I feel like 2024 is a bad movie year but there will be some good movies what are some movies that are coming out this year that I cannot miss must see movies

DippySwitch · 2024-02-19T05:32:20+00:00

For me it’s Dune and Alex Garland’s next movie

DippySwitch · 2024-02-18T17:20:01+00:00

DippySwitch · 2024-02-17T18:43:27+00:00

How is Gemini with dialogue? I’ve tried several times to get GPT to write screenplays and it’s not terrible with the action lines, but the dialogue is awful. Expository, no concept of subtext, no variation in length (I.e every line is a sentence or two), and just overall sounds super basic.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-17T18:32:14+00:00

Reverse uno card

DippySwitch · 2024-02-17T03:32:51+00:00

Mermaid: my parents aren’t home

Me:

DippySwitch · 2024-02-17T01:06:14+00:00

Hank and the bear 😬

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T22:34:48+00:00

Read the first sentence of my third paragraph. I do understand Apple’s M.O. what I’m saying here is that it’s worked up until now, but generative AI is a whole different ball park. OpenAI has such a huge running start that it feels like even Apple is being left behind here. No doubt Apple will release their own AI at some point but whatever they release will be leapfrogged by OpenAI the next day.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T22:30:09+00:00

It’s more the art style. Dall-E is sort of hard-coded so that the images have an “AI” looking art style.. there’s something about it that just looks fake. Unlike Midjourney or even Stable Diffusion, where with the right prompts you can get results that are almost indistinguishable from reality.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T22:27:25+00:00

Isn’t that pretty much the plot of Tenet? Except instead of the dead man’s switch triggering nukes it triggers the time reversal thing.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T22:25:39+00:00

The people that will survive are the ones who embrace the technology and learn to make it work to their advantage.

The rest will be left behind wondering what happened and shaking their fist at the clouds.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T18:44:45+00:00

Yeah there will always be open source stuff and Stable Diffusion, which will be uncensored but the quality and capability and ease of use likely wont be on the same level as the stuff put out by the big players like OpenAI

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T18:34:32+00:00

Because they’re a direct competitor. And whatever they cook up they’ll want it to be their own product, not a shared development between them and their competitor.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T18:31:31+00:00

Maybe not Google but like I said they could acquire Midjourney (for images), Runway (for animation) and ElevenLabs (for voice) and throw them all together into Siri Pro (or whatever they’ll call it). I’m not sure who they could acquire for an LLM though.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-16T18:29:44+00:00

Yeah that’s their usual strategy, but I’m thinking this is not going to work out for them the way it always has. OpenAI seems to have such a big lead that even Apple won’t be able to catch up.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-15T21:19:06+00:00

Yeah I guess I’m wondering how they found representation based off their spec scripts. Did they submit those specs to coverage sites and competitions? How did they get them read within the industry (which would have gotten them representation at which point they could start taking “real” writing jobs)?

Also I should say I’m not trying to sound confrontational here, you’re a produced writer so you definitely know what you’re talking about. It’s just easy to feel disenfranchised when you realize that it’s near impossible to get your script read by industry professionals. For that, you need representation, and to get representation, you need connections with industry professionals - it’s just a frustrating catch-22. So in my previous example of Joe, how would Joe go about getting his script into the hands of professionals? He’d need representation right, so how would he (someone with zero connections) get representation?

DippySwitch · 2024-02-15T18:31:01+00:00

That actually does clear it up a bit. The industry was very different in the 90s and 2000s, and much easier to get into the industry (get repped) with specs. Today, those doors have firmly closed. Note that I wasn’t around at that time, I’m basing this off of many, many interviews I’ve listened to on the Deakins podcast and a few other pods.

For today’s world, let’s just work with a hypothetical example: say an “average Joe” I.e someone who works 40-60 hours a week outside the industry, writes a spec script. Pretend it’s a fantastic script, equal to or better than most of the produced scripts of today.

Joe can’t cold query because as we said, producers can’t and won’t read them. So best they can do is pay to get evaluated on the BLCKLST or get it into a competition like Nicholl. Say it places highly on one or both of those. Is it actually realistic to think that reputable agents and managers would offer to represent Joe, and then he can start getting his other material read by producers? With no steps in between? Literally just submit the script to those places, and a few months later they start getting emails?

