The Avengers How long should The Avengers be?

[hugekent]

Gotta be over 150 minutes but probably under 180.

 

[TheVileOne]

I think it should be under three hours. No longer than 2 hours and 25 minutes.

I enjoy longer movies but for it to be over 2 and a half hours would be pushing it. Go with a longer movie once you know you got the audience hooked.

 

[lancimouspitt]

I'd like to see at least 2 1/2 hours for the film.
I think it's going to depend somewhat on how they approach what has been set up with the solo films. I mean with Thor are they going to spend a great deal of the time having him still trapped in Asgard with earth desperatley needing his help or are they going to just throw him into the mix quickly to get the story moving along?

 

[ladyloki]

There is going to be alot to tell in this film so I think two and a half hours would be a good time, so there will be time to set up the story and have the characters come together with out feeling to rushed, I mean they are not going to get along right away. Then there is Loki it will be very interesting to see what he is up to , will be be known right way or will he pop up when we least expect it. I bet is the latter, he will show himself when its all hitting the fan.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

about 2 hours

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

about 3 hours.
1 hour of developing the heroes, 1 hour of developing the villains, and 1 hour of mindblowing action.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

2.5 hours.

 

[alexlachiusa]

Wait. Isn't the script 129 pages? The script that was stolen, and confirmed to be real was that long so doesn't that basically mean the movie will be around 130 minutes long?

 

[Spider-Vader]

Scenes can be added or deleted from the movie during production & post-production. Plus, we don't know how long action scenes could be.

 

[Gamma Ra]

Wait. Isn't the script 129 pages? The script that was stolen, and confirmed to be real was that long so doesn't that basically mean the movie will be around 130 minutes long?

Well if that's true, you're right, about a minute a page.

 

[Hypestyle]

I'd like to see at least 2 1/2 hours for the film.
I think it's going to depend somewhat on how they approach what has been set up with the solo films. I mean with Thor are they going to spend a great deal of the time having him still trapped in Asgard with earth desperatley needing his help or are they going to just throw him into the mix quickly to get the story moving along?

2.5 hours.. epic length or die! 90 minutes would be abominable..

 

[Mako]

Atleast 2.5 hours.

 

[Herolee10]

If Disney can allow the likes of Pirates to have 2 and a half hours, then they should do the same for Avengers.

 

[Avenger]

The movie will be as long as it needs to be. I think it'll be the longest of Marvel's movies thus far, but still under 2.5 hours. I'm gonna guess it'll be around 2 hours and 10-15 minutes.

 

[KalMart]

2 hours on the dot. Maybe 2:10 at the very most.

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

2 hours on the dot. Maybe 2:10 at the very most.

If you're right, I will be severely disappointed. This isn't just another solo film, this movie first has to get all of the characters together which could take the whole movie to do if they wanted. They also have to develop the villains, and if it's actually Loki, Thanos and Skrulls like most people seem to think that would need a lot of development time.

IMO runtime is a big factor in how truly epic a movie is. LOTR, my favorite 3 films of all time are all 3+ hours, The Dark Knight, which many consider the best Superhero movie of all time is 152 minutes, Return of the Jedi is 134 minutes... blah blah blah and so on... you get my point.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Someone should tell Disney this, the longer the movie the longer they can advertise merchandise.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Well, Disney is distributing this. I think this bodes well for a longer runtime. Look how long all the Pirates movies are!

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

Someone should tell Disney this, the longer the movie the longer they can advertise merchandise.

Also longer movie = less film shown before hand

 

[docdoc]

with a budget of 140 millions, I don't see a movie over 12x mins running time~ I know, I know the two are not necessary related, just saying

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

I thought the budget was 200 million

 

[MrSpyder]

Roughly 150min. to 180min.

 

[psylockolussus]

150 minutes

 

[Nevincer]

2.5 hours+ is the only way you can do a movie like this justice IMO Think LOTR and it's massive ensemble.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Also longer movie = less film shown before hand

With 2 of the Pirates movies grossing a billion dollars & one that got extremely close to that mark, I doubt Disney thinks less showings is a problem. If the movie is entertaining, the audience will eat it up.