Its weird that he really was on the forefront once because he did physical effects with interesting camera shots. it felt new and different.
AI is not going to give you that, it will suck. CGI sucks already too.
Oh well not like he is relevant. A new hope was at least interesting, but its been nothing after that anyways.
Only because he had to. As soon as it was possible he went cg and blue screens.
Not going to get into the AI debate; I will agree that BAD CGI sucks; there’s so much CGI you never even notice and without it the scenes would be horrible. The main reason “CGI sucks” is because of the shift to go with the lowest bidder who’s then forced to work under horrific timelines and unable to actually do good work. CGI itself doesn’t suck, but it absolutely can when done by a low bidder in 1/4 of the time it needs.
Funny he uses Michael bay as an example in that video. Nothing will put me to sleep faster than a Michael bay movies effects.
I get your point though, it’s a tool when used artistically and with skill can be fine.
Old Man Succumbs to Chatbot Flattery, volume 25841.
But also, Lucas was always exchanted by cgi, even when it looked way worse than practical effects.
Crap-looking Special Edition Jabba has awkwardly entered the chat.
Of course he did. He loves updating his classics every time some “new technology” comes along to let his freak-flag fly.
We’ll be seeing a re-re-re-re-release of A New Hope shortly where he uses an AI generated Boba Fett and Solo giving them a scene or two to develop a backstory.
Lucas has always been on the forefront of utilizing tech in movie production so it’s really no surprise he would adopt this mindset.
How to tell who invested heavily in AI with one easy trick.
I have always thought ai was like the Jar Jar Binks of computer programs.
He climbed the ladder, and now he doesn’t care if it gets kicked down.
Instead of interviewing a rich, famous, busy person, wouldn’t it be easier to ask an AI to pretend to be that person, and interview the AI?
Or even to ask the AI to just write both parts of the interview itself? Wouldn’t that just be helping interviewers get the stories they want to share out into the world?
Maybe an AI can read the story too, and they can all leave me the fuck out of it.
He became irrelevant the moment he sold the Star Wars franchise to Disney, and it’s all been downhill from there (both for him and the franchise). Fuck him.
Lol I love how tone death Disney is with SW series tho. Andor is a anticapitalist and antifa story, told through the lens of some kid who was kidnapped when the Empire was ravaging his homeworld. I think the best storyline is when Cassian is wrongfully imprisoned and escapes within a week while stirring up revolts and enlightening prisoners.
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
This is not the intelligence you are looking for…
Might be a controversial take but this guy’s only achievement is to create a franchise for children that isn’t even that good.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a fucking awesome movie too.
Didn’t see it tbf :D
THX 1138 was a solid film.
I agree with your take, but I also agree with GL on this one… if you continue to get around in horse drawn carriages because cars are smelly and dangerous and non-traditional, you’re going to get left behind.
There are plenty of things horses and carriages are “better at” than cars, particularly traversing long distances in a country with streams and fields and no gas stations. However… there are also things that cars are better at than horses and carriages…
I used to program in assembly language about 10-30% of my working time, up through the early 1990s. What changed? Optimizing compilers finally got better at writing assembly code than me. They had been around for decades, but they had always been a little bit lacking, until then. I still code for a living, but I haven’t even looked at an aseembly listing in 25 years. I get significantly more done, faster and more reliably using compiled (and interpreted) languages than I do using assembly code, which I used to be able to use to make the complied (and especially interpreted) programs dramatically faster. Compilers do that for me now.
As of today, AI is kicking my ass at reviewing my colleagues’ code. It’s not saving me any work, I spend 2-3x more time in code reviews now than I did before AI code review “was a thing” - but now, those code reviews are 20-50x more valuable than they used to be. We’re catching many more problems in the code (and documentation) at review time, not after the software gets into customers’ hands. That’s a very good thing, and today I would consider anyone who ships critical code without an AI review to be negligent.
I’m glad you find it useful! I think people are scared of creatives being cheated of their already few chances, and of the brainless marketing that Anthropic, OpenAI et al keep spouting.
I don’t like to be cold like this, but I think “creatives” need to depend less on their agents and production companies and all that industry infrastructure promising 1 in a million “stardom” while stringing the other 999,999 along with breadcrumbs leading nowhere.
The same technology they’re bitching about destroying those jobs that most of them never had in the first place, is technology that enables smaller budgets to create competitive entertainment. Self-publishing is a very real thing now alongside traditional “Best Seller List” promotional publishing houses. No, you’re not likely to get on “Oprah” or whatever the magic promotional outlet is these days with your self published book, but every creative who achieves that kind of stardom that virtually all of them are hungering for is absolutely stealing the limelight from hundreds or even thousands of other people just as talented as themselves or more…
In other words, stop whining and start making things happen for yourself, you have better access today than ever. There’s still a place for superstars in today’s world, but instead of the “top 100” getting all the attention, it’s time for a top 10 to be followed by 10,000 you might also want to check out. The long tail has gotten fatter, and it should continue to grow.
Have you worked as or with a creative?
I’d call myself more “creative adjacent” but, to your “or with” question: definitely yes.
Using AI to double check your code is very different from using AI to replace your skilled creative talent on a motion picture. It’s not even an accurate comparison… GL isn’t talking about coding, he’s talking about visual effects, writers, even actors…all of whom who’s careers are at risk.
You want to use AI to make sure you didn’t miss a semicolon at the end of a line, great…knock yourself out. But that has literally nothing in common with what Lucas is blathering about here.
What’s happening to movie production with AI is a lot like what happened to music production with digital audio workstations. The cost of making top tier production value product is plummeting like a stone falling to the moon.
You want to make music with a full symphony orchestra, you can still do that. We actually attend our city orchestra concerts a couple of times a year. However, if you want to produce your own music you can almost get better sound quality out of a smartphone today than the Beatles did out of Abbey Road studios back in their day.
The spontenaity of live performers, whether music or acting, is much MORE cost effective than painstakingly replicating that kind of performance through digital methods. I think we’re going to see a continued appreciation of real actors in movies, in between all the slop that the industry “test markets” to see what they can get away with.
“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.
The prequels got a breath of respect with how bad the sequel trilogy wound up. J J managed to rehabilitate George.
His ex-wife was one of the best film editors in history.
“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.
I met an out of work actress who had a thing or two-thousand to say about AI, none of them good. At the time, she was more blaming the industry and the pandemic for her woes - this was almost 2 years ago - by now I’m sure she’s gone full ninja-berserker on AI “replacement” of stunt actors (which she used to be, still is in theory, but hasn’t worked since 2020.)
