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Endgame
I have bowed to the inevitable and been to see Endgame.
Here is my comprehensive, spoiler-free review:
It needed to be a little better, a little shorter, or a little worse.
If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) better, I could have enjoyed it on a thoughtful, detached level without needing to be immersively swept up in the story, but it wasn't quite good enough to sustain that.
If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) shorter, I wouldn't have started NEEDING TO GODDAMN PEE about halfway through, and maybe I could have gotten immersively swept up in the story instead of using half my attention on that.
If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) worse, I might have talked myself into taking a bathroom break.
As it is, if by some chance you haven't seen it yet, my advice is to either see it in a format with a pause button, or go to the drive in, where the cranky old Stan Lee esque dude who owns the place and has a vendetta against Disney is actively advertising a bathroom intermission in his showing.
Here is my comprehensive, spoiler-free review:
It needed to be a little better, a little shorter, or a little worse.
If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) better, I could have enjoyed it on a thoughtful, detached level without needing to be immersively swept up in the story, but it wasn't quite good enough to sustain that.
If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) shorter, I wouldn't have started NEEDING TO GODDAMN PEE about halfway through, and maybe I could have gotten immersively swept up in the story instead of using half my attention on that.
If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) worse, I might have talked myself into taking a bathroom break.
As it is, if by some chance you haven't seen it yet, my advice is to either see it in a format with a pause button, or go to the drive in, where the cranky old Stan Lee esque dude who owns the place and has a vendetta against Disney is actively advertising a bathroom intermission in his showing.
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If they are going to insist on longer and longer movies, they need to bring back the concept of intermission in general. Lots of very good movies had them! You sell more coke and popcorn! Customers are happier! it's winwinwin!
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It was less a cliffhanger payoff and more "the car door is no longer being closed on my hand" relief. The three hours and two minutes is pretty long but then tack on the trailers...
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I will say Infinity War is less of a fork in an electrical socket that IM4 (CA:CW by any other name) was.
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It's worse for people Assigned Female At Birth [who have smaller bladders;
and are also more likely to have bladder issues after childbirth]
it's worst for people with Disability/chronic illness/medication that affects their bladder.
Long films with no break = Disability access issue AND feminist issue.
Unfortunately, with cinemas trying to screen sessions back-to-back to wring every last dollar out of the cinema, they're not going to bring back intermissions. :(
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Given that theaters are more revenued at this point by concessions, very long movies without intermissions may be more damaging than anything so far inflicted. Though, my understanding it's a particular segment of the audience that's buying most of the concessions and they don't have as small of bladders.
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(I am in a wonderful catch-22 where if I don't drink a lot before/during a movie, I get a headache from the combo of noise + screen + theater air + dehydration. If I do drink a lot before a movie, I have to pee. There's probably some perfect balance where I drink exactly the right amount at exactly the right time, but I don't really care enough to find it. And I shouldn't have to plan my water intake for a movie more carefully than for a two-day hiking trip...)
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My normal procedure is to have a little water from the bubbler before going into the movie after a visit to the 'jill' and treat movies like a Tuesday/Thursday seminar. The only other time I've had to dash from a screening since I was seeing movies on my own, was when I saw maybe the last LoTR while still recovering from a bad cold? It was a bad cold, maybe it was a different movie, that seems too long ago. Could have been the second Sherlock Holmes.
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I really think it is mostly just Artiste Directors who know they can get away with it and think an intermission would interfere with their Vision or whatever. (They are Wrong.) And if the Artiste Directors at the big studios did work an intermission into the film, the theaters wouldn't have any choice but to include it. (They pace the films for commercial breaks anyway! Auugh.)
You'd think it would at least make sense to do intermissions on, like, weekday daytime shows, when the theaters are half-empty and most of their patrons are stay-at-home moms and disabled and retired people, all of whom are going to be kept away by long movies with no accessibility considerations. But no.
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I read comics (because libraries) and I keep thinking "You've got the good paper! Why cannot you use it?" That and also "pick a way to run the spread, double page or single, stop changing back and forth you're not clear enough for that". It makes me salty when Artiste Directors are precious against the needs of the audience.
I'm pretty sure the ads are part of the revenue stream, though they may be more of a daytime function, since IM3 was the last time I saw a non-matinee show). My showing had an actual ad in the trailer block, after the admonishments.