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To think cinemas should go back to having film intervals?

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ChrisPrattAteMyHomework · 25/04/2019 18:59

Films are soooooo long these days. Often 2hours plus.

They tempt you with pop, slushies and even beer and expect you to not need to pee.

I understand some people wouldn't want the extra time added on but couldn't they do every 1 in 4 showing with a 10 minute interval half way through?

Films are so expensive to watch and I feel like I spend too much time wondering when the most boring time to run out for a pee is Grin

OP posts:
JellyBabied · 25/04/2019 19:00

runpee.com

You need this.

JellyBabied · 25/04/2019 19:01

It's an app that tells you when the best time to go for a pee during various movies: (Disclaimer: I haven't used it)

Bluntness100 · 25/04/2019 19:02

No I hate intervals and don't want the movie disrupted.

steff13 · 25/04/2019 19:02

There's an app that will tell you when it's a good time to pee. I don't remember what it's called but I'm sure you can Google it. I think if a movie is more than 3 hours, an intermission is probably good. But 2 hours and 15 minutes, no.

steff13 · 25/04/2019 19:03

Oops, cross posted with Jelly re: the app.

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ChrisPrattAteMyHomework · 25/04/2019 19:03

But I don't really wnat to miss any of it.

Maybe I'm being nostalgic about the intervals when I was a kid. The curtain closing. Ladies with ice cream trays. The rush to get to the loo.

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maddiemookins16mum · 25/04/2019 19:05

I agree, the dash up the side stairs for a tub of Lyons Maid and a platic cup thing with a straw of Kiora.

steff13 · 25/04/2019 19:05

The only movie I know of that had an intermission in the theater was Gone with the Wind, and that was a zillion years before I was born. Was it something that they just did there?

ForalltheSaints · 25/04/2019 19:06

Don't give in to temptation and go to the toilet beforehand.

If you went back to B movies and/or intervals, you would not have the c6pm and c830pm screenings of films, so a film might not be shown at your local cinema, or only be on for a week instead of longer. So your choice would be less and fewer people go to the cinema. So the current set-up is good economics and keeps many local cinemas.

JellyBabied · 25/04/2019 19:07

I'd hate an interval personally. It's ok in the theatre but by the time the trailers and adverts run that's another half hour or so added onto the film time. I don't want to spend half of my day in the cinema to watch a film.

Crappygilmore · 25/04/2019 19:07

I used to love the intervals. Chock ice and a pee. First film i saw without one was Batman (first one) nearly wet myself waiting for the break. But now i prepare. No more than a small drink and pee b4 i sit (obs in the loo's). Not that i get to see adult movies the last one i saw was lego movie 2. Maybe kids films should have them as guarantee at least half the kids will drag on parent off for a mid movie wee.

Happierlife · 25/04/2019 19:08

No...just don't be tempted by the drinks

DecumusScotti · 25/04/2019 19:08

I’m sure I remember Waterworld having an intermission when it was in the cinemas in the mid-nineties

JellyBabied · 25/04/2019 19:09

Would ten minutes be long enough to go to the loo, considering the queues?

BlueThursday · 25/04/2019 19:09

When did intermissions stop? I don’t ever remember them

Iruka · 25/04/2019 19:11

They still do an interval in the little near my parents. Complete with people selling ice creams off trays hung round their necks

PanamaPattie · 25/04/2019 19:11

YANBU. I’m going to wait for the new Avengers film to be shown on TV. I believe the film is 3 hours long. I can’t hold it in for that length of time.

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 25/04/2019 19:12

There's an old one screen cinema near me that does an intermission with choc ices up the front. I watched all the Lord of the rings movies there. It's beautiful.

cardibach · 25/04/2019 19:12

I remember them, but they were usually between the support film (or a movie if you want to be American about it) and the main feature. Very few films had an intermission during them as far as I can remember.

magicstar1 · 25/04/2019 19:14

Last movie I went to with an intermission was Lord of the Rings...when I was younger they were very common, and I’m 44.

steff13 · 25/04/2019 19:17

I saw all the Lord of the Rings movies in the theater and there was never an intermission. Maybe they didn't do it as much here (US).

ScrambledToe · 25/04/2019 19:18

We still have intervals in our cinema. It’s old skool though with only 2 showings on a sunday, one a matinée

Flatwhite101 · 25/04/2019 19:21

Where I grew up there was a little independent place (would be late 80's/early 90's) that had intermissions usually. When was only a handful of people in to watch a film though they'd ask for a show of hands to see if people wanted one or not Smile

PunkRockHippy · 25/04/2019 19:22

I saw LOTR3 at an old fashioned one-screen cinema in west Wales, that had an intermission, but 1 & 2 back in the real world Grin hadn’t, I guess it was more the cinema than the film itself.

Lifeover · 25/04/2019 19:25

They should have a little picture first an an intermission. ICe cream ladies come round with flash light and you get a tub of ice team with a wooden spoon. That was a proper cinema experience where you queues out the door for big releases wondering which showing you would get to see