Since LOTR, all of PJ's films except The Lovely Bones have been over 2.5 hours (to be fair, Hobbit 3 is just a few minutes shy, but the EE will take care of that). None of those films needed to be that long.

I get hard for Christopher Nolan as much as the next geek, but Interstellar was actually his first movie since The Prestige that I felt wasn't too long. As much as I love Inception and The Dark Knight, they're overwritten and unnecessarily padded.

Martin Scorsese keeps getting away with marathon films because he's Marty Fucking Scorsese. But if Wolf of Wall Street were directed by, let's say David Fincher, it would have been less than 2.5 hours. All his other DiCaprio movies are too long as well.

Also, the Harry Potter movies are all too long, but they'll get a pass because they're good. If these had been made in the 80s, you can be sure none of them would have surpassed 115 minutes. At least the POS Twilight movies stay around the 2 hour mark.

Of course, long movies aren't anything new. There are scores of movies "from the past" that were way too long.