![]() Yes, we saw Idiocracy, and nobody wants that going on next to them, especially during a flick like A Quiet Place. The one thing the theater cannot do is provide the attendees with a way to empty their bladders in the middle of a 3-plus hours filmed entertainment without leaving their seats. INTERMISSION is a way for Movies to distinguish themselves from the blur of undifferentiated premium and semipremium streaming content, much in the way the theaters themselves have taken to constant comfort enhancements such as larger reclining seats, reserved seating, and even at certain theaters, food and drink brought directly to your seat, which can be revolting, people eating full dinners. If certain overly-long movies have intermission then this will all make sense, and maybe theaters can sell less-than-bucket-sized refreshments if you know you get a second round, as opposed to selling giant-sized buckets with the poorly-engineered incentive of interrupting your movie viewing to go and get a free refill. Classy! Also, many middle-aged and or tiny bladders would add, which way is the restroom?Īvengers: Infinity War (2018), precedes Avengers: Endgame and was an infinite-seeming two hours, 40 minutes, so that is how we’re going to define long in terms of recent long-ass movies: Nymphomaniac (both of ’em), The Hobbit (all three of ’em), The Wolf of Wall Street, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Boyhood, Interstellar, Transformers: Age of Extinction (we didn’t say good, we said long), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hateful Eight, and the endurance test of Blade Runner 2049.īack in 2007 we saw Grindhouse (3 h 11 min), and got excited about the Intermission until we realized it contained CONTENT, dammit, we were trapped! We went to full-length Lawrence of Arabia (3h 36 min) at the Brattle Theater in Boston a million lifetimes ago and used the intermission to go to Store 24 and buy COLD LEMONADE. I want to say Titanic was the last one I can remember, but I was 3 years old when that came out so I am not too sure. Ive never been to a movie thats had an intermission before and was wondering what the last movie to have one was. ![]() We recall attending a 70-mm restoration/revival screening of Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, which clocked in at over three hours, and seeing through the scrim the phrase ENTRE’ACT on the screen as the soundtrack played during Intermission. I just looked up the time for Avengers: Endgame (3h2m) I started wondering if there would be an intermission for it. ![]() This is a welcome development/de-evolution in moviegoing to a see a movie in a movie theater. yryScyi2w5- MCU News & Tweets February 6, 2019 RUMOR: may be considering including an intermission for #AvengersEndgame's theatrical release due to its potential 3-hour runtime.
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