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sheldipez

Quote from: I, Cosh on 16 March, 2017, 11:13:18 AM
Quote from: sheldipez on 16 March, 2017, 10:39:47 AM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 16 March, 2017, 10:05:49 AM
John Wick: Chapter Two. The pacing was slightly affected for me because a lot of cinemas here still have an intermission for no discernible reason. Just as the long setup sequence is coming to an end and you're eagerly anticipating it all to kick int high gear... Boom! Lights come up and you have ten minutes to get an ice cream.
What cinemas still have intermissions? Presumably its a small indie cinema? Mind blown that there's still places that have these. I can imagine that they are handy for stuff like Lord of the Rings and King Kong for sure.
Quite the opposite. In Switzerland it's the norm for films to have an intermission in the big chains. It's really only in small arthouse or dingy basement cinemas that they expect you to sit and watch the whole film from start to finish.

I honestly had no idea, spent the last half hour reading through forums on Swiss intermissions. You learn something new every day. Do some places really stop the movie mid-sentance?!

dweezil2

Quote from: sheldipez on 16 March, 2017, 12:50:52 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 16 March, 2017, 11:13:18 AM
Quote from: sheldipez on 16 March, 2017, 10:39:47 AM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 16 March, 2017, 10:05:49 AM
John Wick: Chapter Two. The pacing was slightly affected for me because a lot of cinemas here still have an intermission for no discernible reason. Just as the long setup sequence is coming to an end and you're eagerly anticipating it all to kick int high gear... Boom! Lights come up and you have ten minutes to get an ice cream.
What cinemas still have intermissions? Presumably its a small indie cinema? Mind blown that there's still places that have these. I can imagine that they are handy for stuff like Lord of the Rings and King Kong for sure.
Quite the opposite. In Switzerland it's the norm for films to have an intermission in the big chains. It's really only in small arthouse or dingy basement cinemas that they expect you to sit and watch the whole film from start to finish.

I honestly had no idea, spent the last half hour reading through forums on Swiss intermissions. You learn something new every day. Do some places really stop the movie mid-sentance?!

Ironically 'Swiss Intermissions' sounds like a particularly dull arthouse movie!!!!  :lol:
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Tjm86

Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 16 March, 2017, 11:57:48 AM
Last movie I saw that had an intermission that I recall was The Towering Inferno in the last 70's (on a re-release).
I saw 2001 a Space Odyssey recently and that has a built in intermission but it was basically ignored.

Isn't there a Mel Brooks film that has an actual intermission in the middle of the film or have I completely lost it?  (actually the latter part is completely rhetorical and the answer is yes) I want to say Blazing Saddles but I could be completely wrong as it has been a loooooong time since I last saw it.  "Candygram for Mongo."

Goaty

Only film with best intermission is Holy Grail!


dweezil2

Quote from: Tjm86 on 16 March, 2017, 05:18:33 PM
Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 16 March, 2017, 11:57:48 AM
Last movie I saw that had an intermission that I recall was The Towering Inferno in the last 70's (on a re-release).
I saw 2001 a Space Odyssey recently and that has a built in intermission but it was basically ignored.

Isn't there a Mel Brooks film that has an actual intermission in the middle of the film or have I completely lost it?  (actually the latter part is completely rhetorical and the answer is yes) I want to say Blazing Saddles but I could be completely wrong as it has been a loooooong time since I last saw it.  "Candygram for Mongo."

Sounds like High Anxiety but again I could be wrong.
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dweezil2

Unlike Swedish Intermssion which sound like an entirely diffrent kind of movie altogether (cue Airplane gag).
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Mardroid

I don't think I've seen any film with intermissions, but i didn't go to the pictures that often as a child. (I'm was born in the 70s so, likely they were around in my lifetime.)

I do remember that they always had a cartoon before the main feature, which was often as enjoyable, although possibly for different reasons.

