Miscellaneous
This is Fandom 5 where we spend five minutes in fandom, For February 8, 2019. I am your host Branden Ushio and today we are talking about the record that the upcoming Avengers Endgame is going to demolish Like I mentioned before the Ad, Avengers Endgame is poised to break a Super Hero Movie record, and while it could possibly be the box office sales after that cliff hanger in Infinity War it is WAAAY to early to speculate on that. No the record that it rumouredly will be breaking is the runtime for a Super Hero Movie. Clocking in at a possible 3 H Now That doesn't mean that it will end at 3 H but it will be close While speaking to the directing duo at Disney about the VFX in Avengers: Infinity War, Collider’s Steve Weintraub got an update on Endgame‘s runtime, which as of right now is still looking like the longest in the MCU’s eleven-year history. “We’re still at the three-hour mark,” Joe Russo said. And what's the reason for this long runtime? According to Russo, “I think the studio is down with what the best story is. Right now, we think the movie is playing well and we’ve had great responses from our test audiences and we’re feeling very good about where it is. We’re still doing work to it. We’re not done with it. Again, this is a culmination film of 22 movies, it’s a lot of storytelling to work into it. Emotion is an intrinsic part of that to us. When you have to tell a really complicated story and you want strong emotional moments with the characters, it just requires a certain amount of real estate. This one, in particular, feels like three hours worth of real estate.” So then if this is a three hour movie Ordering a Bladder Buster 9000 and a Large Popcorn will cause some issues right? Well Maybe... Maybe not Anthony Russo told Collider “We have screened the movie four times for audiences now, For the first three screenings, not a single person got up to go to the bathroom.” As a side not if anyone knows how to get into one of those exclusive screening let me know, even if I never got to go I would love to know the process. Infinity War had a runtime of 2h 40m and Black Panther had a Runtime of 2H and 15m and with the creep of the runtimes it has lead some people to ask the question of if movies are just getting longer than they used to be and the answer is, Yes, but also No. From 1985 - 2000 the top 25 movies for each year average runtime grew from around 1h50m to 2hours (Conviniently about the length that you could fit on the newly popularized Video Casette Tapes) and film duration continued to go up from there , which makes you think that they are getting longer, but if you expand the scope you see that movies from 1950-1960 were much longer than movies from the 80's on par with what we have today, which some experts think had to do with television giving theaters greater competition. My hypothesis is that now that we live in the age of Streaming and Bingewatching it is pushing those runtimes back to the multiple hours After All The 10 Commandments and Lawrence of Arabia both clocked in at over 3 and a half hours. And well, after training for a Daredevil Marathon, Marvel fans all over are quoting the scrawny steve rogers when they say, "I can do this all day." What do you think about these long movie times? Share your opinion in our Facebook Group: The Fandomaniacs Support the show on Patreon And May the Fandom Be With you!