Avengers: Endgame
Avengers : Endgame ’s three - hour runtime is the least interesting affair about the motion-picture show , according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige . If ever there was a tentpole that demanded a long runtime ( be it three hours or more ) , it would certainly beEndgame . The continuation service as the climax of eleven years and more than twenty motion picture ' Charles Frederick Worth of storytelling , starting with the originalIron Manand contain on through to last year’sAvengers : Infinity War . It also has to payoff the latter ’s cliffhanger conclusion , which saw half of all animation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe"dusted " by Thanos .
Between all that and the sheer number of characters ( basically , everyone still alive in the MCU ) postulate screen time in the moving picture , it ’s long been expected thatEndgamewould be the retentive MCU smash hit to date . Sure enough , director Anthony and Joe Russo have now confirmed thatEndgameruns a little magnetic north of three hoursin total ( fifty - eight second , to be precise ) . As for Feige : the MCU architect mostly seems glad that the runtime is prescribed , and the discussion around the flick can finally move onto other theme .
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Speaking toio9 , Feige said he feels the runtime is the"least interesting thing"aboutEndgameor any movie , for that matter . He went on to explicate that the MCU ’s film are , generally speaking , as long as they need to be , and what that even means :
“ What I ’ve always say is a moving-picture show is as long as it should be . And we are not fan of pig out pic . We are not fans of laborious lengths for no reason . We are fans of picture show that you bid did n’t end . pic that you want to see again as before long as it ’s over . And movies that you just do n’t ever observe a good fourth dimension to hunt down out to the bathroom . That ’s when a movie ’s working . And if a movie does n’t sense like that to us we continue to trim , we continue to forge , we continue to bring that time down . That happened to a sealed extent on this movie . But we got to a item where it feel 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 of life . ”
It ’s somewhat easy to grok what Feige is getting at here . A long runtime is n’t necessarily indicative of a movie ’s tempo and narrative social organisation being well or bad any more than a inadequate runtime is . Indeed , there are slew of films out there that seem to drag on evermore , despite running well under two minute ( or even 90 minutes , in sure case ) . By comparing , there ’ve been plentitude of blockbusters over the last two decades alone - range from theLord of the Ringstrilogy to recent films likeMission : Impossible - FalloutandAquaman- that’ve run up of two and a half hours or more , yet managed to pilot by with nary a moment that drag or feels superfluous . It remains to be seen if that ’s the case or not withEndgame , but Feige , the Russos , and co - writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely seem pretty confident that it is ( at the moment , anyway ) .
Besides , whether the movie live up to the daunting expectationsor not , its runtime will believably be the last thing on a lot of people ’s minds by the timeEndgamewraps up . The Russos have described the film ’s ending as beinga"definitive conclusion"to the larger Infinity Saga , and one that ’s never really been done in a superhero blockbuster before . It ’s an intriguing annoyer and one that fans have been anticipating , knowing thatEndgamewill mark the end of the road for a lot of their favorite Avengers , one means or another . If they have to wait another three hr to finish the journeying , then so be it .
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germ : io9
