Hollywood has a new trend, and like most Hollywood trends, things aren’t looking pretty (sorry ladies but Uggs were never cute, not even on Paris Hilton). But this trend isn’t about bad fashion. It’s about movies. And it’s about their excruciatingly painful lengths.

It’s always been normal for well-made, award winning movies to be a little longer than the average movie, but Hollywood filmmakers these days have gone too far.

Before I went to see “King Kong,” I didn’t realize I was going to be spending almost three hours of my life in an uncomfortable movie theater seat, wishing the gorilla would just die already. At least one of the chase scenes at Skull Island was begging to be cut out.

Take the critically acclaimed film “Munich,” which clocks in at an agonizing 164 minutes. The portion of the film when main character Avner reunites with his family was drawn out. Plus, at this point, viewers were teased into believing the film was almost over. Well, it wasn’t.

Other movies that unnecessarily crossed the line in lengthiness are “Brokeback Mountain,” “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and “Wedding Crashers,” all of which reach the two-hour mark. The middle of “Brokeback Mountain” was too bland and uneventful. And since when are comedies two hours long? The great thing about comedies is they are entertaining, and at the same time, moviegoers don’t have to totally immerse themselves in the film to enjoy it.

I think this trend in absurdly epic movies should lead to a new reviewing scale. Instead of using the “thumbs up” system, reviewers need to rate movies based on how their backsides feel after the movie on a scale from one to five, with one being “no pain at all — concise and to the point,” and five being “unbearable soreness — way too long.”