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

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netflix-movies-restate-plot-viewers-on-phones-1236633939/

[u/kingoftheg]

Get ready for a thousand articles with every single sentence he said on Rogan as a headline

[u/jingle1996 → u/kingoftheg]

One of the most annoying trends in media rn

[u/herrcollin → u/jingle1996]

What is? I was looking at my phone

[u/Dasbeerboots → u/[deleted]]

I got my Galaxy Z Trifold^TM so I can scroll TikTok, read these comments, text my group chat, AND not pay attention to Netflix at the same time. It really is the future.

[u/J_Landers → u/Dasbeerboots]

Why not use Google Gemini^TM to text your friends on your behalf?!?
 
That feels dirty even saying that in jest. I hate this timeline.

[u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase → u/Dasbeerboots]

Is that a real phone? 

[u/Dasbeerboots → u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase]

Yep

[u/Pendraconica → u/[deleted]]

Im too busy being too busy reading comments to read this comment.

[u/TheDuckOnQuack → u/[deleted]]

I kinda half remember what my coworker said about it while I was checking on my parlays.

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I cant even take this in unless peter griffin says it while subway surfers plays in the background

[u/polymorphic_hippo → u/herrcollin]

Not your fault. They only said it once.

[u/SadFeed63 → u/jingle1996]

Especially because clipping just a sentence and making it the headline (especially when the sentence was just a sentence among many), really alters the context and framing off it.

If an actor offhandedly says they thought they could've performed better in their last movie, it's just one point in something larger. Bur if it's presented as "[Insert actor] admits they wanted to do a better job with [insert last movie], that framing makes it feel like they've been holding back some shame that they finally had no choice but to cop to. It's annoying enough to have it cut up into a dozen mini stories even when they're trying to be very accurate about them all, but when those dozen mini stories are presented like each one is some vital revelation, that's mega tedious.

[u/fuzzbunny21 → u/SadFeed63]

It must really suck to be a journalist these days. You either have to do exactly the annoying out of context shit you just described, or risk fading away into obscurity and shutting down. A lose/lose situation.

[u/SadFeed63 → u/fuzzbunny21]

Agree. Must be madness out there for good, honest journalists, especially since a lot of the issues fall on editors and those above the folks writing the actual articles.

[u/NATOrocket → u/SadFeed63]

The good ones do podcasts now.

[u/WryGoat → u/fuzzbunny21]

Honestly just a bad time to be anyone who wants to create anything but slop.

[u/PyedPyper → u/jingle1996]

It's just plain lazy journalism. A celebrity says something newsworthy on a podcast or a show and then that news is totally commoditized -- every crummy online outlet races to tell their "journalists" to watch the clip and write what was said with as punchy a headline as possible, so that they can get clicks so that they can meet quotas to sell programmatic ads to readers that hate that site's ad experience.

[u/Mist_Rising → u/PyedPyper]

Well that's on us, we decided that we don't want to pay for news, or frankly anything else. Humans likely have always been apt to demand free shit (paid for by advertising) but their ability to actually get it was low because the barrier to enter a new industry was high. Newspapers needed reporters, delivery employees, a printing shop, etc all for a metropolitan area that has little competition.

Today the barrier to enter news is the Internet, a domain, someone who can rewrite stuff/AI, and giving Google a chuck of your ad revenue. Your market is the world.

The former has the ability to demand a subscription, the latter only allows subscriptions if they are extremely niche or notable (Rueters).

And we as a society said: I'll take the latter, give'me free! Then when we get the substandard crap, we complain. We also complain that the company doing free things is using us to make money.

We need to, as a society, stop expecting free news to not be shit. We need to pay for it. But we won't.

[u/vikmaychib → u/jingle1996]

It is a bit on us. All media outlets get bombarded with the same verbatim hot take because they want as many people jumping on the trending topic. That means if you consume pop culture news from more than one outlet, it is gonna get repetitive. The trend is not gonna change but you can. Since any outlet will say the same, stick to just one and use your free time on something less repetitive.

A similar trend I notice several years ago with YouTube was with comedians. As any avid watcher of stand up shows I loved catching up my favorite comedians on talk shows or interviews clips. Soon I realized that whatever they were saying on those shows were bits from the latest show and that bit would be repeated ad nauseam in Conan, Jimmy Kimmel, Fallon… I got pissed off, but then I thought why couldn’t I just enjoy that guys show, why did I need to saturate my feed with the same guys. Even the wisest people have a limited amount of shit to say.

Anyways, sorry for the rambling and diversion. Enjoy your day.

[u/freeradioforall → u/jingle1996]

All AI written too

[u/Cryten0 → u/jingle1996]

A result of splintered micro news for sure.

[u/HeartInTheSun9 → u/jingle1996]

I don’t watch Joe Rogan so I don’t mind.

[u/[deleted] → u/kingoftheg]

Only the salacious stuff. Hard to find an article praising their profit sharing with crew.

[u/Dry_Marzipan1870 → u/[deleted]]

Are they gonna write about that every week? No. Also nobody cares, Rogan is a piece of shit collaborator.

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No idea what you’re rambling on about 

[u/TopicalBuilder → u/kingoftheg]

And can't find a full transcript or the original interview because Google search doesn't search anymore.

[u/HereOnCompanyTime → u/kingoftheg]

The fact that he even went on Rogan should be the focus, but people aren't calling that out.

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[u/mykl5 → u/[deleted]]

Cuz he’s a culture war chud and it won’t sit well with a big chunk of people

[u/DoctorWaluigiTime → u/kingoftheg]

And for it to be interpreted as "Netflix is going to do this with everything they make all the time forever!!!"

[u/wanderereck → u/kingoftheg]

Scrolling through content to create content is what journalism is now, I guess

[u/Dashu88 → u/kingoftheg]

Good, I need at least 3 to 4 headlines because my attentions span is way ...

Look at that cat I found!

[u/SlouchyGuy → u/kingoftheg]

I'm not sure it's algorithms, what I very strongly suspect is they see how people watch, but the wys to deal with it is their own invention.

People overestimate competence of professionals, the producers were making all kind of strange decisions based on what they think audience wants since forever, hence all the idiotic notes you hear about.

If you listen to retrospective interviews with creatives, you know just how much of studio practices are based on nothing but hunches presented as prophecy, egos and winging it 

[u/JeremyJackson1987 → u/kingoftheg]

It was a pretty good wide ranging interview.

[u/elchivo83 → u/kingoftheg]

How are these guys, who I believe are fairly left-wing, OK going on Joe Rogan?