This is not the intelligence you are looking for…
Guy with famously bad takes has bad take.
i mean, he was there all along. he pioneered the all green screen wave of automation in movies. the abuse of green screen was the slop before ai was around. to him it’s just cutting out all the vestiges of imperfection still greasing the machine
“Han shot first” dude is possibly the original slop author. But then his followers outslopped him.
But also: of course AI is the future. It’s almost the current.
He’s shit anyway.
“Goes to the Dark Side”
Someone never saw the rerelease of the original series.
Lucas’ best work was under an editor, whenever he got the full reigns, the product suffered.
His ex-wife was one of the best film editors in history.
I doubt ANYBODY is going to be surprised by this.
“AI” may be the future, but right now, in the present, it feels like rape.
It doesn’t seem coincidental that “AI are the future” people heavily imply nobody should resist it.
yeah I’m not surprised, I watched the prequels. This guy was a legend in the 70s, that is like 50 years ago.
He hasn’t done anything great since co-writing Willow 40 years ago. Go to his IMDB, he’s lived out of star wars nostalgia since then, and all of them after the initial trilogy was a downgrade.
I lost every ounce of respect and admiration I had for this man after he sold the franchise to Disney.
You really held out for a while, huh?
Lemmy has some of the best takes in conversations. I love it here.
Lucas creating star wars doesnt mean he’s any sort of genius.
I thought Frank Herbert created Star Wars
I didn’t know liking AI was political
You like what you like, but if you stan corporations enclosing our own culture and renting it back to us, that’s political.
Its not political but he is an artist and that is why it is shocking Edit: OP first wrote: something along the lines of “why is it now seen as political”
Finger painting with your own poo does not make you an artist.
But writing a critical successful and belovid series of films does
Does it? He certainly worked with a lot of talented artists, and I guess he did think of doing Hero’s Journey but in space.
I’m not denigrating the art, but something about the popularity contest tastemaking rubs me the wrong way.
What about attempting to ChatGPT his own work decades before GPTs were a thing?
…i doubt he wrote the Star Wars Movies with AI…
I would like to think that not every prestigious filmmaker is vulnerable to the AI propaganda, but
What a condescending opener. Whatever you think of George Lucas, he’s made some cool stuff, he did it the old fashioned way, and he’s not constrained by resources. But rather than listen to what this guy has to say on the topic, he begins with the presumption that no, he must be deluded from swallowing propaganda.
I’m hardly George Lucas’s biggest fan but this writer can blow me.
He made 2 and a half good movies in the 1970s. That’s literally it.
https://www.techspot.com/news/113114-christopher-nolan-believes-gen-z-push-back-against.html
And then we have actual creatives who get it.
Nolan is an elitist asshole and his movies are not that great, actually. That is just him going “kids these days” like an old fart. He is all in on the IMAX scam. He insists on bad audio mixing (horrible even on theaters) hiding under the “I only mix for IMAX theaters” excuse. At least he acknowledges that it is Hollywood that is terribly out of touch with reality. Backrooms is successful because it connects with the audience nothing to do with whether it uses CGI or not (the Oppenheimer nuclear explosion scene is SO bad in an otherwise fine movie). And Backrooms was filmed on a regular digital 35mm Red camera at 1.85 ratio with regular Dolby Atmos and you can absolutely hear the dialogue. He might denounce AI slop but doesn’t realize that he’s also been using tech as a crutch to his creative shortcomings.
No this isn’t abnormal. He’s been a shit for decades now.
This is what passes for journalism these days? Fuck off
Journalism went out the window with satire. Now you just get to see which flavour of bullshit you end up with.
Well yeah, he’s a billionaire, of course he looks after his own class’s interests.
