OP, I'm actually offended at your movie watching practices. There's been plenty of people ITT that have explained why those methods would diminish the impact of the movie/tv show you're watching, but you're not addressing them. You most likely had your answer before you ever made this thread, the movie isn't scary to you because you've never really seen it. You haven't even made it to the step of fear being subjective and whatnot because you haven't experienced what the filmmaker intended. All of those quiet moments you're skipping through are building up to a payoff, but you're only watching the payoffs. You might as well watch some movie clips on Youtube and claim that you've seen the movie, because it's the same thing. When you listen to music do you speed up the verses only to get to the chorus/hook? Does that sound crazy to you? This is what you're doing with watching movies and TV. You may think you watched Breaking Bad in five days, but instead you went through a cliff notes version. There is no benefit for watching anything like this, you're just going to replace whatever media you tore through with something else and do the same thing; so instead of speeding through in five days why don't you watch it at normal speed for ten? Do you watch movies at the cinema and get agitated because you can't skip through it? This doesn't seem healthy to me and could be affecting your concentration. I implore you to slow down and give your undivided attention, your brain will thank you for it later.
