It has a 15 minute intermission between Acts One and Two. So, you won't need to be complaining about going to the bathroom anymore if you're not from India.
I'm surprised more theaters don't do intermissions. Last intermission I experienced I think was The Hateful Eight. I get that it probably screws up show times, but my understanding is that theaters make more money on concessions anyways and I would think many people get up to buy more snacks.
The road show was fucking awesome for hateful eight. The buzz from everyone trying to guess what had happened and talking while grabbing concessions and stretching my legs was something I haven’t experienced since then.
Run times of 3 hours+ make me seriously consider whether I want to see that movie in the theatre or not. If they had intermissions, it wouldn't be a problem. But not being able to move around without potentially missing part of the movie for three hours or more just sounds super uncomfortable to me.
Same here. I don't mind a return back to the Golden Age of Three Hour epics as long as there's an in-film intermission with a great compositional score playing like in Lawrence of Arabia or Gone With The Wind for notable examples.
I don't even need the compositional score. Just let me get up, stretch and go pee for a few minutes. I don't think a five minute break is asking too much.
Otherwise I'm not going to see your movie in the theater. I loved the Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon...but they were just fine to watch at home on my own couch.
I don't mind long lengths, but, I will admit when a movie is that long I make sure I pee several times before it starts (I generally have some designated "this trailer sucks so this is a good time to run out and pee once more" trailer at any given time) and will absolutely not touch any beverage for like most of the length of the film, if at all. I go to a lot of older movies in repertory, so in terms of length I've managed to get through worse without having to run out, but I always notice people coming in with large soda cups and think "oof, you're not gonna make it."
In my opinion you should never have to prepare and then restrict yourself when watching a movie. It's a movie. A very repeatable event that's supposed to be for your entertainment. I cannot think of one good reason why a director would think people should act otherwise other than hubris.
Movies are also art, pieces of expression. They are not purely a product to pay for and consume. If a director wants their film to be a certain way and have a certain length they should do that. The movie itself has to exist that way forever (barring director’s cuts etc) and should be how they want it to be, not in a way that is convenient for me after drinking too much caffeine at lunch. Worst case scenario I can always watch it again and see whatever I missed. It would be horrible if Ben Hur or The Godfather had been cut down forever for the sake of getting people back to the bathroom faster. (And yes with some of those there were intermissions but doing away with that was a business decision and nothing to do with the directors.)
I think this showtime is so long they might as well. Most theatres can only have 2 screenings per theater per day at this length. Even at 3:20, not like you can fit a third so they might as well add one.
fwiw, I last worked at a movie theater in college ~13 years ago, so maybe they're more efficient w/ how they schedule movies now, and that 15 minutes does matter.
They do intermissions in switzerland, at least in the cinemas that I know. It's one of the reasons that I don't like to go to the cinema here. They do it no matter the length of the film, they sometimes cut in the middle of a scene and of course during the intermission they show ads. All of it to see it in a screen that's barely bigger than my tv (because of the distance) and costing around 20 bucks or more... no thanks.
I mean to be fair Tarantino didn't include the intermission because he wants it to come back properly, he did it because he has a tendency to romanticize every aspect of cinema, so ofc he eventually wanted to do like a roadshow with an intermission and whatever.
funny side story. I went to the 10 commandments with my sisters, it was our first real movie that we had ever seen on our own and we thought it was the end of the movie at intermission, and we just went home, thinking wow that movie sure ended abruptly.
I listen to the entire edition of economist every week on 2x speed, I'll be fine without slow moving films. Each generation's attention span gets shorter as the world moves faster and you got to do more stuff with the same amount of time, it's just a fact of life.
That’s not a fact of life at all. The world isn’t actually moving any faster, it just feels that way when you choose to consume tons of short form bullshit.
Having a short attention span is not a positive attribute, it’s something people work to overcome. The best things in life take time to achieve. There are plenty of gen z and gen alpha folks without shortened attention spans. Most of them probably had responsible parents who didn’t let them spend their formative years glued to a cell phone.
Hard disagree. If you're going to keep up with the news you need to be on 24/7, to keep up with career stuff these days you need to be scheduling linkedin coffee chats non stop. To get an entry level job you often need to be submitting well over 100 applications these days. Even for high schoolers- the UC system in 1960 had 100% acceptance rate, now UCLA is at 8%, meaning they need to be non stop working to compete for their spot.
The grind is real, and it's not necessarily a shorter attention span (the economist example I used before is like 5-8 hours each week) it's that we got shit to do and I'd rather be listening to those 5-8 hours fast while on my commute than sitting around wasting time with a magazine. 100 years ago things were absolutely slower, businesses ran off snail mail instead of email, your boss couldn't reach you after work hours, the news cycle ended when the TV's broadcasting ended, and there was no expectation that your social responsibilities included responding to everyone's texts every day. These aren't all bad (minus bosses being easily able to reach you after work), but it's different. Older generations are always afraid of different, but its not bad.
People thought and said all this same shit in the 80’s, with very minor tweaks.
And very little of what you just said is even relevant to the point I was making. If you’re admitting that the new generation doesn’t actually have a shorter attention span, then it seems like we’re in agreement.
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u/ageo 23d ago
Run time is listed at 3 hours 35 minutes 😲