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If the movie is popular, you risk not being able to find a decent seat by doing so.

Without addressing the intermission controversy directly, Scorsese did recently say this: “People say it’s three hours, but come on, you can sit in front of the TV and watch something for five hours,” Scorsese said. “Also, there are many people who watch theatre for three and a half hours...

All this talk about "trailers" before the movie. Do theaters even really play actual movie trailers anymore? The last time I went to the theater (Across the Spider-Verse), there was only one genuine movie trailer before the feature. There was also one quasi-trailer thing that started out like a...

The movie is an Apple production, and I'm sure Apple would've been very happy to make it a streaming exclusive. The only reason it's getting a theatrical release at all is because Scorsese demanded it. He's from a generation of filmmakers who still consider television an inherently inferior...

The great hypocrisy in Scorsese and Schoonmaker's opposition to an intermission is that, at 81 and 83 years old respectively, I doubt either one of them is physically capable of watching their own movie without a bathroom break. Knowing what a big fan Scorsese is of movies like Lawrence of...

And you saw that in a theater in a single continuous screening with no intermissions?

This is already a long movie, and an intermission would further cut down the number of screenings possible to fit in per day. I expect that theaters are opposed to them. Yes, a few viewers might go to the concession stand during the break, but nowhere near as many as an additional screening...