What's your breaking point?

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Smooth Operator

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Stupidity is my breaking point, if something is getting progressively dumber then I'm out because I can not tolerate it.

And epileptic cameramen also put me on edge, "hey we can't put together a proper action scene so let's make the camera guy spaz out"
 

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Kermi said:
When something insults my intelligence so badly that I lose all respect for it, it's time to shut it down.
Yes, this. I have done it before, especially with "historical" films. Although, some could be entertaining. Usually when I watch it with a friend and we just make fun of it all the way.

And damn you Revnak for almost making it a /thread with the first post! I agree with you.
 

The Funslinger

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Mariakko said:
3: Adam Sandler trying to be serious. The only movie I've walked out on in the theater was Spanglish
This, and 9 times out of 10, also Adam Sandler trying to be funny.

The man is just not an enjoyable actor...

In terms of freaky graphic shit, I have a fairly high tolerance. I tend to stop watching something if I start being able to reliably predict what's going to happen, or if something keeps getting used over and over again.

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SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
Adam Sandler. No matter what movie he is in, if Adam Sandler is there, I am not watching it. FUCK ADAM SANDLER!
Did you look up after that post? :D
 

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I'm so used to fantasy and such doing the pan away to reaction shot crap when something like this happens. Enough that even though I knew it was going to happen, I was like "woah..." when it did. It wasn't a breaking point for me, though. Just a very well done scene.
 
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Don't have one anymore. No film sucks as hard as The Room or Highlander 2. And i've seen A Serbian Film, so nothing really shocks me anymore. I can watch pretty much anythinng now without it bothering me.

Oh, except The Apprentice (the U.K. one) i fucking hate that show.
 

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Two major ones:

1) Fear: If the movies scares me, or I think it will scare me, then it is a no-go. This is part of the reason I dont watch horror movies. I have never gotten the point of intentionally scaring yourself.

2) Gore: Although, this is under a wierd set of rules. My brain devides gore into two camps: "Military" and "Everything Else". The military I can stand, but not the others. As I have always put it: "I can watch people get blown to bits by tank shells in 'Saving Private Ryan' without batting an eyelash, but when I try to watch 'Final Destination', I start dry heaving." Really, I have no Idea how I can do that.
 

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BOOM headshot65 said:
1) Fear: If the movies scares me, or I think it will scare me, then it is a no-go. This is part of the reason I dont watch horror movies. I have never gotten the point of intentionally scaring yourself.
I've never really understood this argument. How is a rush of adrenaline and the mild euphoria that comes with it not enjoyable? Especially when you're not actually in any danger?

That said I don't find most scary movies or shows actually scary. Even most games can't scare me.

As for my breaking point, I don't really have any hard and fast rules. But if a direct sequel to a movie throws out large chunks of continuity for no reason whatsoever that'll drive me nuts. I'm fine with it if what it tosses is shit, or if what replaces it is substantially better, but when it's contradicting established cannon for no reason? Fuck it.

It's funny that someone mentioned Highlander 2 earlier. It wasn't enough it was a bad movie to begin with (and even the original wasn't much more than an excuse for some sword fights and decapitation), but it directly contradicted so much of the first movie that it made me hate it a lot more than I would have otherwise. But then again, it was so bad that the rest of the franchise completely ignored it so at least there's that.

Also, if a movie is completely predictable I'll usually like it a lot less. I may not stop watching, but I will probably never watch it again. I predicted the twist in Shutter Island and pretty much every story point attached to that twist less than halfway through the movie. And it wasn't just thinking they'd probably go in that direction. I was absolutely 100% certain of what would happen. Then it did happen. My wife loved the movie but I walked out thoroughly disappointed.
 

Evil Smurf

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movies and tv show were you can tell who is going to be which character trope
 

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Vivi22 said:
BOOM headshot65 said:
1) Fear: If the movies scares me, or I think it will scare me, then it is a no-go. This is part of the reason I dont watch horror movies. I have never gotten the point of intentionally scaring yourself.
I've never really understood this argument. How is a rush of adrenaline and the mild euphoria that comes with it not enjoyable? Especially when you're not actually in any danger?
Because...I dont feel that. I start thinking "OH GOD! HIDE!!" and then I will curl up into a little ball and stay way from it.
 

