Movies

[bill_schubert]

We don't go to many movies. All the reasons are obvious but one of the increasingly more important ones is that I need the bathroom and can't find the pause button.

Gone with the wind
The longest day
Ben Hur
Lawrence of Arabia

What do these three have in common? INTERMISSIONS!!

"Let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby.... "

We saw Dune and will see Dune part 2. So much better on a big screen.

And Mission Impossible .. whichever one we're on now.

And, tomorrow, Oppenheimer. 3 hours. No intermission.

Enter: runpee app.

Someone created an app that crowd sources the best time in a long movie to go to the bathroom. I looked at the Mission Impossible choice since I just saw it and their take was good. They had a decent time to miss 2 minutes of the movie.

There is even a timer function that you hit to start when the movie starts and it buzzes you 30 seconds before the scene you've selected to be the one that you miss.

Genius.

Some things the baby boomers just got right.

Comments

[days_unfolding]

Oppenheimer is three hours? Yikes, I want to see it, but wow, that's long.

[bill_schubert]

I've yet to hear a complaint from a review. But, yeah, it's long.

[mallorys_camera]

Oh, I hope you'll write some kind of review of Oppeheimer.

[bill_schubert]

We'll see how it goes. I've not read anything about it but for a few blurbs about how good it is.

[zoefruitcake]

That's a great idea, make your own intermission and not miss too much

[taz_39]

As a person who lived on freight rails for five straight years I'm required to comment :p This also amazes me, that people would take such a risk. I think that this is something that perhaps gets left out of parent-to-child wisdom too frequently? Who knows.

Anyway, living on the circus train, 2-3 times a year we'd have collisions with cars or trucks on the tracks. The number of truckers who drive their cabs across the tracks then leave the trailers sprawling across the rails is astounding. We'd know we'd be about to hit something because of the jolt and screeching of the e-brakes...not the impact. I lived halfway down the mile-long train with probably thousands of tons between me and whatever-we-hit...so for most of us, hitting a car was like hitting an empty tissue box. Even the horn was not a good indicator of pending collision, as the engineer often had to lean on it when nearing intersections anyway.

After the hit an all-call would be made asking us to keep the hallways clear for crew, and that's usually how we could tell we'd hit something as opposed to other types of stops. We'd then be stopped for an hour or two while the police filed a report and the tracks were cleared.

When the train started moving again we'd get to see the aftermath. Usually an 18-wheeler or bread truck blown to bits, crumpled like a piece of foil, or scattered yards down the tracks, with the cab being the only thing intact because it had been off the tracks. But sometimes it was a car...and we'd know it had been a car because there would BE no aftermath for us to see. Can't imagine why...

[bill_schubert]

Darwin awards are still around for a reason.

Still amazing.

[bill_schubert]

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2002-24.html

[msconduct]

I have a projector and screen at home - it turns out that whatever advantages I thought this would bring, like a great sound system and not having to listen to morons talking, are totally dwarfed by the ability to stop the movie to pee.

When I was a kid all movies came with intermissions. They just sawed them in half to sell more ice cream. My mother used to use them as a smoking break and she always refused to be hurried back to her seat when the bell rang as she wasn't going to let a bell tell her what to do. The words "intermission bell" bring on a wave of anxiety even today.

[mollywheezy]

My husband and I have the same problem with long movies, and I have been to ones with intermissions. I remember the "let's all go to the lobby" song! :) Anything long, I tend to wait for it to come out on RedBox or streaming. Even if we don't need the restroom, three hours is too long to sit still.

[siglinde999]

Snort! This is the funniest thing I have read today. And probably one of the reasons I rarely go to movies (not the main one, but a factor).