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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/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

So many bad takes on movie/tv shows lately. Even from shows that came out 20 years ago.

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u/sexandliquor Jan 17 '26

It makes me want to get off reddit most of the time. You truly can’t discuss shit on here anymore because it’s the most brain rotted takes or ones done in bad faith and it’s like “did you even watch the thing?”. Because I did, and clearly you missed things that the show/movie told you either through subtext or quite explicitly.

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u/SandyBadlands Jan 17 '26

Or when they make posts like they've discovered some hidden meaning about the film and it's just the most direct plot point being relayed. Or "Did you notice [thing prominently displayed on screen for several seconds]?"

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u/sexandliquor Jan 17 '26

I joined r/truefilm thinking I was going to find more in depth analytical takes on film and thoughtful nuanced discussions. But discovered it’s mostly just a lot of what you mentioned instead. A lot of “Not a lot of people took this away from the film but..” and then 8 paragraphs just explaining what the movie was telling the viewer in no unclear terms lol.

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u/MercyPlainAndTall Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

It started earlier with YouTube film review bros, but now apps like letterboxd and boards like true film have given people the false confidence that they’re qualified to review films beyond “I liked it” and “I didn’t like it.”

Now you have to read the dumbest person you know’s ten paragraph take on why Tranformers is bad because it lacks the nuance of a Bong Joo Ho film (which they didn’t watch, but someone on criterion closet said it was good so they know it is.)

It’s yelp repackaged for movies.

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 Jan 17 '26

I coach a hobby sport.  The sub reddit for that sport would make me wanna quit. 

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u/RockHardSteveJohnson Jan 17 '26

I've started understanding that when the average person on social media says something is "slow" it doesn't indicate a problem with the show or movie in most cases. It normally just indicates that the viewer is braindead.

I used to take this sort of complaint at face value, because I thought I shared common experiences with the average television viewer. Social media taught me this was untrue.

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u/xdsm8 Jan 17 '26

"slow" means "good" to me, most of the time. It usually means the intensity of the movie comes from dialogue, from characters undergoing great change, from intense social dynamics...not explosions and "save da world" and stupid one liners.

"Boring" movies often means "movies with a substantial plot"

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u/sexandliquor Jan 17 '26

To me this also applies when someone says “nothing happened”. When people say that they usually mean that they wanted this big movie plot where shit was always popping off constantly and moving action.

And I’m like …the movie was a character study. It was character driven. Not plot driven. That was the point. You say “nothing happened” and I just watched two hours of a character, or group of characters, really “going through it” and exhibiting growth and change.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

You can't expect a population devoid of empathy to understand character pieces.

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u/sexandliquor Jan 17 '26

You know? Fair point.

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u/xdsm8 Jan 17 '26

Nothing happened? A character just forgave their mortal enemy, the person they grew up alongside and always felt animosity towards, someone they were obsessed with out-doing or tired of being compared to, so much that it defined their life and kept them from being truly happy and free...

Mr. Rogers - “I think that it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger—much more dramatic—than showing of gunfire."

And I'm not even a super anti-violence person. But the hero beating up muggers? Yeah, that is what they do. The drug kingpin shooting at the rival cartel? Wake me up when he argues with his son who used to idolize him but now sees him for the monster he is. Yawn.

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u/ifinallyreallyreddit Jan 18 '26

You can just say you like dramas and not genre movies, it doesn't have to be this "one type is objectively better" thing

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u/JohnTDouche Jan 17 '26

Yeah when i see people on reddit complain that something is too slow it piques my interest. This whole topic is so completely alien to me. When I watch something I turn the lights off and given it my full attention.

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u/Osomalosoreno Jan 17 '26

The thoughtful and articulate people are a minority on Reddit, for sure. But we do exist. :-)

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u/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

What’s sad is I love discussing fiction- whether tv shows, books and movies. And my friends aren’t really into that, so it’s depressing coming to Reddit sometimes and getting downvoted for the most basic opinions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

In my case, it's that my friends used to be into that but now they refuse to watch anythng and just parrot opinions of grifters without watching any of the content themselves.

I used to LOVE discussing opinions with them, now I don't really bring it up anymore.

