iPhone App: RunPee
= 3 stars
Never miss the best parts of a movie again with this app that suggests the best times to hit the john.
The Good
- Does what it claims: choose a movie from a scrolling list to call up a few suggested whizzing opportunities. You get the approximate time from the movie’s start, what activity on screen to look for, and a synopsis of what you missed while away.
- Includes a timer for activating at the beginning of the movie.
- There’s also a website version.
The Bad
- As of this writing, there were about 30 movies listed, centering around current releases. Personally, that’s not enough movies.
- Didn’t agree with a few of the app’s suggestions for pee breaks: The strip scene in The Proposal was, IMHO, one of the film’s funniest parts.
- Cell phones are supposed to be turned off in movie theaters. You may feel guilty constantly checking your RunPee timer.
- Only really useful in a movie theater situation; as periodic urination was surely a huge reason for the invention of the home DVD player “pause” button.
Conclusion
Although it needs more movies to be truly useful, RunPee is an amusing idea with decent execution. It sure would have been handy back when those Lord Of The Rings movies came out, when the only pee break rule was: “Liv Tyler.”
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