[eithed]

While $500k 90m movie done in two weeks is an accomplishment, looking at the trailer it's very dubious to me on the quality of it. Plot, characters, audio - everything screams "I've already seen this somewhere", there's no substance here, at least for me. And while computer visuals are nice, it's nowhere "Love Sex Robots" quality where they're driven by computer graphics as well.

[kibwen]

> While $500k 90m movie done in two weeks is an accomplishment

Is it, though? If all you want is a movie, you can make it for both less money and less time. And if you actually have some modicum of talent, you can make it higher-quality to boot; see Joel Haver, who challenged himself to author, film, edit, and release 12 feature-length films during the course of 2024 on effectively no budget whatsoever (playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ZRRTsa5SY&list=PLKtIcOP0Wv... ).

[eithed]

True - your comment reminded me of Cube; that was done in 3 weeks, with budget of $350,000 CAD (according to wikipedia). Another favorite of mine - Primer = 5 weeks with budget of $7k.

edit: looking at others, Pi - 4w and $130k

[krisoft]

> Cube; that was done in 3 weeks

The cube was not “done” in 3 weeks. Maybe they shot it in 3 weeks, but there were years of pre-production, and at least months of post-production. (According to wikipedia.)

Saying that it was done in 3 weeks is like saying that windows 11 was done in 45 minutes, because that is how long the compilation lasted.

> with budget of $350,000 CAD

“50% of the budget as C$350,000 to C$375,000 in cash and the other 50% as donated services, for a total of C$700,000. Natali considered the cash figure to be deceptive, because they deferred payment on goods and services, and got the special effects at no cost.”

Direct quote from wikipedia.

[eithed]

Fair enough, I was looking at budget fields on wiki rather than reading the tidbits - thanks for the correction still!

[ryandrake]

The trailer gave me this weird feeling like I've seen the movie before, even though I obviously haven't. Then it started to dawn on me. Nearly every line in the trailer is a line from another similar action-adventure movie. I bet if you searched a corpus of scripts from all past movies, you'd find each line directly in some other movie. Then I noticed the same thing about the characters. They may look unique at a surface level, but the essence of the characters are all tropes from previous movies. Same for the fight choreography, same for the score. It's as if the movie creator's AI prompt was "Take every movie made in the last 10 years that would have appealed to 14 year old boys and mash them up into another movie with visibly different characters."

[addedGone]

This needs to be treated like LLMs, it's obvious that those flaws will be "fixed", we must already assume that this 90m movie will suddenly have the graphics and consistency of a marvel movie, soon enough, it's not like we will not have Kling 7 available in a few years.

Last year many developers were saying that it produces slop and so-on which is genuinely annoying when we know it's months/years to be GUARANTEED to be solved, as theory already proves we can go way further with models (theory means practice eventually), so we must not talk about "now" as in 1 week near but what it will be, as if it's already there imo. Even more annoying about the image gen AI, it's OBVIOUS that it will reach perfect accuracy (at least for human eye), as if we will just throw TRILLIONS of investment by the window and just stop here, nope, this will reach camera level, runtime, instantly rendered.

Else for the job loss, it's like the moment we realize that it can automate 99% of white collar jobs, we would suddenly be surprised when Opus 10 can do it? We shouldn't, we KNOW there will be Opus 10 that reach 99.9% in all benchmarks, like we know we will have Opus equivalent models running on our phones.

I won't be surprised when I see Opus 4.8 equivalent performance running on a 10B model, as this is just logical, I start to kinda hate it that we all act "surprised" with new models every few months as if the science behind it all changed suddenly, no... we just start developing what science is backing up already.

So obviously, music, video, writing... will be produced at a much higher level than humans, soon enough, there is no ceiling with AIs, humans are pretty limited.

[parkersweb]

Last line of the trailer “That was terrible”… yup.