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- Comment on Jared Leto Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women, Including Some Who Say They Were Underage, as Actor Denies Allegations 1 week ago:
Least surprising news ever.
My ex once told me the story about how he tried to seduce her when she was 15 and he was 30. She went to see Thirty Seconds to Mars (his band) and had a backstage pass. She was just a fan. He got really weird and handsy and she got really uncomfortable and made an excuse to get out of there. Needless to say, she wasn’t a fan after that, and when she got older and processed it with an adult brain, he basically disgusted her on sight. Since then I’ve had the same reaction to him for the last 20 years.
She was very pretty (and still is), but she definitely looked underage at the time.
- Comment on Superman Legacy:- Every Character So Far 1 week ago:
AI slop
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery Lost $11.5 Billion in 2024 1 week ago:
Well we lost $11 billion dollars, ruined HBO as a brand, all of our terrible DC movies aren’t making money, we lost the rights to the NBA, and even considered selling off our brand mascots. So I guess Zaslav gets his full bonus for a job well done
- Comment on [Meta] Where would you like this community to go? 1 week ago:
What is the team size behind each instance? Sopuli says it’s “run by a Finn” (as in one person)
- Comment on S-Video or HDMI with VHS 1 week ago:
HDMI. The VCR is just encoding the analog signal digitally, which is what you’re going to do anyway.
- Comment on Fantastic Four Just Confirmed A Persistent Fan Theory — And Scrambled The Timeline 1 week ago:
They said in the first trailer that she’s pregnant.
- Comment on Clint Eastwood Plans to Direct New Movie at 95, Shades ‘Era of Remakes and Franchises’: ‘Do Something New or Stay at Home’ 2 weeks ago:
No, he’s “both sides are terrible” center right.
2016:
“I think both individuals and both parties backing the individuals have a certain degree of insanity.” Eastwood said in the same interview, “I’m not on either side of the aisle. I think most Americans are going, ‘What the…? Is this all we can do?’ …When there were 17 people on the stage [in the early GOP debates], I thought, well, there are three or four people up there I could see voting for. They seem pretty good. I had a few…and then I thought, what the hell happened?”
In a red carpet interview with Extra on September 8, 2016, when asked about supposedly supporting Trump, Eastwood replied, “You know, I haven’t supported anybody, really,” and jokingly suggested that Trump and Clinton constituted a modern-day Abbott and Costello, referring to the bumbling comedians of the 1940s and early 1950s.
Then he endorsed Michael Bloomberg in 2020. That’s it.
- Comment on Clint Eastwood Plans to Direct New Movie at 95, Shades ‘Era of Remakes and Franchises’: ‘Do Something New or Stay at Home’ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, first, this is movies, not politics.
Second, what the fuck does this even mean? Clint Eastwood doesn’t make “MAGA movies,” whatever those might be, and although he said some things in support of Trump back in 2016, he endorsed Michael Bloomberg in 2020. Also, again, none of this has any relation to his movies.
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 3 weeks ago:
150 minutes of parrying, dodge rolling, and running away
- Comment on 'Toy Story 5' Casts Conan O'Brien 4 weeks ago:
I decided I was done after Toy Story 3. It did a good job of wrapping up the story and I just didn’t feel the need to go beyond it. It’s like if they made a sequel to Return of the Jedi or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I still haven’t seen Toy Story 4, and likely never will.
- Comment on ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’ Sets HBO Max Premiere Date - 27th June 4 weeks ago:
I saw it in the theater, and I’d give it a C. I didn’t love it or hate it, but I only laughed out loud a couple times. There were times when it felt more Ren & Stimpy than Looney Tunes. Maybe that’s a positive for some folks, in which case you might enjoy it more than I did.
- Comment on Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster 4 weeks ago:
No one likes AI in movies, period. I’m just saying this reel sucked and that would actually be impressive. Anyway, SAG negotiated rules around this that require consent from family estates and compensation, so if the estate wanted to block it, they could.
- Comment on Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster 4 weeks ago:
I was referencing 4, which was released over two years ago and was a significant improvement over 3.5. I was genuinely impressed with 4, but I haven’t been very impressed with anything since then. Probably the most substantive change was pulling chain of thought into the model itself, but everyone was already doing anyway.
I’m not coming at this from a place of ignorance: I have AI patents to my name as both first inventor and supporting, and I’ve worked with these teams directly. I’m saying that the rate of improvement in critical (i.e., non-toy) areas is slowing down, and I believe it’s a significant possibility that AI will start to hit the same walls it did many times before. That was before it entered the consciousness of execs and the general public, and because they aren’t as familiar with the long stop-start history of AI, they don’t think that wall exists.
AI companies definitely know that wall exists, and in at least one case they’re getting increasingly nervous about it.
- Comment on Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster 4 weeks ago:
this is currently the worst it’s going to be
Yes, this is a favorite line from the industry, who assume the trend line continues uninterrupted into the future. But how about this as a counter future: what if AI plateaus?
