Wow. I’m pretty snobby about many things, but I’ve almost never left a movie theater. I did at least think about it during Mad Max: Fury Road, though. I can’t wait for overblown silly CGI nonsense-taken-seriously and total BS action antics to stop being popular.
For movies on Internet/DVD, though, I will stop watching stuff. It’s not so much a matter of time limits, as it is the nature of my dissatisfaction with what I’m watching. It has to be pretty obviously bad in a bad bad way (or clearly something I will continue to hate) for me to give up before 10 minutes if I thought there was something that had me interested enough to choose to start watching it.
Hmm, I guess I do have checkpoints at about every 5 minutes for the first 20 minutes. But it’s about how bad it is and in what ways. I have watched the enitre Birdemic: Shock and Terror even though it is unbelievably bad in a shocking number of ways, but it’s amazingly bad in surprising and often funny ways, so it was entertaining. Meanwhile Snakes on a Train I found hatefully bad and boring, and couldn’t make myself even last to where there was any sign of a train (maybe 15 minutes in).
I have rarely endured anything to 10 minutes from the end and THEN deciding to quit – I’ve considered doing that though when the ending is going to be something horrible that I don’t like… but even then, I’d probably stick with it to see if I’m wrong due to some last-minute reversal.