Note: This is something I would have posted to “Movies and Television” before the merger.
Slashdot Summary:
Director James Cameron argues that blockbuster filmmaking can only survive if the industry finds ways to “cut the cost of [VFX] in half,” with AI potentially offering solutions that don’t eliminate jobs.
“If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I’ve always loved and that I like to make – ‘Dune,’ ‘Dune: Part Two,’ or one of my films or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy films – we’ve got to figure out how to cut the cost of that in half,” Cameron said.
Rather than staff reductions, Cameron envisions AI accelerating VFX workflows: “That’s about doubling their speed to completion on a given shot, so your cadence is faster and your throughput cycle is faster, and artists get to move on and do other cool things.”
It’s not the special effects that draw me to a movie; it’s the story.
Instead of making Fast and Furious 74, Shrek 19, Transfermers 131 (which is written by and only watched by AI), etc, give us something original. I can’t even think of a single movie in the last 2-3 years that’s even worth pirating let alone going to see in theaters.
As with video games, they have learned that they can put out a pile of slop and people will still pay for it. There is no incentive to do better.
Anora I would pirate, but it’s not a cinema-movie. Dune & Oppenheimer were cinema movies.
Half the movies are Marvel! Don’t check me on the specifics 😉. As someone who is not a fan, I see wasted talent and less movies I want to see year over year. Or at least it had been that way and maybe it’s calmed down a bit now. Last I saw, and before that years of nothing, was Twisters, over last summer. Even though it was a reboot, it was a good theater going experience. I’m glad I went.
But seriously, they used to be able to make movies. Now they’re saying they can’t without the assistance of AI?! Maybe give up. Maybe movies aren’t it anymore. 🤷♂️
Edit: Twisters was definitely for the effects!
Here in lies the problem with capitalism.
Everything has to earn money.
In movies if someone comes up with an original script. No one will know the title, it’s not marvel or whatever so suits won’t greenlight it because nobody knows if it will churn a profit.
Everything everywhere all at once and Mickey 17 were both fantastic and not sequel slop. You’re looking in the wrong places