The movie is moving slowly when you begin to look at your watch. It is moving very slowly when you begin to tap your watch to be sure it hasn't stopped.
On the first page of my notes, I wrote "Starts slow." On the second page, I wrote "Boring." On the third page I wrote "Endless!" On the fourth page, I wrote: "Bite-size Shredded Wheat, skim milk, cantaloupe, frozen peas, toilet paper, salad stuff, pick up laundry."
— Roger Ebert, review of Exit to Eden (1994)
"The story is paced like an ant pushing a brick across the desert..."
— Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw on Final Fantasy XIII
"I should say that I liked Crysis 2 a hell of a lot more than I thought I would, and do you know why? Because it paces itself. It's not like Call of Duty, opening the game with a frying pan to the moosh and beating at you from start to finish like it's afraid you'll catch fire or maintain a coherent thought long enough to realize how tedious it all is."
— Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, illustrating the other extreme
"GET ON WITH IT!"
— Everyone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one."
— New Narrator, Spongebob Squarepants, "Can You Spare A Dime?"
"'Periods of tedium' is not a complimentary phrase, John. Not even on television."
— Charlotte, Critic's Choice by Ira Levin
