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People are on their phone because the movie sucks
Yea if the movie is gonna treat me like I’m not paying then I see no reason to pay attention
Oh boy another reboot of established IP! scrolls
Thats definetly not the case imo, it’s just the predominance of smartphones in the daily life with social media usage, fear of missing out… People can get their phones out during any moment that not deeply engaging in the moveis just because they are used to pickup up their phones all time during the day.
I find that it’s impossible to make movies that will engage or appeal to all audiences, and it’s also impossible to make all movies that will have only great spectacularly engaging scenes… Having a couple of “boring” scenes does not make the movie a bad movie per se…
Bu yeah, making all movies “dumbed” down to explicitely state the plot over and over I see as a guarantee to reduce the movies quality over all.
The number of clueless rubes in the Fallout TV series subreddit asking questions about things that were directly stated in the dialogue is too damned high.
I see this all the time online, some post that acts like they had some massive revelation about a movie and its just a basic part of the plot…and all the comments are like, wow i didnt notice that and ive seen this a hundred times.
“We are going to rob this casino blind”
“So we’re robbing the casino”
“I reiterate the casino will be robbed”
“You guessed it, casino robbing time!”
Working retail, this is how you have to communicate with people now.
Like I have to answer the same question six times because people can comprehend basic things. I had to explain to this new cashier than when you ask a question over the intercom you have to pay attention to the response and do what the responder tells you to do, she seemed dumbfounded by this realization.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Well yeah, I counter my treatlerite indulgence (a TV show) by reading serious theory (browsing chapo dot chat) at the same time
Had to change my bookmarks cuz chacha stopped working
still works for me it just redirects to hexbear.net
I saw a director talking about this. She said they call it second screen content. Apparently they’ve done research that shows people are looking at their phones, lose the plot, and then shut it off.
I feel like the solution is movies that aren’t shit and cause people to get bored enough to grab the phone. Making it repetitive seems like a way to guarantee people will stop paying attention in the first place.
Yeah they keep framing this as if the phones are the problem rather than the mediocre at best slop they keep producing. Half of my Netflix usage is something I put some very mildly interesting slop in the background while doing something else like eating lunch or cleaning. When the show/film is actually engaging I’m glued to the TV screen and forget about my phone.
film and television has been basically going through a story of distrusting audiences, and creatives fighting very hard to push for more trust in the audience, and as their gains peaked in their respective industries, visual media became quite good, as more trust was given to audiences to be able to handle complex ideas.
and now it’s swinging back around. The audience is too dumb and inattentive to be trusted. I’m telling you, this “We need Ridiculous Shit Like Obsessively Restating The Plot, Because The Proles are Mouth Breathers With Completely Shot Attention Spans” is a decisive move towards narrowing the range of what long-form content can be, and while I consider pop culture generally an enemy of the people, this absolutely sucks for all kinds of reasons.
And next iteration they have to restate the plot Six to Eight times because netflix is moved from second to third screen.
Sorry, what’d he say? I was on my phone.
Listen here you little shit
Ten years from now all movies will convey the plot like last week’s episode of Jujutsu Kaisen (24 minutes of talking with diagrams explaining everything)
Standing in a white void taking a big fat exposition dump
Honestly, I complained that episode 1 and 2 felt like movie trailers rather than actual episodes due to the lack a lot of the exposition I expect from the start of a season. So I welcomed the polar opposite as a make-up for the previous two episodes. Also <3 diagrams
No this simply will not do, it must be narrated like Hunter x Hunter during the chimera ant arc. Bonus points if they help explain the properties of bungee gum.
“I have entered Jesse’s house. Jesse and Jane are passed out from doing too much heroin. I will now try to wake Jesse. Jesse will not wake up. Jane is choking on vomit. I am watching Jane choke on vomit. I am crying. I am leaving Jesse’s house.”
typical Walt can’t even be honest when he’s narrating himself doing a murder
Imagined this in Shapiro’s voice
Hm, well, ackshually, if we examine the facts and logic, it is plain to see – and my doctor wife will agree – that I am the one who, ackshually, knocksTake a bullet for you, babe
Imagining this with Harrison Ford’s narration voice and an added part explaining that choking on vomit causes you to die so the audience understands why Walt is sad
Best we can do is Patrick Fabian.
I imagined this in Dr. Manhattan’s voice
Jane’s body has as many atoms when she’s dead as when she is alive
What does Netflix want movies to do?
do like dragon ball Z on toonami and show every 20 minute segment twice in a row.
I never got this attitude, I’ll just pause whatever I’m watching if I need to check my phone for something. If something you’re watching is so dogshit you need to take out your phone just watch something better
People are only on their phones while watching Netflix because 99% of their content is slop
bring back exposition dumps yes i am media illiterate why do you ask?
edit: anyone else think very little of their target audience? no? just me?
