Never. I don't consume much through, maybe if I watched more trash but if I was doing that I think I'd just not watch at all.

Agree, if I think about skipping content I might as well not watch it.

Whiny kid

armchair psychologist here but if you fast forward in movies you either have full blown ad(h)d or at least partially ruined your attention span, probably thanks to the shitty constant stream of information and entertainment on todays internet
(e.g. tiktok, youtube shorts, reddit)

Could be, but that's a pedestrian hot take. Maybe they are picky watchers and don't consume any garbage.
I think it started with commercials the TV shows used to slide in every 15-20 mins. Now with power of internet one could skip those.

The quality of good movies has diminished significantly. If you grew up watching a shit tonne of movies you would find that there is too many cliches and overused safe formula that you have seen thousands of times.
Also now that I have grown up I don't have as much time to waste as I did when I was a kid. A fast forward button gets me through the countless filler material.

What about watching reruns? People might want to rewatch their favourite parts. Why should you be subjected to religious practice of never skipping a single scene?
It's wonderful, I like to listen to some podcasts and YouTube at x2 speed.

This post was edited by addone on Mar 26 2023 01:46pm

You just have a short attention span due to how new media has conditioned people this era.

yeah but this is exactly the thing im talking about. present day internet has ruined our brains. our brain is addicted to the instant gratification/dopamine rush and only wants the highlights and good feeling of remembering that special scene.
in normal scenarios, a good scene is a good scene because of build up. a death scene is completely meaningless if you skipped all the moments before where you get to know and love the character.
or a funny scene would be less impactful if you dont know he reacted in an unusual way since you dont know how he reacts usually.
at least thats how it is for watching something the first time. i wouldnt skip stuff on a rewatch (because i wouldnt watch something again if i didnt 100% like it) but that build up factor isnt as needed there obviously.

my first post was worded as a fact when its obviously not, not everyone who does this has adhd or whatever but it seems like the correlation is there at least.
also i did skip a few scenes when watching hereditary recently. i guess i kinda tried to "salvage" the movie for myself since i didnt really like it so i just searched for good scenes. but in the end i didnt find any because i didnt care about anything that happened.

judging by you being seen salivating over formulaic, childish mind oriented "star wars" - the media conditioned alot of people not to know any better than to put stale, milquetoast, fast-forwardable "content" on a pedestal

This post was edited by HeLiCaL on Mar 26 2023 03:18pm

witcher show I fast forwarded to the Cavil scenes.

It puts the movie on its tv or else it gets the hose again.

Should try going into the way-back bin and watching some worthy classics. Probably will be watching AI generated formula movies in a few years without even knowing it :/ Godfather rendered in a Zach Snyder style. Oh way, Sin City 3?