Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’

[slappyfuck@lemmy.ca]

I don’t see anything wrong with this. Have them wear crazy outfits that no one will see either.

[riskable@programming.dev]

That's fine! How would you keep things interesting?

Or are you just boring?

[nangijala@feddit.dk]

Good thing we canceled our Netflix subscription last year when Trump threatened to invade our country the first time.

Even greater that now that he is threatening to do it again, and seemingly is more serious about it, we are one year into being back on physical media and we fucking love it. Dvds and blurays are so much better than shitflix.

[fudgymctubbs@lemmy.world]

I'm pretty boring. I like depth of writing, artful cinematography, expert acting all the way down to two-line roles, least amount of cgi/green screen as possible (fake fire doesn't look real, and cgi car chases look cheesy af), not the same actors ive seen in stuff for the past 20+ years (but i do like famous actors who absolutely slay a completely new type of role for them -- like Jim Carrey did in Truman Show), fantastic dialogue that doesn't spoon feed exposition and subtext, skilled editing that makes the aforementioned cinematography serve some subtext, and directing that can masterfully weave it all together. Ya know -- a quality film.

[freddieslantern@leminal.space]

Well looks like I’ll be having an omelette tomorrow morning on account of the egg on my face.

[brucethemoose@lemmy.world]

Lemmy/Piefed is an echo chamber, and has some structural issues like Reddit. But there's no algo, no advertising, nor constant phone notifications.

And, uh, no billionaires warping "open" discourse.

To me, it's a time black hole, worse than old forums. But it's not nearly as bad as (say) Discord or anything Facebook owned.

[madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The Intro to the film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" comes to mind.

Great film, slow, steady, meaningful.

[madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I still mourn Kaos

[spacehooks@reddthat.com]

I decided to work from home and put fury road since I haven't seen it. 10 minutes in i logged off work early because it was good.

Ppl will not focus on what gives them the most enjoyment. If its the phone or Netflix.

[yogurt@lemmy.world]

The amount of reciprocal effort art is socially allowed to demand from the audience changes. The art form gets refined and people respect that and are willing to invest more attention, then at some point it's opera and nobody goes because it requires too much attention and respect. Netflix might suck but on the other hand Christopher Nolan is making movies with inaudible dialogue and Game of Thrones has invisible fight scenes because they got out of hand with it and think they can demand you only watch their thing alone in a soundproof HDR screening room.

[edible_funk@sh.itjust.works]

I disagree with basically that whole interpretation. And the ending was explicitly hopeful. I think you just took it personal that what you thought was gonna happen didn't.

[baracoded@literature.cafe]

Writer insight : if people start pulling their phone when they should be watching your movie, it means your movie is shit, not that it should be made even sloppier. Watered down shit is still a shit cocktail.

[dylanmc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Please explain

[kairubyte@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Atomization means to atomize, your thinking of automation or automated.

[criss_cross@lemmy.world]

SEO was a mistake.

[kraven_the_hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I was complaining to my family about how El getting a bloody nose was originally used to indicate how she severely over exerted herself while using her powers. In this last season they turned it into the "I used magic and am trying to look cool" sign. I found it belittling.

[killer_tree@sh.itjust.works]

I was always mad that Goku would finally make it to Namek, then for some reason next week they would time jump backwards and he'd be back in the hyperbaric training chamber. It felt like DBZ groundhog month.
If you are mad about missing the actual meat of the show like I was, I highly recommend "Dragon Ball Kai" - it's DBZ with the filler removed!

[lemmyseikai@lemmy.world]

Good stuff is a hard marker to hit.

Going back to 54% of Americans read at or below the 5th grade level (in terms of functional capacity and reaching comprehension), they need it spelled out.

And this good is slowly being eroded away.

Alien hardly explains anything. Alien Romulus isn't as bad as much modern cinema but explains too much sometimes

[slurpingpus@lemmy.world]

I've watched through ‘Severance’, which is very popular afaict. It's chock full of protracted shots padding the runtime. Either the directors (mostly Ben Stiller) think they're new Kubricks, or the directive was to make the show longer. Idk what Netflix gets from a longer show, when a season is dumped all at once anyway — presumably more space for ads, which are apparently there now. I wouldn't feel much guilty about checking the phone in between any meaningful action.

The only new film that really gripped me in the past few years was ‘The Substance’, which felt like oldschool Cronenberg stuff. Ironically it's comparatively long, and doesn't even have much dialogue.

[slurpingpus@lemmy.world]

Pro tip: VLC has the option of running the video at a speed of choice, where 110% is good for pretty much everything. I wish I knew of this feature when I watched through ‘Harry Potters’ and the ‘Matrix’ trilogy.