![]() Our beloved local theaters want this, too, by the way. The time to supplement the moviegoing experience on this continent with common-sense updates audiences love is now. ![]() In India, it’s hard to find a blockbuster without one. The Alamo Drafthouse, an upscale theater due to open in the Seaport this year, will serve full meals directly to your seat. AMC this year introduced premium pricing for the best spots, a first. Theaters these days justify higher ticket costs by adding cozier and more luxurious seats, with recliner buttons and retractable footrests. Box office figures for the latest Avatar (three hours, 12 minutes) make it clear: we’re just fine buckling in for a three-hour-plus epic, so why would we balk at an extra handful of minutes? Just as directors have gotten comfortable with mega-long runtimes, so have viewers. Or parents picking the brains of their excited kids about what might happen next in The Little Mermaid (which, by the way, runs two hours and 15 minutes). First dates, instead of sitting in silence for hours, bonding over how great (or terrible!) the new Indiana Jones is so far. Think of the camaraderie we’re missing without them: Buddies gushing over the violent acrobatics in the early part of John Wick: Chapter 4 and anticipating more to come. Intermissions, as I learned that fateful night eight years ago, are a blast. Nature, after all, calls - does Hollywood really expect us to hold it for an entire evening of cinema? Would they prefer that a majority of viewers miss some significant plot detail to head to the loo? Have they considered our kidneys? Even the Fast and Furious franchise isn’t immune: Its latest installment, Fast X, runs two hours and 21 minutes. Oppenheimer clocks in at about three hours. The latest Mission: Impossible is two hours and 43 minutes long. ![]() Sadly, they are almost impossible to find these days, even when every big studio is churning out movies that run well beyond the two-hour mark. Reporter Spencer Buell has a passionate plea for Hollywood to give moviegoers a break and bring back the movie intermission.
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