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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by 0cf8612b2e1e on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @11:20AM (#44572087)
Bit of a tight line to walk. Longer movies mean fewer showings per day. When I saw that Oppenheimer was three hours long -I want to watch that at home so I can take a bathroom break/snacks so a personal pause button is an improvement on the theater.
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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by AlexandrB on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @11:41AM (#44572316)
If movies are regularly going to be 3 hours long, movie theatres need to bring back intermission breaks.
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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by frameset on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:00PM (#44572536)
I've always thought this would make sense.

Often during a three hour film I've ran out of refreshments and would like to buy a drink or something for the last hour.

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Re:The New Literalism Plaguing Today's Biggest Movies by ghaff on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @06:21PM (#44576467)
It used to be fairly common with the big "epic" films. And probably no live theater production is going to go much over 90 minutes without an intermission.
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