Anyone else have a hard time sitting through TV show/movies?

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I have the same problem with most American movies. I *hate* the heavy-handed emotional plots with love stories shoehorned in as an afterthought. They hold no interest for me. I have turned off countless movies. I also HATE CGI, so that knocks off most movies in America made after 1999.
I know I don't respond "normally" (emotionally) to movies and things the way most people do. I like things that are understated or ambiguous. I'm free to react however I want to the movie without having the "one correct response" that most mainstream films demand. "This is the villain. You're supposed to dislike him. This is the hero. You're supposed to admire how violent he is."
I actually get really angry about it.
One thing I like to do when I find a TV show I like(which is rare since I don't have cable or any sort of TV, I watch stuff online) is to watch several seasons worth in order over the course of a week or two. I find it extremely soothing to watch what is ostensibly the same thing over and over, yet the episodes are different.

I enjoy the TV show Bones, because the main character has Asperger's and is a very positive presentation.

I love Law and Order SVU because I like the characters. Basically it's the story of the people who have the worst job in the world, ever.

I also enjoy The Daily Show.

Movies I like are usually foreign or independent.

I do just fine with movies and shows as long as I am interested in them. In fact, I like to watch movies and shows I am interested in many times, because I find many new truths and insights each time I watch. I have a low comprehension of plot lines and how different people and things relate to each other unless I watch the same show several times. It isn't unheard-of for me to be watching a show for the tenth time and exclaim aloud, "So THAT'S what that particular sentence or event meant!" But as a result, I can watch enough of a show so that I can pick up on many aspects that most NTs would never fathom from it. "And that's what he meant when he said thus and so to that other character in episode 43." "Huh? How could you possibly figure that out?!" - LJS

i have a hard time watching butchered movies on network tv. when they blank out the naughty bits it is a distraction for me, in that i can't stop thinking about what the censors didn't want me to see or hear.
when video producers introduce weird stuttering/strobing artifacts in their videos in order to be more eye-catching, it also is a distraction for me and makes for a fatiguing slog through the segment or program. artistically down-rezzed material also is a downer for me.
judder [on telecine'd 24-frame-per-second film material] is something i just can't watch. i have to change the channel or else just not watch. thankfully my tv set filters out most of the judder. when judder [and faux film noise] is artificially added to 30-frame-per-second video-based material, that is an unforgiveable sin, art or no art. there is nothing i find attractive about the "film look" - unfortunately it seems that it's becoming endemic on tv nowadays.