How long do you want a movie to last? When do you start looking at your watch and wonder when you can leave the darkness of the cinema? Or maybe it doesn't matter because you watch everything on streaming services, and you can pause anytime you like. But according to a survey from the US, the perfect movie length is 92 minutes — about the same as a soccer match. A polling company called Talker Research asked 2,000 people how long movies should be. Only about 2% said they thought movies should be longer than two and a half hours, while just 15% want to watch a movie that's more than two hours long. Movies like Dodgeball, Kung Fu Panda and Toy Story 2 are all about 92 minutes long. But data suggests that the most popular movies are getting longer and longer. A website called What to Watch found that the average length of the most successful movies has increased from 110 minutes in 1981 to 141 minutes in 2022. The Guardian reports that nine out of the top 10 most successful films of all time are longer than two hours. Three of them are longer than three hours. However, some say it's not the length of the film that's important, but how good it is. There are really long films that feel much shorter because they're so interesting, and there are shorter movies that you wish would just end fast!