Despite social media causing shorter attention spans, movie runtimes have been significantly increasing since the dawn of the twenty-first century. In 2023, the average runtime of the ten highest-grossing movies in the United States was two hours and twenty-three minutes, up nearly thirty minutes from the average at the start of the decade. While films with epic lengths possess the ability to offer audiences a grand cinematic experience, sometimes it is not feasible to fit such a long movie into a busy schedule.
Historically, the Western has been one of cinema's best genres for the epic format. Some of the genre's greatest works, such as Dances with Wolves, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, each have runtimes over two and a half hours. On the other end of the spectrum, the Western genre is also full of fantastic movies...
Historically, the Western has been one of cinema's best genres for the epic format. Some of the genre's greatest works, such as Dances with Wolves, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, each have runtimes over two and a half hours. On the other end of the spectrum, the Western genre is also full of fantastic movies...
- 8/16/2024
- by Vincent LoVerde
- CBR
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