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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 307925" data-attributes="member: 515">I remember our local theater ran &quot;The English Patient&quot; with an intermission. They just cut the projector off in the middle of a scene and sent an usher in to announce there would be a 15-minute intermission. And the movie wasn't even that long.As a child (back in the 1960s and early '70s), I remember going to see long movies that had intermissions. &quot;The Longest Day&quot; and &quot;A Bridge Too Far&quot; come to mind. I didn't have a problem with it then, and I wouldn't have a problem with it now. But I understand the theater owners wanting the customers turn-over. Back when I was a child, our local, single-screen theater would show two movies, alternating all day long. You could buy a ticket for the first showing, and stay in the theater all day, watching the movies as many times as you wanted. I remember my mother would drop me off on Saturdays when she went to work, and I would stay at the theater all day long -- better than day care, and cheaper, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I miss those days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shadowdancer, post: 307925, member: 515"] I remember our local theater ran "The English Patient" with an intermission. They just cut the projector off in the middle of a scene and sent an usher in to announce there would be a 15-minute intermission. And the movie wasn't even that long. As a child (back in the 1960s and early '70s), I remember going to see long movies that had intermissions. "The Longest Day" and "A Bridge Too Far" come to mind. I didn't have a problem with it then, and I wouldn't have a problem with it now. But I understand the theater owners wanting the customers turn-over. Back when I was a child, our local, single-screen theater would show two movies, alternating all day long. You could buy a ticket for the first showing, and stay in the theater all day, watching the movies as many times as you wanted. I remember my mother would drop me off on Saturdays when she went to work, and I would stay at the theater all day long -- better than day care, and cheaper, too. :) I miss those days. [/QUOTE]

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