What if it doesn’t get much better than it already is except around the edges, and the next breakthrough is two decades away? Companies have exhausted training data and exhausted data center capacity in the quest to keep the trend line at the previous vector. Yes, they’re building new capacity, but no one is making any money on this except Nvidia.
LLMs haven’t seen any significant improvement in a couple years. Image generation has improved, but at a much slower pace. Video is no longer Will Smith eating spaghetti, but there’s a long, long valley between where we are today and convincing, photorealistic, extended scenes that can be controlled at a fine level.
- Comment on Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster 4 weeks ago:
I watched the video. It’s all 1-3 second shots of either recolored animals or two animals combined. In other words, exactly the kind of video AI can deliver at a consumer level. Not impressive. The TED audience politely clapped, but aside from one or two folks the audience didn’t seem particularly impressed either.
It’s all C-suite executives pushing this onto executives below them, who push it onto their organizations as mandates. The C-suite execs don’t care about creativity; they only care about cutting costs. At first this means shortening development times. Soon this will mean cutting staff, and not 10 years from now, but way before this technology can actually replace a human.
You know what would’ve been a good showcase? Show Rogue One but with the film shots digitally composited with an AI Tarkin or an AI Leia, and have it be better than what was originally released in 2016, and have it be lip-synced. It shouldn’t be too hard to improve upon them; those shots weren’t very good.
But AI can’t do that.
- Comment on 10 Years Ago, A Legendary Sci-Fi Director Showed Hollywood The Secret To Reviving A Franchise 4 weeks ago:
Blade Runner 2049 was another very good late sequel, except for the unfortunate fact that Jared Leto is in it.
Tron: Legacy was great except for the uncanny valley Jeff Bridges.
Top Gun: Maverick. Rocky Balboa. Creed.
It’s rare, but it can happen.
- Comment on 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' Tops April Disc Sales, 'Wicked' Still No. 1 for 2025 - Media Play News 4 weeks ago:
You know, for all the people who complain about how there’s nothing original coming out of Hollywood, there sure are a lot of people buying “Sonic the Hedgehog 3”
- Comment on The official title for "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" sequel is "Super Mario World" 4 weeks ago:
World perfected the formula that 3 established
- Comment on Alison Brie and Dave Franco Face Copyright Suit Over $17 Million Sundance Hit ‘Together’: ‘A Blatant Rip-Off’ 5 weeks ago:
I don’t need to see either movie, but you’re right that the similarities do sound pretty damning.
- Comment on ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Is Getting Pulled by Netflix 5 weeks ago:
They could easily release this to 4K and Blu-ray if they cared. But it’s all just disposable content to them.
- Comment on Highest 2 Lowest | Official Teaser HD | A24 1 month ago:
Denzel Washington is a 70-year-old man.
- Comment on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ 1 month ago:
Trump doesn’t even know, so no one else does either. For all we know, it might mean new Criterion 4K Blu-rays would be priced at $80.
- Comment on Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Official Trailer 1 month ago:
First of all, that photo is so silly looking that it looks like a parody of Hollywood blockbusters
Second, the first woman on the left is staring directly at the camera
- Comment on Adam Driver Praises Francis Ford Coppola For “Not Letting The Money Dictate” ‘Megalopolis’ At AFI Life Achievement Tribute 1 month ago:
Coppola self-funded Megalopolis to the tune of $120M. It has a 4.7 on IMDB.
Every creative swing doesn’t need to be successful, but you probably want to tighten up the script you’ve been working on for literally 40 years if you’re going to invest that kind of money…
- Comment on The smash success of "Sinners" could shift Hollywood's power balance 1 month ago:
Is there ever a time when Hollywood isn’t desperate these days? It’s the first word that comes to mind to describe it.
- Comment on Predator: Badlands Teaser Trailer (2025) 1 month ago:
BWAOOOOOOOOooooo
- Comment on Toys ‘R’ Us Live-Action Movie in the Works With Story Kitchen (EXCLUSIVE) 1 month ago:
Next up: Martin Scorsese’s Kool-Aid.
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 1 month ago:
I watched it. The plot really only served as an extended middle finger to Warner Bros. After I finished it, I just thought what a waste. It had promise, but it didn’t try anything new or expand the world in any way.
- Comment on Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Deal ‘Could End the Studio System’ 1 month ago:
The rights are reassigned after 25 years, so I don’t really think the theatrical release is a concern in this case.
- Comment on Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Deal ‘Could End the Studio System’ 1 month ago:
They don’t have to do anything. Licensing companies will come knocking with a briefcase of money, and all they have to do is sign. It will likely result in better availability, not worse, because it’s not bound to studios. Studios can hold back releases because they want to release them later, or tie them into a remake schedule, then the remake gets canceled and they never get around to it, etc.
(And although it’s just a hypothetical, in my system above, the rights holders would always be known.)