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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’ (variety.com)
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[–] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Good stuff is a hard marker to hit.

Going back to 54% of Americans read at or below the 5th grade level (in terms of functional capacity and reaching comprehension), they need it spelled out.

And this good is slowly being eroded away.

Alien hardly explains anything. Alien Romulus isn't as bad as much modern cinema but explains too much sometimes