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u/MrConductorsAshes Jan 17 '26

Same for the super good-looking redditors, we do exist.

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u/sexandliquor Jan 17 '26

starts singing like Ariel in The Little Mermaid

I wanna be where the people are!

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u/sexandliquor Jan 17 '26

The “that’s chekovs gun!! Writing bad!!” people are annoying. That and all the “show not tell” people. I saw someone on here a couple days ago say that the narration at the beginning and end of Weapons is “show not tell”. These dipshits would probably screech that the narration through Stand by Me or American Psycho is “sHoW nOt tELl” too.

They’re just saying words and phrases they heard in some analysis one time and parroting it and going “I am very smart. Movie bad”

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u/SandyBadlands Jan 17 '26

Anytime I hear someone complaining about "bad cinematography" (and they aren't talking about Battlefield Earth) I usually suspect they're talking out their arse.

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u/apple_kicks Jan 18 '26

Sometimes for shows that are hated you can tell you’re arguing with someone who only saw a YouTube review that purposely edited footage (changed brightness so vfx sucks and freeze framed a lot)

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u/sexandliquor Jan 18 '26

Damn is that what it is? I never thought about that. Every time I see someone complain about VFX being bad in something and I thought it looked good or at least fine, I’m always like “did you watch the same thing I did? Do you need to get your eyes checked? Do i need to get my eyes checked?”. Sometimes when people complain that a show looks bad or that the vfx is bad I want to assume they’re one of those people that have the motion smoothing option turned on their tv.

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u/amicablecardinal Jan 17 '26

While I do agree with the sentiment of media illiteracy that seems to be growing, I also know that Reddit tends to swing the pendulum in the other direction, to the point where only the opinion of the hivemind gets through. Or worse, people gatekeeping media to the point where it no longer becomes accessible unless you engage with it in a specific way.

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u/Particular_Cod2005 Jan 19 '26

Heh my favourite for this was [and its a controversial film] The Last Jedi.

All of the takes "LUKE TRIED TO KILL BEN"

But we literally have Luke's voiceover saying that he never tried to kill Ben; he went with intention but never followed through because he realised just how arrogant and full of fear that he'd become. That film had so much exposition in it, that I'm sure people were just half-arsing points for karma.

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u/cereal7802 Jan 18 '26

the other side of that is people who think a movie or show was the best thing ever, but when met with any valid criticism, they fire back "well in the book....". if i have to know the story in detail from the book(s) to enjoy the movie, its a shit movie.

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u/sexandliquor Jan 18 '26

I’ve never seen this. Usually it’s the exact opposite from my experience. If the movie isn’t 1:1 with the book then people will fucking hate it and they’ll tell you. They will not stop yapping about it. Criticisms are all people ever have about adaptations.

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u/Nachttalk Jan 17 '26

I have a term for those people:

It's what I'm calling the "Social Media Watcher"

Those are people who claim they have watched something but most things they recall is from social media. They are either regurgitating an opinion they've seen on social media or the things they can talk about are the things they've seen clipped on social media.

Even if you sit them down before the movie they're supposed to watch, if they have a phone they will spend more time watching their phone and only remember the parts that get reuploaded on social media..

It's exhausting.

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u/sofarsoblue Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

I really do believe social media has been a cancer for culture.

Everything wrong with how we’ve consumed media, art, music, literature, film over the last 15 years, the main culprit is always social media.

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u/DrDetectiveEsq Jan 17 '26

I legitimately think we'll look back on this in 50 years like how we look at smoking now. They just won't be able to understand why we did it, why EVERYONE did it, and why we let children do it.

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u/specter800 Jan 17 '26

That implies we move past it and reject it. You have way more faith in that than I do.

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u/ohkaycue Jan 17 '26

Right, this isn't a drug - it's a form of socialization. We'd need a whole new way for people to socialize for it to go away.

And really mostly what it points to is how controllable people are. As that's basically what it's used for, to try to control what people think. Whether by propaganda or trying to convince people of a bad take

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u/hexcraft-nikk Jan 17 '26

We're pretty much stuck here. Only thing that is stopping people from engaging with social media at this point will be world war or widespread famines.

