The ideal movie runtime is officially the same length as Monsters Inc. and Beetlejuice

Monsters Inc.
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A new survey has revealed the ideal movie runtime &nไdash; and it's short and sweet. 

According to Talker Research (via ), 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 𝕴hours 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 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Endgame and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: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 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: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 scre🍨wball comedy His Girl Friday.

The poll also asked people about using subtitles while watching movies, andꦜ 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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