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RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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For guys, if you use this app too often you might want to have your prostate checked out. I used to leave in the middle of a movie but post-op cancer surgery I luckily don't need this app anymore. I was in my early 40s when I was diagnosed so it's not just old geezers who should be aware. Luckily most cases are benign, though.

Either that, or your just not eating enough bread. Of course.. if you're trying to lose weight, peeing a lot is good. Just sayin...

I laughed when I saw the points on this. That's funny. XD

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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Here's a metric for the overall quality of a given film: the relative amount of pee-time.

That's a common comment but actually isn't true. Some great movies have fantastic Peetimes. Take for instance Captain America: Winter Soldier. (Lets not debate how good the movie was. I think it was at the very least a well told story.) At any rate it has a fantastic Peetime. There's an entire 4+ minute span of Steve and Natasha entering the old Army base where Shield began. There's almost no dialog, it's just them s…

I think you missed his point. He said "relative" amount of Peetime. Meaning if a 2-hour movie has 1 hour of Peetime, you may want to pass on that movie altogether.

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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I hope that a few movie directors see this app and will make it their next challenge to not allow any convenient pee break. I guess "Crank" comes quite close.

Well even in the screenshots it says you can go pee in the first few minutes of X-Men because it is "just silent exposition".

Now I haven't seen the movie, but that doesn't sound unimportant...

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

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I hope that a few movie directors see this app and will make it their next challenge to not allow any convenient pee break. I guess "Crank" comes quite close.

Sofia Coppola, on the other hand, makes entire movies that you can spend in the toilet

Re: RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons

#136
This leads to what strikes me as a potentially negative heuristic for determining what moments in a given film have worth. Summer flick drivel aside, would RunPee assign a high pee time to, say, Drive, which has a significant amount of mood-setting long shots without any dialogue or plot-relevant action?

Excuse me for probably taking this too far, but this app seems to imply that films are merely the sum of plot-related scenes, and that doesn't sit quite well with me. Would the app consider every establishing shot in Alien to be pee-able?

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