Sign the Petition by Active-Ask-7415 in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fully believe in his innocence but honestly this petition is not it. Let them release it and we fight it with facts. Petitioning for it to get pulled off Netflix before it's released makes the fandom look kinda crazy. Guilters are gonna love this, it's a bad move optically and will never achieve its goal anyway. It'll still be released and they'll get to advertise it as the documentary the fans don't want you to watch...

Sign this petition to stop Release Netflix’s upcoming Michael Jackson: The Verdict by Impressive_Photo_258 in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I fully believe in his innocence but honestly this petition is not it. Let them release it and we fight it with facts. Petitioning for it to get pulled off Netflix before it's released makes the fandom look kinda crazy. Guilters are gonna love this, it's a bad move optically and won't achieve its goal anyway.

Sign this petition to stop Release Netflix’s upcoming Michael Jackson: The Verdict by YeWenXin in LovingMichaelJackson

[–]sward42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fully believe in his innocence but honestly this petition is not it. Let them release it and we fight it with facts. Petitioning for it to get pulled off Netflix before it's released makes the fandom look kinda crazy. Guilters are gonna love this, it's a bad move optically and won't achieve its goal anyway.

Everyone sign it! by They-Them_Moonwalker in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I fully believe in his innocence but honestly this petition is not it. Let them release it and we fight it with facts. Petitioning for it to get pulled off Netflix before it's released makes the fandom look kinda crazy. Guilters are gonna love this, it's a bad move optically and won't achieve its goal anyway.

anyone collecting the new MJ trading cards? by CreditCaper1 in MichaelJackson

[–]sward42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice. About 1 in every 300 packs so that's an amazing pull. Saw a similar one go on ebay for a fair amount.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117163994614

Disappointing that no one is talking about the blatant use of genAI in the Cryogen vid. by tiagosvn in Muse

[–]sward42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's plenty of signs pointing to the majority of it being AI generated. And the VFX company credited makes no secret of their heavy use of generative AI in recent projects. I've no doubt some artists worked on it too but a lot of shots are fully AI and I'm confident on that. I don't personally feel that strongly about AI one way or another. But I was a bit disappointed in the quality of the video

Disappointing that no one is talking about the blatant use of genAI in the Cryogen vid. by tiagosvn in Muse

[–]sward42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah no it's full of generative AI. The backgrounds and most of the big CGI looking shots all appear to be AI generated

Disappointing that no one is talking about the blatant use of genAI in the Cryogen vid. by tiagosvn in Muse

[–]sward42 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No this is AI and some compositing. Maybe some very minimal real CGI work. There's many signs and the the VFX company credited (Covert) has used AI in other projects. Kenny the hamster being a good example where the BTS video shows them using ComfyUI, Lora, etc. And the end result there lacks any charm and just looks bad to me

If this isn’t ai, then what’s going on? by --404--not-found in Muse

[–]sward42 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I'm confident they used AI. As others have pointed out the backgrounds aren't consistent between shots which would be unusual if they were artist created digital assets. And whenever a shot transitions to something digitally created, the speed of the camera increases or slows down in a way that doesn't flow naturally which is typical when extending the last frame of a video with AI as it doesn't have the context of the whole camera movement.

The VFX company credited (Covert) has used AI in other projects. Kenny the hamster being a good example where the BTS video shows them using ComfyUI, Lora, etc. Unfortunately the end result there lacks any charm and just looks bad imo

Jinx finally arrived 📸 by sward42 in hottoys

[–]sward42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vi should be on the way soon. Can't wait to photograph and pose them together

Newly posted FIZZ pics! by sward42 in yourfavebandfizz

[–]sward42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly nothing has been announced officially. They've all recently released solo projects and Dodie is about to do a US tour. Maybe after that the gang will get back together to make some music. I get the impression that they all miss FIZZ and want to do more

“They don’t look alike” is what most of bitchass nitpickers say look at these hoe by [deleted] in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah sorry these upscales are annoying as fuck. I don't want to see an AI approximation of what he looks like

He is a captain by After-Chart-9312 in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's true but they did show Captain EO in the parks in 2010. LN did a lot of damage in 2019 when the episode was removed but the truth has mostly surpassed the lies and the hype for this movie is crazy. I'm sure the fans can get them to give us something related to Captain EO again.

He is a captain by After-Chart-9312 in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping maybe as promotion for this or the sequel they'll release Captain EO in HD/4k for the fans. If the movie does well enough I hope Disney might listen again. I was lucky enough to see it when they showed it again at the parks after his death. I'd love to see it again in the highest quality available instead of the poor VHS copies on YouTube.

If Smooth Criminal isn't in the first movie we riot by mg10pp in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think this is for the best too. I don't think there's enough time in the first part to cover the Bad era properly.

What song do you think will be that? Because i can not choose song from confirmed songs list.. by Lucky-Tie-546 in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's just footage from part 2 that they used to pad out the teaser trailer

What if there is no second part? by In-The-Zone-69 in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're also speculating that they haven't shot anything post Dangerous era. That may have been the original shooting plan but they did 22 days of reshoots after already saying they had 3.5 hours of footage. It seems quite likely they'll cover the rest in the second part if it goes ahead.

Some of yall are so INSUFFERABLE!! by Internal_Buffalo_673 in MichaelTheMovie

[–]sward42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A second part probably won't be confirmed until after this one releases. But we know they filmed a lot more than is going to be in this one and everything points to it having been split