It’s an exciting thing to notice that the runtime of current big movies is increasing, so I thought, is this a linear trend? So I made this graph and found out a few things.
When a movie is a second part, they have to complete and finish many nodes, thus increasing the runtime.
In India, there’s also a very popular trend of making masala movies (all genre mix movies) that need time for romance, comedy, action, etc., so the runtime automatically increases.
But we can also see a dip after the 2000s, because movies were losing audiences with longer runtimes. However, it looks like it’s coming full circle now.
by ocegik
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Interesting that instead of reducing runtimes to match shorter attention spans nowadays, they just keep increasing.
It’s amusing that the shortest movie on that list is still 136 minutes. I’m guessing a 90-100 minute movie is not a thing in Indian cinema.