Have you noticed that action movies just keep getting longer? And "The Dark Knight Rises" is going to be one of the longest in recent memory, at two hours and 45 minutes.
--That's 15 minutes longer than "The Dark Knight" and 25 minutes longer than "Batman Begins". It's also 23 minutes longer than both "The Avengers" and "The Hunger Games".
--And it's 29 minutes longer than "The Amazing Spider-Man" and 35 minutes longer than "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2".