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A new survey has revealed the ideal movie runtime – and it's short and sweet.
According to Talker Research (via The Guardian), a poll carried out among 2,000 Americans revealed that 92 minutes was the preferred running time for movies, with 15% of respondents saying that films over two hours were acceptable and only 2% saying that they were happy if a movie was over two and a half hours.
However, this data seems a little at odds with the box office. Avatar, the highest-grossing movie of all time, has a runtime of two hours and 42 minutes, while Avengers: Endgame and Avatar: The Way of Water, the second and third highest-grossing, clock in at three hours and three hours and 12 minutes respectively. Other movies in the top 10 like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Infinity War are also longer than two hours, while Titanic is over three hours long.
That being said, there are plenty of stone-cold classics that clock in at the 92-minute mark. Movies with the reportedly "ideal" runtime include Pixar favorite Monsters Inc., horror-comedy Beetlejuice, cult classic Clerks, Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata, and screwball comedy His Girl Friday.
The poll also asked people about using subtitles while watching movies, and these results seem to depend on the age of respondents. 33% of people said they never used them, but 23% of millennials and 30% of Gen Z said they always did.
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