AI movies

"Can't avoid it? Aren't we the one's building it?"

God I dislike this new trend of stopping subtitles at the very end of the clip to force the user to open and listen to it. It's 5 am - I like my silence.

Tho, amazing ending.

"So what, like an animated movie?" I'm so happy someone can finally say that. I'm so sick of these AI users in filmmaking spaces.

Animation is interesting because it's animated intentionally, acting is interesting because it was thought by someone and acted out. If you cut all the corners in the world you can also make $1K full movie that no-one will care to watch because it will suck.

The waste in modern Hollywood movie production is not money going to VFX artists (not even unionized) and writers (average writer makes 10K a year) or even celebrity actors. There are examples of big movies that cost a fraction of what Hollywood spends, like Godzila minus one, or Flow (2024) the animated feature with a budget of 3.5M that won an Oscar.

They waste insane amount of money on making and re-making things over and over again and second guessing every decision in production and splitting the production among 10 different teams and 20 vfx studios and so on.

Good Short, I am somewhat relieved that ai generated images are not as successful as the were thought to be. Even though they look absolutely amazing by any technical aspect, the moment we know it's ai, it almost loses all of its value and meaning. At least that's how I percive it.

Goose suit, it’s an old circus term

The credits will atleast be quick

T-mobile has a fully AI commercial now. Which.. whatever, but when it comes to movies.. people arent just watching the movie... they are watching the actors. People will watch a movie specifically because an actor is in it (Nicholas Cage). AI will NEVER be able to capture the same appeal that a real actor can. People want to watch real talent.

The choice of having instruments tuning in as background noise to convey the chaos if this situation. Nice touch 👌

And they're going to ruin all the water doing it

This short is amazing because it frames a lot of needed public discussions (and plenty of private business ones) in a succinct format tied in a little bow.

Filmmaking: These studios are run, not by people who understand and respect the audiences they covet, but solely people who were hired from other businesses that "scaled" and "built" for growth because our stock markets are also built on balsa wood. Nothing has value except the concept and appearance of value.

AI: Just another case of people and businesses who need to generate growth and value pushing a half-baked idea onto the masses as the next big thing. Like robotics nearly 30 years go, there was a quick shift to robots on assembly lines, in sectors that didn't need them, understand them, etc. and so people lost jobs quickly to robots that could do some things but not everything. And so, people were hired back at great losses to those companies, not only because they had to hire back people (and therefore neutralized the initial ROI) but because they sunk so much into a technology that was in its infancy. Robotics have come a long way, but you still see it's an area of slow and steady growth that involves people to guide, program, repair, maintain, et Al. AI is even worse because it doesn't have a self-sustaining infrastructure, requires way too much natural resource usage, and is just buying up capital to further the illusion of being a valuable property. As others have said, the losses for these all-in AI companies is huge, it's nothing to sneeze at. It's bad business by people who only know how to "scale" and "grow" but there is no legit and reasonable goal to grow to or for.

Capital and value: I've already covered it, but the "why are we making it?" and "because we have to scale and grow" is a HUGE issue across the western business globe right now. No one builds anything to solve legit problems, they build to artificially inflate stock and business value so that either that flashy startup can be bought for way too much by a bigger company and venture capitalists get their fat return on an investment, or to elbow their way into the top of the stock market. But they have created nothing of legit value and tangible benefit, just the powerful Oz while more and more people know it's a tiny man behind the curtain.

When you factor in all the bullshit synergy, corporate mergers, etc. that have run amok for the past 30 years, this is what you get. A whole lot of nothing, a market that will eventually collapse because it's built on no solid foundation whatsoever, and an economy gone to shit because nothing of real value and use has been created. We have to create AI movies because we need to use AI and we need to create movies, to hell with what they are about and how they are made.

It also speaks to the bigger issue that people do crave person-to-person connections. Parasocial relationships aren't healthy, but there used to be a lot more innocent "oh, I like this actor/director/genre" that got people to the cinema. That got people to go to a local business. That got people to venture out to third places and find people to interact with. The only way to fill these voids is to go back to some face-to-face activities and business propositions. I'm not saying do away with remote work, tech initiatives, etc. but creativity and human collaboration are still where real money over long term growth with tangible, achievable goals occurs.

-We dont have to pay workers!

-So like an animated movie?

This animator was one shotted in the first inning.