What makes you get up and leave?

[Angrboda]

Imagine you are in a theater and have no idea what movie is about to be played. What would you see that makes you completely indifferent to what follows that, to the point where you get up and leave the theater?

For me it could be very early on. If the movie title had "Saw" or "Transformers" in it, I'd be out of there quickly.

However, if the title wasn't a tip-off, and I waited through the intro material, excessive gratuitous violence or sadistic suffering would be enough to make me seek the exit.

I think not having a sensitive enough "get up and leave" trigger has been a bane for me and my enjoyment of the theater for some time. For whatever reason, I'm not satisfied by the same things I was satisfied by in my youth. The jokes no longer zing. The humor has faded. The action, become dull and lifeless. And I could care less about boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy becomes mutant lizard stories. It's not that I'm depressed, I haven't been better on that score in all my life. I don't know what it is, but the thrill is gone. So when I go to the theater, I'm happy to sit through the entire thing even if what I've already seen doesn't inspire me with hope that my perseverance will be rewarded. It's something of a matter of principle. So the collision of these two facts is that I end up spending days in the cinema unfulfilled. I'm not sure getting up and leaving is the answer though. As that's not a cure, so much as it is just treatment of the symptoms.