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Also, if you look at what these movies have in common, it's something studios refuse to unterstand for decades now. There is no superhero fatigue, or moviestar fatigue or blockbuster fatigue. People just want to watch movies that are good, made with genuine care, compassion and craft. In other words, movies not content. Which is also why I can't imagine AI slop movies ever being really successful.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    "So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."

    George Orwell, 1984

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Fun fact: The whole alpha thing is bullshit, even among wolves. The study that created these terms was made with unrelated wolves in captivity (so perfect incel analogues really). In the actual wild, wolf packs have very caring family structures, centered around a breeding pair and their young.

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    Trying to watch the director's cut of Rebel Moon 1 (giving up after ten minutes), I was struck with how much Zack Snyder's slick but unoriginal style of shooting as well as his total lack of sense of pacing, plot and characters while relentlessly copying elements from the works of better directors and writers (in case of Rebel Moon, George Lucas), how all those elements that make a movie Zack Snyder-y, are almost exactly the same elements that are present in AI slop that tries to be cool and cinematic. In that sense, Snyder actually predicted the rise of AI slop cinema, which we will likely see more and more of in the coming years.

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