Also, movie-goers are human beings, not robots. Restroom breaks or stretching one’s legsĪn obvious argument, but giving the audience time to go to the restroom would make for a much more pleasant movie-going experience. It beats audiences avoiding buying any beverages period. don’t care (they really want that extra showtime for a film that’ll earn a billion anyway), theater owners might feel differently. An intermission would give audiences time to buy more snacks. Theaters make a lot of their money off of concessions, thus one reason popcorn is $6 a box. Reasons in favor of intermissions Photo by Dan (Flickr / CC BY) Boosting concession sales That said, there’s various arguments in favor of intermissions.
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There’s also those who suggest just going to the restroom before an also enjoy a lengthy film starts, plus other tactics on the viewers’ parts to deal with longer films (avoiding beverages, etc.). Thus, an intermission during a film as long as “Avengers: Endgame” would mean either one less showing of a film per screen (and thus slightly less profit) or adjusting showtimes. Between increasingly gigantic studios, their profit expectations, and the existence of multiplexes, the goal seems to be to shove in as many showings of a film per screen as possible. However, I suspect a bigger reason for their disappearance is the modern nature of movies. In the pre-digital days, intermissions served a purpose of allowing projectionists time to change reels with the switch to digital, this is moot, of course.
Among famous films that featured intermissions include: 1959’s “Ben-Hur” (running at 3 hours, 32 minutes) 1982’s “Gandhi” (running at 3 hours, 11 minutes) and 1962’s “Lawrence of Arabia” (running at 3 hours, 36 minutes). Intermissions (or “intervals” in British English) were once more common in longer American films.
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Less discussed is something that might be more helpful: should movie intermissions make a comeback? I’d argue “yes.” History of intermissions Of course, like most modern films, there’s no intermission in “Endgame,” prompting a ton of “when’s the best time to go to the bathroom?” articles. And that’s not counting pre-film trailers and ads making that an even longer stretch.
Opening this weekend is what’s likely this year’s highest-grossing film, “Avengers: Endgame.” One of the things discussed among the film’s hype is that its running time is clocking in at a whopping three hours.
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