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Scooby-Doo
2002 · Film · 87 min
Directed by Raja Gosnell
When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren't the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it's up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to uncover the truth behind the mysterious happenings.
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Visual effects, VFX, has been doing this type of work for decades. The guy that I know doing this the best, Eugene Vendrovsky ended up at Nvidia as a robotics computer vision division director. Back in the early 2000's he had all kinds of camera motion recovery algorithms we used in the Tracking department for use on feature films like the live action Scooby Doo, Riddick and the Narnia films. Eugene retired recently, after a very productive career.
Imagine Microsoft puts ChatGPT into Microsoft 365. You're a Fortune 500 company, you have zillions of SharePoint sites over many departments. Your employees can now ask ChatGPT about them. To find documents by vague search terms, to summarize them, to write in the style of one. Remember how it used to be a thing where non-technical people would ask Google queries as if it was a person, and technical people would say 'no no, think about the keywords'. Imagine you can do this chatty back and forth narrowing down with vague terms, searching your work's SharePoint:
Prompt: What was the film with the silly detective and like a Purple Lion or whatever?
ChatGPT: The film you're thinking of might be "Scooby-Doo," which features a silly detective named Shaggy and his talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who often dress up in costumes to solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures.
Prompt: no with real actors
ChatGPT: You might be referring to "Scooby-Doo" (2002) starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard and Rowan Atkinson, which was a live-action adaptation of the classic cartoon.
Prompt: no the coloured animal was in the name
ChatGPT: The movie you're thinking of might be "The Pink Panther" (1963) starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau.
Only it's about "What was that report from someone in the sales team, with the white paper about plants?" or "Where's that HR document about the training website with the health and safety stuff?" or "Who manages the team who deal with XYZ customer?" or etc.
the first episode is full of swearing and cartoon nudity of ~16 year old girls in the showers in their high school.
the second episode has Velma and Daphne making out.
I don't think it's a brigade, I think it's a serious reaction to a very different version of Scooby doo.
I'm sure that I'll have a nightmare tonight where I'm stuck in a Scooby Doo episode, and they unmask the ntoskrnl.exe binary to reveal this Linux kernel underneath....
When I was 10 I watched a episode of Scooby Doo where all the characters took turns looking at the camera to say "ick, drugs" to really drive home the point that drugs are bad.
I remember it well because it was the most hamfisted writing I've ever seen. Until I started reading the tech press, that is.
The coverage of social issues in tech is a case study of writers snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Which isn't surprising, they're just following the lead of outlets like Jezebel who have done more to set women back than the C-suite of the Fortune 500 ever could.
Scooby Doo holds up surprisingly well. I watch the early 1970s episodes with my kids now, and they're as good as I remember them. The only thing that seems dated (art aside) is the music. The first few seasons all has a musical interlude that is very early 70s.