Of course he is scared, he's been coasting on rehashing Pocahontas but with blue aliens for a decade. He might actually have to put effort into it if anybody can make a movie.
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You don't need AI to create soulless depictions of humanity, James Cameron already does that. I think he is just protecting his bread and butter from automation.
Snark aside, I grew up loving his movies. As a film student, I loved taking them apart in critique for his mastery of technical filmmaking. As a professor, I used the DVD extras from his films to show just how forward-thinking his knowledge was of VFX. But this Avatar garbage is just the result of a kid who finally leveled up enough to produce the comic book he wrote when he was 8. It's awful.
It’s bizarre that of all the things he could do he’s seemingly decided to devote the rest of his life to avatar
I mean the movies made like $5 Billion combined, doesn’t seem bizarre to me
Sure but at that point in his career he certainly didn’t need to make cgi action slop just for money
Honestly, T2 and Aliens are masterworks of genre fiction. Titanic was also good, but it really was just "what if a love story had incredible VFX?"
After winning a few Oscars, I think he finally started believing his own hype. That's when he realized he could just make whatever he wanted, because studios would bankroll anything with his name attached.
It really is the shallowest teenage scribble of a franchise. You can picture him sitting in his dorm room, listening to Tarkus and Olias of Sunhillow until the grooves wore out, doodling weird furry giantess smut, imagining all the claymation he was gonna do to make the bestest sci-fi film since Dark Star.
IIRC he's said its from when he was a teenager on mushrooms.
I did not know this but I believe you completely, dear stranger.
In the future, "prestige television" will just be TV that uses real people in the production cycle.
Maybe we even get a channel that's "100% Human" and you need to spend $40/mo to subscribe
The age of artisanal media will be interesting.
He's not wrong, but I don't think the James Cameron of the last decade has any room to criticize others for not creating sufficiently "sacred" art.
Even James Cameron has room to criticize ai advocates
The Avata of Pandora? Oh sorry that was Frank Herbert.
Man, remember when CGI replaced animation, after animation replaced actors? It's a real shame we don't have actors anymore, since the moment they weren't strictly necessary. It would've been so much cooler if technology simply allowed new things to exist when they'd otherwise be implausible or unfundable.
You’re not wrong, and I think I understand your point, but what is the current balance of CGI animated movies released per year versus hand drawn and painted? Now what does film landscape look like if we applied those same release ratios to live action films?
Does that seem likely? Pointing a camera at actors is not inherently difficult or expensive. Even when AI is involved, it's best at turning whatever you have into whatever you describe - so you film real people in real costumes, and let CGI-for-dummies make up elaborate sets. Or you hire three great actors to play a dozen characters.
Even for CGI films, 'have' into 'describe' just means you can half-ass the animation and rendering. Productions can focus on writing, character design, and cinematography, then feed in some footage of actors in VR Chat, to get out a scene approaching Pixar quality. Is Pixar itself going to use that process? Probably not. But it's a million miles from typing 'funny scene high quality' and crossing your fingers.
I want to know what the writer, director, and the cast and crew of Simone think about AI replacing actors.
(the movie is about creating an AI actor)