editions of each one on DVD) who took the risk of uploading that footage and, truthfully, until now.
Marvel, for its part, started with Iron-Man in a standard 126 minutes , and then gradually increased that figure until reaching two and a half and three hours in many cases. And that is why we are here, to tell you which are the 5 films of the American cinematographic universe that last the longest. And these are the winners…
5 – Avengers: Age of Ultron
The second film of The Avengers is not the longest , although it is noted that the arrival of a lot of heroes at the same time needs more minutes to tell their story. Although in this case it stays at two hours and 21 minutes. Not bad.
Duration : 141 minutes
4 – The Avengers
The Avengers was the first to assemble an arsenal of heroes, so it also manages to sit comfortably above two hours and, more specifically, a couple of minutes beyond its continuation.
Duration : 143 minutes
3 – Captain America Civil War
Third in discord does not belong to The Avengers but as if it were, because there is a considerable traffic jam of superheroes. Not in vain, we will see two sides face each other in one of the UCM installments that fans have liked the most. Not your case?
Duration: 147 minutes
2 – Avengers Infinity War
The Avengers continues to dominate the list of the longest UCM movies and, on this occasion, it is the first part of the end that takes the cake , with practically two and a half hours of footage. The story of the most famous snap in the world well deserved them.
Duration : 149 minutes
1 – Avengers: Endgame
And we come to the one that lasts the longest since it reaches three hours and 60 seconds. Here Marvel has already lost its fear of the minutes that a film can have us in theaters and overcomes a psychological barrier that we could measure in Coca-Colas that we need to drink during the session but that, if it is well made and told (as is the case), we should care. Who looks at the stopwatch when they’re having a great time at a movie theater?
Duration : 181 minutes