Peter Gabriel is brain dead and uncreative obviously, internet poster 10cities10years has declared it and thus it is so!

And this sort of thing is why I’m not fully behind the Writer’s Guild Strike.

“Every time I see someone impressed by “AI” “art”, it’s inevitably the most brain dead, uncreative person imaginable.”

AIs are not creative, you’re just throwing real art into a blender and telling them “make me something like that”

usually they take in a lot of human-created art in order to be able to function at all and most of that is dubiously obtained

There has been AI as a part of Photoshop tools for a long time before it became a buzzword. But they were tools meant to assist creative vision not replace it.

I agree that AI shouldn’t be used to emulate the styles of existing artists or to avoid paying human artists for designs, but I don’t see this use as problematic. They’re using an AI generator here because the characteristic fucked-up way that it tends to render human subjects is artistically appropriate to the themes…

The problem for Disney/Pixar is that it can’t lean on “well, people are just waiting for home” because Universal has had some massive animated box office hits post-pandemic (Mario, Minions, Puss in Boots) even though those too drop on Peacock after six weeks or so, so demand is there, but whatever Disney & Pixar has…

Douglas Wolk’s “both-and” take on Stan in All of the Marvels as a visionary (and often generous) artist who facilitated an intensely creative atmosphere of collaborative art work AND a self-promoting con artist who compulsively hogged the spotlight is worth a read, as it’s both intellectually convincing, clear-eyed…

TDKR was a very faithful adaptation, I’ll grant you, but Weller wasn’t a particularly great Bruce or Batman. And the whole thing seemed animated at about 12 frames a second.

The one thing that always goes unsaid about Stan Lee and what hecreally contribution is that Stan Lee’s real masterpiece wasn’t Spider-Man or Fantastic Four. It was the Marvel brand. Stan Lee made Marvel into no just a company, but a community you wanted to be a part of. He gave the various artist and writers…

Stan did his best work with Jack, Steve, and John.

Jack did his best work with Stan. Steve did his best work with Stan. John did his best work with Stan (but also with anybody, because he was John Romita).

All of these dudes were essential ingredients in the magic of the finished product. 

I haven’t read Dante in a while, but is that the circle for hipsters to atone for their “ironic” sartorial sins?

My cultural hot take has always been that, while they screwed up the last season of Game of Thrones, they came a lot closer to greatness than they get credit for.

Every single character got a legitimate outcome. They just rushed it. Here’s a few that are usually considered “bad” and my fixes.

Jaime - He is an addict. He…

One of the common refrains, that is certainly understandable from a narrative point of view, is that the overwhelming presence of cell phones makes certain types of movies (namely thrillers, horror, and mystery whodunits) nearly untenable without certain contortions and contrivances.

You’re either forced to have the…

These are actually crocodilations. Allegations have a broader snout. 

but she didnt really say what the headline said. She basically just said yeah i loved it and i do other things too and dont sweat if a creative idea doesnt come yet...im litterally not the main arc right now and my character spoiler died...so why do i need to think i should come back. They are movies that film like in…

Premise is...fine...but the reinforcement could use work, considering multiversal superhero movies have wildly succeeded more than they’ve tepidly “failed.”

Doctor Doom And The Multiverse Of Madness (Marvel)