Well sure, he didn’t say a good film.
It’s a very low bar these days
Goro Miyazaki directed Tales From Earthsea. When you look at how bad that movie is, it makes sense that he wouldn’t see AI movies as inherently problematic; they’ll be similar in quality to his own work.
Passing reminder that Goro Miyazaki is an architect who never wanted to make movies. He was brought on as an architecture advisor, and the studio kept pushing him to take more and more responsibility because he’s his father’s son, and his father encouraged it. The movie sucks because he’s not a director and he didn’t want to make it.
(Side note: I actually rather like Tales from Earthsea, so when I say it sucks I’m referring to general public reception and not my own opinion.)
Even worse, he directed Earwig and the Witch… Tales From Earthsea was at least somewhat competent
I haven’t watched that one yet. So it’s worse? ●︿●
Yes, it’s even worse than that; it’s worse²
I’m going to watch it anyway, so there.
But as a brain cleanse, try little Emma. It’s not amazing, but it’s cute as hell. Itty bitty humans smaller than sentient racist livestock.
I liked that one. I’m supremely doubtful he’s correct, but I don’t think his directorial prowess has anything to do with it.
Which is really a shame because the book series is fantastic.
Not “Completely”, but they are trying.
The Last Screenwriter
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32236000/
“Featured Review” is telling.
Cancel-culture mob missed the point. Shame on the cinemas who cancelled the screening because whinging mobs shook their fists.
First of all, the movie is non-profit. Secondly, it was made by a real human crew and real actors.
It was clever to get ChatGPT to write a film script about a screenwriter who feels his job is threatened by AI’s superior writing ability. How can anyone not be curious to watch this movie?
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Ultimately, the script lacks any real punch or decent plot twists or narrative layering that we humans love about film. It doesn’t go anywhere you wouldn’t predict.
emphasis mine.
Maybe we just don’t like AI, and billionaire fuckwads just need to suck it up and move on, like how Zuck bet the farm that the Metaverse was going to be the next hot thing and now has to pretend he didn’t spend gobs of money on it.
But no, it’s the cancel-culture mob. 😂 JFC, what a take.
It’ll probably be a sequel to Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Loved that movie.
I did too, actually. I don’t know why it popped into my head immediately reading “AI movie”. Maybe the animation?
Now I kind of want to watch it again.
Probably the weird thing they were doing where they wanted to make a CG “actress” who could play roles in other CG films.
If he means A.I. Artificial Intelligence then its too late. Spielberg already made that film back in 2001.
I honestly really disliked that movie. Wonder if I’d feel differently now that I’m older.
I liked it, but I’m a sucker for “robot wanna be a real boy” type stories
Can you suggest movie you like in this subgenre?
The Iron Giant, Wall-E, Her, Blade Runner, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Metropolis (2001), Astro Boy. Probably forgetting some really good examples though
Ghost In The Shell, (the original anime movie) kinda
Called it, huge omissions likely remain
It’s admittedly not a “fun” movie. It’s a really sad story in the end and most of the movie, the characters are uncomfortable in their situation.
I think it touches on some real questions we’re going to have to ask ourselves in the coming years about how much we’re going to allow AI into our personal lives.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it forgets most of it, it’s worth seeing. Just don’t expect iRobot or Black Mirror.
I still don’t believe that Kubrick actually wanted the movie to be as bad as it was…
I searched the article for anything meaningful. There is absolutely nothing.
They relayed two isolated sentences of a guy, notoriously son of a legendary animation artist, notoriously not quite as talented and in a conflictual relationship with him. So not the legendary artist, the one that nobody would know if he wasn’t his son.
The two sentences are “This thing is likely to happen. No idea how it will be perceived.”
Yeaaaah.
We already have Marvel
there isnt already? look at all those youtube videos.
I mean the concept seems pretty obvious. Obviously it won’t be supprising when a film is made completely through AI… What will be suprising will be if it doesn’t suck.
I find it weird that this is being viewed as a difference between the 2, when to me the quotes seem pretty much the same. IE the father
father: “I see you did this, it’s terrible and I want nothing to do with it, it’s an insult to life”.
Son: “I don’t think it’s unlikely people will make a movie entirely through AI, whether anyone will want to see it is anyone’s guess”.
I don’t see any quotes from the son on his opinion of quality, and if anything I see skepticism towards quality. I don’t think anyone can deny, a lot of people are going to try really hard to make full movies entirely from AI. That’s as obvious of a statement as “people will try to make cars that drive themselves”.
Probably that could also happen today. there have been fully AI generated Youtube channels optimized for attention grabbing for some time now, mainly for children
Optimist: if anyone can generate a movie with a snap of the fingers, the best-written ones will emerge on top and we’ll have a glut of amazingly-written movies.
More likely: it’s all going to be slop.
Best case scenario imo is that you can make your own movie at home and watch it with your friends and laugh at how weird and bad it is.
Imagine if it’s a live stream, changing the plot as you watch dependent on your reaction.
At first it might be fun to see what happens if Frodo doesn’t throw the ring in the lava, but eventually you gotta ask yourself why you’re wasting your time in front of a screen watching weird cat videos.
It’ll be choice paralysis for new movies and people will just watch the oldies if any movies
AI will never surprise you.
I was imagining the human would write it
Is Miyazaki going to go in on his son again?
And it will be absolute trash.
Wonder if AI will enjoy watching it?
:cough: “Twins HinaHima” :cough: (Admittedly only about a third of a feature film in runtime, but that’s close enough for me. However, I haven’t been able to find any English-language information on just how much of the work the AI was responsible for.)
