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’

[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.

[user224@lemmy.sdf.org]

nor constant phone notifications.

Until emails broke on our instance I used to get email notifications for replies, which would send a notification to my phone, which would get forwarded to my smart watch.
So, uh, yeah.

[slurpingpus@lemmy.world]

I guess that's why ‘Severance’ is full of padding shots with nothing happening in them.

[slurpingpus@lemmy.world]

Films maybe, but Netflix appears to pad shows' runtime without shame.

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

I think if no public bathrooms are available, then we should be allowed to urinate in public.

[rhombus@sh.itjust.works]

The constant restating on Youtube is to pad out their video and get more ad spots. I also immediately dislike and hide them because of that.

[rhombus@sh.itjust.works]

Often it’s a localization issue too. Japanese dialogue doesn’t translate easily to English, it’s usually longer and has more layers of formality that English can’t express. And they often aren’t allowed to cut the content, so they have to make the English super wordy and explainy to match the long winded mouth flaps.

[rhombus@sh.itjust.works]

Also the more repetition the more room on the page for ad spots. Same reason so many Youtubers restate the same shit almost verbatim over and over and over; it pads the video so Youtube can cram in more ad spots.

[lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works]

Bad movies need to do this. You know, the average movie Netflix signs off on.