10 Long Movies That Should Be Even Longer, According To Reddit
According to National Post, the late, great movie critic Roger Ebert once said that "no good movie is long enough and no bad movie is short enough." And with that in mind, there are so many great movies that are already testing audiences' patience that some think should be even longer.
Between three-hour superhero movies, Scorsese's best gangster films, and Tarantino's most indulgent project to date, Redditors want to see even longer versions of these classics. And between upcoming TV series and rumors of director's cuts, some Redditors are getting exactly what they wished for.
2.5-hour long superhero movies are a lot more common these days, especially as films in cinematic universes now have to tie up plot points from other movies. But in 2008, it was extremely rare, and The Dark Knight was one of the few to hit that high runtime.
But that doesn't keep Smp501 from wanting to see more, claiming that "The Dark Night could be 7 hours and I’d watch it." The movie is extremely fast-paced and there are so many scenes that are just a few seconds long, whether it's Coleman Reese's brief meeting with Lucious Fox or the Joker recruiting people for his gang. A longer movie with more padded-out scenes could have helped build the character development a little better.
Redditor Imtougherthanyou claims that "I was watching Dune and knew it must be over... but was ready to keep going another four hours." The movie is full of world-building, it's one of the most epic and cinematic sci-fi flicks released in the past decade, and it left fans impatiently anticipating the follow-up.
Not only does Dune leave audiences wanting more, but it does so because it's literally only half the story. People who have read the book will have especially wanted the movie to be longer, as they know that the most exciting sequences are in the final part of the novel, including a very challenging sandworm scene according to Denis Villeneuve.
Despite being 2.5 hours along, Villafanart thinks the Martin Scorsese-directed Goodfellas is way too short. The Redditor believes that "you feel you've known these people for all your life because all those snippets and little stories made you feel like you were part of them, I could watch Henry grow up again and again."
Between the perfect pacing, the grand tracking shots, the epic classic rock soundtrack, and the rapid-fire dialogue, Goodfellas is one of the most rewatchable gangster movies ever made. Every scene has become a classic for one reason or another, whether it's the "do you think I'm funny?" scene or the tracking sequence through the kitchen and into the comedy club.
Being from the mind of celebrated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia features all of his typical trademarks. It's set in the San Fernando Valley, it has a multistranded narrative with an ensemble cast, and it's extremely long. The 1999 movie is a 168-minute melodramatic epic, but Moviessuck thinks it could be longer, claiming that they "could watch a 4hr+ version."
However, Magnolia is so emotionally exhausting that a four-hour version of the film could be too much, and that's something that Anderson would probably agree with too. According to IndieWire, Anderson thinks that if he was to make the movie now, he would cut out down, saying that it's "way too f****** long."
2022's The Batman is the movie that everybody is talking about right now, and it's seemingly all people have been talking about for weeks. One of the superhero movie's most focal talking points is its almost three-hour runtime. While some think the movie is great until the last few minutes, others think it should have kept going. But it isn't the narrative that makes NoDisintergrationz crave a longer version, but the tone and aesthetic.
The user loved the tone "so much that I was wishing it was a miniseries or something. I hope the sequel keeps the mystery aspect." The Redditor is getting what they wished for, almost, as there'll be an HBO Max series based on the Penguin, and though it probably won't feature Batman, it will undoubtedly have that gothic vibe and, of course, copious amounts of rain.
A lot of people feel that Blade Runner 2049 bombed at the box office due to its length. Even though there wasn't a huge interest from general audiences in the first place, the 2017 movie may have been more successful if it wasn't two hours and 43 minutes. However, Uncultured_swine2099 wants an even more epic cut of the movie.
The Redditor makes a great point that "There were some shots in the Blade Runner 2049 trailers that weren't in the movie." Again, there is an Amazon Prime Blade Runner show in development, Blade Runner 2099, and there's a chance that those shots might make it into the in-development series, if it ever sees the light of day.
User Skulk wants to see more of Mark Zuckerberg building Facebook in The Social Network. However, before begging for a 12-hour cut, the Redditor notes that the movie doesn't particularly have to be longer, but that there could be a sequel. They explain that "the movie was just sublime and I’m dying for a follow-up with everything that has happened since."
There are so many reasons why The Social Network 2 should happen, and whether it's because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the controversy surrounding users' privacy, there's so much that can be given that exquisite, Aaron Sorkin-penned dramatization.
Redditor TheCallMeDoofus points out how unnecessary it is for The Departed to be longer because it's "a perfect, concise story as is, and, spoiler, everyone dies," but they still want more of the exciting crime drama. In an alternate reality, the Redditor could have gotten what they wanted, only in the form of a sequel instead of a longer movie.
The only surviving main character of the movie is Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) and there was an idea that a sequel would follow him. The actor even pitched a sequel himself. But, unfortunately, according to Wahlberg himself, "the pitch didn't go very well."
2019's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is easily the quietest movie in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's career. Quiet in the sense that it spends more time showing off the incredible production design of 1960s Hollywood and soaking in the aesthetic than being full of profanity-laden arguments and gunfights.
And even though the film stretches all the storefront facades and long drives soundtracked by '60s hits as much as it can, Telarium would still "like to live in that world a little bit longer." The Redditor might actually get what they want, as Tarantino revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience that a director's cut of the movie would be about three hours and 20 minutes, 30 minutes longer than the final cut.
Apocalypse Now is one of the greatest war movies of all time, and even clocking in at almost 2.5 hours, it still feels lean and the runtime flies by. WrapEast explains that they want a longer movie by hilariously using one of the movie's most iconic quotes, saying that they love the smell of "napalm in the morning, in the night, in the afternoon!"
There is the "Redux" edition of the movie, which has all of the deleted scenes intact and part of the movie itself, and it clocks in at just over three hours. However, the version is very proof that Apocalypse Now is fine as-is, as it is considered to turn the perfect movie into an uneven and bloated mess, and it's one of the best examples of a director's cut worse than the theatrical cut.