How Long Do You Usually Go When Watching A Boring Movie, Before Finally Turning It Off ??

I usually stick it out to the end. I've only bailed on a handful of films and those have been musicals and shakespeare adaptations. All the rest i've seen to the bitter end

As a general rule for me... no less than 30 minutes but I try to go around 40 minutes before turning a movie off if it's totally boring and then ill give it my usual 2/10 score (I only give out 1/10's to movies I greatly dislike but these are quite rare because as a general rule a 2/10 score from me is the bottom of the barrel in general because I typically consider boring to be the worst crime a movie can commit).

but with that said... I have made exceptions here and there to where I turned a movie off before the 30min mark but these are quite limited as there is roughly 160 movies (tops) (out of the 2,250+ total movies I have seen) that I could not finish due to boredom. but out of those, only a very limited amount would have been turned off before the 30min mark.

but those people who turn a movie off after 10-15min are is a bit too quick to legitimately write a movie off as boring because I think it takes at least 15 minutes or so to START to get a legitimate feel of a movie. but I will say by around 15 minutes into a movie, especially if the movies end up hitting boring status (boring as in can't finish the movie), you can usually tell if a movie has a decent chance to get turned off due to boredom. but still, I prefer to go at least 30min+ as that's giving a movie a fair chance to recover (since 30-40minutes is roughly 1/3rd of most movies which is a good portion of a movie) because I generally can't turn a movie off and call it legitimately boring until it starts holding that level for a reasonable length of time as only hitting a small 5-10min boring-ish stretch, or something like that, it's not enough to completely ruin a movie. but when a movie holds that boring level for 30 minutes or more, than at that point there is serious damage done to the overall movie etc.

so basically given the options in the poll... 15-30min should be the BARE minimum to legitimately write off a movie as truly boring because, like I was saying, it takes around 15minutes just to START to get a legitimate feel of the overall movie.

hell, I am surprised people even bother with the last option in the poll that says, 'generally don't quit a movie even if it takes multiple attempts to finish' as that's simply a waste of time and not worth it. because if your forcing yourself to watch a movie THAT much, clearly the movie has failed for you overall to the point it's no where near a Thumbs Up at that point.

also, I noticed for me there is usually a fine line between a 2/10 and a 4/10 for me as that 3/10 is sort of a odd score for me as it happens but usually if a movie drops below a 4/10 it will end up hitting the 2/10 even though I have finished some movies that might not be outright boring, but might just be bad (and the like), and they happen to hit a 3/10 as those 3/10's are not quite boring for me, so it's not a TOTAL loss, but at the same time they are worse than a 4/10 (below average).

basically here is my Thumbs Down level scoring system...

5/10 - Average (while these are ultimately a Thumbs Down, they are usually at least decent enough for a one time viewing and did not waste my time)
4/10 - Below Average (movie start to waste my time here but at the same time they could be worse)
3/10 - Failure (I finished watching these, but they are just bad etc)
2/10 - Boring (this is my typical bottom of the barrel score because I consider boring to be the worst crime a movie can commit as a general rule)
1/10 - Greatly Dislike (barely anything is THIS bad for me)


lordquesterjones



That's simply WAY to fast as doing that would end up turning off a fair amount of average-ish movies because there are a fair amount of movies out there in general where you might hit some semi-boring stretches for like 5min or less.

even for people who like to turn off movies somewhat quick, I would figure give a movie a BARE MINIMUM of 15-20minutes because I feel going any sooner than that, it's just way to quick to judge a movie simply because it takes around 15-20minutes to start to get a feel of a movie based on ones overall interest in the movie by that point. because if I turned a movie off and called it boring based on only a 5 min stretch, or anything close to that, I would have turned off quite a bit more movies than I have which would skew things a bit too much towards the negative.

p.s. but I guess at the same time... if someones free time is very limited, they might want to make the most of it and in this regard I can't really blame someone too much for turning movies off a bit too quickly and moving onto the next one. but still, at least try to make 15min or so at the very least because any sooner than that, is just not giving a movie a fair chance.


Primemovermithrax Pejorative



But at that point, the movie was basically turned off anyways because once someone start fast forwarding the movie has clearly failed.

I virtually never quit on a movie. I haven't since that episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark when the babysitter gets the kid to read books and he hates it but the book comes to life with witches and ghosts and the only way to stop them is to finish the book. Babysitter warned once you start a book you really should finish it, so I applied that to movies.

I usually watch all the way through unless it's truly unbearable.

I usually try to watch a movie in its entirety so I can properly judge it. It wouldn't seem fair to criticize a movie by the first forty minutes unless the movie is really terrible and doesn't let up.

I usually try to give it at least 20 minutes. I hate to give up on a film. The Last One I shut off was The Happy Time Murders.

In which scene did you shut it off?

I don't remember. I'd rather forget that movie.