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I watched Doctor Zhivago for the first time last night. I quite enjoyed it but feel like they could have made the historical events going on a lot more interesting rather than them just being a bit of a sideshow. I don't think they really sold Zhivago and Lara's relationship as being that special either which made me think he was just a bit of a bastard for cheating on his wife.

Anyway it was 3 and a half hours I'll never get back which got me thinking about which other films of that sort of length are actually worth watching.

For me:

The first two Godfathers
Lawrence of Arabia
Wolf of Wall Street
The Hateful Eight

All justify their length. Will be interested to hear about any really good ones I haven't seen though as I do quite like watching long epics when I have a completely free evening

On the other hand, films which didn't justify the length:

The Irishman
Once Upon a Time in America

Poll coming