Why are you even trying to argue this? You're repeatedly saying things like: > Why sit through a warped & incomplete version of a mediocre movie when you could

Why are you even trying to argue this? You're repeatedly saying things like: > Why sit through a warped & incomplete version of a mediocre movie when you could just turn it off & watch the complete version of something consistently good? That's nonsense. You don't know if a movie is mediocre or consistently good until you watch it. Or it might be mostly very good with some not-so-good parts, in which it's better to watch it but watch the obviously not-so-good parts at 2x speed. > But if you find yourself doing this consistently, how can you be sure that the problem isn't on your end? The fact that I've written screenplays, learned acting, done script analysis on literally hundreds of scenes from movies and television shows in educational contexts, lit scenes, shot scenes with actors, and edited them together? I'm fast forwarding because I have a halfway decent knowledge of some of the craft and I don't feel like wasting my time with segments that exist purely for emotional heightening but little else. Empty calories, if you will. There's no problem with my expectations, I assure you. I suggest you look in the mirror and ask why you feel so compelled to insist, judgmentally, that your way of watching movies is the right way, and speculate that a different way is somehow a sign of a problematic attention span. You're trying to insist you know some superior way of watching movies. Consider that, just maybe, you don't know as much as you think you do.