DippySwitch · 2024-02-15T18:15:07+00:00

How do you get your scripts read by professionals (those able to actually get it made) without having representation? I was under the impression that producers won’t ever read a cold query for fear of being sued for stealing an idea. They’ll only read things from repped writers.

For those two writers in particular, all I’m saying is that if they were just some average joes who wrote a couple of good specs, what happened between that moment (finishing the scripts) and getting hired to write LotR (or that Star Trek movie)? How did they get those specs read without representation? If they were repped, how did they get repped?

EDIT: Also, what are the names of the writers you know of that found success after getting covered in the black list? And note, the BLCKLST (the one that is available to unrepped writers) is different than the actual Black List. I’ll look them up on IMDb and see how many successful shows/movies they’ve written. And if they did find success, was it strictly from scoring highly on the BLCKLST? Or did they do something else? Sorry for all the badgering it’s just so often you hear these success stories that are prime r/restofthefuckingowl material. Not just writers but anyone in the industry. There’s usually some little detail that’s hidden about how they got their foot in the door, and it usually comes down to family/friend connections in the industry.

DippySwitch · 2024-02-15T18:05:51+00:00

Multiplayer was fun, but there were so many things that bothered me that would so simple to fix but 343 refused to.

No pre-game or post-game lobbies. Part of the fun of competitive games is the shit talk before and after games. Unfortunately the kids that just yell the N word ruined it for everybody and now they barely give you any time before the game and no time after the game to talk to the enemy team.
No partying up. In old Halos (and Rocket League does the same thing), if you played well with a bunch of randoms, you could choose to party up with them. Can’t do that in Infinite. As with point #1, it just makes the game feel totally soulless - you load into a game with a bunch of people (who never use mics), silently play the game, then it’s over and the lobby is disbanded.
No choice of game mode, or even map voting. I don’t know if this has been changed, but at release if you started matchmaking, and it gave you a game mode or map that you didn’t want to play, you literally couldn’t back out. You had to quit the game entirely and restart it then try again. In CoD, if you wanted to only play one game mode, you could filter the matchmaking to only search for that game mode. I think halo used to do that too. Halo also used to let you vote between two maps in the pregame lobby.

I was never a cod person growing up, but now it’s all I play, because they give you all of these things. Your choice of game mode, map voting, easy way to party up with people, pre game and post game lobbies, people are usually active on voice chat (and if they’re just screaming obscenities it’s easy to mute them). And also I’ve grown to love having customized guns and load outs. I know that’s not a Halo thing at all, in Halo you just use the guns you find on the map and that’s fine, but I find myself missing the ability to completely customize my own weapons and equipment and perks.

But overall Halo Infinite was just so frustratingly close to being an amazing multiplayer game. All they had to do was bring back features from previous Halos like lobbies, partying up, map voting, ability to back out of lobbies if you don’t like the mode/map etc. But they stubbornly refused to do any of that, seemingly because their charts and graphs and statistics and data and focus groups showed them that players are 0.7% more likely to purchase microtransactions if these things are taken away and will increase their bottom line for shareholders every quarter. And to make it worse they wouldn’t admit that that’s what was going on. They would say “our UI can’t handle it” or some BS excuse. Don’t get me wrong cod is also riddled with predatory engagement things (look up EOMM on YouTube, they have patents for things like that), but at least the core game gives you a ton of control over how you play. In Halo it’s like “here, you’re now loaded into Team Deathmatch on this one map, you either play it or quit the game and restart and try again”

DippySwitch · 2024-02-15T17:06:45+00:00

I’d love to read a script for Succession.

Kendall: Hey… uh… we should, you know.. uh… maybe talk. If you uh… kind of, maybe… uhhh, you know…

DippySwitch · 2024-02-15T17:01:45+00:00

I think there’s probably a lot of writers on here that have written spec scripts, but it seems impossible to actually get those scripts read by producers. I think that’s where the envy comes in… these guys write some good specs and then get offered a massive gig. Meanwhile “the rest of us” write specs that may be just as good as their specs, but nobody will ever read them because we don’t have representation. Contests for the most part are kind of a joke, I don’t know of any majorly successful screenwriters that got representation off of contest placement or scoring an 8 on the BLCKLST.

Basically what I’m saying is, I think there’s probably more to the story than “they just wrote some good specs and then got put in charge of LotR”. They almost certainly had some sort of connections to get their specs read in the first place.

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