And now for a brief intermission

Hamlet’s (1996) intermission was much needed, but I still boggle at the fact it came like 3.5 hours into a 4 hour movie. My teeth had been floating since before the three hour mark. I knew the intermission was coming, so I toughed it out, but I thought I was gonna burst.

Why couldn’t they have put it around 2.5 hours?

The intermission for Hamlet comes at 2:38 (i.e., 158 minutes into the film). The film is 3:58 long (i.e., 238 minutes long) without the intermission and 4:18 long (i.e., 258 minutes long) with the intermission. So you’re wrong about the time before the intermission.

Sub continental movies are rarely under two hours and usually longer.
As it is, I do know that if a movie ismore than 2 hours long runtime then regulations are that the cinema must have an intermission; whther the movie has one or not. At leasyt thats the case in Islamabad.

I heard that 2015’s Hateful Eight had an intermission.

That’s where I gave up on the book. 20 pages into the monologue, I skipped ahead another good chunk, 50 to 100 pages, to see when it ends – nope, still talking.

Not the general theatrical release.

[According to the Guardian, The Playhouse Cinema, Louth, Lincolnshire, has intermissions.](Playhouse Cinema, Louth, Lincolnshire)