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Recommending movies can be very personal. You share something you like, that has meaning to you, that you find hilarious, and it can help people get to know you better.

But what happens when there are expectations that the other person will love it as much as you do?

In this case, when a woman’s sister recommended her a movie and she didn’t like it, she felt offended. But is it really that big of a deal?

She gave it a good try, or at least she thought so, until her sister said watching it for thirty minutes wasn’t enough and they ended up arguing.

Do you agree thirty minutes isn’t enough? How would you react?

Read the full story below.

AITA for only watching 30 minutes of a movie recommendation?

My sister recommended I watch Hundreds of Beavers, which she really liked and thought I would like too.

I don’t get the chance to watch movies often because of university commitments, so when I finally had a window where a friend and I had a chance to watch something together I put on Hundreds of Beavers, since my sister suggested it.

But it wasn’t their cup of tea.

My friend and I thought it was fine but not our sort of thing, so to make better use of the rare moment we had together we decided to switch to something else (10 Cloverfield Lane, which we did both like a lot more).

I told my sister that we watched the first thirty minutes of Hundreds of Beavers and that it wasn’t really for us and she told me she feels offended that we stopped watching after thirty minutes.

She said it gets much better after that point and that we’re wrong for how we feel about the movie since we only watched thirty minutes.

She took it personally.

This wasn’t a relaxed sort of “oh, you should give it another shot, trust me!” response, it was an angry “you shouldn’t have stopped watching it – I told you it was good so you should have watched all of it”.

Apparently she would have been fine with us not liking the movie if we’d watched it all the way through, so her primary issue is that we didn’t watch the full thing.

In my view, thirty minutes is more than enough time to know if you like a movie and you shouldn’t have to watch an hour of something for it to suddenly get good.

They simply disagree.

It also didn’t seem like Hundreds of Beavers would have changed and become something we would have liked if we’d kept watching it, so I didn’t think it was right for us to sit for another hour and a half watching a movie we weren’t enjoying.

I think it’s fine that we switched to something else, and that saying we didn’t connect with Hundreds of Beavers is fair even if we’re basing that opinion on only the first thirty minutes.

And now she keeps dunking on the movie.

Remember – we didn’t hate it! We didn’t say it was a bad movie or that it was unfunny or badly made, just that it was not for us.

We thought the slapstick was kinda fun and we laughed a few times, but it’s not the sort of thing we’d enjoy for a full movie runtime.

I think if it had been a twenty-minute special it’d have been great (that’s basically what Looney Tunes is, right?) but seeing there was still an hour and a half to go didn’t excite us, especially since there was other stuff we’d rather watch.

Her sister is offended.

I know this probably seems like a small disagreement but my sister has been really, really angry about the fact we stopped watching after thirty minutes.

She thinks it’s a ‘slap in the face’ to her recommendation and says she would have preferred if we’d never started it at all, which I think is crazy because we at least gave it a shot (though “not a fair shot”, she says).

I also haven’t told her she’s wrong for enjoying it or that she shouldn’t talk about it or recommend it to other people.

AITA?

Nobody should feel obliged to watch anything, let alone something they didn’t like. Lighten up, sis!

Let’s see what Reddit had to say.

A reader shares their thoughts.

Someone had a similar experience.

Yup.

Another commenter chimes in.

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I agree.

There’s a huge difference between saying “I hate YOUR recommendation” and trying it and realizing it’s not your thing.

It’s okay to not like stuff.

They also had limited time together and wanted to spend it actually enjoying something.

Of course her sister has the right to be upset, but acting like this was a personal insult and demanding they watch the whole thing is not a healthy approach.

If she likes some scenes and wants to share them, then she should just share them.

A recommendation should stay a recommendation, not an order.