When you watch a movie that gets boring, do you stick it out to the end or do you quit watching?
>>219352631I start fast-forwarding through it.
I don't get bored
>>219352631I drop movies all the time. I even drop them with 20 or 15 minutes to go because everything I cared about already got resolved. The one thing I don't is to skip ahead, if I'm interested I watch it all.
>>219352631Start skipping every 10 seconds
>>219352714This
>>219352631Depends on the movie and how hopeful I am that it'll be worth finishing
>>219352631boring is ok if there is a reason to keep watching. like hail mary project, there was no reason to give a shit about anything, so i walked out after an hour.
i don't watch movies
>>219352631got the soft-tism where i finish every movie i startbut there are 5 movies i quit watching because they were dull, and gave up halfway. uncut gems, once upon a time in hollywood, and three B movies i can't rememberi'll stick it out for terrible B movies too, i finished hollywood zap
>>219352631Ugh I feel seen
I have to finish it or it hurts me psychologicaly to leave something unfinished.
>>219352739Yeah this happens pretty often. Most climaxes are so by the numbers that you're not missing anything anyway.
>>219352631Rarely because I only watch good movies but my guess is that'd be the big brain move if you watched recent garbage
>>2193526312-3x speed.
>>219352631I just stop halfway and jerk off
>>219352631i flush turds all the time you can usually tell after having watched half if it stinks or not. doing something you do not want to when it comes to entertainment is an alien idea
>>219352714You must be a very boring person then
>You must be a very boring person then
>>219352631I stick it out because the ending/climax might turn everything around.
>>219352631I wish I could have walked out on the Hannah montana movie
>>219352631I just pull out my phone and just claim I watched it. Like everyone else.
>>219354264The sort of people who are often bored are, almost invariably, the most boring people. I don't watch movies very often, but I'm never bored. I always have something to do. I find it very irritating when faggots sit around saying they're "bored". I pretty much instantly consider you a cunt if you say this.
>>219352631I'll watch it. The only time I've ever dropped a movie is if the sound is atrocious.>>219354264It's the opposite, moron. Atleast you're not dumb enough to projectively avatar post.
>>219352631>log it on letterboxdonly redditors use shit like that
i'm bored by most movies, i still finish them because it does well for a person to finish what they started.
I have a new system which is to help fix how last year i watched zero movies. What I do is open them in tabs and also have a txt file with a list in case the tabs crash. Then when I have an impulse, it will usually be something like a memory of a dream or experience or old time watching a movie that will make me think 'i wanna see deniro', or 'oh yeah, people doing stuff on other planets', or 'oh... its that time of year where the air smell reminds me of when i saw Scotland on tv'and so then i just look at what tabs/movies i have on the boil and one of them will kind of meet that impulse and i watch it. If i eventually get kind of taken in by it, then over the rest of the next week or two, bit by bit i'll finish it. I have am up to two movies finished already this year
>>219362719i forgot to mention that usually after seeing about one complete scene the impulse is satisfied so it kind of goes away and you have to wait for the next one that's why i used to never finish movies i would just look up a scene and never have the movie actually loaded with the chance to be progressed on further.
>>219352631i have a 20 minute rule. if i'm not interested after 20 minutes i switch off. works pretty well. you can tell pretty quickly without you're going to enjoy it or not 20 minutes in.
>>219352631for whatever reason i don't mind dropping shit that i come across while channel surfing, but if it's something i picked i'll usually ride it out, even if it takes me a couple of sittings to get through.
>>219352631I tend to stop it and then the memory haunts me every so often.
Usually just finish it. Only one I turned off was quiet place. What a piece of dogshit kek
I usually stick through it because sometimes the build-up is a little slow or uneventful but then through the events that follow you can be rewarded and look at it in a different light With novels on the other hand I stopped trying to read "difficult" novels that I found annoying or didn't reach me; I tried reading pynchon and joyce for example but i didn't find the juice worth the squeeze
>>219352631I recently almost switched off Halloween Resurrection once the nigger started doing kung fu on Michael Myers. I was already bored to tears by that point, and then I was aggravated
>>219352631I've started dropping them only if I feel sleepy or tired, there's no point to continue watching a boring movie if I don't even have the energy to force myself through the movie.
>>219366471I blame H2O for starting the trend of inserting gangsta balla rappers in slasher movies
>>219352631its always better to force yourself to stick it out, because you train yourself to better maintain attention on something, even when it is not immediately rewarding. Its working out that brain muscle that resists the urge seek short term pleasure which is the major cause of attention issues. Yep you risk getting burned on some movie that you hope would lead to something worthwhile when it does not really, but that is inherently part of the gamble you play when consuming any form of media or art. This certainly applies to music just as much as film. But the reward isn't that you always get to see a film that you feel was worth your time, its the ability for your brain to better sit through such things to the end. If you see problems with the iPad kids and tik-tok length attention span of adults, but you yourself skip movies that start off boring, you are part of the problem as well.
>>219366709>you need to force yourself to watch shitty movies because it builds character or somethingNo thanks. There is more media in the world than you could possibly consume in your life and there is absolutely no reason to waste any of your time on something that's clearly trash.
