Absolutely. Look at the solidarity of WGA, SAG, and the Teamsters today. They're standing up to the real 'landed gentry' β corporations trying to strip away job protections and replace workers with generative AI.
And I'm super curious the steps they'll take to force people to consume this garbage. Because now the main competition to their new AI stuff, is all the old stuff with real people. I'd rather watch Cannonball Run 2 for eternity than an AI movie once.
Agreed but my expectations of the general public and what they will put up with is a lot lower tbh.
I'm not sure the flagging of viewer numbers for super heroes is indicative of people suddenly having better taste or any understanding of the finer points of cinema production.
They're just burnt out. A glass of water is great if you're thirsty, but if you're in the middle of one of the great lakes... Well, too much of a "good" thing. Not that super hero movies were ever good, but they were entertaining for their time. That time seems to have passed by the general public, and Hollywood can't keep up. Then throw AI becoming a thing to the general public, combined with writers (and now actors) striking and you've got a recipe for drek.
That being said, their collective bargaining is inspiring to a regard, and depressing in others.
Unions and strikes work, from a historical point of view. They were just beaten out of Americans and now it seems only the elite and their porcine protectors have access to unions.
Absolutely. Look at the solidarity of WGA, SAG, and the Teamsters today. They're standing up to the real 'landed gentry' β corporations trying to strip away job protections and replace workers with generative AI.
And I'm super curious the steps they'll take to force people to consume this garbage. Because now the main competition to their new AI stuff, is all the old stuff with real people. I'd rather watch Cannonball Run 2 for eternity than an AI movie once.
Agreed but my expectations of the general public and what they will put up with is a lot lower tbh.
That said even the general public have boundaries. Hollywood keeps π©ing out "yet another generic superhero movie" and in the last couple of years they're mostly flopping. Maybe I should have a little more faith π
I'm not sure the flagging of viewer numbers for super heroes is indicative of people suddenly having better taste or any understanding of the finer points of cinema production.
They're just burnt out. A glass of water is great if you're thirsty, but if you're in the middle of one of the great lakes... Well, too much of a "good" thing. Not that super hero movies were ever good, but they were entertaining for their time. That time seems to have passed by the general public, and Hollywood can't keep up. Then throw AI becoming a thing to the general public, combined with writers (and now actors) striking and you've got a recipe for drek.
That being said, their collective bargaining is inspiring to a regard, and depressing in others.
Unions and strikes work, from a historical point of view. They were just beaten out of Americans and now it seems only the elite and their porcine protectors have access to unions.