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If you caught the amazing never-before-seen footage from "The Dark Knight Rises" Sunday night (June 3) at the MTV Movie Awards, you may be getting that all-too familiar sinking feeling that you have seen too much of something you're really looking forward to. Perhaps it was one too many trailers or an overly revealing TV spot, but you start to wonder if there's anything you haven't seen already.

Luckily for Batman fans, that does not seem likely. The theater chain AMC recently updated its listing for Christopher Nolan's final Batman movie and included a runtime of two hours and 45 minutes, making it the longest film in the series by nearly 15 minutes.

If a nearly three-hour runtime seems too long to you, consider the following:

As a point of reference, 165 minutes is longer than a "Harry Potter" movie and shorter than a "Lord of the Rings" movie, or as Goldilocks put it, "Just right."

Taking in all that we've seen so far from trailers and what we know from the character list, this film will be sufficiently packed. Batman's struggles with Bane alone could constitute its own movie, but he also has Selina Kyle and (supposedly) Talia Al Ghul to deal with. The last thing we want from the long-awaited conclusion to the series would be an over-stuffed, rushed mess of a film.