Going to see a movie sometimes can have some circumstantial hassles like people with light bright on their phones or someone talking loudly, it should be a magical experience to be taking in the big screen adventure, right? What about sitting down for a movie that’s over on average 2 hours (‘Blade Runner 2049’ was nearly 3 hours, worth it!), you are drinking that delish coke, and in the middle of it you got to go to bathroom. Break it up with an intermission like they did back in the day.
Look at this great read from Nick Douglas at Lifehacker that details the history of movies with intermissions and how it helped improved the in-theater expedience. Here’s a bit from it.
Imagine the fringe benefits: Constant texters might finally put their damn phones down if they know there’s a break coming. Audiences can talk about the first half of the film and prepare for the second. Everyone can stretch their legs so the film doesn’t feel like a plane flight. Sure, people might sneak into other movies halfway through, but it’s not like they can’t do that already. People will need to save their seats—sure, fine. It all worked in the 60s, and it can all work again.
On a related note, Movie Clips put together this on-point detailed all the etiquette that goes with seeing a movie in the theater.