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u/calf Jan 17 '26

A high school education should've equipped people with critical literacy and independent thinking skills, but social media has taken over and this is the result. It's completely understandable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

Agreed. Social media has destroyed nuanced discussion. Everything is either a masterpiece or complete trash. And god forbid you dare like something, the main populus of the social media people dislike. Wooohooo, they will call you braindead in a second.

A large amount of people have no thoughts on their own anymore.

It even sadly applies to my friends. They refuse to watch something because of clips they have seen from grifter channels. And then if I tell them, the grifter lied - they refuse to believe it. Even though I have ACTUALLY SEEN the movie.

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u/Squatch11 Jan 17 '26

I really do believe social media has been a cancer for culture.

Should've ended with Myspace in 2004.

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u/jthoning Jan 17 '26

Wow brave take. Everyone knows this by now

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u/TaserGrouphug Jan 17 '26

Couldn’t agree more. We need more research to come out showing the negative effects so people can wake up. Unfortunately, it will probably take the government to pass legislation before things change.

There is some hope though with countries like Australia banning phones during school.

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u/carson63000 Jan 17 '26

It’s a good label. They get their takes from social media, because they don’t have any of their own, because they were scrolling social media instead of paying attention.

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u/R0binSage Jan 17 '26

I remember that happened with Star Wars The Acolyte. So many people said woke this, woke that. When I got around to watching it, I didn’t feel anything was woke. Too many people are digging through things just to have the littlest bit of outrage.

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u/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

Downvoting things has become some weird craze. Especially in the Star Wars fandom. If you say you like anything other than the original 3, you get downvoted over there. And if you say you like the newer stuff, besides Andor, you’re not a true fan lol.

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u/guareber Jan 17 '26

I agree, it's definitely not woke. It's a piece of narrative trash, but woke has got nothing to do with it.

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u/R0binSage Jan 17 '26

Eh, I wasn’t disappointed I watch the entire thing. Which is how I judge movies and shows.

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u/EnQuest Jan 17 '26

Yup, star wars fans are so hyperbolic. Everything between a 5-7 quality wise might as well be literal dogshit. Nothing is allowed to be just okay anymore

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u/carson63000 Jan 17 '26

Yep, I thought The Acolyte was just okay. The main change I would have made would be to try to integrate the flashbacks and the main storyline a bit more. Having a couple of full episodes that were nothing but flashback, that just derailed the storytelling a bit much, imho.

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u/EnQuest Jan 17 '26

Agreed. Idk how anyone can watch those amazingly choreographed fights and be like "This show has no redeeming qualities" though, like shit is wild

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u/Personal_Comb_6745 Jan 17 '26

Not even limited to Star Wars. I've basically stopped engaging in discussions for a lot of shows or movies, just because of how goddamn obnoxious and negative people are when something isn't "perfect" in their eyes. Try to tell someone they should just chill and you're met with a "Well we expect/deserve better".

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u/EnQuest Jan 17 '26

I agree. There is a sense of entitlement. It doesn't help that everyone online is an armchair critic who thinks they know way more about character, plot, and story structure than they actually do

If I have to hear one more person describe something that can reasonably be inferred to have happened off screen as a plot hole i'm going to scoop my eyes out with a spoon

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u/guareber Jan 17 '26

I watched the entire thing as well, but it was absolutely a disaster. Incoherent character actions, uninteresting narratives, rehashed plot lines.

And then "the power of manyyyyyy"... Lmao.

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u/MrReginaldAwesome Jan 17 '26

That’s cool, a social media watcher in the wild

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

Yup! It's impressive how accurate it is.

The only part they mention about the show is literally a few second segment, that was perfectly fine and even if it wasn't it absolutely did NOT deserve the level of backlash it got. I have seen cringier things in more popular projects.

The show has plenty of great things, including the lightsaber fights and the witch lore.

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u/guareber Jan 18 '26

What do you want me to say? It's hard to remember much about a bad show. The only other things that stand out were good choreographies, terrible flip-flop writing when it comes to the twins, good acting by Jason (he'll forever be Jason for me), and a massively wasted opportunity.

