{"id":266678,"date":"2026-01-27T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266678\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:16:10","slug":"donal-lynch-matt-damons-horror-is-misplaced-our-mushy-brains-need-full-recaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266678\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3nal Lynch: Matt Damon\u2019s horror is misplaced. Our mushy brains need full recaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Vulture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Damon had strong words to say about budgeting for action movies on streamers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c7a0d44c-7629-4869-b770-00d3cf5d94aa.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Matt Damon had strong words to say about budgeting for action movies on streamers<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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\u2019s going on in the plot of the thing we are \u201cwatching\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And so they have taken measures. \u201cThe 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,\u201d Damon explained. \u201cYou spend most of your money on that one in the third act. That\u2019s your finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulture Matt Damon had strong words to say about budgeting for action movies on streamers Matt Damon said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,29575,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-266678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-donal-lynch","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}