iO9 says:

The official time of Chris Nolan's final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, has finally been revealed. And it's clocking in at a whopping two hours and 45 minutes long. Thus making it the longest movie in Nolan's trilogy.

This makes me more excited to see the movie. I have faith in Christopher Nolan, and if he thinks he needs something close to three hours to tell his story, I think he probably needs it. The Avengers would have felt rushed if it came in much below two hours and twenty minutes. A rushed plot is the root of many moviemaking sins—underdeveloped characters, inane plot twists, pat endings—and if a longer movie will help solve those problems, I'm all for it.

However: As movies begin to get longer and longer again—it feels as though the last decade was dominated by 90-minute movies, but now we're moving back into a 1970s-style three-hour epic state of mind—I wouldn't mind seeing intermissions become a thing. While I'm sure lots of folks would complain about intermissions sucking them out of the story, I suspect that more moviegoers would enjoy the bathroom break. And movie theaters would probably balance the hit they would take from a too-long movie—movie theaters hate longer movies, because it means they can show fewer movies in a day—from additional concession sales in the mid-show break.