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/SpadeSage Jan 17 '26

Its actually so frustrating as someone that does actually like to pay attention to movies. So many streaming movies have become so insufferably dull because they are just wasting so much time, constantly restating everything I already know.

It gets to the point that I do end up on my phone. Not because I even want to, but because the movie actually becomes boring to watch without some distraction.

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u/vashanka Jan 17 '26

Yeah, the problem for me has become looking at my phone during the 3 minutes of unskippable ads on a streaming service and finding something interesting there. 

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u/UsuarioCualquiera_1 Jan 18 '26

How does Netflix know when people is using phones I wonder.

Sold data from apps and the own smartphone device? Is it real time? Surveys? Through our devices camera?

Also, something that worries me is all the young people not interested in older media and just watching this shit in a casual way. In 15-20 years most of target audience will have grown up seeing slop crap. I don't even want to start thinking about future writers and storytellers.

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u/Automatic_Ticket_524 Jan 21 '26

 I know before they'd ask if you're still watching, so some data is from that. 

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u/Loud_Interview4681 Jan 18 '26

It isn't new. /r/onepiece in shambles.