They used to have intermissions!
They did? Bring them back.
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!
DON’T TALK! WATCH!
DON’T TALK! WATCH!
YOU CAME HERE, WATCH IT!
DON’T LIKE IT? WALK OUT!!
Haha. I was hoping that was the one that was shared.
Here it is - https://youtu.be/i5pb8a6SrLA
I WILL BITE YOUR TORSO AND GIVE YOU A DISEASE
The little boy takes a bite out of a chocolate bar and it stretches like a piece of taffy.
There’s a little local theater near me, usually plays movies after their out of big theaters, but they play this before every movie and I absolutely love it 😁
It was great. You could even get little pots of ice cream during them.
I remember when I was a wee lad, we went to see Titanic, and the movie was so long they showed it in two parts!
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
Musical theatre and opera still do!
And non-musical live theatre too!
I went to an opera a couple of days ago and was very pleasantly surprised about the extended breaks. It actually makes it so much more of an event, not to mention that nobody was rushing to the bathroom because the breaks were like 30 minutes each (between each act they redo the decor on the set). It also gave you plenty of time to grab a bite to eat and a drink.
Wonder if the studios said they can’t have them anymore. Would be cool if a theater brought them back. Probably have tons of people just leave when the movie is bad.
I have to assume it’s studios – movie theaters make most of their money selling concessions, and intermissions are great for that.
Not sure why the studio would care if people left after intermission, they’ve already paid full price.
All those intermissions would add up. They wouldn’t be able to show as many movies per day…
Does it matter? They’ve already paid. I’d rather people who aren’t into the movie left, than were disruptive.
The Brutalist had a 20 min intermission. It was very welcome. Theaters should totally encourage it, the line for concessions during intermission was crazy.
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.
I think he has a point actually.
A lot of times the break is inserted in a random moment, regardless if that falls in the middle of a scene. And also if you take too long you’ll definitely miss a bit of the movie.
Theaters did have intermissions. Especially drive-in theaters:
The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes.
Movie theatres should have this implemented. Like some dim light by the exit would shine when it’s a good time for a toilet break.
The most worth it surcharge for a movie ever! Even gives you a summary of what’s happening and notifies you with vibrations just before a pee break and with an OLED screen you can see the countdown without lighting up the entire place.
Before the movie starts?
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.
interestingly, I’ve been to two theaters like this before!
and I can’t fuckin remember where either of them were because I was a clueless kid and didn’t realize how mindbogglingly rare they were. somewhere in OH, PA, or NJ since those are the states I spent the most time in as a kid 🤷♀️
I feel like I remember seeing something on the internet about bathroom stalls with screens in them playing the film, but maybe that was clickbait idk. seems like it would make screen recording too easy
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.
Play Dune in reverse?
We had this when I was a kid, the movie reel would run out , bathroom break and snack break while projectionist loaded the next half of the film
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.
I saw Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 Hamlet in the theater. It’s just over four hours long and you better believe they had an intermission.
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.
like an intermission? they solved this problem quite a few years ago
Arrr, we’ve done solved this problem already matey!
Can you imagine the line-ups there would be, if the movie paused to let the majority of viewers all head to the bathroom at once?
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.
