What's your breaking point?
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Yes, boredom and suckitude (totally a word), or to put it in more collective terms a failure to engage; I'll try to give most films a chance ensnare my interest in some way, even a terrible film can be unintentionally funny, which can at least make the experience entertaining, but if you're film is really offering nothing for me that would make sitting through it worth my time (a couple of examples being the dreary, monotonous and pretentious Gerry and The Ring, although calm down I found the former to be exceedingly worse in almost every respect) then you've commited the cardinal sin in my book. Really that's about it, I'm totally desensitised so the likes of 'A Serbian Film' (or really, anyhting that's gratuitous violence/gore for the sake of it) really don't phase me, it just seems rather jejune. >.> So unless I encounter something that's just disgustingly bigoted to the point that I no longer feel like drudging through such dross, then most likely my sole reason for dropping out of watching something mid-way is simply a failure to engage me.
Most of the time I like to finish what I started and make a decision based on the entire thing, but there are special cases like Bioshock where I will stop part way through.
So you didn't finish watching Pulp Fiction I take it? You missed out man. One of the best endings I have ever seen.shimyia said:
Fox News. That is where I stop. Its just so blatantly on a trashy, tabloid level of low-brow information dissemination. What does a viewer gain from watching it on a regular basis? How is it responsible media?Blindswordmaster said:
That's the line I don't cross as a viewer. If I want to get real information, presented in a non-propaganda way, I'll go elsewhere.
For me, it tends to be violence against animals. For example, I'm currently watching Game of Thrones, as I'm sure many of you are. That show just loves violence. Knife in the eye? Check. Broken off lance in the throat? Check. Spear through the leg? Check. Stab a baby? Check. The only thing that made me feel upset, and that I had to turn away from when rewatching was when Sandor's brother par-decapitates his horse during a joust. I know it's fake and all but I just get queasy and I felt so bad for the horse. T_T It wasn't his fault the Knight of Flowers rode a mare in heat. T_T When I saw it the first time I was out sick from work and running a fever. I was kinda like "
.. I'm not sure that just happened."
.. I'm not sure that just happened."
It's a few things for me.
Shaky cam and whatever it's called when they cut away from, into, away from, into the action (almost always violence) both make me queasy. Also, mocumentaries and "found footage" crap are.. crap to me, without exception.
Gratuitous violence. I can enjoy a violent movie/TV show as long as the violence is necessary to the plot. When it's just there for the sake of violence, then no. I don't want to watch it.
Particularly graphic or gory violence. I have a weak stomach in my old age, I guess. If a book, movie, etc. needs to try to gross me out instead of scaring me, it's not worth my time.
Cringe comedy or humiliation for characters. It makes me feel sicker than gore does.
Child abuse. It puts my head in a bad place. Same goes for animal abuse.
Shaky cam and whatever it's called when they cut away from, into, away from, into the action (almost always violence) both make me queasy. Also, mocumentaries and "found footage" crap are.. crap to me, without exception.
Gratuitous violence. I can enjoy a violent movie/TV show as long as the violence is necessary to the plot. When it's just there for the sake of violence, then no. I don't want to watch it.
Particularly graphic or gory violence. I have a weak stomach in my old age, I guess. If a book, movie, etc. needs to try to gross me out instead of scaring me, it's not worth my time.
Cringe comedy or humiliation for characters. It makes me feel sicker than gore does.
Child abuse. It puts my head in a bad place. Same goes for animal abuse.
If I get REALLY bored.
I can stand gore, etc... if it isn't just there for the purpose of being there but slow films just bore me. I couldn't finish watching No Country for Old Men for this reason.
I can stand gore, etc... if it isn't just there for the purpose of being there but slow films just bore me. I couldn't finish watching No Country for Old Men for this reason.
I'm usually out if it becomes super gory. The one thing that's definitely gonna make me stop watching is if they go for the eyes. Blech.
Besides musicals, black comedies(the ones with black actors), and the occasional rom-com, nothing really can break me.
I guess it's because I'm emotionally dead on the inside
I guess it's because I'm emotionally dead on the inside
I have yet to see anything in particular that made me stop watching out of disgust or fear. I do not however tend to watch or enjoy films that use horror as the primary entertainment value, all too often, I find more emotional impact on the history channel.
Funny that such a thread appears right after I watch "The Room", although that movie has essentially transcended any criticism. It can no longer be hated; it can only be laughed at.
OT: Boredom is the usual thing that makes me stop watching something. If something that is meant to entertain isn't entertaining, then what could possibly give one a reason for enduring any more of it?
Other than that, I can tolerate mostly anything else. Gore, horror, etc., I can bear as long as I have a reason to continue. In fact, horror is a definite pull factor for me. I love horror, but only when it's good horror.
OT: Boredom is the usual thing that makes me stop watching something. If something that is meant to entertain isn't entertaining, then what could possibly give one a reason for enduring any more of it?
Other than that, I can tolerate mostly anything else. Gore, horror, etc., I can bear as long as I have a reason to continue. In fact, horror is a definite pull factor for me. I love horror, but only when it's good horror.
I can't remember ever backing out of something unless it
-Physically put me to sleep(Eragon: the movie)
-Made me audibly roar in frustration (Sonic Unleashed... upon visiting the fifth fucking werehog level in a row)
-Physically put me to sleep(Eragon: the movie)
-Made me audibly roar in frustration (Sonic Unleashed... upon visiting the fifth fucking werehog level in a row)
mine would be......
1. horrie movies i can't sit through one with out geting scared or covering my face i mean even the commercials/perviews i can't sit through with out jumping or flinching.
2. i get board rather quickly with something and i can't sit still for long (just ask any one...BOOM headshoot65).
3. Gore- for some un-explained reason i can watch war movies and medical shows with lots of blood and gore yet i can't go to a haunted house and come home and eat with out having the bile in mouth effect.
1. horrie movies i can't sit through one with out geting scared or covering my face i mean even the commercials/perviews i can't sit through with out jumping or flinching.
2. i get board rather quickly with something and i can't sit still for long (just ask any one...BOOM headshoot65).
3. Gore- for some un-explained reason i can watch war movies and medical shows with lots of blood and gore yet i can't go to a haunted house and come home and eat with out having the bile in mouth effect.