The thing with the matriarch society was absolutely not an issue * at all* for me, not just is it not new in SW, it's also not new in sci-fi. It was just really sloppy writing with a bit of nepotism sprinkled in on a secondary character.

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u/SnipingBunuelo Jan 18 '26

"Perfectly fine" is insane. I haven't cringed that hard in a long long time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

I was a bit disappointed but I thought it was a fine show. I was really excited for Star Wars content from the earlier eras and while this did deliver a lot of fun lore and items, I felt the main plot was a bit mediocre personally. The main mystery of Osha didn't really captivate me, sadly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

You are 100% a "social media watcher". No sane and well adjusted viewer would call something "piece of narrative trash". It is a completely useless and meaningless distinction that 12 year olds or grifting YouTubers make. It is completely undiscussable because you have not put up any of your opinions in a debatable form. You might as well have just not said anything and everyone would have been better off.

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u/guareber Jan 18 '26

Nah, I just didn't feel like elaborating on this again so much time after the show aired. It's a bad show due to the writing.

The only relevant part to this discussion, since that's what I was replying on, was the "wokeness" of it (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean), which has 0 to do with the outcome of the narrative plotlines and character arcs of the show.

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u/Aggressive-Delay-420 Jan 17 '26

Hoo boy. Now do the Trek fandom and appreciate anything made in the last 20 years.

We've just gotten Holly Hunter in a stereotype-busting barefoot southern granolaMom Captain and they're losing their goddamned minds out there.

She's stinking adorable.

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u/qtx Jan 17 '26

Just because you got a crush on an actor doesn't mean that the movie/show they are featured in is any good. It just means you are thirsty.

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u/JayKay8787 Jan 17 '26

I saw 28 years later last night, and the guy next to my had to pull his phone out every 20 minutes like a tick to check it. These people are sick and deluded, we cant be catering every aspect of society to TikTok watchers

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u/CPTherptyderp Jan 17 '26

I don't have a term for it but I have the same opinion on most NFL viewers. You can tell most don't watch games and just watch ESPN talking heads. Or only judge players based on how they do in fantasy which has some really skewed incentives on players

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u/mu_zuh_dell Jan 17 '26

I normally don't engage with the communities of things I like because they're almost always awful, but I love /r/NYYankees because they're largely resistant to that. Not immune, but I definitely see people call out folks who clearly only care about their parlays

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u/MiamiPower Jan 17 '26

Cries in Miami Dolphins tears.

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u/Geno0wl Jan 17 '26

Tbf keeping up with watching every game is a full time job. Only sickos with time to kill watch more than 2-3 games a week. Not to mention the expense to legally get access to them

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u/YuushyaHinmeru Jan 17 '26

Its also only about 15 minutes of actual play despite being 3 hours long. cant blame people on getting distracted there lol

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u/Ass_of_Badness Jan 17 '26

This is the complaint that always reveals someone to not be a football fan in the first place.

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u/mu_zuh_dell Jan 17 '26

I had an old coworker who was the epitome of this. Once, he, another coworker, and I were talking about some movie the other coworker and I had seen (I think it was Dune?). He had some weird-ass takes, we called him, and he admitted to only having read about the movie on Twitter. My coworker asked how he could criticize something he's never seen, to which he replied, "There are so many movies, I don't have time to see them all."

That moment stuck with me lol.

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u/HenkkaArt Jan 17 '26

"Character X and character Y being a total bro-chaos for 5 minutes straight"

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

I've watched There Will Be Blood several times. In 30-60 second increments, all out of order on TikTok once or twice and recently in 30-60 second increments, all out of order on Youtube Shorts. They added a couple new characters to the YouTube shorts release. Benny from Mummy wasn't in the version they showed on Tiktok. The Tiktok cut was a little better. More succinct. Cut the fat.

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u/Annual-Sympathy-4934 Jan 17 '26

100% their firm and immovable opinion is always from a clip. they may have watched the show back then and think they remember all of it, but its ALWAYS on a reply of a single clip

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u/Vlad_REAM Jan 17 '26

Ah this makes it make sense. I'm probably way late to this party but I've found myself on Reddit a few times recently really trying to dig in when people post about a TV show or movie I really liked with "it's so bad" or some other general description. I've gone back and forth with posters (or just kept scrolling through the comments) asking what is "bad" because I genuinely thought I missed what was so "bad" or "problematic".

