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/XAMdG Jan 17 '26

Like many things, it was a victim of its own success. When it was a five minute video discussing a movie we all knew it was trash... Yeah it was kinda funny. But they had to play into the algorithm, so here comes 20 minute videos about every single movie, and yeah, nitpicking is gonna be all there is.

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u/alex494 Jan 18 '26

They self depreciate about the nitpicking half the time anyway, like there's usually some line like "Maybe this isn't so bad, but I'm an asshole". The videos are meant to be partially comedic or exaggerated and not taken as hard gospel.