Probably quite a few people, given that 1) Disney knows exactly when people stop watching, and they still allocate money for credit sequences in each show. And 2) 15 years of MCU movies have conditioned viewers to always sit through the credits in case there’s an extra scene afterward.

Well, whose fault is that? Real art has been around for all of human history. AI “art” of this kind has been around for like eight months. Why would you expect people to automatically know more about a new technology than about one of the cornerstones of human culture?

Tell us the meme hurt your feelings without telling us the meme hurt your feelings.

My favorite thing about AI evangelists is how every time they open their mouths they reveal that they don’t know the first thing about how art is actually made.

Except they wouldn’t have been paid to imitate an AI. They’d have been paid to make ugly and unsettling imagery. The fact that AI can do that by accident (and is good at basically nothing else) doesn’t change the fact that a human could have done it better.

then all of human writing and art-making is plagiaristic too.

He knows that he’s already rich so if other artists get fucked over by this garbage tech, it won’t effect him.

“Writers don’t deserve fair pay because they’re not willing to join me in mindlessly worshiping AI” is exactly the sort of take I’d expect from people hopping onto the latest post-NFT techbro fad.

I’m sure that the actual artists who worked on the original Secret Invasion comic series appreciate that not only will they not get credit for this show’s existence, Marvel made the effort to spit on their entire profession, even though the studio would not exist without artists.

As Pixar’s creative director, John Lasseter was involved in EVERY movie Pixar has EVER released. Yes, all the great ones, but also crap like The Good Dinosaur, Monsters University, and Cars 2 (which he directed!)

Zootopia also has a much more interesting setting. A city where every kind of mammal lives together has a lot more potential than a city with four kinds of inhabitants. The background is packed with details showing how the needs of so many different creatures are accommodated, all of which feeds back into the movie’s…

I feel like Pixar reached the natural conclusion of their “what if X had feelings” era when they made Inside Out and just had the feelings themselves be the protagonists.

Elemental looks like a commercial for heartburn pills.

Elio looks quite promising going by the new trailer. And Lightyear’s problem wasn’t scifi, it was that the whole concept felt forced, and contrary to the image Buzz as a character has built over the last 25 years. In Toy Story 1, where Buzz spends most of the film thinking he’s the “real” Buzz Lightyear and not a toy,…

It’s Kravin’ time! Is...is that anything?

Strange World isn’t a space movie. The characters travel to an uncharted part of the planet, which turns out to be, well, strange. It doesn’t have much in common with Lightyear except that both of them lost tons of money.

As far as I can tell, Junteenth is only really a day off for government employees and people who work at banks. That’s not a small number of people but it’s certainly not enough to really make this a “holiday weekend” in any practical sense.

The designs are just so off-putting and the entire setting seems to have been contrived just so they could have the central joke of “ha ha woman fire, man water! Gender funny!”

Their next movie is called Elio, which from the trailer looks like it has potential, at least. After that, looks like Pixar is going to be pumping out sequel after sequel for a while.

Better idea: tell the supposed grown-ups in Hollywood to make movies worth paying for.