You watch movies all the way through because you’re a coddled baby who needs the meaning of a story spoon fed to you. If you were comfortable with ambiguity you’d stop watching ten minutes before the end
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I used to watch a lot of movies but I barely any now. Almost all of them have the same basic story, feature cookie cutter roles or try to engage you with a created universe lacking any depth. The aesthetic look of movies are better than ever though, so watch the 1st 10 mins only for true comfort
I have stopped many movies part way in. I also put a book down if it doesn't grab me in 150 pages. I'll turn a song off 30 seconds in if I don't like it lol... I'm a savage I know.
If Americans were comfortable with ambiguity, they would ditch American made movies where giant guns pumping bullets cause hardons in men & happy forever endings appease anxious women. Instead, they would watch foreign films.
I have 63 mp4 films on my computer that I've watched just long enough to see whether or not I want to watch the whole thing some day very soon but as of now I have not. I can therefore recommend the first ten minutes of many movies to anyone who's interested.
Or you could just watch movies like Hell is for heroes where they ran out of money and never shot the ending. The movie ends in a battle with no ending the credits just start rolling in the middle…..
Who has the attention span to watch a movie. You go to uboob & watch AI generated compilations of every classic scene from every classic movie in a mash up, suddenly you know everything about modern culture & can pretend to communicate with older generations who’s culture relies on movie references
I started watching battle star galactica without realising there was a pilot episode or something. Thought it cool they launch into the action with no backstory…
This skeet was going places. Nevertheless my new look in life demands I stop reading the last line of each skeet so I’ll never know how it ends; and I’m ok with that
Streaming services should add a feature where you can pick the challenge rating of a movie.
Normal is the theatrical cut.
Hard takes out the flashbacks to previous scenes in case the audience didn't catch the foreshadowing.
And easy adds ADR of characters constantly saying what they're doing and why
I may not stop 10 minutes from the end, but I do dip out of paying attention at regular intervals to stare at my phone, so I feel like it all balances out and I'm actually a quite sophisticated viewer
Yeah I literally just look at the poster and know everything I needed to about the movie. Sometimes I even write a hard-hitting critique based on the vibes
Just watch foreign art movies - they often end as if no one could work out a good ending, so let's leave it ambiguous like life - except life always has a bad ending.
I saw Titanic on opening day, and I walked out 20 minutes early because I was terrified that Hollywood wouldn't sink the ship and have some bullshit love-story based save for the ship.
I went later and saw the whole thing, but I was genuinely concerned they were going to fuck up the whole thing.
I just imagine a movie title that somehow reflects my mood and then I begin to watch in my head but it's so boring I fall asleep. Sometimes I wake up in time to catch the end but I'm lost at that point and so it's all meaningless.
And your gif makes me think of Phoebe and her grandmother stopping movies before they got sad. Old Yeller is just a sweet movie about a boy and his dog.
OMG great catch! Didn't even think about that...when she stopped Miracle on 34th Street, "it should've been called it's a sucky life and just when you think it can't suck anymore it does"
This is how I read novels. Even the very best novels, about halfway through, my ADHD kicks in and I'm like "I get it, I get it, I understand the whole thing, I can move onto something else."
I get this too now. Halfway through I’m like, ok, I’ve appreciated the style, considered the psychic distance, the world view, do I really have to finish it?
I read (half of) John Yorke’s Into The Woods recently, and what he says about plot symmetries in fact makes this understandable…
I play movies on a blue ray. But I don't connect it to a tv or a monitor. I can 'SEE AND HEAR' the entire movie in 3d and surround sound, just by listening to the laser shining on the disc.
There are so many things I've stopped watching, that I can't remember why. I need a list that completely means "do not ever suggest this to me again" and one that means "I may finish it someday". Why does Netflix suggest things I've already seen?
you are like a tiny baby. I look at a still of the very last frame of the credits, which shows that Film Victoria and the state of Georgia provided funding, from this I can reconstitute the movie shot for shot in my mind, rotating it very carefully.
I literally do that with shows ALL the time. Haven’t seen the last episode of orange is the new black. I stopped watching superstore with 21 minutes left in the series finale. It’s a thing and I don’t know why.
I was blackout drunk when I watched Attack of the Clones and I remember it being bad, and that stormtroopers were eating breakfast in a cafeteria. Somebody fought somebody else? Idk
My parents would send me to bed half way through “List in Space.” I’ve been living w/ambiguity all my life. But there they all were again the following week.
I always stop watching 'Stalingrad' and 'Betty Blue (37°2 le matin)' 10 minutes before the end but anyone who doesn't watch 'Come and See' all the way to the copyright notice is a coddled cry baby.
I do, the director normally phones the last 10 minutes in anyway. Why show a bunch of names on screen instead of actually finishing your movie? Wasteful.
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I have Casino paused at one hour ten.
Dad you fell asleep during the movie strategy
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I watch a single trailer and I'm done.
You baby.
I’d watch the endings with you now, sweetie. 🥲
Normal is the theatrical cut.
Hard takes out the flashbacks to previous scenes in case the audience didn't catch the foreshadowing.
And easy adds ADR of characters constantly saying what they're doing and why
Pfft. Dilettante.
I went later and saw the whole thing, but I was genuinely concerned they were going to fuck up the whole thing.
“His name was Lou Gehrig. Did you not see it coming?”
I read (half of) John Yorke’s Into The Woods recently, and what he says about plot symmetries in fact makes this understandable…
someone should write a song about that, oh wait bis did!
I don't have the patience to wait around for 90 min any more.
What a beautiful mind
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