Bad Movies

I just tried watching what I thought would be a fun action movie: House of Flying Daggers. Unfortunately, I found it so just bad that I turned it off after 30 minutes. I know some people like or love that movie, and I rented it based on some reviews from them, but it just wasn’t good to me. There have been a few other movies I found so bad that I turned them off before the end, for instance: Death Proof.

I’ve had someone (not a friend) say that stopping a movie before the end is immature. Movies don’t always give you the good stuff all right up front, and they have to lay groundwork to support the better stuff coming after.

I don’t expect a movie to give me all the best stuff right from the beginning. I understand some things need to build up over the course of a story. But I do expect a movie to be interesting and logical (within its world) from the beginning. I don’t want to watch an hour of watching the grass grow to get to the part where the lawnmower comes through to make it exciting.

I want to be at least entertained while waiting for the great stuff. I want the build up to be interesting. My free time is too rare to sit through an un-entertaining movie. I don’t think it’s immature to give up on a movie before the end if the first part isn’t good. I see it as just good sense not to throw a good hour after a bad hour watching a crappy movie. After all, there’s no guarantee that the second hour of a movie will be any better than the first hour. I figure if the writers and director can’t make the first part entertaining, they probably can’t make the second part good.

I can be immature in many other ways without wasting time.

Bullgrit
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