If it's a good film, I have no trouble at all in watching it all in one go. After all, if they were made for the cinema, that's how they're meant to be watched. For similar reasons, I have never binge-watched a series on TV.
My particular idiosyncrasy is that I can often get 20 minutes or so into a movie before I realise that I've seen it before. I see that as an advantage though, because it should mean that I'll be able to enjoy good films for the rest of my life.
As a side issue, I've just finished a 30 day free trial of Prime Video and found out, a bit late in the day, why it is so long since I've seen a Fellini film on broadcast TV. Several of them are on there and I managed to watch 3 of them in my last two days. One of them was Fellini 81/2, which made a really strong impression on me when I first saw it in the cinema in the late sixties. It has not lost its power for me. I was astonished to find, however, that a nonsense phrase "asa nisi masa", which I've always been able to bring to mind at will, was only used quite fleetingly in the film. Claudine Cardinale glides her way through it all though, just as I remembered.
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