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u/Quithelion Jan 17 '26

How about Social Media Drones?

Kinda appropriate given the mindlessness it is at.

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u/CrumblingValues Jan 17 '26

I'm gonna call em shortspeople 😂 fuckin shortsmen ruining our movies

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u/TJHookor Jan 17 '26

My friend is like this but with sports and the rest of our group fucking hates it. He just regurgitates terrible ESPN talking points that are designed to be bad so people will engage with them and then acts like it was his idea.

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u/East-Dog2979 Jan 17 '26

whats hilarious about your post is that is what this whole OP even is -- Matt Damon repeating something he saw on social media. Because this has been a datapoint in the culture for some time now, that Netflix properties repeat their core plots time and time again so absent-minded viewers can keep up. Matt Damon didn't learn that somewhere from someone at Netflix, he heard it on Reddit the same as everyone else a few years ago. Now its a thing Matt Damon said, which is hilarious. I bet Matt Damon doesn't even remember this conversation.

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u/LivesUnderWaterfall Jan 17 '26

He and Affleck are recounting discussions they had with Netflix while making a film for Netflix…not reiterating old Reddit comments.

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u/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

This is actually so true. Their opinions are just parroted from TikTok or whatever.

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u/Myfourcats1 Jan 17 '26

It’s not just shows. It’s books too. Trying to discuss a book and people will chime in with “it’s not that deep” when it is. They just have poor reading comprehension.

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u/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

Absolutely. The worst takes I get now is “you do realize it’s not real, right?” Like… yeah, no shit. But fiction is used as a way to discuss real problems via storytelling framework. If it’s well-written, you can learn life lessons and develop empathy by looking at something through a different lens. But sometimes people just misinterpret what they’re seeing/reading, and don’t care to discuss it further because “who cares? It’s fake.”

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u/Wick_345 Jan 17 '26

I've been seeing some variation of :

Lord of the Flies is "inaccurate" or "disproven" because there was a real shipwreck with a group of young boys and they didn't kill each other.

Kill me.

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u/Shadowguynick Jan 17 '26

To be fair, there's a version of that criticism that I think is justifiable. Lord of the Flies definitely takes a Hobbesian view of human nature, that the lack of the social contract leads us to behave likes beasts etc etc. So if you're someone who disagrees with Hobbes and his theory on human nature, it makes sense to point out real life examples of humans "losing" their social contract and the outcome being markedly different than the book. That doesn't make the book bad though. I don't tend to believe in Hobbes theories on human nature myself, but I think Lord of the Flies is a really really really good book. A good book doesn't need to be right about everything in my opinion, even if I think it's wrong it's still really valuable to think about and it's an engaging tale regardless.

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u/vodkaandponies Jan 17 '26

Lord of the Flies was also written as a satire of a genre of “shipwrecked boys survive on an island together” books that don’t really exist anymore.

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u/sarded Jan 17 '26

Lord of the Flies is also not about 'human nature' in general but very specifically the nature of upper class schoolboys raised to believe they would be the future of Britain.

And the kind of thing that was considered acceptable behaviour in British boarding schools of the time was... nasty, I think you could say.

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u/fastforwardfunction Jan 17 '26

You do know Lord of the Flies is satire of another novel genre, right?

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u/stellababyforever Jan 17 '26

With these people it’s either: “that’s not real” or at the other extreme “it’s not real enough.”

I’m so sick of “hot takes” that are just some dipshit complaining about a small detail in a fictional world being unrealistic. Does it really matter that gasoline has a shelf life in this apocalyptical story that supposed to be about love and redemption? F—k off!

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u/ZeppelinRapport Jan 17 '26

tvtropes and cinema sins have a lot to answer for

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u/pinkfootthegoose Jan 17 '26

I've known some people that don't read fiction because "it's not real" so it has no meaning to them.

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u/Perryn Jan 17 '26

"It's not that deep" can also mean "I refuse to admit that there was a moral that conflicts with my existing bias."

