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"I burnt down an acre of the Amazon rainforest so you can watch a trailer for a shitty version of your favorite anime"
Who is this person and why do they presume that they would ever be approached by Ghibli to make a live action Mononoke? Delusional.
He is a very special Main Character and he pressed the correct keywords into the prompt which makes him an artist.
I've wanted to make a live action version of Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke
This is where you started fucking up. Jesus Christ don't we have enough evidence at this point that replacing beautifully animated works of art with live action is always a bad proposition? The thing that makes people think that this would be a good idea is not respecting animation, very similar to the thing that makes people think that AI art is good (not respecting art generally).
I don't think adaptations are necessarily anti art. There are a myriad of books, films, stage performances, animated shows and animated movies which are adapted from each other which showcase a beautiful story in a variety of forms.
The issue is doing this shit for a cash grab and not actually trying to create a beautiful adaptation of a story.
Jesus Christ don't we have enough evidence at this point that replacing beautifully animated works of art with live action is always a bad proposition?
You only need to do this shit when you don't want to pay a screenwriter or a director to do the designs for an original piece of art. "Oh, everyone liked The Movie: Animated? We can just gut the dialogue, set design, art, framing, story, iconic characters, and soundtrack, then tell people we made it better by using live performers."
AI strips it down one more level and just changes how the art is rendered. Damn, the problem with Princess Monenoke was THE GRAPHICS WEREN'T GOOD ENOUGH. It's not even "live action". It's just performance tuning.
Miyazaki getting the production crew from Homeward Bound and making a live action live animal film maybe could be fucking awesome. Idfk. But This. Ain't. It.
I tough it was something related with the rings of power series because the girl looks exactly* like the hobbit
* if you look from afar
It's fitting that the first "AI" slop presented to
was some edgy zombie creature, and that started talking about a friend with chronic pain and physical disability that he felt was insulted and disgraced by the garbage he was seeing on the screen.Miyazaki made the guy he was talking to cry. I kinda felt bad for the guy, but at the same time I'm happy Miyazaki called out the gross ableism.
Considering how eager that guy was to announce the replacement of artists with the zombie slop machine, I think he deserved to feel sad after getting called out.
That shit looks so bleak and generic, especially the exhaustingly tiresome universal waifu template that only gets hair variations.
Of course the computer touching proselytizers will herald this as the future of cinema, and maybe it will be, in a way that makes cinema that much worse if enough of the public are fine with getting shoveled pandering slop even while having a nagging feeling of ennui that they might blame on residual wokeness in the treat printer prompt or something.
Hold on, is this why porky ever started having mercy on minority groups? Some Pavlovian training to get the masses to associate worsening material conditions with no longer having the government sanction hunting minorities for sport?
Possibly.
During the Civil Rights struggles of the 60s and 70s, the capitalist answer was to sell a cheaper exploitative version of the movement. It was called, fittingly enough, "Blaxploitation."
I feel as though we're entering a period of low-budget indie movies that rock (your random assortment of A24s, really indie stuff like The People's Joker, Hundreds of Beavers, etc).
And then we've got the AAA shit that is all style, no substance. AI means even the style is rubbing away.
I don't think we'll ever run out of "good cinema". We've been making movies since the 1930s that have been incredible, and producing the back-catalog of Movie Mindset (anything before the 1980s, really) has become easier than ever. But I can see a point on the horizon where I'd never want to go into a theater again.
I think I agree with you. It may be like it already is with bideo bames, where the "AAA" and corpo-declared "AAAA" slop is unbearably overpriced, overmarketed, overhyped, and underdelivered and the good stuff is the small stuff that so far continues to be made.
The last game I remember enjoying that was AAA was Super Mario Odyssey.
I have not purchased another AAA game since. I prefer to give my money to indie devs.
Yep, I have done nothing but play indie games for the longest time or retro games for this very reason.
Probably the biggest studio I still use to play is Jagex with RuneScape, but even then they have conceived of the idea of a “living game” and actually embrace being bullied by its own community.
There's YouTube tier content being cranked out by one or two insane people who really just want to make movies that can be good.
They tend to be short and punchy, rather than long form and complex. But the desire to make good art is too strong for people to simply ignore. They're going to make it and they're going to want people to see it and (if its good) its going to get spread around whether Disney wants to compete with it or not.
The real question is whether we'll be able to get it quickly and easily, or whether its going to end up as the kind of media that you can only find if you know someone or have an invite to the right forum.
Y'know I'm an easy going guy generally, but anyone unironically saying "Kling credits" as if that's a real thing needs to be taken out and [REDACTED]
burning down the natural world to shittily remake a movie about burning down the natural world
What value is there in adapting the animated medium to live action?
no idea--just making it for fun
prompters turn gold to shit and then shrug and go "i dunno lol"
If this were written satire it would be called hackey and too on the nose.
Fuck yea! I love disconnected scenes with 0 continuity between them (I know this is a trailer but all ai slop is like this) and photo realistic people with PlayStation 1 era lip sync!
Maybe with enough uncredited and underpaid labor to nip and tuck the output, the resultant Mechanical Turk can fix it up enough to be blockbuster slop.
I was recommended a Japanese channel that did this with FF6 and it was just awful
You had airbrushed ai waifu Terra and Celes with doll-like faces just kind of lounging around boobily making porn faces and the Magitek soldiers were just American troops in desert camo
Magitek soldiers were just American troops
"You chose to do this to Princess Mononoke specifically because of its themes of technology corrupting nature allows your project to be an Iron-ic (sorry can't resist the pun) way to show the devastating influence of AI 'art', right?"
"It's what themes? I just think it looks cool!"
- "I improved the princess! Now she looks like a hot realistic waifu, like the tens of thousands I already prompted and hit enter about!"
"The Mononoke trailer is a shot-for-shot remake of the trailer"
shows trailer side by side
is not a shot for shot remake by any standards
he deserved to feel worse if anything
