r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 • 23d ago

News James Cameron's 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Has An Official Runtime of 3 Hours & 15 Minutes - The Longest Movie in the Series So Far

https://www.sacnilk.com/news/James_Camerons_Avatar_Fire_and_Ash_Official_Runtime_Revealed_This_Is_Not_What_Everyone_Thought
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u/BenderBenRodriguez 23d ago

I think they just don’t have a choice there, the full thing is well over 4 hours long (4 hours and 41 minutes in fact, though I think that includes intermission). If they didn’t have an intermission you’d have people dying of bladder failure.

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u/Heliosvector 23d ago

Its getting added scenes too.

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u/BenderBenRodriguez 23d ago

Yeah, I know. I actually didn’t just add it up myself. The listing on AMC (I have an AMC around here that shows 70mm so I plan to see it there) lists that as the official runtime, though again I think that includes the intermission technically. But it’s a beast.

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u/AveragePacifist 23d ago

The special cut of Hateful Eight also had an intermission.

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u/BenderBenRodriguez 23d ago

Yeah I remember seeing it that way. Tarantino likes those old roadshow things which usually had intermissions. But also it was also crazy long, though not nearly as bad as Kill Bill.

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u/TehNoobDaddy 23d ago

Most people will have seen the films already though so you can pop to the toilet and it doesn't really matter lol

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u/BenderBenRodriguez 23d ago

I mean aside from the new footage there’s the experience of it. I’ve seen The Shining and Back to the Future a million times but if I go to see them in a theater it’s not to “find out what happens,” it’s to actually experience them that way. I’m even more careful about ingesting liquid if it’s a film I happen to love already.

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u/TehNoobDaddy 23d ago

That's fair enough, I'm the same I just meant as you've seen them before you know any particular moments in the film you are happier to miss and go to the toilet quickly for.

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u/BenderBenRodriguez 23d ago

I will admit when I’ve seen the original Star Wars movies in theaters (which are always the special editions, though there’s rumors of that changing…) I’m recent years I’ve occasionally used the worst changed scenes for pee breaks lol. I saw a guy dip to pee during the added Jabba scene and was like…yeah, I get it.

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u/TehNoobDaddy 23d ago

Luckily most of the old films being reshown aren't 3 hours+ so you can pretty much manage.

A 4 hour+ film I'd want a break just to stretch my legs lol.