Holy bladder-bursters Batman, your new film is almost 3 hours long

The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as Batman, is set to open in theaters on March 4th, 2020. Brace yourself, because the movie runtime is reported to be two hours and fifty-five minutes (175 min), with the last eight minutes being the credits. It's currently unknown if there is an extra scene during, or after, the end credits. But, rest assured, we're on top of it and will report the news in the RunPee app as soon as possible.

The one-hundred and seventy-five-minute runtime make *The Batman *the third-longest movie since the RunPee app was created 13 years ago. I'm really surprised the creators didn't just decide to split it in half and make it a two-parter. That seems to be the trend in Hollywood these days, as you get to sell two tickets for essentially one movie.

The longest movies in the RunPee Database

Title	length	release date
Avengers: Endgame	182	2019-04-26
The Wolf Of Wall Street	179	2013-12-25
The Batman	175	2022-03-04
Cloud Atlas	172	2012-10-26
The Hobbit	169	2012-12-14
It Chapter Two	169	2019-09-06
Interstellar	168	2014-11-07
The Hateful Eight	166	2015-12-25
Boyhood	165	2014-07-11
Django Unchained	165	2012-12-25
The Dark Knight Rises	164	2012-07-20
Transformers Age Of Extinction	164	2014-06-27
Blade Runner 2049	163	2017-10-06
No Time to Die	163	2021-10-08
Avatar	162	2010-08-27
Watchmen	162	2009-03-06

Are movies getting longer?

Short answer, no.

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Take a look at the table below and you'll notice that between 2009—when we started adding movies to the RunPee database—and 2019, the average movie runtime for each year has varied between 106.5 (1h 46min) and 111.3 (1h 51min). That's essentially a 5-minute variation. Since 2020 the numbers have been...non-normal. But let's face it, what has been normal since 2020?

I expect that by the end of 2022 we'll see movie runtimes averaging around 110 minutes for the year, despite the uber-long The Batman runtime.

Year	avg runtime
2009	106.5
2010	107.0
2011	106.8
2012	108.6
2013	110.5
2014	110.4
2015	111.3
2016	109.6
2017	110.2
2018	110.4
2019	111.3
2020	105.6
2021	116.0
2022	109.8

What year shows the most bladder-bursting movies?

An interesting observation is to take a look at the first table of the 16 longest movies in the RunPee database and notice that 4 of those movies were released in 2012. However, 2012 ended up with an average runtime of only 108 minutes, which ranks 8th in the 11 years we are counting. So 4 uber-long movies do little to move the needle when it's averaged into a group of another 150+ movies.

Even an average-length movie, plus 20-25 minutes of previews before the movie, is a long time for a bladder to fill up. Even for the people who can hold it that long the question is, can you do it comfortably?

Personally, I'd rather dash to the restroom at an opportune time in the middle so that I can sit comfortably end enjoy the climax of the movie. That's in fact how the RunPee app was born, due to an extended bladder at the end of the 2005 remake of King Kong.

Definitely make sure you remind your friends to use the RunPee app before they go see The Batman. Their bladders will thank you.