Netflix Now Demands Explosions Before You Finish Your Breakfast

KEY POINTS

•Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-starred and co-produced 'The Rip,' a Netflix-exclusive heist movie released Friday.
•Damon explained that Netflix wants action films to show the biggest sequences in the first five minutes due to distracted viewers.
•Affleck mentioned 'Adolescence,' a Netflix series shot in one take, as an exception to Netflix’s usual rapid-fire action strategy.

In a new Netflix caper 'The Rip,' Matt Damon and Ben Affleck teamed up to show us that the 'standard way' to make action movies is dead, or at least sidelined for smartphone zombies. Damon confessed on Joe Rogan's podcast that Netflix now insists explosive mega-scenes happen before you can say "pass the mimosas," aka in the first five minutes, because apparently, people can't pause TikTok long enough to get the plot. They even want actors to recite the storyline like a bad IV drip, to compensate for viewers scrolling with one eye. Affleck tried to defend this smartphone pandering, referencing 'Adolescence,' a crime miniseries shot in one take – proof Netflix is still capable of nuance, at least sometimes. Netflix didn’t comment by Monday, perhaps too busy figuring out how to cram explosions into their onboarding tutorial.