They used to have intermissions!

You guys don't have intermissions?

Theaters did have intermissions. Especially drive-in theaters:

You may have seen ads like this

RunPee is a website to tell you when its safe to leave the movie to pee.

At the very least they should be piping the soundtrack into the bathroom.

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.

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

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.

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.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Intermission

https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_18479

Main barrier is i don't think the failing movie theater system will pay out for these renovations but maybe they can be convinced with studies showing this pause will lead to massive increase in purchases during it.

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.

Kids be messing with the buttons

like an intermission? they solved this problem quite a few years ago

Just bring a blanket and a hospital urinal.

Did everybody forget about the STADIUM PAL! It's a solved issue

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.

I recall seeing Dances with Wolves in the movie theater and that was the last US major release i can recall that had a built in intermission

Hateful Eight had an intermission; 2 hours 55 minutes.

It's a BLEEDIN' ALBATROSS!

i feel for my elderly parents who sat with me for the entirety of king kong 😂

We have those!

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?

My local theatre sells 36oz draft beers. Lock in buddy!

Do they no longer dointermissions??

Let's all go to the lobby....

And fight over the toilets

Its a seabird, it hasn't got a flavor.

Adult diapers yo!

Wouldn't work. Plenty would have to go before a break which would drive the counter down. I think you'd never reach the number.

A better idea IMO is to have some sort of light that tells you which parts of the movies are best to go to the bathroom. A red light or something of to the side of the screen.

Cause people gonna have to go, and if you haven't seen the movie you never know when you should go.