Obligatory Monty Python sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqW_BZu5Xk
Hateful Eight had an intermission; 2 hours 55 minutes.
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Kids be messing with the buttons
Its a seabird, it hasn't got a flavor.
Just bring a blanket and a hospital urinal.
RunPee is a website to tell you when its safe to leave the movie to pee.
Movies in India actually do have midway break times included, though.
I would like to hear about a 3+ hour movie that spends the first two hours in the desert or savanna and then the last hour somewhere with a lot of waterfalls and running water with jump scares.
I recall seeing Dances with Wolves in the movie theater and that was the last US major release i can recall that had a built in intermission
They used to have intermissions!
The Brutalist had a 20 min intermission. It was very welcome. Theaters should totally encourage it, the line for concessions during intermission was crazy.
They did? Bring them back.
I died a little inside reading thos comment. I'm so old.
First time I saw it was during Titanic!
But then it kind of faded away
They did, but it was mostly to boost snack sales (the long-time moneymaker of theaters).
Let’s all go to the lobby, let’s all go to the lobby, let’s all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat!
The little boy takes a bite out of a chocolate bar and it stretches like a piece of taffy.
DON'T TALK! WATCH!
DON'T TALK! WATCH!
YOU CAME HERE, WATCH IT!
DON'T LIKE IT? WALK OUT!!
I WILL BITE YOUR TORSO AND GIVE YOU A DISEASE
It was great. You could even get little pots of ice cream during them.
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Musical theatre and opera still do!
And non-musical live theatre too!
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They still do, at least where i live (western europe). Source: went to the cinema last sunday
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Last 3+ hour long movie I saw was Killers of the Flower Moon.
It was good but if a film ever needed an intermission, that one sure did.
When we saw it the theatre actually had an intermission about halfway through, it was very much needed.
At the very least they should be piping the soundtrack into the bathroom.
They don't usually have one bathroom (for each gender, if that's still a requirement) per screen.
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You guys don't have intermissions?
No and some movies are 3 plus hours. The last one I saw with an intermission was the brutalist and it helped me enjoy the movie a lot more.
I know Scorsese said he didn't like them or something but I didn't go see killers of the flower moon in theaters because no intermission on a 4 hour movie is not my jam.
no intermission on a 4 hour movie
Those of us with ADHD (and plenty others, I bet) would consider that literal torture.
I worked at a theater when Return of the King released, there were audible groans in every showing after the 3rd or 4th fade to black then up on another scene after it had already been 3 hours
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The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes.
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i feel for my elderly parents who sat with me for the entirety of king kong 😂
Main barrier is i don't think the failing movie theater system will pay out for these renovations but maybe they can be convinced with studies showing this pause will lead to massive increase in purchases during it.
Could use devices instead of adding buttons to each seat. Argh dammit, a reason for them to demand customers install a fucking phone app.
Not that I go to theatres these days anyways, so I guess it doesn't really matter.
Just have a QR code on the ticket that you can scan, opens up a website, and you are good to go. One time use, cannot reuse since bound to a ticket, and expires automatically when movie ends.
Am I the only one that turns off my phone when I'm in the movie theater?
I don't turn mine off but I do put it on silent and don't pull it out randomly during a movie.
We seem to be a dying breed
Yeah but if they make an unnecessary app instead, then they can steal our data and advertise to those of us dumb enough to let apps issue whatever notifications they want! Think of the shareholders!
It's a BLEEDIN' ALBATROSS!
Theaters did have intermissions. Especially drive-in theaters:
One of the many reasons I haven't gone to a theater in over ten years.
They have just one advantage over my living room, and that is they get the movie first.
In my living room, no one is talking, no one is looking at their phone, no one is kicking my chair, which is more comfortable than movie theater chairs. My snacks are better, the sound isn't too loud or too soft, I can pause the movie, I can "switch theaters" if I don't like the movie, and watch something else, there's no line at the restroom.
I don't have a 100" TV, but I could. And, if that was important to me I would, before I'd go back to watching movies in a theater.
I'll wait, thanks.
My local theatre sells 36oz draft beers. Lock in buddy!
Both the problem and the solution.
I had a buddy with a particular beef with one of the Hollywood studios. I can't remember which, but he swore that there'd be some huge water scene 3/4 of the way through when everyone was about to burst.
It was always great when he was right.
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