If I can't get into it after the first 40 minutes, I give up and rate it a 1 on IMDB out of spite. I'm too angry at that point to care if it pays off.

i stop watching movies all the time. it's the cinematic equivalent of a sunk cost: don't stay with something you're not enjoying just because you've put a 1/2 hr into it. if it's not working for you, find something else to do with the next hour or two.

it's usually trashy, cheap horror/slasher movies that i give up on. there's about three trillion of them streaming on various platforms, and most of them really aren't worth watching, and you can generally figure that out pretty quickly. if the film has no energy or drive or sense of fun, then i turn it off and try to find something that will scratch my itch.

If I fall asleep well that's usually it!

ZombieKitten said:

If I fall asleep well that's usually it!

i went to the local arthouse theatre to catch tarkovsky's stalker yesterday afternoon. i specifically chose the matinee because i knew i'd fall asleep during the evening showing. i love the movie, but it's basically 165 minutes of russians mumbling and walking very slowly. it definitely could put someone to sleep. sexton would like it i'm sure.

Zombie, I bet u look cute asleep. wink

ZombieKitten said:

If I fall asleep well that's usually it!

everytime I have tried to watch The English Patient (1996)

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damosuzuki said:

ZombieKitten said:

If I fall asleep well that's usually it!

i went to the local arthouse theatre to catch tarkovsky's stalker yesterday afternoon. i specifically chose the matinee because i knew i'd fall asleep during the evening showing. i love the movie, but it's basically 165 minutes of russians mumbling and walking very slowly. it definitely could put someone to sleep. sexton would like it i'm sure.

Those articles you posted about it nearly made me fall asleep

If I start watching, I'll watch all of it. The exception to this is the recent MacBeth, which was infuriatingly awful beyond measure and had to be abandoned.

If the story is dragging or I just cannot get into the story

I can take a lot of abuse, but things that are absolute dealbreakers for me include...

* Exceptionally cliché-ridden dialogue

* Deus ex machina

* Gratuitous nudity -- especially that of women

* Adaptations that are utterly ignorant of -- or disrepectful to -- the spirit of source material.

Lammastide said:

Many American movies in the last ten years. Amazing how bloody many are. You would have gotten an X rating for many of todays horror films.

Lammastide said:

I can take a lot of abuse, but things that are absolute dealbreakers for me include...

* Exceptionally cliché-ridden dialogue

* Deus ex machina

* Gratuitous nudity -- especially that of women

* Adaptations that are utterly ignorant of -- or disrepectful to -- the spirit of source material.

i was kinda flippant earlier, just referencing trashy horror movies that really aren't worth anyone's time, but one thing i should have noted is that i definitely have a tough time when it comes to one quality: 'children in peril' films. that is definitely something that's kept me away from movies that otherwise are worth watching. not always, but often.

the biggest example of that for me is 'grave of the fireflies.' i've probably started it 3 or 4 times, and i don't think i've ever made it more than 20 minutes in. i have an emotional reaction to it that's really unlike any other movie i've attempted, that's so intense that i can't stand it, and i don't see myself ever trying again.

i gave lion a pass last year because i heard enough about it to make me think i would not have a good response to that one either.

guess i'm a wimp!

Only if its really horrible, like "Dunkirk" was. In fact, I've only walked out of two movies in my life - "Dunkirk" and "Howard the Duck".

I walked out of "Dunkirk" because I thought it was stupid but when they killed the boy on the boat, that was the last straw for me. I walked out of "Howard the Duck" because it was just plain unlikeable.

Fortunately for me, I'm old enough to know what kind of movies I will not like. Basically, if someone is going to die and it's not because they were killed by Arnold, Sly, Statham or a monster, then I won't watch it. I'm the same way with medical TV shows. I absolutely refuse to watch them. No exceptions. There's enough real suffering in the world, why should I look at some made-up BS on TV?

Seems like I don't go to movies anymore--the last two I went to were film documentaries of rock bands, namely the Beatles and X-Japan (my son turned me on to them lol). I tend to go to local band concerts which are the same price as a movie. Much more fun.

not much

sandra bullock..except Crash...

The book was much more interesting and in depth. This damn movie kept going in circles and I got bored after the second hour. Fell asleep woke back up..IT WAS STILL ON talking about who the killer MIGHT be...I left.

EmmaMcG said:

Lammastide said:

I can take a lot of abuse, but things that are absolute dealbreakers for me include...

* Exceptionally cliché-ridden dialogue

* Deus ex machina

* Gratuitous nudity -- especially that of women

* Adaptations that are utterly ignorant of -- or disrepectful to -- the spirit of source material.

Some of the best movies ever made feature some of these things.

I don't disagree. Seems one thing that sets masters apart is their ability to know just how to screw the rules of "good filmmaking" ...to make an even better film. I wouldn't trust these things in the hands of most filmmakers, however. It's usually bollocks.

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ufoclub said:

This question really takes on impact when you qualify it with “in the movie theater”.

Then I could add the seats being too hard as a reason.

I've never walked out of a theater but I have switched screens at a drive-in. I'm getting my $5 worth, dammit.

morningsong said:

I've never walked out of a theater but I have switched screens at a drive-in. I'm getting my $5 worth, dammit.

They still have Drive-Ins? The last movie I saw at a Drive-In was Romancing The Stone.

purplethunder3121 said:

Finishing Graffiti Bridge was a chore.

2freaky4church1 said:

Finishing Graffiti Bridge was a chore.

it was after the 40th time for me

2freaky4church1 said:

Making funny faces is not acting. I loved when the Time were manhandling him.