watched a youtube about why streaming videos suck so much, really interesting. basically the entire construction of the movie is based around super fine-grained streaming metrics. and those metrics say "make ocean's eleven, over and over and over again, and make sure something happens every 30 seconds or people will close the tab"
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@sun@shitposter.world This tracks- i can't remember if it was you or I read it on my local forum. But I think it was a in relation to the last clooney movie, about how the audience attention span was basically nil, and you had to more or less explain wtf was happening in the movie every 30 minutes to keep retention.
@miscbrains @sun I wonder to what degree this is actually true and to what degree streaming services think this is true. Studio execs were infamous for thinking audiences were stupid even before streaming became a thing. It's kind of hard to prove since they usually won't tell you how their productions perform but I've heard about instances where they did show some stats and apparently the most popular thing on Netflix are movies from the 90s.
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@besserwisser @miscbrains it probably is a hard conversation: why do our movies have to be made to hold attention in 30 second increments, but old movies actually get people to sign up for the service at all