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The Grinch
2018 · Film · 85 min
Directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier
The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration. But a certain little who might change things.
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Why would Disney fear you, though?
They'll still own all of the money-making IP that your models are trained on. You won't actually be able to get away with "X in the style of Disney or Y in the style of Pixar." And they'll have their own in-house models, far more expensive and powerful (likely through regulation) than you'll be able to afford.
You aren't talking about competition, you're talking about emulation. Putting an inferior version of existing properties on the market like The Asylum does.
I watched all of the links you provided. The "live action rotoscoped film" didn't need AI. They could have rented a knight costume or did that in AE, it wouldn't have even been that expensive. It wasn't even a good example of what rotoscoping could do - and I can actually accept rotoscoping and motion capture as a legitimate use of LLMs.
The concept for the Predator sketch was lame and it's ripping off the style of an Joel Haver, an animator with actual comedy talent. That legitimately kind of makes me mad. That's exactly the sort of thing that makes people hate AI. You aren't even ripping off a corporation here, which I could at least respect in abstract.
The Superman parody was generic and derivative, but it looked competent. Didn't really look like Robot Chicken though. The way they did the mouths was weird. And the whole plot revolved around a problem that was never actually a problem in the franchise.
The Grinch "anime" didn't look like a good anime. It looked like the kind of thing people criticize when an anime studio cuts costs for a second season. Still frames and very little animation. Inconsistent and generic style.
The horror movie posted below? The "blood" looked awful a lot of the time. The cinematography, as such, didn't carry the story at all. It isn't shot or cut the way an actual movie would be. The actors weren't compelling, the script was tepid.
Understand, I'm really trying not to just shit on this because it's AI, I'm trying to approach it as art because that's what it purports to be. And I can concede that the technical capability of AI has advanced dramatically in this field. They did a Robot Chicken and they did a Joel Haver and I saw a 90s cartoon but... it's bad art. I see no sense of actual unique creative vision anywhere. No sense of an actual artist trying to express something. Nothing that tells me "this could only have been done by AI, and would have been impossible beforehand."
It's like AI people think all you need is the aesthetic, and that the aesthetic they're imitating is a suitable replacement for the actual talent that went into it, but it isn't.
Frankly this doesn't have much to do with not being able to watch a specific show.
I think this is due to people deeming media companies, same with how grocery companies are shifting, as companies you are free to steal from because they steal from us. Nobody cares if you steal from Disney or Warner Bros because they are giant trillion dollar companies. Same with how Loblaws, Sobeys are shifting. Stealing from them becomes something that is not frowned upon by your local populace and in some cases encouraged.
I suspect as we advance further alone this timeline it will only get worse.
People just have ZERO empathy for trillion dollar companies. The only recourse is a extremely small chance you get caught. And even then if the police also don't care, nobody will enforce it.
It's just rather hard to be on the side of MPAA against single mom of 2 torrenting The Grinch for her kids to watch.
And everytime you boot up Disney Plus and see the new Marvel movie "pre-release" for $30 that opinion just grows and grows.
The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, and The Grinch movies also were completely warped by Hollywood.
I tend to agree, since shotty kids TV/film far outnumber anything decent.
However, it's not all bad. I just watched The Grinch with my three year old. Despite some of the subtle adult oriented jokes aging poorly, the characters are surprisingly nuanced.
Initially my daughter was scared of the Grinch, then she decided he was naughty (like her, she added). Soon she was asking why children were mean to him when he was little etc. There was admittedly a bit of explaining (shaving cuts etc.), but by the end of it she seemed to have a pretty solid grasp that children being mean upset him, and so he did naughty things because he was upset.
If it's helpful 8.5% of all L.A county residents have lived in the county less than a year which you can contrast that to the 7% of homeless that have been here less than a year.
And according to a UCLA study, "65% of unsheltered homeless individuals have lived in the county for more than 20 years." That means 35% have been here less than 20 years.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ucla-anderson-forecast-20180613-story.html
And how many of the homeless were born in the county? I suspect it's a very low considering so many residents in the county of L.A. aren't native born.
There's a funny advertisement for the Grinch movie here in L.A. which rings true. The line says, something like, "My favorite time of year is Christmas, when everyone goes back to where they came from."
I don't disagree with King's thesis that a prolific writer can, of course, produce great works and many have done so, but I also can't shake the feeling that there is something special about authors who produce great works and then quit when they don't have anything else to say.
bad works don't diminish great works, but it feels like authors who only produce works of great quality and nothing else have a special feel for their craft, it seems like they are so confident in what they have to say that they'd be repulsed by just putting anything out that isn't remarkable, and that at least to me makes them special.
It's like comparing Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Carrey. The former has taken on roles in remarkably few films, but pretty much every role is amazing and that's what's stuck in my mind when I see him in a film.
Carrey also has participated in films like the Truman show but then I'm also reminded of the Grinch and the Mask, which just ruins it for me a little bit.
I should have clarified: there's no sampling bias. These are incredibly popular movies. Here are some movies not on Netflix streaming that I've wanted to watch this year: Gladiator. Star Wars IV. Shawshank Redemption. The Wizard of Oz. When Harry Met Sally. The Princess Bride. All Star Trek movies. Goodfellas. Lord of the Rings. Gone with the Wind. All Godfather movies. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Airplane. American Graffiti. The Usual Suspects. All Jim Carrey movies except a bad one (the Grinch) and one I've never heard of (the Number 23). Toy Story. There's Something About Mary. All Austin Powers movies.
The last time I tried searching for a good movie to watch on Netflix streaming, I gave up after 10 minutes. I'd think of one movie after another after another. Nothing was there. All it could suggest was "related titles," as if that's what I would want.