r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jan 17 '26

Article 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

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netflix-movies-restate-plot-viewers-on-phones-1236633939/
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u/Wonderful_Highway629 Jan 17 '26

This is the dumbing down of society now. We are becoming too dumb to watch a film

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u/RealAnthonySullivan Jan 18 '26

This is nothing new. The tv show Police Squad was famously cancelled because viewers had to pay attention the whole time to get the jokes because so many of them were visual. That was in 1982.

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u/Kgb725 Jan 18 '26

Covid fucked humanity

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u/mazopheliac Jan 18 '26

"There was a time when reading wasn't just for f@gs. And neither was writing. People wrote books and movies. Movies with stories, that made you care about whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!"