If this strike starts affecting movie releases again and we get another rant from him about being denied his theater experience I will be so happy. Watching him try to reconcile that anger with his support for lockdowns during COVID was entertaining as hell.
exactly, we have 100 years of media to look at. there are tv shows and movies spanning decades pass that were just well written stories and not political nonsense. go pirate and watch movies from the 50-80s, the same with tv shows. why does a show or movies had to have been produced in the last 15 years before some people will even consider it?
i get that if you want to watch something with normies they will insist that it be new, but that is more their fault in how retarded normies are. but i get it. i also very much agree that it would be nice if modern movies and tv shows didnt suck donkey balls.
you're not wrong, but at least if AI's the one doing this I can safely reassure myself that the person who made it isn't a screeching idiot whom people take seriously and pay more than I will ever make for their terrible ideas
AI in of itself is not that big of a threat I agree. However, when you look at the sheer amount of detritus that's been made so each of these streaming sites can have content and you look at their quality it's very easy to see how large swathes of these twelve thousand wastes of resources could be replaced by one computer and 500 people to clean and punch up the scripts.
Honestly as much as chat-focused AI can randomly spazz out the scripts would probably be more internally consistent than what passes for it now. Ever since the Hero's Journey became a slur in Hollywood even basic narrative structure is a shelf modern scriptwriters are frequently too short to reach, particularly for mass market stuff.
It's not that I think more of AI, I just think way less of anyone employed as a writer in Hollywood.
Talking about the hero's journey and story structure, I have this theory that a lot of what gets pushed through Hollywood now is purposefully made to destroy and replace what came before. I'm not sure when exactly it started. I think the first, or at least the first big example of this is The Last Jedi. Rian Johnson came in and wrecked everything that JJ and Disney had set up with The Force Awakens and things that were already established in the Star Wars Universe for no other reason, narratively or otherwise, than that he could. I know it was the first time that I remember hearing "subverted expectations". In the six years that have passed things have gotten worse. IPs are being dragged though the mud and then thrown into a wood chipper so muck and offal can be formed into an abominable idol, shaped in it's creator's image. We have Velma, the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the new Little Mermaid, the Rings of Power, Ghostbusters and so on so on so forth.
And nightmarish. Uncanny Valley evolves into Unnerving Canyon.
[insert Stonetoss panel "Burgers?" but saying "AI?" instead]
good luck
I have most of the professionally completed reconstructions (I think mostly animated). Obviously the unreleased ones, need to be a bit more creative, but I'll give it a shot, see how it goes. I know the Marco Polo serial is held in high esteem and is presumed lost.
I initially dismissed the AI claims as retarded, but then came to the same realization; 80% of the writers are working on procedually generated drivel. The concept that Marvel capeshit and stuff like that having an entire writing room for their shit is mortifying to me.
Specifically with the MCU at some point, I wanna say either at or after Avengers 2 or Civil War, they designed the fight scenes using computers to plot and render everything and that forced the director to create the scene around it. So we already have the main draw of these movies, the spectacle of super humans punching each other and/or blue lasers, computer generated with no thought of the narrative. So yeah, why do we need a room full of idiots when Marvel could develop their own AI based around the decades of their own comic IPs?
And any writer worth their salt cannot say anything because they're all unionized and the second they step out of line they are black listed to the point they can't even scab as a Hallmark Christmas movie writer. That angers me. People who actually create something of value are being hurt by fucking retards who firmly believe they deserve money forever because they wrote for a show that no one asked for, no one watched, no one even noticed was gone, and will be replaced by the next piece of throwaway media. Top that off with absolute brainlets who are trying to make this into a political issue by declaring "We are fighting against capitalism!" you got yourself a shit sundae that makes every single person out there who's struggling, who would be consuming the throwaway media just as a form of escapism, get filled with faggot fatigue. I guess it's already kinda happening as I'm seeing no real support for the strike outside of industry assholes and primo consoomers.
So even in the mid 90s, the funniest man in the room, was already being chased out (or at least negotiating an out) to get away from the libs. And in general, his work didn't need a full room of 10-20 knuckle-draggers to improve his work (although obviously his work had some rewrites).
They'll either be scooped up by already-existent underdog studios or they'll form their own studios and go from there. Or put their "talents" to the test by applying overseas since they have a more longevity kind of love for the arts than the states. Either way if they didn't have something to fall back on, they'll be back somehow someway. After all, that's how a majority of the hacks were able to get where they are now due to whining about divershitty and gendershit.
