Some movies benefit greatly from having room (runtime) to breathe. Historical epics like Laurence of Arabia, Ben Hurr, The Ten Commandments and Spartacus immed

Some movies benefit greatly from having room (runtime) to breathe. Historical epics like Laurence of Arabia, Ben Hurr, The Ten Commandments and Spartacus immediately come to mind. Their length adds to their "epic" character. I can think of plenty of films that are overlong and suffer for it too of course. A recent example is the Danish film Godland. There were people literally asleep by the end of that one in the cinema showing I attended. I wished I could have done the same.