Guillermo del Toro shared an emphatic message about artificial intelligence in filmmaking while accepting the Vanguard T
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Loki — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 09:00 PM)
No worries! Well now you're forewarned that while it is a good movie, there's going to be a wtf cgi wolf moment or two.
I don't have a problem with cgi either (I love a lot of the MCU movies so I'm accustomed to seeing quite a lot of it) but those wolves. Oh boy.
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Prince Mongo — 3 months ago(December 06, 2025 11:08 PM)
Like you I love his early movies and his newer ones haven't done much for me.
Pan's Labyrinth is in my top 10 of all time.
I found Frankenstein quite an odd movie: the first half is convoluted and turgid, then the second half is oddly derivative and feels like a children's tv show.
It barely feels good enough for cinematic release. Very much a straight to Netflix special.
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Prince Mongo — 3 months ago(December 06, 2025 11:45 PM)
What's also strange is it's stylistically beautiful (par for the course with del Toro) one moment then as you say it has garbage CGI.
Odd movie
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Loki — 3 months ago(December 07, 2025 12:17 AM)
Yes, that was my main issue. What I call the "video game treatment". Totally out of place here. And he managed to make certain set designs look both cheap and expensive.
. He even hammered home with the bluntest of objects one of the points of the film, just in case the audience is too stupid to recognise who the real monster was.
But I did enjoy it though. I'm only pointíng these things out because good it is, but film of the year? Well then you're not watching enough movies (not YOU you, the general form of "you"(. -
soapbox original gangster — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 07:14 PM)
but what about a positive benefit from HollywoodAI? i would love to see AI and all its variants and capabilities bring to life the long, long dead from Hollywood. one example: Orson wells left behind tons of partially written/unfinished screenplays and story boards. why is it wrong for AI to examine the works, ingest the writing styles, ferment the ideas, and then birth "original" works by Wells? to synthesize brand new projects?
same for resurrecting and reanimating actors: let AI create them anew and have Bogart, and Cary grant come alive again on the screen! -
AnthonySocksss — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 07:21 PM)
I wouldn’t say the big screen, but it would be cool to have a virtual reality or holograms where you can place yourself in those movies with those actors.
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sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 07:28 PM)
I suspect that once AI leads to mass unemployment and worldwide water shortages, movies of any kind will be the least of our concerns.
Regardless of that, I have no interest in seeing AI ****. Bogart and Grant were both in 70+ movies and, notably, Grant willingly retired from the film industry two decades before his passing. If he'd wanted to give his fans more, he had twenty years to do it and chose not to. I think we should respect his wishes.
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Loki — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 09:12 PM)
Which ones did you like (if any?)
I usually like his stuff but absolutely hated The Shape of Water. I haven't seen Pinocchio, or the sequel to Pacific Rim, so I have a little catch-up to do. I thought Nightmare Alley was a bit "meh", but I also wasn't really in the mood for it at the time, so my opinion might differ on that one if I rewatch it.
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Loki — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 10:22 PM)
Oh god I quit SoA after 2 episodes.
I thought Katey Sagal and Drea de Matteo carried what I saw, but I just don't give a **** about biker gangs. And then there was Ron Perlman's face to deal with.
This was before I saw Hand of God, and he was great in that (as was Garret Dillahunt….bit of an underrated actor imo) so I think maybe I can handle Ron Perlman now. (Hey, everyone has actors who have faces they have difficulty with, and it's not a reflection on the actor's talent, it's just that you gotta be in the mood for their faces, amd a series is a longer time commitment than a movie).
Still don't give a **** about biker gangs though, so it's still going to take a bit of convincing to get me to watch SoA.
It was nice knowing you. 
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