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points by Jtarii 2 days ago | 0 comments

> movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better

This is the kind of detached from reality, devoid of humanity statement only a tech bro could come up with.

It boggles the mind how these people can be so dumb. He literally does not understand why people enjoy movies.

Maybe you need a mirror. People are literally watching AI generated soap operas that have gone viral. Perhaps it's your lack of understanding that frustrates you

[–] phailhaus 1 day ago

I don't know what you think I said, you should read the context again. This has nothing to do with movies being made with AI.

Altman thinks that movies "will become videogames". As in, he sees media as some sort of ranked ladder where everyone wants to climb as high as possible. He does not understand what movies are or why people like them.

[–] abletonlive 1 day ago

> As in, he sees media as some sort of ranked ladder where everyone wants to climb as high as possible.

You're projecting pretty hard here. That's what you think of when he says he thinks of them as a videogame. You do know that "games" on netflix are basically movies? See the recent https://www.netflix.com/games/82112833

You seem quite out of touch with what the state of media and games in general if the first thing you thought of was a game with a ladder.

[–] tclancy 2 days ago

Do you know these people and have spoken to them?

[–] abletonlive 2 days ago

Yes, I've seen them watch it in real life too.

[–] optimalsolver 1 day ago

*slop operas.

[–] gcanyon 2 days ago

I for one would love to be able to experience Godzilla Minus Zero interactively. I get that it's different from movies. I remember seeing Avatar in 3-D and realizing that James Cameron was directing the audience's attention to a particular part of a scene by the way the 3-D focused, and it was a little off-putting at times. That's a small thing compared to what will be possible in a few years, but still -- being immersed in Avatar will be an amazing experience. I'd also love to see a version of Avatar written by '80s James Cameron -- he was a much better writer back then -- or maybe other, more skillful writers had greater influence on him? In any case, it's inarguable that Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and Terminator 2 are all better written than the Avatar films.

[–] Kotlopou 2 days ago

More and more off-topic, but this made me wonder: this interactivization would work much better for some works than others. Many comedies are scripted so tightly that I can't imagine any wider world around them (also, on the other side, Memento), while something like Twin Peaks would be perfectly expandable into a world (if you somehow had David Lynch in a datacenter, which sounds oxymoronic).

[–] gcanyon 2 days ago

The problem with an interactive Twin Peaks would be finding your way out of it :-)

[–] dogleash 2 days ago

> I for one would love to be able to experience Godzilla Minus Zero interactively.

So would I. But I don't not want to experience it as a movie. It'd be something separate. Not an upgrade.

Which makes Sam's comment the inane blather of a pitchman. We don't need to bend over and try to steelman marketing dross. He doesn't care if that statement means nothing, why should we?

[–] gcanyon 2 days ago

Oh, I see your point. I didn’t think of “movies becoming video games” as meaning there’s no such thing as a movie anymore. Kind of like the false argument about evolution, “if we can from monkeys why are there still monkeys?”

Movies come from books, but people still read.

But I get the point.