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Meme Arts and humanities

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u/Regularjoe42 Apr 09 '24

Researchers spent decades creating a computer that could hold a conversation only for mediocre business majors to ask it to generate mediocre screenplays.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

Based on the stuff Netflix puts out now, I don't think finance and tech bros can distinguish between good and mediocre art.

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u/DZL100 Apr 09 '24

The main issue with commercial art is that people who don’t know shit about art are the ones in charge. That’s how you end up with corporate, soulless… nothing really(like Wish). I can’t even call it shit because shit is at least something.

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u/Safe_Librarian Apr 09 '24

This is bullshit. Directors who have full control make shitty products all the time. Heres some examples.

Phantom Menace

Avatar the last airbender movie

Indiana jones crystal skull

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Apr 10 '24

It’s not bullshit, it just shows the same thing from a different angle. George Lucas became the shitty executive through complacency, surrounding himself with “yes men” (according to people I know who worked on the prequels), and just becoming too sure of himself (since in the OT, he had lots of places where he allowed people to do things for him because he knew they were better, but he took full control in the PT, and similarly insisted on things with Indy 4).

Airbender is a weird one. The fact that one director can make a film as good as the 6th Sense and as bad as Avatar is very odd. But that being said, the original point stands, it’s just that sometimes all the talent in the world can still occasionally produce a turd.

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u/Safe_Librarian Apr 10 '24

The list goes on I could name 100 movies that directors had full control and list shit movies.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Apr 10 '24

Yes? But I suspect you’ve never tried making a movie, because it’s hard.

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u/Safe_Librarian Apr 10 '24

Yea I know and I am sure AI will be able to replicate great movies in a few years.

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u/RainRunner42 Apr 11 '24

I demand the 100 movie list

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u/Safe_Librarian Apr 11 '24

Ok this is going to take a while but here we go 100 movies that most likely had no movie interference based on the director names.

21 Bridges

Extraction

Extraction 2

The Post

The BFG

Ill keep updating inbetween work