Above the age of consent and I don’t care what age two people are. There may be some details that change that somewhat, e.g., 24-year-old marrying an oblivious rich 90-year-old, etc., but that’s not even about age as much as intention.
Generally speaking, age gap stops mattering once both people are old enough to give valid and informed consent for the other person to do stuff to them.
Three of your recommendations are Denis Villeneuve joints. Just sayin’. 👀
Honestly I think OP would do well with a lot of movies that were specifically filmed for IMAX, which means Villeneuve and Chris Nolan are going to be on that list. Not just released in IMAX, but filmed for it. A nice benefit there is that IMAX is a taller aspect ratio, so you don’t get 2.35:1 with letterboxing at top and bottom, but the entirety of your 16:9 screen gets used when it’s an IMAX transfer. For example, put on The Dark Knight and that opening bank robbery scene will pop out to the whole screen and feel like a revelation.
The 2011 movie was hilariously bad, but if you go in with that expectation and preferably an altered mental state of your choice, it’s actually really fun. It’s begging to be turned into a drinking game or five.
Sure, garbage in, garbage out and all that. The autonomously generated stuff tends toward generic as an inherent byproduct of being a closed loop system. But that doesn’t mean a real artist couldn’t look at some boring ass slop and be inspired to explore new directions.
I think one of the common themes I’m circling these days is that “human in the loop” is a common concept around ensuring outputs from AI systems are acceptable, but a better way to look at it is that generative AI should never have a direct connection to final output. As inspiration or iteration, I think there’s potential value, but ultimately, whether it’s code, art, or content, a human should create what goes out. Using AI for intermediate acceleration is a much healthier approach than the “look how many people we can replace!” angle that’s so popular in tech.
This doesn’t solve any of the many other issues with generative AI these days, but it at least feels like a more sensible approach to the creative concerns.
The 2011 Paul W. S. Anderson adaptation (in 3D!), on the other hand, goes so far off the rails so fast that you see a Musketeer-ninja rock a rapid-fire crossbow and pre-Cousteau SCUBA gear I think before you even get to the title card. It’s a stupid, stupid movie and the absolute best kind of terrible, in my opinion.
Though I will say, as I left the theater dizzied by the honest to god airship cannon battle at the end of the film, I looked up the absurd plot and character names only to find that it was significantly more true to the book in overall story arc (ignoring the, ah, embellishments) than many other adaptations have been. Huh.
I have a serious question. To preface: I am no fan of generative AI. I hate the environmental impact, the impact on our workforce, and the risk of further widening the wealth disparity across the world.
That said, do you believe that using generative AI in this case (for prototyping and rapid iteration/visualization of intermediate/non-final design concepts) is worse than, say, artists looking at the freely available online portfolios of other artists for inspiration, provided that they generate the final designs entirely by themselves?
I’m not saying it is or isn’t at this point, but I’m curious if you have a perspective on whether/how this isn’t at least one of the less-bad ways to use AI. It seems kind of like “you can’t stop someone from asking AI for help” levels of usage, not “we fired people to replace their output with slop”.
Meanwhile we’re just waiting until Hegseth accidentally turns a Bethesda-area Target into a smoking crater because he was drunk-Grokking and fucks up ordering an airstrike to cheer himself up after the mainstream librul media hurt his fee-fees.
Divided up among the hundreds of millions of individuals, it becomes small in a relative sense. Relative to something like the murder of an individual, the impact of dismantling democracy is small and protracted, but the largeness of the violence in aggregate is real and what my original post alludes to in applying it to an individual.
Above the age of consent and I don’t care what age two people are. There may be some details that change that somewhat, e.g., 24-year-old marrying an oblivious rich 90-year-old, etc., but that’s not even about age as much as intention.
Generally speaking, age gap stops mattering once both people are old enough to give valid and informed consent for the other person to do stuff to them.