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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Matt Damon is right: phones + Netflix mean we are now in the pub bore age of cinema

Matt Damon at The Rip premiere in New York.
Spoonfeeding us … Matt Damon at The Rip premiere in New York. Photograph: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock

Matt Damon has a new film out, a $100m cop thriller co-starring Ben Affleck called The Rip. It is currently the most watched film on Netflix, because it is a Netflix movie. So how is Damon choosing to promote his new Netflix movie? By kind of laying into Netflix.

During an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, Damon went to great lengths to describe the differences between going to see a film theatrically and watching it on television. Explaining his experience of watching One Battle After Another in an Imax screening, Damon said: “I always say it’s more like going to church – you show up at an appointed time. It doesn’t wait for you.”

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