There are three (that I can think of at the moment) aspects of movies that often point to the movie being not very good. Of course there are plenty of good movies that have these, and there are more than enough bad movies that don't have these. But if these are present, I am immediately suspect of it and more than likely going to reach for the fast forward button...
Multiple Studio Logos. This is easy to spot. If the first things you see are production company logos, and there are many of them... odds are, the producers had to go to a few places to get money, and none of the studios believed in the film enough to finance it fully.
Multiple Titles. Can be harder to spot without checking IMDB or similar. But when you see a film titled one thing, but the title that comes up on screen when you hit play is something else... I get concerned. Changing the title is either the producers can't decide... or they are changing it to try to appeal to other people (or make people mistake this for something they haven't heard bad things about). Either way, they aren't committing to their ideas.
Runtime between 60 and 90 minutes. And this can be seen before even pressing play! Can there be short movies? Of course! And I don't count documentaries here. But if the movie is just not quite long enough, then either the plot, what there is, is spread thin, or there just wasn't anything there to begin with. A lot of amateur films sit here, ones where you go "was this someone's student project?" Now, they made a movie, and I didn't, so they are already far ahead of me there. But that doesn't mean I have to like it, and if it isn't a full movie, and it isn't a tv episode, most likely they couldn't make it work.
No doubt you are thinking of counter examples, but I don't have infinite time, so I hit these flags, I start thinking of what else I could be doing.
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