People can’t seem to talk enough about Avengers: Endgame‘s runtime. We reported on it when our first gave us a runtime a few weeks back, and since then, there have been a lot of people really making a big deal about. Google the subject now, and there will be plenty of articles talking about there not being an intermission for audiences to relieve themselves. It’s as if I’ve ended up in an alternate world — one that hasn’t experience a three-hour-long movie before. I remember growing up with plenty of them.

While I’m always interested in looking into what a runtime can mean in terms of the density of content and overall structure of a movie, there is one man who thinks the whole deal has been blown out of proportion. I’m talking about the Marvel Studios president himself, Kevin Feige. Speaking with io9, he discussed how it wasn’t really that important to them, and that there were better aspects of the movies that should be the focus:

“I think it’s gotten more press than it than it should. I think running time is the least interesting thing about a movie. If we’d announced that the movie was one hour and 50 minutes there probably would have been an equal amount of press and discussion.”

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He’s not wrong there…but in terms of what the length says about the movie, Feige reiterated their philosophy when it comes to runtimes.

“What I’ve always said is a movie is as long as it should be,” Feige told the outlet. “And we are not fans of overindulging movies. We are not fans of laborious lengths for no reason. We are fans of movies that you wish didn’t end. Movies that you want to see again as soon as it’s over. And movies that you just don’t ever find a good time to run out to the bathroom. That’s when a movie’s working. And if a movie doesn’t feel like that to us we continue to trim, we continue to shape, we continue to bring that time down. That happened to a certain extent on this movie. But we got to a point where it feels very exciting and goes by very quickly and in the end is the perfect length. And everybody that saw the movie felt the same way.”

That’s certainly good news to hear. By and large, Marvel Studios has been able to make plenty of movies that don’t feel overlong, which is great. Let’s hope that trend continues in Avengers: Endgame. What do you think of the 182-minute runtime? Let us know down below!

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SOURCE: io9