In my Dad's time they had a full film before the main feature! (He was born in the 40s. He is now a rather robust 70 something, bless him.) Or maybe there wasn't a 'main feature' and they just showed two films at a time. Of course not all that many working class people had a TV back then, and i don't think they only showed new releases at the cinema. I think they might have even shown series and the news at the pictures back then.

dweezil2

Quote from: Mardroid on 16 March, 2017, 07:45:57 PM
I don't think I've seen any film with intermissions, but i didn't go to the pictures that often as a child. (I'm was born in the 70s so, likely they were around in my lifetime.)

I do remember that they always had a cartoon before the main feature, which was often as enjoyable, although possibly for different reasons.

In my Dad's time they had a full film before the main feature! (He was born in the 40s. He is now a rather robust 70 something, bless him.) Or maybe there wasn't a 'main feature' and they just showed two films at a time. Of course not all that many working class people had a TV back then, and i don't think they only showed new releases at the cinema. I think they might have even shown series and the news at the pictures back then.

I remember JFK and Dances With Wolves having one, when movie's still came on reels.
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Hawkmumbler

Bring back the double feature!

Woolly

#10749
I remember Return Of The Jedi and Ghostbusters having intermissions. These were at the Rex in Sheffield. (Now sadly gone)
However, Transformers-The Movie didn't have an intermission. This was at the old 2 screen Odeon in Sheffield. (Now sadly expanded, and shit)

I definately had a tub of ice-cream during the second half of Ghostbusters.

dweezil2

Quote from: Woolly on 16 March, 2017, 10:11:55 PM
I remember Return Of The Jedi and Ghostbusters having intermissions. These were at the Rex in Sheffield. (Now sadly gone)
However, Transformers-The Movie didn't have an intermission. This was at the old 2 screen Odeon in Sheffield. (Now sadly expanded, and shit)

I definately had a tub of ice-cream during the second half of Ghostbusters.

I remember Ghostbusters having an intermission at our cinema, but that was because kids were throwing Revels at the cinema screen and the manager came out to threaten to cancel the screening permanently if the rambunctiousness didn't stop!!!!! :o 
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CrazyFoxMachine

The Young Offenders

This was way on my radar already because of my deep love for the Rubberbandits (director Peter Foott was the man behind "Horse Outside") although I rarely rush to a film a chance opportunity led to LG and I watching this on Netflix this evening. I was utterly bowled over by it. The leads were charming, the environs gorgeous and the plot cleverly tight. Like the other SW Irish box-office smash (and personal favourite) "The Guard" it manages to dance the line between bleak darkness and human brightness extraordinarily deftly.

Definitely Not Mister Pops

Absolutely fantastic show. Have you ever watched Six Shooter?
You may quote me on that.

Mattofthespurs

Quote from: sheridan on 16 March, 2017, 12:28:42 PM
Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 16 March, 2017, 11:57:48 AM
Last movie I saw that had an intermission that I recall was The Towering Inferno in the last 70's (on a re-release).
I saw 2001 a Space Odyssey recently and that has a built in intermission but it was basically ignored.


You've got me wondering now - I can only remember getting one intermission at the cinema, but can't remember what film it was (in the mid to late 80s though).


Where's the built-in intermission in 2001?  Obvious point I'd guess would be on the moon, but it's a bit early in the narrative...

Just when we realise that HAL is reading the lips of the crew in the pod, IIRC.

Mattofthespurs

Quote from: Mardroid on 16 March, 2017, 07:45:57 PM

In my Dad's time they had a full film before the main feature! (He was born in the 40s. He is now a rather robust 70 something, bless him.) Or maybe there wasn't a 'main feature' and they just showed two films at a time. Of course not all that many working class people had a TV back then, and i don't think they only showed new releases at the cinema. I think they might have even shown series and the news at the pictures back then.

I remember double features and I'm nearly 50.
When I saw the original Star Wars it was shown with another film but we came in and saw Star Wars first. It was agony having to sit there through another, much duller, movie. All I wanted to do was go out into the sunshine, pretend I was on Tatooine and fight stormtroopers.