>>219352631Drag the slider forward on VLC
>>219366877>There is more media in the world than you could possibly consume in your lifeThat remains to be true even if you speed watched 5x speed everything, skipped everything that "seems" boring halfway through or substituted watching the actual movie with some clip compilation of the movie on Reels. It has nothing to do with being efficient with your time because you get nothing out of it either way. It is about not making your self an ADHD mental midget.It is actually even better to watch less movies, but always watch them all the way through, even if they are boring or not. Cycling your self between other things that don't require screens like reading books or touching grass allows you to better appreciate the experience of watching the movie, rather than worrying about if its a waste of time (because movies are, even the good ones).
>>219352631I have a black belt in movie dropping. If a movie is cringe level bad (Hellboy remake) I will drop it. But also there are some massive A-list blockbuster movies I have dropped for being too formulaic which to me makes it feel like a waste of time because I have seen it all before. Like seriously Ford vs Ferrari and F1 felt like the same movie and I dropped them both. Never finished Top Gun Maverick because the dudebro way everybody talked was cringe. I saw Project Hail Mary in the theater and it was ... fine. But it's one of those movies where if I was watching it at home I only would have finished it because it was sci-fi. It was literally The Martian 2 Electric Boogaloo.
>YOU DIDN'T EVEN FINISH IT???? THEN HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE IT!!!!!!That's why
>>21935263198% of the time I finish it. I need to finish it to dab on it properly in conversations.
>>219352739>>219353307These. In fact sometimes I will just watch a trailer on repeat and figure it got the just of the movie.Also watching a movie at 1.5 speed is a huuuuuge timesaver they should offer 1.5x showings at the movie theater. Finish a 90 min movie in 50 mind and fuck ur date in the car. Win win.
>>219367099>It has nothing to do with being efficient with your time because you get nothing out of it either way.If you don't get anything out of watching good movies then you need to find a different hobby. I don't know what kind of autism makes you invent all this nonsense to justify wasting your life forcing yourself to sit though movies you don't enjoy and find boring but I'm glad I don't have it.I appreciate the effort you went to with all that projection but I think I'll continue dropping movies that turn out to be shit.>Sunk costs often influence people's decisions, with people believing that investments (i.e., sunk costs) justify further expenditures. People demonstrate "a greater tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in money, effort, or time has been made".
>>219367929>If you don't get anything out of watching good movies then you need to find a different hobby.You misunderstand, I do get something out of watching good movies. Its on same spectrum as watching a not so good movie or worse, but just less of it. And I actually don't really know for sure where it sits on that spectrum of "good" until I finish it, granting that is certainly valid to make a good guess as to whether a movie is probably a bust or not partway through watching it. Sometimes a good ending makes up the rest of the movie by re-contextualizing the preceding events. Sometimes a seemingly good film can be undermined by a bad ending. The fear of time wasting stems from having a lack of other things in your life to give you fulfillment, so you depend on a efficient scheduling of movies to watch, and the feeling that comes when you are watching something new, its not immediately coming across as good, and the concern that you might have used this time better on another film. And in that process, you train your brain to be less able to stay in the present moment, with the resulting attention related issues.
>>219368323*but just less of it.I meant more it, other way around
>>219352631I stick it out, it's only a couple of hours.
>>219353137>uncut gems, once upon a time in hollywoodholy filtered
>>219352631I’ve only ever dropped a handful of movies midway through. They have to be pretty fucking bad for me to not even suffer through to the end.
>>219352631You can usually tell a movie isn’t worth watching in the first 30 minutes You’re not losing out on anything by turning it off
>>219358929people that dont get bored by boring movies are often boring themselves
>>219352631>watch Oppenheimer>fast forward x16 as soon as a woman starts talking>solves both the runtime and the pacing issuesWhat did Christopher Nolan mean by this?
for me it's the Fantastic Beasts trilogy
>>219369971boring is a state of mind, and most boring people get bored more often because they themselves struggling with making a given situation stimulating. The reason you can't sit through slow, low action, or long films isn't because you are just such an exciting person.
I read the movie plot summary on wiki beforehand so I can fast forward boring parts
Why do so many movies have awkward cringe shit at the start? It's like the people making them want there to be friction to make you pause it and then not keep going, like it's a test to see if you really want to watch the movie or not
>>219352631I give it a good half an hour, hour tops. If you can't do anything of note in your most crucial moments, what's the point in continuing?
>>219352631Depends on how boring. If it's not outright bad, but just not holding my interest, I'll start doing other shit - happened to me with 'A Most Wanted Man', by the midpoint of the movie it was blatantly obvious where the movie was going and I was so fucking bored I started doing stuff for work.But there's been a few where a movie hasn't even been worth leaving on as background, at which point I'll just turn it off and walk away.
>>219367189>Never finished Top Gun Maverick because the dudebro way everybody talked was cringe.Saw it in theaters and it was fine enough, but I absolutely skipped through all the boring bar banter and cringey romance shit on rewatching it. The fighter jet action is the only redeemable stuff in the movie. If they'd cut out the romance subplot it'd probably be a good half hour shorter and would be an expertly-paced, tight action movie.
>>219352631It depends on how boring it is and how much time is left. If it's only like 20 minutes left I may as well stick it out. On the other hand lots of movies start out boring and you need to give them a chance. Sometimes I watch a good movie that slightly bores me for a little bit and I'll check my phone or maybe go on the computer or walk about a little bit. I know it's bad to do that yet conclude I really liked that movie.
>>219369971retard