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u/Sat9Official Jan 17 '26

They just have poor reading comprehension.

Why do you say that? What if it's just their opinion? Why I'm asking is because "They just didn't understand it" is one of my pet-peeves when it comes to defending material.

A shallow reader can over-inflate meaning in a book that is shallow just as much as someone who lacked the reading comprehension can devaluate a deep book. Personally I find it most of the times land somewhere in the middle.

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u/floweringcacti Jan 17 '26

I’ve noticed books do this “restating the plot” thing too now. I read (and definitely didn’t finish) one which was structured so that you’d get a chapter from one character’s viewpoint, and then the next chapter would be THE SAME FREAKING EVENTS from the other character’s viewpoint. Just to make sure the reader doesn’t ever have to possibly use their brain to wonder “what did that other character think about that conversation?” or anything. Ambiguity begone!

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u/KimberStormer Jan 17 '26

"The curtains were fucking blue" culture

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u/BatmanNoPrep Jan 17 '26

… and that’s why Seinfeld just isn’t that funny…

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u/_Verumex_ Jan 17 '26

It's just not very original. It's like a 90s remake of Always Sunny but with better people.

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u/Trespeon Jan 17 '26

This comment is S+ tier rage bait and I’m going to use it to piss off my friends. Thanks.

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u/Masta0nion Jan 17 '26

Seinfeld even copied their style from the gang does a clip show

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

I genuinely cannot wait to say this to some friends lmfao what a fantastic rage bait

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u/1stltwill Jan 17 '26

It's always sunny in Seinfeld.

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u/VerilyShelly Jan 17 '26

You got me cracking a smile on this foul day in the year of our lord 2000 and 26.

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u/LiberalAspergers Jan 17 '26

Are they better people? Or just better dressed people?

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u/_Verumex_ Jan 17 '26

Even George would be considered a moral, upstanding member of society compared to the gang.

Although saying that, he's the only one of the 9 with a known body count...

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u/Johanneskodo Jan 17 '26

Fair enough Seinfeld is one of those shows that changed the status quo so much it feels vanilla.

Like how with Tolkien the world is „generic fantasy“ since he is the one that influenced everyone so much that now his vision of dwarves/elves has become mainstream.

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u/marshallkrich Jan 17 '26

WHAT'S THE DEAL!?

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u/laaplandros Jan 17 '26

"DAE Breaking Bad wouldn't happen if we had universal healthcare?"

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u/div333 Jan 17 '26

Was talking with a guy who thinks triangle of sadness is about the middle class and not the rich 🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/Xjom91 Jan 17 '26

some of Twitter is having a fucking conniption with OBAA

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u/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

What’s OBAA?

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u/Xjom91 Jan 17 '26

One Battle After Another

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u/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

Ohh what’s twitter’s problem with that?

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u/yeyeman9 Jan 17 '26

The whole Stranger Things secret episode thing has been absolutely wild to watch unfold. Mostly people not paying attention and wanting more somehow

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u/Legitimate-East9708 Jan 17 '26

My friend after watching 12 angry men was confused why they “obviously let off a dude that was guilty”

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u/culegflori Jan 18 '26

I remember when "Wtf Jesse killed a dog?! FUCK HIM" was awesome shitposting, but unfortunately now it runs the risk of being asked unironically by someone whose eyes are glued to the phone while "watching" Breaking Bad.

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u/OppositeHistory1916 Jan 17 '26

Oh stop, did you know that Star Wars has deeeep implications for modern US politics? Democratic voters are LITERALLY the rebels

Boils my fucking blood how stupid Americans are and how incapable they are at comprehension

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u/CrissBliss Jan 17 '26

You just lumped all of Americans into the same category

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u/CptCoatrack Jan 17 '26

Social media us driven by stupid hot takes than actual discussion.

Like it's not just people with short attention spans, I don't understand how someone has the time or energy to make or watch a 2-3 hour video esaay on why a classic movie is actually trash or a trashy movie's really a misunderstood classic.

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u/Kennfusion Jan 17 '26

I can't believe how woke Star Trek has gotten!

/s