Are movies getting too long? Poll of the week

Yahoo UK's poll of the week lets you vote and indicate your strength of feeling on one of the week's hot topics. After 72 hours the poll closes and, each Friday, we'll publish and analyse the results, giving readers the chance to see how polarising a topic has become and if their view chimes with other Yahoo UK readers.

Are movies getting too long nowadays? A recent poll of American filmgoers claims that the ideal film length is 92 minutes long, while only 2% of the people polled were happy with films running for longer than 150 minutes. People are more time poor than ever with diminishing attention spans so you can understand the desire for snappy 90 minute movies.

However, it feels like the trend among prestige cinema over the past few years has been 'the longer the better'. Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning Oppenheimer clocked in just short of three hours at 173 minutes, while Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon had an epic 198 minutes run time, and it's not uncommon for superhero movies to push the 150 minute mark due to their complex narratives, endless character rosters, and epic scopes.

Alfred Hitchcock once said "the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder", while Scorsese defended his movies saying: "There are many people who watch theatre for three and a half hours. There are real actors on stage, you can't get up and walk around. You give it that respect, give cinema some respect."

But where do you stand? How long is the ideal length of a movie?

Read the results of the poll here.

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