Quote:Originally posted by Wolfmeister:No way, never. Missing 6 minutes of plot is the tradeoff you make. If you really have to pee or are truly dying for another bag of Reece's Pieces, get up and make your own intermission. Yeah, they've got their nice points, but I wonder whether it would be all that terrible for them to go.I can see a rare case of having an intermission in a movie that breaks the 3 hr 30 min mark, but it should be up to the director to determine it in that case. I've seen many plays and acted in quite a few as well. Sure, plays have intermissions, but they've always seemed to me to be merely holdovers that could be done away with. I don't want an arbitrary constraint like that placed on the creative teams. Worse still, writers and directors would start incorporating the intermission into their plans for the story and pacing. I don't want all the work that a writer and director have put into enthralling the audience and building a driving emotional experience to be destoryed by breaking out of it with an intermission. Originally posted by dennilfloss:People are in such a hurry nowadays. No, no, no- sweet jebus no!Edit for some content: Wear a goddamn diaper if you can't hold it in. who suggested this? Bad idea, bad idea, bad idea. and this might prompt people to turn their cellphones back on! - View image here: -Aw hell. That's kind of a staggered two-shift break right there. Or whoever gets up and gets food, also has to go to the bathroom. Someone's gotta stay and watch the jackets and seats. It only takes the WHOLE thing about 3 minutes to empty out entirely.Though I can see where it might be annoying to have to travel back to your seat and crawl over people who returned before you, or never left at all. Originally posted by Maxer:I guess I was thinking of smaller theaters, if the movie is staggered then you'd never have more than an entire theater doing the break.Most theaters here hold a few hundred. That's why I don't like to take a pee break, I don't want to miss anything. Sipping on a soda over that time makes me have to go even though I drained before.One thing that would be almost cool is to have a small restroom in each theatre and have a plasma, or at least pipe in the audio so you can follow along. You'd be competing for linespace with people who are still waiting for thier theatre to open.The only time I'd welcome an intermission would be in 3+ hour movies. I can't imagine how bad it would be to try to get everyone back in the theatre in a timely fashion.And it wouldn't only be 1 theatre milling around. Yeah, but people have 20-30 minutes to get in the theatre before it starts. Great time to go pee and get more victuals. We used to have 10-15m intermissions during the double features. Originally posted by Sykus:Intermissions used to be standard fare in epic length movies.
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