i hope you gave your friend a swift kick in the rear followed by a blunt explaination of "no wonder why you have problems" while he's still rubbing his extremely sore bottom. and if he makes the excuse that its boring he either a) is not cut out for the genre, or b) has been playing a boring game to begin with.

that said i don't ever skip cutscenes unless i am in an extreme hurry. i particularly love to see a piece of the story unfold without me having to do a thing, and i certainly don't want to miss a possibly vital piece of information that may be given durring the cutsceen. i also enjoy setting my controller down to watch the more beautiful cutsceens and just enjoy them. however if i have seen a particular cutsceen several times and there is nothing particularly funny or interresting about it i'll skip it.