Eight films the writer says would have benefited from longer runtimes

Collider ran a list naming eight films that, the writer Jeremy Urquhart suggests, felt too short and would have benefited from longer runtimes. The rundown covers a range of examples: Things to Come (1936) is noted as running just under 100 minutes despite covering decades of imagined history; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (138 minutes) is drawn from elements of the first three Patrick O'Brian novels (the author had 20 published in his lifetime and one unfinished story posthumously) and is described as leaving viewers wishing for sequels or a longer cut; Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God is called out at 95 minutes as surprisingly brief for its ambition; 1917 is said to play mostly in real time but skips a chunk of the middle, which the piece argues slightly diminishes immersion; Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (140 minutes) is described as overstuffed and ending on a cliffhanger that felt more frustrating as the promised follow-up did not arrive by 2026; The Mission is characterized as a two-hour film that feels like two condensed halves; Superman (2025) reportedly runs around two hours (excluding end credits) and is said to sprint through its setup; and The Last of the Mohicans (released September 25, 1992, runtime 112 minutes, director Michael Mann) is identified as the inspiration for the topic because it still feels rushed and might have worked as a three-hour epic.

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Culture, Werner Herzog, Michael Mann, Aguirre, Spider-verse