Attention span ruined by TV on DVD

[Joe Schmoe]

I have several TV series on DVD that I really enjoy, and my parents have several others that I borrow a season at a time. As a result, this is the bulk of what I have been watching for the last year or more.
Last night, I tried a good full-length movie and couldn't sit through it. (At a time equivalent to the length of one of my shows, I was ready for it to end.)
Anybody else have this issue? If so, what do you do about it?

 

[jonnythan]

I dunno man. Maybe the movie sucked. What was it?

When I have TV series on DVD, I tend to pop disc after disc well into the night

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I dunno man. Maybe the movie sucked. What was it?

When I have TV series on DVD, I tend to pop disc after disc well into the night

Million Dollar Baby.
I only watch one episode per night (if I want to watch a while longer, I watch a bit of a concert or documentary.)

 

[Exit]

I have rented a few movies the past month or so that were real snoozers. You might have got one. You just need a good movie that will immerse you in the storyline, images and sound. You need to be in the escape-it-all mood. Then two hours pass by really fast. It helps to have a boring engineering technical analysis job all day so you are eager for a good movie to take it all away. Besides an audioholic will watch anything if the sound effects are good enough and they are better on movies than TV shows in my experience.

 

[j_garcia]

I didn't find Million Dollar Baby to be that great of a movie....

 

[Exit]

Run Baby Run and No Place for Old Men were pretty good fairly recent movies. I forget the names of the movies so quickly but for some reason I remembered these.

 

[Martiad3]

Run Baby Run and No Place for Old Men were pretty good fairly recent movies. I forget the names of the movies so quickly but for some reason I remembered these.

Wasn't it "Gone Baby Gone" and "No Country for Old Men?" If so, I agree with both being pretty good.

 

[j_garcia]

Run Lola Run meets Gone Baby Gone?

 

[Pyrrho]

I have several TV series on DVD that I really enjoy, and my parents have several others that I borrow a season at a time. As a result, this is the bulk of what I have been watching for the last year or more.
Last night, I tried a good full-length movie and couldn't sit through it. (At a time equivalent to the length of one of my shows, I was ready for it to end.)
Anybody else have this issue? If so, what do you do about it?

I have been watching quite a few TV shows on DVD. But I do not experience the problem you mention when watching movies. I only start a movie when I have time to finish it. If it is late, and I want to watch something for only 1 hour or less, I don't start anything that lasts longer than that. Perhaps you have ADD .

 

[Exit]

Wasn't it "Gone Baby Gone" and "No Country for Old Men?" If so, I agree with both being pretty good.

Yea, I told you I have a lousy memory for movie titles. Probably cause I got ADD.

 

[j_garcia]

Yea, I told you I have a lousy memory for movie titles. Probably cause I got ADD.

From watching all those TV shows

 

[Exit]

From watching all those TV shows

No, I don't watch much TV. My family watches TV and I watch movies in another room. You got me confused with Joe I think. I am just lousy at remembering movie titles. Here is another good movie I watched last night - Hitman. I didn't like the box illustration and I thought if might be a loser but it turned out to be a good action show with some plot twists and turns. I watched a movie a while ago which I think was called Shoot Shoot and it was almost totally non-stop shooting and not much story. It was still ok if you like action shows and guns.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I have decided that the way for me to get through a movie is to split it into two nights. Of course, it has to be interesting enough that I want to finish it the second night.

 

[Exit]

Try watching a movie early in the morning, such as on a Saturday, when you are less likely to get tired or bored. Splitting up a movie should only be if the occasion arises where you have to do something else. Otherwise you lose a lot of the movie's momentum.

 

[skizzerflake]

..... I tried a good full-length movie and couldn't sit through it. (At a time equivalent to the length of one of my shows, I was ready for it to end.)
Anybody else have this issue? If so, what do you do about it?

It's hard to watch a movie on a TV. There are so many things that distract, and you are conditioned to expect a commercial break every 8 minutes. It's better in a theater where there's nothing else to do and your mind is conditioned to expect at least 90 minutes.

 

[Exit]

I agree about the commercials breaking up the movie too much. Thats why I usually rent a DVD or Blu-ray disc to watch.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I agree about the commercials breaking up the movie too much. Thats why I usually rent a DVD or Blu-ray disc to watch.

I don't watch TV at all. Only DVDs.

 

[Seth=L]

Yea, I told you I have a lousy memory for movie titles. Probably cause I got ADD.

And here I was thinking you made a joke or something.

 

[Seth=L]

No, I don't watch much TV. My family watches TV and I watch movies in another room. You got me confused with Joe I think. I am just lousy at remembering movie titles. Here is another good movie I watched last night - Hitman. I didn't like the box illustration and I thought if might be a loser but it turned out to be a good action show with some plot twists and turns. I watched a movie a while ago which I think was called Shoot Shoot and it was almost totally non-stop shooting and not much story. It was still ok if you like action shows and guns.

You mean Shoot em' Up?

 

[Exit]

Yeah, thanks. I actually do have ADD, but I put it in figuring everybody would get a laugh. I am not sure if poor memory of movie titles is related though.