Question: How long do you give a movie before you bail?

[bif]

I usually give a movie a half hour. But I saw one yesterday that set a new record for me. 3 1/2 minutes. It was that horrible!

And you?

[Tree-Hugger]

1. I usually try to make it through

....but if I must bail, I typically do so by midway. There was a horror movie - I already forget the title - that was sooooo stupid that I shut it off within the 1st 5 minutes.

[beaglelover]

23. Me too. The only movie I can think of that I ALMOST bailed on, and probably should have, was

Melancholia.

[Ocelot II]

2. It depends. I'll usually stick it out for about 15-20 minutes, maybe less if

the acting is bad from the outset. Which movie was so bad that you lasted only 3-1/2 minutes?

[bif]

3. "Loose Change" from 2022

And I wasted a viewing credit on Hoopla to see it.

[2naSalit]

6. LOL!!

A friend loaned me that on a DVD a few years back and I think I lasted about that long! I don't even recall what it was about but it lost me in a hurry.

[bif]

8. This one just came out.

Apparently there are several stinkers with the same name. Maybe the title is cursed or something!

[2naSalit]

9. Wow...

You'd think there could be more imagination applied. But then, they keep making stinkers so they must know.

[hlthe2b]

4. I used to give it a half hour in the theater as I mulled the waste of $$$

But at home? Anywhere from a few minutes to, at most 15 or 20. And streaming tv series? If I didn't like the first episode, I wait to read recaps of a few more to see if others are liking it (or from viewers maybe a year later who have seen the full series) to decide whether or not to give it a second chance.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. Normally a half an hour but there have been a few on Netflix a lot less.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. What's really pathetic.......

is to bail on one, only to go back and finish it because I couldn't find anything that I would enjoy more!

[LakeArenal]

10. We are weird.

We don’t watch a movie whole ever.

If we see a movie that looks interesting and it’s the last 20 minutes we watch it. If we like the ending then next time it’s on we watch more. Then eventually we say, xxx is on, we’ve never seen the beginning of that. So we will watch the beginning until… we get bored.

[3Hotdogs]

11. We agree on 15 minutes. There are, of course, some we won't even try.

[bif]

14. I do two film reviews a week

One online and one in our local paper. Almost always two different films. So I watch a lot of movies. And those are movies after I've eliminated all the dreck. I have to watch at least one film a day!

[mockmonkey]

12. I've only walked out of one movie in the Theater

I worked nights so I would go to the 10 AM screenings, very few people in there at that time.

The movie I walked out of was "He Knows You're Alone." I think I made it about 20 minutes.

Apparently, Tom Hanks was in that movie. I don't remember seeing him but then I wouldn't have known who he was.

Maybe it was just my mood at the time. A Serial Killer stalking Brides-to-Be from what I read years later. It was yuck or stupid

I can't remember which. I should find it somewhere and see if I can finish it.

Now that I'm older it's hard to stay awake for any movies.

There are movies that I LOVE that start out so horribly slow. One would be the Coen Brothers movie, "Blood Simple".

The scene in the car driving in the rain, zzzzzzzzz! Once that movie gets going it's really great.

[kimbutgar]

13. I didn't walkout but fell asleep

The English patient and Birdman.

Both of them won best picture but I couldn’t leave because the person I was with was the driving. But I would have left if I could have! The person I was with also agreed but didn’t want to be the one who said let’s leave so we both suffered!

[intrepidity]

15. I mean, if at 3 mins I'm tempted to stop, I'll usually give it another 5

of my full attention, just to verify.

But tbh, my Netflix et al que is loaded with selections that are stopped less than 10 mins in. It often depends on what I'm in the mood for.

Was this Loose Change a remake of Truffaut's?

[bif]

16. It was about a couple of con artists

But honestly, since I only watched 3 1/2 minutes, I couldn't say for sure.

[ShazzieB]

17. I've never timed it, but I know it depends.

If it's a movie I've heard a lot about and had reason to think I'd like it, I might give it some time, but not more than half an hour. If I don't like it by then, I know I'm not going to.

If it's a movie that caught my eye on Netflix as something I might be interested in, and it turns out to be not so appealing after all, I might nope out after 5 minutes.

Like I said, it depends!

[milestogo]

18. The thing I like best about streaming is that it costs you nothing to bail.

For TV shows I try to watch the entire first episode before deciding anything.

For movies it might be about 20 minutes.

The only movie that ever prompted me to leave a theater was "Battlefield Earth". I thought if it had John Travolta in it, I couldn't go wrong. Its REALLY BAD.

[nuxvomica]

19. It usually takes about 15 minutes for me

But sometimes I return to the movie because somebody tells me it was good and I should give it a second try. That happened with The Power of the Dog, which was brilliant, and Bullet Train, which was actually very entertaining. There's a movie on Netflix now that looks like a real stinker called White Noise but I may give it a second try only because there's a lot of talented people involved.

[doc03]

20. Well I just waisted over 2 hours watching

Whitenoise. That is one of the worst I ever seen.

[bif]

21. Is that the same as "White Noise"?

Based on Don Delillo's book? If so, I'll have to take it out of my queue. The reviewers on IMDB all hated it.

[doc03]

22. On Netflix maybe I am too dumb to get it, to me it it was just bad. nt