Post # 1
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Honey bee
Between the Wolf of Wall Street thread(s) and my thread last week about horrible movies we wish we hadn’t watched, another question rose up in my mind to pose to the Hive: if you’re watching a movie and it’s not very good, do you turn it off or do you keep watching and hoping it gets better?
My mom absolutely insists on watching every movie through to the end, no matter how horrible it is. She wants to see the plot resolved no matter how long it takes. This means that she made us turn The Human Centipede back on so we could see how it ended. It meant that she and I watched A Place Beyond the Pines for like 2 1/2 hours when I wanted to turn it off after half an hour. It’s terrible.
But DH is terrible in the other direction — he will turn a movie off after five minutes if it doesn’t grab his interest right away! Netflix streaming has been the worst thing ever, since it makes it so easy for him to just shut something off and look for another movie to watch. Haha there are plenty of great movies out there that start out a little slow, but DH won’t watch them so I don’t get to see them either. If we actually paid to rent something, he might give it 15-20 minutes but then if it’s not to his standards, it is turned off.
I don’t even know what I’d do on my own since I’m always at the mercy of these extremists, haha. I guess if a movie is boring I let myself get distracted during it but don’t actually turn it off? I tried to watch The Butler last week and I think I spent most of it playing Candy Crush and cooking, but dammit that movie was on until the credits rolled.
What’s your strategy when faced with a boring or bad movie?
Post # 3
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Bee Keeper
Haha .. sometimes I watch, mostly I look up on wiki to see how it ends then shut it off. I do the same thing with terrible books, I’ll read the last chapter and be done with it.
Post # 4
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Buzzing bee
@iarebridezilla: When I’m in the theatre, it’d take a lot to make me walk out. I keep waiting for something to happen (hence my prior WofW-street post). If it’s something on TV and it doesn’t catch me, I’ll change it after 5 minutes.
Post # 5
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Bumble Beekeeper
@iarebridezilla: I will never walk out on a movie I am seeing in a theater because I paid good money to see the movie, whether its a pile of crap or not. At home I tend to watch it all the way through id I’m by myself. DH will check out if its too horrible so then we end up turning it off.
Post # 6
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Honey bee
@HisIrishPrincess: ah, I have a much easier time turning off a bad movie than quitting reading a bad book. I don’t know why, but a book just has to be finished! Must be my mother’s influence.
Post # 7
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Bumble Beekeeper
If I can’t get into a movie within the first five minutes, I turn it off. I don’t see something in the theater unless I know I’m going to like it.
Post # 8
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Honey bee
@BurlapnLace: it drives me CRAZY when DH wants to turn a movie off after five minutes! Like, he will literally get mad if an opening credit sequence is too long and just turn the movie off. I’m like, WTF, I WAS WATCHING THAT!!! 
Post # 9
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Helper bee
@iarebridezilla: I turn it off if it’s frustrating or boring me… or I leave the room and do something else. Life is too short and I find it difficult to sit through a movie that isn’t grabbing my attention.
My fiance will watch literally anything and enjoy it, so left to his own devices he would watch every movie to the end, and I feel bad depriving him of that, so if we’re watching it together, unless I find it actively offensive or something, I just let him finish it and go amuse myself elsewhere.
As you can imagine, I see very few movies in theater for this reason… I have to be pretty close to certain that I’m going to enjoy it before I make the commitment.
Post # 10
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Busy bee
If it’s a movie my FI and I are watching on tv, if he loves it and I hate it I just go watch TV in our room. But if we both hate it we change it, I hate wasting my time on bullshit movies and tv shows. As for at movie theatres, we do have a habit of staying through a not so great movie because of the costs of going to the movies in the first place, FI and I are extremely frugal lol
Post # 11
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Honey bee
@megz06: yeah I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a movie at a theater before for the same reason, even though that reason makes no sense at all. Like, how is prolonging my suffering going to somehow refund my ticket price? But no matter; I will sit until the bitter end!
Post # 12
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Honey bee
@Bubblesmcgee: I’d say I’m more like your husband — a movie has to be REALLY boring/confusing/terrible before I don’t want to watch it. Just this past Saturday, I had ABC Family on all day and you do NOT want to know what movies I not only watched but enjoyed. DH would have thrown the TV out onto the street if he’d been home for that 
Post # 13
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Bee Keeper
@iarebridezilla: We turn it off. We did it the other night in fact started watchin The Counselor with Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz and it was the weirdest stupidest movie we had ever seen! When Cameron Diaz started having sex with a car it was time to trun it off…
Post # 14
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Bee Keeper
@iarebridezilla: I stick that shit out to the bitter end, even if it means just falling asleep on the couch! In the movie theater I don’t think I’d leave… at least until I’m done with my over-priced popcorn and extremely expensive beverage.
Post # 15
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Buzzing bee
At home I will turn it off and I’ve left maybe two movies at the theaters before. One was She’s the Man and I can’t remember what the other was.
Post # 16
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Sugar bee
I’ve never walked out of a movie theater, but I have fallen asleep. If we rent a movie I will watch it the whole way through. I watch a bunch of movies online through Comcast’s website when I’m home during the day, if something looks interesting I’ll start it. If it isn’t interesting in 20 minutes I’ll just turn it off.
