I can't sit through a movie

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So I had some people over and we were going to watch The Lord of the rings. I have never seen it and I really wanted to. I play the first few levels in the Lego game on my ps3 and it is so cool so I stopped and wanted to watch the movies before continuing. We were all siting down and watching. We have h special directors cut movie. And about 2 hours through I was getting very distracted but really still wanted to see it. I started rocking and in about ten min I folding and so I went to my room to play on my computer. About 1 hour later the movie was over and everyone was talking about how good it was and I was all upset I missed it. But I psyicly couldn't sit there any longer. I am still upset. I am worried if I can't focus on something I really am interested in the how can I go see the hobbit if I can't go anywhere. I am really annoyed that I can't just focus even if I enjoy it

This is why I rarely go to the movie theater. When I watch a movie at home with a group of people, I tend to stand or change seats frequently; it can be hard for me to stay in one place for the duration of a movie.

I can kind of relate to that.

Unless the movie is exceptionally interesting, I can't sit still till the end of the movie. So nowadays I don't go to a movie theater any more. I would end up leaving in the middle. Although I seldom watch any movies, if I do, it has to be DVDs at home, by myself. If someone else is with me, then I wouldn't have the freedom to pause it in the middle.

I'm capable of focusing on certain things for a long time, but not on other things. Sitting in a dark place is one of the latter.

I can only sit through a movie if I go see it at the cinema. When watching a movie at home it usually takes about 2 days for me to finish a movie since I keep pausing it to read about things or look things up on the internet etc. If I'm watching a movie with other people and I can't paus the movie I often start playing games on my phone and things like that. It's not that I'm not interested in the movie, I just can't focus on it for that long.

that is a long movie to be fair

i can only last 2 hours before i start to realise i dont fit the seat and my ass in numb

Looper took me three days to watch because it was non believable and incoherent at times. I had to force myself to see it all the way through. It was like watching paint dry. Oy! Never again.

I can sit through movies sometimes, but not other times. I get restless or distracted or lose track of what's going on or lose track of who's who (I never could finish Inception because I couldn't figure out which character was which). I do better at movie theaters than I do at home because there are many fewer distractions at theaters and money is involved. However, I don't go to theaters very often.

I have never once managed to sit all the way through a single installment of the extended edition of Lord of the Rings. I usually watch it over six days - one DVD per day.

I relate to this issue and here are things that helped...

There are a few key things one can do to be able to grasp onto a movie and stay with it:

Choose a movie you believe you have a strong interest for. Don't put much creedance in previews or opinions. Find your own movie your way.

See it alone. Aspies have very unique, individualized minds. This, like reading a book, has to be done alone. - imagine reading a good book with a friend and every 10 minutes she puts her finger on your page and says "omg, did you Read what they just typed??"

If the movie is one of the rare ones that deserve to be seen on a theatre big screen viewing - go in the afternoon on a weekday. But most movies are just as easily consumed at home.

Have the same mindset with watching a movie just as you would reading a book....

•set aside a timeblock to watch

•realize there will be interuptions, calls, dinner, bathrooms, etc.

•when there are interuptions 'bookmark' your paused location just as you would a book. - your brain can pick up the action again when you return (just like it does for a book).

•if it is too interesting at a certain point, put off the bedtime till later...just like you do with a good book!

•rewind if you need to 'get' something... I often go back a few pages in a book because of.."wait wait, what now?"

•if you just can't connect with a movie...well... I've had books like that too. it doesn't mean every book or movie is impossible.

•especially long movies require more dedication..just like a fat book! it all comes down to your hunger for the story.

The one thing that could prevent being able to view movies would be sensory issues.. too fast paced, too bright or flashy imaging, noise levels. This would be tough to overcome.

I used to be-able to watch a movie, but not anymore. My attention span is too poor now-a-days .

Dude, it takes me DAYS to get through movies. I play them as background noise, and play them over and over and over before I've got the whole movie in my mind at all. A lot of times I'll see a movie I've seen several times before and just think "Hey, that guy wasn't in this movie before" until a line is said that I recognize because I wasn't WATCHING the movie before. Or I'll find out the movie had a different ending or characters did things or died and I didn't see it before.

It's ridiculous. I also sit down to write posts all the time and forget about it or close the page, and I'll think I responded, or sent someone a PM... I've got to start taking my adderall again if I want to get through school. It's like my mind just CAN'T stay focused on any one thing. I'm listening to a movie as I write this, and talking to my friend who is trying to play tetris on the end of my bed. My brain just... can't.

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This is why I prefer watching serier rather than moveis.

There are a few movies I can watch. But I get tired of most other moveis halfway through. Unless I am in a movie-watching mood. Which is quite rare nowdays. Programming is more fun =P

2 hours of watching is pretty good for that stupid NZ film
School was torture for me, sitting still and facing forward all day
Did my head in

I love movies and going to the cinema, but I prefer my films not be the length of LOTR!

I think I a lot of people struggle to sit for long long films.