Absolutely. Movies are often slow, and because they rely on visual storytelling more than tv, so I can’t even be doing something else while watching them. A trick that worked for me was starting 15/20 minutes into the movie, that way stuff is actually happening rather than some slow setup, and I get the extra challenge of trying to figure out what’s happening and what I’ve missed which keeps my brain busy. Then, if I enjoy the movie, I’ve got an extra 15 minutes to watch later as a bonus!

I’ve never had trouble staying engaged with something I actually like and want to do. I will fall asleep if I don’t have my narcolepsy meds and I’m trying to do something I’m not truly interested in, yet can binge watch something I’m truly hooked on, into the wee hours, even without the meds.

My advice, start paying more attention to the things you are interested in and stop trying to be interested in things once you realize it. There’s no such thing as superiority of any entertainment or hobby over another, yet so many people shit all over themselves because they get it in their head that their interests are somehow wrong. Not liking something that everyone else does is fine, liking something no one else does is fine. Strive to be you, if you can’t focus on any movies you’re probably not watching movies you’re interested in. Maybe you aren’t interested in any movies at all, plenty of people just don’t get poems, paintings, music, literature, beer, wine, shoe culture, car culture…

Neurotypicals have the ability to be at peace with being bored, so much so that it’s called a disorder when someone can’t sit still and suck it up when the shit being served is just not interesting (to them). You literally have to smoke weed to attain that same level of apathy.

i only watch movies, or any fiction on tv, if someone insist me to do it

Depends, usually I’m 100% fine if I’m in a cinema. At home completely fine unless I’m not feeling the movie. I don’t think I pull the trigger to watch something unless I’m absolutely into the idea which helps I think.

Lots. I also feel like movies have gotten significantly longer over time. An hour and a half used to be the norm, now everything consists of two 3hr movies.

I watched “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. But I watched parts of it while doing other things over the space of 2 years.

I honestly watch about 1 or 2 movies per year.

While we’re here anyone wanna suggest attention grabbing movies? I’ll start,

Faster (2010)

I’m always doing something else while watching a movie. I often rewind 30 seconds because I missed something important. But I find most movies have so much that I don’t care about… So I focus on whatever else until I realize that I’ve missed something.

I have the opposite problem of getting really sucked into movies. Unless it is really bad I will ignore everything around me.

Watching with people, it’s impossible to concentrate and a waste of time as nothing will sink in.

On my own it’s usually easier, especially as it’s going to be a movie I want to watch. I absolutely cannot watch stuff while high/intoxicated though, I’m far too easily distracted.

But there’s always going to be a few that I just can’t manage to sit through, no matter how much I’d like to. Watchmen I’ve tried a good few times to see over the years now and no, not happening, it’s just too fucking long.

(Side note, I also have autism and there are some few films I have seen so many times, to the point where I know the scripts and recite along.)

i do with movies… and tv and books. i have bunches that i’ve only ever started and never gotten through.

but every now and then (maybe a couple times a year), i’ll get super zoned-in and watch several in a row… like every jurassic park or every indiana jones.

Some films have slow pacing, and I struggle to pay attention. Most of the time I watch at 1.25x speed.

The last movie I watched to completion was Star Wars Episode 5 with no less than three attempts. It’s really hard.

I have always had zero trouble warching engaging movies, especially if they move at a decent pace or the slowness builds up anticipation. I still have trouble keeping track of character names and sometimes forget the details, but staying engaged is often easy.

A boring movie though, I can watch for 30 minutes and not remember anything that happened because my mind wandered. Basically the movie or show version of realizing you weren’t paying attention to the last 10 pages in a book.

I don’t mind watching movies, but it’s really hard for me to DECIDE to watch a movie.

If someone asks if I want to watch a movie, the time commitment makes me say no (unless it’s something I’ve REALLY wanted to see), but I’ll happily agree to watch a TV show and still end up watching 3 hours or more worth of episodes.