Did you try pausing for a snack break and then coming back fresh? For us, cutting it into 45 minute chunks with a little riffing in between kept everyone awake and laughing. That whole suffer-through-it approach just doesn't work once the movie starts dragging.

The whole "popped the glass out and glued cheap mirrors" thing got me, because that's exactly the kind of hack that makes me realize most home stuff is just overpriced parts. You pay $30 for a "decorative mirror" at Target, but you basically built the same thing for less than half that. It's like the bigger pattern I keep seeing everywhere lately, people are getting smart about buying the cheap base version and then spending ten minutes making it fit their space. Mirrors are such a cheat code for tiny hallways too, they do all the heavy lifting and you just have to hang them. Honestly, your hallway probably looks better than half the ones in those staged model homes.