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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’

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  • A aeronmelon@lemmy.world

    Make movies that are engaging enough to keep people from checking their feeds while they wait for something to happen.

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    rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    My wife said that the Wire was hard to follow and boring, but she also checked her phone every 5 minutes and was carrying on a conversation there with her friends. She also impulsively pulled out facebook and scrolled a bit. I pointed all this out but Its still the shows fault somehow.

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    • F freddieslantern@leminal.space

      You tell me:

      -are you getting ads/shorts/brainrot shoved in face every single second?

      -is the public on lemmy tolerant of sexoffenders? Nazis?

      -ads? (Yes, I initially misspelled it as “adds” this guy right here)

      -do you have superfluous bs following you around?

      I think not.

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      denaggels@feddit.org
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      Regarding adds: I guess if you fight one lemmy user, others will spawn and come to help. So I would say yes, there are adds

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      • S skisnow@lemmy.ca

        I like when Matt Damon restates his name three or four times in the dialogue

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        raiderkev@lemmy.world
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        Meatt daemon

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        • D DeliciousDoorknob

          Yes and no. This season has been pretty weak in the writing department, so some of these ideas that worked before were overused/used poorly this season. And for an 80s-throwback series, it ends rather depressingly, no matter how you spin it. But it's par for the course these days for the final season/finale to shit the bed, I guess.

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          edible_funk
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          Depressingly? It was fully happily ever after. And it just did the same thing every other season did, largely disregard previous seasons to introduce a new big bad for the season leading up to a big monster fight. It was incredibly par for the course, 70 percent style with 30 percent substance. It's not high cinema but it's entertaining tv.

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          • Da Cap’nC Da Cap’n

            That’s the problem they don’t want to discuss. Writing has gotten seriously shitty.

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            potustheplant@feddit.nl
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            #76

            If you watch shitty movies, yes. There are still plenty of good movies being made.

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            • 4 4am@lemmy.zip

              Why? What the fuck do they care as long as people watch it?

              Make good stuff, and people will come.

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              potustheplant@feddit.nl
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              #77

              Not really, no. There have been plenty of tv shows for example that have been cancelled due to low audience numbers, despite being excellent. For example, In The Flesh, Mindhunter and Pushing Daisies.

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              • P potatar@lemmy.world

                No they are not. I cannot watch them unless i speed them up past what Netflix allows me. They are so slow and information sparse that i cannot watch them.

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                potustheplant@feddit.nl
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                #78

                You need to relax my dude

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                • D denaggels@feddit.org

                  Regarding adds: I guess if you fight one lemmy user, others will spawn and come to help. So I would say yes, there are adds

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                  freddieslantern@leminal.space
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                  #79

                  So people having discourse equals advertising?

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                  • F FishFace

                    Do the people who have their phones out in films nowadays watch those old movies without looking at their phones, hmm?

                    Your snark makes you sound like an arsehole.

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                    MotoAsh
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                    #80

                    My snark is because it was an assinine statement that was said rudely. I don't know why you're mad at me and not the rude person with the wrong opinion.

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                    • FudgyMcTubbsF FudgyMcTubbs

                      Dude.... That was annual, too. These modern day 8-episode shows will have YEARS between seasons. Like, motherfucker, half your scenes are green screen in a big sound studio -- what the fuck is taking you so long?!

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                      qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works
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                      They have to wait for Ai tokens to replenish.

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                      • F freddieslantern@leminal.space

                        So people having discourse equals advertising?

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                        MotoAsh
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                        #82

                        Nah, they're making a joke from the misspelling.

                        add: To perform addition. Or a mob joining an ongoing fight in a game.

                        ad: An advertisement.

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                          switorik@lemmy.zip
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                          This is what kills any articles on the web. The first three paragraphs repeat the question you're looking to get answered and the last paragraph vaguely answers it.

                          I feel like an old person now but I've started watching movies from the 90s/2000s and I can't believe how much worse movies have become over the years.

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                          • P potustheplant@feddit.nl

                            Not really, no. There have been plenty of tv shows for example that have been cancelled due to low audience numbers, despite being excellent. For example, In The Flesh, Mindhunter and Pushing Daisies.

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                            silasmariner@programming.dev
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                            Pushing daisies was absolutely great, was gutted we never got to see how that played out

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                            • P potatar@lemmy.world

                              No they are not. I cannot watch them unless i speed them up past what Netflix allows me. They are so slow and information sparse that i cannot watch them.

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                              kofe@lemmy.world
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                              Depending on what shows you watched, plenty from the 90s/00s assumed viewers wouldnt make it for the airing once a week. So they did fluff a bunch and rely on "this week's monster" rather than dense series plots. I remember despising dragon ball z (my brothers favorite) because multiple episodes would go by with fuckin NOTHING happening.

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                              • F freddieslantern@leminal.space

                                You tell me:

                                -are you getting ads/shorts/brainrot shoved in face every single second?

                                -is the public on lemmy tolerant of sexoffenders? Nazis?

                                -ads? (Yes, I initially misspelled it as “adds” this guy right here)

                                -do you have superfluous bs following you around?

                                I think not.

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                                wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org
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                                You forgot:

                                • Is an algorithm shoving political divisive rage bait down your throat?

                                But thanks for listing why I like it here

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                                • edible_funkE edible_funk

                                  Depressingly? It was fully happily ever after. And it just did the same thing every other season did, largely disregard previous seasons to introduce a new big bad for the season leading up to a big monster fight. It was incredibly par for the course, 70 percent style with 30 percent substance. It's not high cinema but it's entertaining tv.

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                                  DeliciousDoorknob
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                                  It was fully happily ever after.

                                  Hard disagree. Fully happily-ever-after wouldn't have ended with
                                  ::: spoiler S5 finale spoilers
                                  the main 16-year-old character either dying or somewhere all on her own with no family/friends/support circle, useful life skills, money or even documents to travel anywhere outside the US. While her boyfriend is stuck with depression and potentially living in delusion that she is still alive. The whole idea that El represents childhood magic and that she has to die/disappear, so other characters could move on is genuinely out of touch and potentially harmful, considering she's been "used, abused and manipulated" since she was born. Sends a real fucked up message there. This could have worked, if the show had finished in one season. But it does not work after 5 seasons of growth (though in S5 she was completely sidelined). The one character that deserved happily ever after, and they didn't give it to her. Not to mention how Vickie has been completely forgotten in the epilogue, or rather discarded with an offhanded comment about being an "overbearing significant other", when Robin has been an asshole to her the entire season.
                                  :::

                                  I actually would have loved a true happily-ever-after. This tired trend of every show—even something that's supposed to be lighthearted—getting a tragic or "bittersweer" ending, because that's considered "deep", should just die already.

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                                  • S skisnow@lemmy.ca

                                    I like when Matt Damon restates his name three or four times in the dialogue

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                                    optissima@lemmy.world
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                                    Blame his agent for getting him a pokemon gig as a pokemon

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

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                                      • FudgyMcTubbsF FudgyMcTubbs

                                        Wow... I dont want to see any of those potential movies you just pitched.

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

                                        Or are you just boring?

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                                          nangijala@feddit.dk
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                                          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.

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