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Boredom. I'm fine with sitting through something brutal, shocking or even terrifying, but the moment it becomes boring to me and i'm aware of it, off it goes. Got better things to do with my time that self-impose boredom on myself.
 

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this may seem homophobic but: if i end up seeing in a movie two men kissing or even worse; if i end up witnessing a (censoded version of course) rape of another man - i'm done with that shit
 

OmniscientOstrich

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Yes, boredom and suckitude (totally a word), or to put it in more collective terms a failure to engage; I'll try to give most films a chance ensnare my interest in some way, even a terrible film can be unintentionally funny, which can at least make the experience entertaining, but if you're film is really offering nothing for me that would make sitting through it worth my time (a couple of examples being the dreary, monotonous and pretentious Gerry and The Ring, although calm down I found the former to be exceedingly worse in almost every respect) then you've commited the cardinal sin in my book. Really that's about it, I'm totally desensitised so the likes of 'A Serbian Film' (or really, anyhting that's gratuitous violence/gore for the sake of it) really don't phase me, it just seems rather jejune. >.> So unless I encounter something that's just disgustingly bigoted to the point that I no longer feel like drudging through such dross, then most likely my sole reason for dropping out of watching something mid-way is simply a failure to engage me.
 

CardinalPiggles

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Most of the time I like to finish what I started and make a decision based on the entire thing, but there are special cases like Bioshock where I will stop part way through.
 

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shimyia said:
this may seem homophobic but: if i end up seeing in a movie two men kissing or even worse; if i end up witnessing a (censoded version of course) rape of another man - i'm done with that shit
So you didn't finish watching Pulp Fiction I take it? You missed out man. One of the best endings I have ever seen.
 

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Blindswordmaster said:
What is your breaking point in media? What makes you stop watching/reading/playing/listening? Do you stop a movie after a brutal rape scene or a graphic torture scene? What makes you say, "I'm done, I'm not watching any more."?
Fox News. That is where I stop. Its just so blatantly on a trashy, tabloid level of low-brow information dissemination. What does a viewer gain from watching it on a regular basis? How is it responsible media?

That's the line I don't cross as a viewer. If I want to get real information, presented in a non-propaganda way, I'll go elsewhere.
 

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For me, it tends to be violence against animals. For example, I'm currently watching Game of Thrones, as I'm sure many of you are. That show just loves violence. Knife in the eye? Check. Broken off lance in the throat? Check. Spear through the leg? Check. Stab a baby? Check. The only thing that made me feel upset, and that I had to turn away from when rewatching was when Sandor's brother par-decapitates his horse during a joust. I know it's fake and all but I just get queasy and I felt so bad for the horse. T_T It wasn't his fault the Knight of Flowers rode a mare in heat. T_T When I saw it the first time I was out sick from work and running a fever. I was kinda like "o_O.. I'm not sure that just happened."
 

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I can't sit through really embarrassing situations for characters. The moment embarrassing stuff starts to happen, I'm pretty much out.
I can handle my own embarrassment, but not the embarrassment that's pretty much always avoidable for them.
 

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It's a few things for me.

Shaky cam and whatever it's called when they cut away from, into, away from, into the action (almost always violence) both make me queasy. Also, mocumentaries and "found footage" crap are.. crap to me, without exception.

Gratuitous violence. I can enjoy a violent movie/TV show as long as the violence is necessary to the plot. When it's just there for the sake of violence, then no. I don't want to watch it.

Particularly graphic or gory violence. I have a weak stomach in my old age, I guess. If a book, movie, etc. needs to try to gross me out instead of scaring me, it's not worth my time.

Cringe comedy or humiliation for characters. It makes me feel sicker than gore does.

Child abuse. It puts my head in a bad place. Same goes for animal abuse.