6. The Long Movie - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Annoying Examples: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Lone Ranger, Transformers: Dark of the Moon Long movies have always existed, of course, and I'm not suggesting that
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was undeserving of its runtime - its length was, in a rare case, perfect. But Peter Jackson's epic was the first real movie in this modern era of movie-going that allowed studios to understand that humans were willing to sit through movies that were really, really long that weren't called
Lawrence of Arabia. And, hey, fantasy movies could be long, too, apparently. Over the years, though, this has developed into a catastrophic epidemic. Nowadays movies are far, far too long. All of them. Movies that have no business being over two hours (or 90 minutes, even!) are running close to three hours. It makes sense that
Fellowship of the Ring was three hours long because it was based on a book that had that much story in it - it pretty much
had to be that length. But why does a
Pirates of the Caribbean movie (a Disney movie, I tell you!) need to be two and a half hours?
The Lone Ranger - two and a half hours?!
Transformers 3 - running at almost three hours?! Are you kidding me!?