Yeah, C for the movie is average and safe. It isn't a dumpster fire but it isn't great either. I'm still mixed on my review of it.
Well
Weathering with You came back out in theaters so I went and watched it. I hadn't watched it during the craze and even bought the movie and still hadn't watched it. Simply put the movie was great. The visuals were amazing and I loved the music in the movie. Kinda shocked at the ending a little but I did like it. I must say though that the art honestly just kills my desire to be an artist. Like with Ghibli films I think they are beautiful and I could some day make something that looks that good but with this movie's art I'm thinking yeah that is straight up impossible for me to ever make. It was just that amazing to me to think about how much creativity and work had to be done to make this film. I was stunned to find out that such a beautiful movie could be made with only a budget of supposedly 11 million dollars. Continuing on with the review I think the movie just lacked a little bit of goofiness to make it more charming. Nice story, amazing visuals, okay-ish characters, and a great soundtrack. I'd give this movie a rating of A.
I'll see if I can watch it. I sure love art, especially animated art, and the art of good writing.
When a story resonates with the essence of the world it is beautiful.
The
Noblesse (manhwa)
was such a work. I read it completely, quite lovely.
There was a small adaptation of part of the story in animated form.
An excellent old film was Fantastic Planet, apparently fully available on youtube, though I'm gonna buy it physically on amazon.
These are viewed as aliens in the film, but in reality it can be viewed as the power structures, the governments, churches and corporations and illegal entities such as the mob. How humans are enslaved and the play things of powerful inhuman things outside their control, following the rules laid at the foundation, the laws of physics. Suffering constantly in diverse ways by factors outside their control.(and in chess it is not just the pawns bound by the game but kings and queens as well.)
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain (vice.com)
I believe we need copyright reform, copyright need be lowered to a similar length to patents, a few decades, not about a century. Too many works are being made, and more will be made by AI. Anything you make could resemble something already made in some way, and only the fact people don't bother to sue you could protect you from the copyrighted work minefield.
For example an excellent artist's tool is AI tool artbreeder
Right now with the freely available gpt neo, you can write a few sentences and it generates several paragraphs of AI text.
Other AIs can generate images from text, and we are now getting to the point where video generation is looking viable.
The way it is evolving, you will be able to give an idea, and the AI will eventually be able to build an entire animated movie or game from scratch in short order out of nothing.
One day the brain computer interface, will allow you to translate thought directly outside your mind without need for drawing or coloring, allowing mental manipulation of qualia.
We shall be as gods of what we feel of what we experience, no longer bound by the limits of reality, we will make our own reality, our own virtual reality of which we will be gods.
