IDK if this is a normal thing for people with ADHD but do you guys find it hard to watch movies? There always super slow paced and require hours worth of your attention. I can watch movies but only if I really try and that’s a very draining experience. I only like watching movies if I’m really high.
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While we’re here anyone wanna suggest attention grabbing movies? I’ll start,
Faster (2010)
Normal enough for adhd that it was even one of my assessment questions!
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.
Keeping focus for a whole movie can be tough yeah.
it works way better if i’ve taken my meds( huge suprise, i know :D) and even better in a cinema opposed to watching on tv or phone, i guess the big screen and proper sound system are just more engaging and there is less distraction.
If i watch a movie at home i often do it by watching it in like 30 minute episodes, because otherwise i end up rewinding multiple times anyway and that’s frustrating, so i rather take a break from it if my brain won’t cooperate.
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.
Some films have slow pacing, and I struggle to pay attention. Most of the time I watch at 1.25x speed.
I have a hard time watching stuff without also doing other stuff. like posting here. watching kickass. and doing housework.
I can’t do it. I have to be actively making decisions and having agency in my entertainment. I end up playing video games, or board games.
(The board games I end up playing are usually the sorts of solitaire board games with a huge campaign and a grand sweeping narrative. My favorite board game of all time is Etherfields, for example.)
I just avoid movie genres that my ADHD brain will find boring. Which is pretty much just drama, romance and documentary type shit.
I am not liking the lack of comedies, or how action films have turned into essentially male dramas with no actual action.
Typically I get easily distracted or bored during movies. The only exception in recent years was Oppenheimer. It had such a fantastic pacing that the three hours rushed by and I didn’t pick up my phone even once. It was incredible.
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.
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.
I came here to say the same thing. It’s especially bad with streaming services. Row and column after row and column of options is overwhelming.
My wife is in charge of the remote for exactly that reason. I trust her judgement and I don’t waste 2 hours scrolling through nothing.
This is what it’s like for me too, especially now, like @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone said in their comment, that movies seem to be longer now.
I’ve got loads of movies at home or on streaming services that I want to watch, but because so many are over two hours long, and essentially have a ritual around them of getting your drinks and snacks together and doing nothing else, I don’t bother putting them on. I’ll sit there for hours and watch something short like Futurama though.
I’ve even got to the stage where if an episode of something is longer than about 45 minutes, I struggle to decide to watch that too.
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 only watch movies, or any fiction on tv, if someone insist me to do it
My time limit is about two hours. Anything more than that and I start getting bored, distracted and twitchy
