CBR's 10+ Amazing Long Movies Fantasy Fans Should Watch

"Hollywood movies used to be on the shorter side of the running time until Marvel Studios started making two-and-a-half hour-long movies more consistently. The audience may notice that the run time of most highly anticipated movies and popular franchises like 'Mission: Impossible' has started to last three hours. Before movies like 'Dune' and 'Avengers: Endgame' ensured that fans definitely needed a bathroom break, the crown for the longest-running movies belonged to the greatest fantasy movie franchise of all time – 'The Lord of the Rings.' From the genius mind of J.R.R. Tolkien, cinema received the most epic fantasy lore ever to grace the screens. It's safe to say that most fantasy genre fans can't help but compare other good movies to 'LOTR.' In its case, the long runtime helped establish the lore in detail, something that the story deserved, but there are franchises and standalone movies with more or less similar runtimes that offer worthwhile experiences as well." - cbr.com