The 50 Best Three Hour or Longer Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

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For some people, a 3-ish-hour runtime is an automatic mark against a movie—especially if they’re sitting in a theater with no chance to press ‘pause’ for a bathroom break. For other people, an especially long runtime might help justify the time and money required for a movie theater excursion in the first place. And as CNN explains, it is the massive franchise spectacles and superhero films—the types of movies that do well at the box office—that seem to be trending longer these days. 

That said, lengthy flicks are nothing new. On Rotten Tomatoes’ list of best movies that run 3 hours or longer, 33 of the top 50 were released before the year 2000. The first-place finisher, Akira Kurosawa’s 207-minute epic Seven Samurai, premiered in 1954. Other classic epics that made the list include Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Spartacus (1960), Ben-Hur (1959), and Gone With the Wind (1939).

 

See the list here. 

[Chris 2,182]

I haven't seen a lot on that list, but can tell you The Irishman is a pretty good flick. Glad to see Dances With Wolves and The Ten Commandments are on there. The latter is one of my favorites.