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![Darren_Mooney Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::481216430.png) Darren Mooney [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/twitter/Darren_Mooney) on x 12.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-16 16:39:18 UTC

As ever, I remain absolutely fascinated by the “movies (particularly blockbusters) are too long now” argument that I see get trotted out regularly.

There’s been a real trend in the past couple years to get these films in under/around two hours, to squeeze in more showings.

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