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Matt Damon had strong words to say about budgeting for action movies on streamers
Matt Damon said the quiet part out loud. On a recent episode of Joe Rogan he admitted that companies like Netflix are aware that our brains are too tech-addled to keep up with what’s going on in the plot of the thing we are “watching”.
And so they have taken measures. “The standard way to make an action movie that we learned was, you usually have three set pieces. One in the first act, one in the second, one in the third,” Damon explained. “You spend most of your money on that one in the third act. That’s your finale.