To think cinemas should go back to having film intervals?

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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

Oh my goodness @HomeEd!! I live in Goosnargh and have been to the palace many, many times!! Lovely place. Has just had renovations and is now even better!

I'd love this. I have a teeny bladder. And bad memories of sitting through finding nemo with my legs crossed! That was VERY hard work!

The only film I ever saw with an intermission was Hamlet when I was king my a levels. Endgame wasn’t too bad, the film itself is 2 hours 50, most people can handle that I would think.

The Paramount cinema in Penistone always has an interval. There is a bar where you can buy tea and coffee as well as alcoholic drinks, and the ice cream lady sells ice creams at the front. It is a brilliant little cinema.

Penistone?

YANBU, I loved the intermission. Time for a wee and an ice cream, really civilised. Not like everyone troughing and munching their way through films now.

Most movies here in Switzerland have intervals - the 'Pause'. It just randomly stops mid-way, and generally feels quite abrupt as movies are not intended to have intervals so lack a natural stopping place. Annoyingly, the only movies without the interval are the extra long ones, presumably so they can fit in more screenings ...

They do this in India and it's kind of great but also kind of makes you spend loads of money on extra interval snacks if you have no willpower like me 🐷

The only time I've experienced an intermission at the cinema was for the last LOTR and by Christ did we need it! Seemed to go on for eternity.

I remember nearly hurting myself watching School of Rock because I didn't want to miss any of it but was busting for a pee as well - by the end of the action credits (bastards kept going through them!) I was in pain, and had to leg it to the toilets while keeping my legs tightly together (an interesting situation!)

But I still don't want intervals. It breaks the concentration and atmosphere of total immersion in many films.

I just drink less.

No.

Wait for it to come out on DVD and you can piss on your own time.

God no.
I love going to the pictures and can never understand why healthy adults can't wait 3 hours to pee
Intervals would change the whole dynamic of a film. They would have to rewrite scripts, change production schedules, just because you forgot to go to the loo before you went in.
The reason people pay 12 quid to go to the cinema is because it is an immersive experience. Stopping half way through for toilet breaks and ice cream kind of kills that

I remember years ago taking Dd to see pirates of the carribean2 and it had an i terval the cinema was older so maybe the technology wasn't as good as a multiplex (or something) .

I remember double bills as a kid you would get an intermission and icecream then.

The Sound of Music has one built into the film when Maria buzzes off back to the convent.

Our local cinema has an intermission. And someone with ice cream trays round their neck comes out, with a spotlight on them. I don’t see the problem.

But “I can never understand why healthy adults can’t wait 3 hours to pee” is a bit of a selfish thing to say. I’m lucky I can hold mine all day and regularly do, so 3 hours is nothing. But more than just “healthy adults” want to go to the cinema! Young children, people with health conditions, the elderly- should they not go, or get up one at a time through the film to go to the loo. Either way they’d be destroying your immersive experience?

I can't "wait there hours to pee", no. I've tried and been quite ill from it. I get up & go now, which is probably disruptive for the "immersive experience" of anyone I walk infront of.

They used to have an intermission because they needed to change the tapes over, I think. Obviously doesn't apply any more, unless there are some old school cinemas still using traditional technology?

Agree with those saying don't drink a massive fizzy drink if you can't hold it. If there was a pee break, it would just take ages for everyone to come back in and films would take longer to show and they would have fewer screenings per day, which would reduce the cinema's income.

I don't "drink a fizzy" either, I take a bottle of water in and have a sip if I feel thirsty, I don't gulp it down because I'm mindful of not wanting to have to get up. Occasionally I need the bathroom. I usually go in the interval at the theatre and have never had a problem.

Preparation is key

I went to see Endgame last night and made myself go to the loo 3 times in the hour before the film, then sipped water v carefully throughout. I'm glad I did as I would not have wanted to miss a second of it, I honestly can't think of a good time to go during it.

People getting up to go to the loo didn't bother me but oh dear God the crunching!

There was a very apologetic dad when I was watching Endgame he had 3 kids with him all with slushies all needing the toilet at different times he was doing the sorrysorryexcuseus thing bless him

Yes!