Am I the only person here who has trouble sitting through

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long and/or boring movies? If a movie is significantly over 2 hours long, is slow-paced, or has a plot that fails to interest me, my mind wanders very easily and I will have no comprehension of what's going on in the movie.

Come to think of it, I have the same problem when it comes to reading too.

I used to, but not anymore.

Tim

Thanks to my highly obsessive nature, any movie, no matter how bad, I must watch till completion, I need to know how it finishes.

It comes down to storytellers getting (or failing to get) people's interest.

No, I almost committed suicide sitting through Madagascar. That was an AWFUL movie!! !

I have a difficult time sitting through any movie, no matter how good it is. I have a difficult time sitting through Lord of the Rings (ask any of the long-time members how much I love it!) and even sometimes through an episode of Star Trek...

the davinci code bored me and i had trouble watching it sort of.

I love long movies, when they're paced right and have good storytelling. I'm a film nut...for me, a great film can never be too long. But the fact that a film IS long doesn't automatically make it good.

I like a short movie every once in a while, but so many of them are so mediocre...a longer running time allows more room for characters and a more complex plot.

I didn't mind that one actually, but what was with the stupid ending?

UGH, usually I get bored if the movie is something like "Lord of the Rings", where they drag it ON and ON like they're ACTUALLY TRYING to bore my to death. But I admit, I was riveted by Titanic. *groans at word pun*

Oh, I totally agree about the ending. I liked it until the ending, because it was totally different from that of the book.

SPOILER ALERT

The book basically was like, "Let's stick it to the Catholic Church!" but in the movie, the ending seemed to try so hard to appeal to Christians, by basically asking "Why couldn't Jesus have been a man AND a god?" I know movies have larger audiences than books, but it ticks me off that they tried to "broaden" their audience, because what they did was turn off agonistics, wiccans, and atheists like myself. (I wasn't the only one bothered by the ending.)

The whole movie made no sense. Why would that guy try to kill tom hanks and the girl? he didn't even need to. and why did he kill the girl's dad? plus, why didn't the church try to stop this thing 700 years ago. and if that society was so secret, how'd the church find out? ......lame....

The only reason people liked it is because it had a conspiracy and people love conspiracies, even if they don't make sense.

I like conspiracies.

Alex, just out of curiosity, did you read the book before?

Maybe I was interested because I like the stuff they mentioned, like the Knights Templar and medieval history &c. What Dan Brown has done which is good -- whatever you think of the story itself or its theories -- is to get some mainstream people interested in history and culture.

I don't see how the Cathars could have been involved, though. (That's not a theory from Dan Brown, by the way, but rather "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" where a lot of his ideas came from.)

I used to watch all sorts of interminable stuff simply to see it through to the end. Now I try not to put that much effort into it anymore. If it's going to bore me to tears, turn it off.

i can't stnd most movies. i get totally bored 40 minutes into them, unless they're really interesting, and that criteria is unpredicatable. i also cant tell the characters apart, or follow complicated plots, and i get distracted by the fuzzy extras in the background, or the light on bad guy #2's face, or the patterned carpet. people hate watching dvds with me cause i need to stop and get an explanation every 10 minutes. i prefer short tv dramas and documentaries with facts or conspiracies.

the same thing happened with novels in high school. i wouldn't follow the plot, the characters got all mixed up and more than once i wrote quite excellent essays on a scene that didn't exist. (but i thought it did).

so, yes Dart, i have the same problems as you

I love to watch movies however, if the movie is boring, i can't stand to watch at all. Even when I'm watching a movie I love I have to be doing something like eating, reading, playing game, or anything else. However, I'm very picky when it comes to movies because I can get bored very fast.