Don’t be afraid to sit down for the three-plus hour film, and don’t be afraid to get up if you need to-as James Cameron once said, “They can see the scene they missed when they come see it again.” Exactly right.

To prove our point, we’ve selected ten of the most beloved movies that clock in at longer than three hours, and yet still manage to keep our eyes glued to the screen the entire 180 minutes (or sometimes way more than that). There has been plenty of talk lately about how movies ought to be shorter by far (and with two decades of bloated studio blockbusters pushing two and a half hours, we don’t necessarily disagree), but sometimes longer really is better. There are, however, exceptions to that rule that prove that sometimes movies need to take a little bit more time to let us explore their worlds. Casino is a 1995 epic crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, adapted by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi from the latters nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. It’s the average length of time a person can sit in a seat without having to stretch their legs or use the bathroom, and we as a culture have come to expect that our filmic entertainment keep to that understood rule. There are few things better than a movie that doesn’t overstay its welcome, clocking in at a tight two hours or anything under.