Writer insight : if people start pulling their phone when they should be watching your movie, it means your movie is shit, not that it should be made even sloppier. Watered down shit is still a shit cocktail.
The amount of reciprocal effort art is socially allowed to demand from the audience changes. The art form gets refined and people respect that and are willing to invest more attention, then at some point it’s opera and nobody goes because it requires too much attention and respect. Netflix might suck but on the other hand Christopher Nolan is making movies with inaudible dialogue and Game of Thrones has invisible fight scenes because they got out of hand with it and think they can demand you only watch their thing alone in a soundproof HDR screening room.
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This is what kills any articles on the web. The first three paragraphs repeat the question you’re looking to get answered and the last paragraph vaguely answers it.
I feel like an old person now but I’ve started watching movies from the 90s/2000s and I can’t believe how much worse movies have become over the years.
SEO was a mistake.
I decided to work from home and put fury road since I haven’t seen it. 10 minutes in i logged off work early because it was good.
Ppl will not focus on what gives them the most enjoyment. If its the phone or Netflix.
Good thing we canceled our Netflix subscription last year when Trump threatened to invade our country the first time.
Even greater that now that he is threatening to do it again, and seemingly is more serious about it, we are one year into being back on physical media and we fucking love it. Dvds and blurays are so much better than shitflix.
Now I’m curious, am I checking my phone after they’ve repeated the same thing 3 or 4 times and now I’m bored / annoyed?
I don’t see anything wrong with this. Have them wear crazy outfits that no one will see either.
You could absolutely do it in a funny way like Kronk (Emperors New Groove) or Luis (Ant-Man).
It’s the big tech social media disease.
Everyone, frigging everyone who steps away from fb/insta/twittler/yt/tiktok/… says the same “holy shit my mind is so peaceful all of a sudden.” And somehow it’s not substantially part of the daily discourse. Somehow between that and EVERYTHING else these mfrs are responsible for (protecting pedos, encouraging insurrections, …) just flies.
It’s a disease, an addiction, a plague and we gotta start naming it as such. Talk to your loved ones and carefully try to get them off that shit.
Does that include Lemmy?
Lemmy/Piefed is an echo chamber, and has some structural issues like Reddit. But there’s no algo, no advertising, nor constant phone notifications.
And, uh, no billionaires warping “open” discourse.
To me, it’s a time black hole, worse than old forums. But it’s not nearly as bad as (say) Discord or anything Facebook owned.
You tell me:
-are you getting ads/shorts/brainrot shoved in face every single second?
-is the public on lemmy tolerant of sexoffenders? Nazis?
-ads? (Yes, I initially misspelled it as “adds” this guy right here)
-do you have superfluous bs following you around?
I think not.
You forgot:
- Is an algorithm shoving political divisive rage bait down your throat?
But thanks for listing why I like it here
Regarding adds: I guess if you fight one lemmy user, others will spawn and come to help. So I would say yes, there are adds
So people having discourse equals advertising?
Nah, they’re making a joke from the misspelling.
add: To perform addition. Or a mob joining an ongoing fight in a game.
ad: An advertisement.
Well looks like I’ll be having an omelette tomorrow morning on account of the egg on my face. 🤣
I like when Matt Damon restates his name three or four times in the dialogue
Blame his agent for getting him a pokemon gig as a pokemon
Meatt daemon
netflix should just buy the entire back catalogue of The Archers and be done with it.
It’s not just me, right? Modern movies and shows have less things happen in same duration of time.
Modern shows are lazy, they are like 6, 10 episodes tops. The simpsons in the 90s before they sucked did almost 30. They would take summer off, then breaks on xmas and spring but a show a week otherwise.
Dude… That was annual, too. These modern day 8-episode shows will have YEARS between seasons. Like, motherfucker, half your scenes are green screen in a big sound studio – what the fuck is taking you so long?!
They have to wait for Ai tokens to replenish.
I would actually argue the opposite. Modern movie plots are an ADD fever dream. There are so many things going on that keeping track is an absolute chore.
I think you’re both right, somehow.
No they are not. I cannot watch them unless i speed them up past what Netflix allows me. They are so slow and information sparse that i cannot watch them.
Depending on what shows you watched, plenty from the 90s/00s assumed viewers wouldnt make it for the airing once a week. So they did fluff a bunch and rely on “this week’s monster” rather than dense series plots. I remember despising dragon ball z (my brothers favorite) because multiple episodes would go by with fuckin NOTHING happening.
You need to relax my dude
Make content that makes people put their phones down.
This is part of the genius of kpop demon hunters. It moves fast, sometimes frenetically.
Make movies that are engaging enough to keep people from checking their feeds while they wait for something to happen.
My wife said that the Wire was hard to follow and boring, but she also checked her phone every 5 minutes and was carrying on a conversation there with her friends. She also impulsively pulled out facebook and scrolled a bit. I pointed all this out but Its still the shows fault somehow.
I dunno man, I can’t get my friends to watch some stellar movies because their attention span has been shot over time.
Believe it or not, they’ll watch crappier movies because they don’t need to pay attention.
Can’t right now, ow my balls is on.
That doesn’t sound very streamlined or profitable to me.
Part of it is the movie, but a large part is that short form video trains your brain to need frequent dopamine fixes. A 5 second video does that, while a 90 minute movie might not give it until the climax.
It’s not much different than a smoker taking a break during a movie.
If someone starts a movie and immediately pulls their phone out or starts cleaning, that’s on them.
And movies absolutely should not be made to cater to addiction. Nothing should, except for something explicitly designed to help people recover from addiction.
When movies have a good idea and are given the proper attention to make them well, regular people won’t be checking the time or reading blogs when they become bored. The problem is that studios say that, good idea or not, proper attention to the craft or not, we’re making this many movies this year. We’re lucky if a few of those movies are something future generations would consider good.
Matt Damon is suggesting that movies be made even worse than they already are.
Matt Damon is suggesting
It definitely reads more as “Netflix execs suggest and Matt Damon complains about”
I can’t stand short videos. I won’t even watch videos that aren’t an hour or longer myself. I don’t get these shorts, it’s so unsatisfying.
We get our short attention span jones from reading headlines and comments.
That’s the problem they don’t want to discuss. Writing has gotten seriously shitty.
If you watch shitty movies, yes. There are still plenty of good movies being made.
It literally doesn’t work for most people anymore
Short form videos fried people’s attention and dopamine needs
Oh fucking please… that has nothing to do with it.
lol yea, toootally nothing to do with it. That’s why nobody ever talks about great movies, and movies toooootally aren’t getting longer nad longer… yep, totally not a quality to attention thing.
Not like there are legendary movies that are several hours long that people still watch… Yep, quality has nothing to do with how long people stay engaged with movies!
The Intro to the film, “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” comes to mind.
Great film, slow, steady, meaningful.
Bud… people are on thier phones constantly… there nothing that will stop that…
Do the people who have their phones out in films nowadays watch those old movies without looking at their phones, hmm?
Your snark makes you sound like an arsehole.
My snark is because it was an assinine statement that was said rudely. I don’t know why you’re mad at me and not the rude person with the wrong opinion.
