I find that my patience and tolerance clock has shortened down to no more than 10 minutes, at the most. If someone tells me "now it starts off slow so ya gotta stay with it", I ask "why"? Why do I have to eat all of my vegetables or I don't get any pudding? Screw that, I want pudding and then more pudding. I don't trust those people, they wasted part of their life and now want company.
If I start watching a DVD and it doesn't grab me within 10, I'm out. Like you say, I don't want to say to myself "well, that's an hour and a half I'll never get back" because I don't know how many I've got left. I hit my knees after "Mama Mia" and thanked God for not taking me right after that movie. I would have done some serious haunting if He had.
And I don't know if I am just weirding out, my wife thought so, but most of the time I choose to watch something that I've seen numerous times that I know I like rather than risk watching a loser. And there are parts of films that I know I don't want to see again like Open Range when he shoots the dog, I ff through that and I cut off the end of Saving Private Ryan, everybody lives. I change the ending by not watching them. If I don't see it, it doesn't exist. Kind of like the monster in the closet or under the bed. Well, not under the bed because I have seen him.
And what the hell is it with Bruce Willis in every DTV film? He's getting as bad as Eric Roberts and Seagal. I used to like him but he's mailed it in too much and is way overexposed. What's next? Filming him sleeping and using that as stock footage? And featuring Bruce Willis as "the sleeping man". And I'll tune in for Seagal movies just to see what he's done to his hair. Lordy, he looks like he has Ruth Buzzi's hairnet on from Laugh In.
