10 Moments That Literally Stopped Movies
6. The New Port City Montage - Ghost In The Shell
The legendary 1995 anime movie Ghost in the Shell takes a page out of Butch Cassidy's book by offering up an extended montage almost half-way through the movie which basically serves as a de facto intermission, despite in no way being an official one.
The mesmerising three-plus-minute sequence is nothing more than a calming, albeit visually stunning, montage of Motoko Kusanagi traveling around New Port City, set to Kenji Kawai's entrancing choral musical score.
It's a great audio-visual feast of a scene that you'd be silly to miss, yet despite its haunting mood-setting it also does nothing whatsoever to advance the plot or characters.
It is objectively the best time in the movie to pee, but you're better off smashing the pause button or, with the film's mere 82-minute runtime, just holding it in if you can.