It’s like a repeat of the 2nd

But that’s already a repeat of the first one.
James Cameron has discovered the infinite money glitch!

OpenAI is discontinuing

Should’ve ended it right here.

This movie has received so much attention that even a cinema in my small city here in North Germany will be doing a special screening on Saturday. They never show any movies in the English language, it’s insane.

Really looking forward to it, what an achievement!

I don’t see any ads on the paid version here.

You’re not wrong, but Robert Picardo still is a well-respected actor and I hope he got compensated well for starring in that show.

I love how she roasts this professor into the ground, wo graded his students’ papers with an AI chatbot for two years and then accidentally deleted all of the data.

“The delete button is sure to be deletin’ - watch out, guys!”

Not gonna lie, it was definitely an entertaining movie. Chris Pratt spends 95% of the movie in a chair trying to prove himself innocent in front of an AI judge. He’s not presented as a likeable character and that’s an interesting premise - he’s a violent and drunk man who’s disconnected from his family and you are not supposed to like him initially. The presentation is a bit like War of the Worlds (being mostly a one-room movie), but it’s done in a much more competent way.

But this movie has very weird undertones. The police force is presented as an all-good entity with super-cool tech like flying drones and it’s totally fine that an AI judge can just hack everyone’s phones and get access to their private conversations, audios and videos or use the feed of your neighbors’ bird feeding camera to see who drives around your house - and that’s rarely addressed in a skeptical way. I only remember a short altercation between the father and his daughter, when he accessed a private conversation with her boyfriend and it’s done like “Oh yeah, that was bad, but I need to defend myself” - “Alright then”.

I did not see a “Sponsored by Palantir” part in the credits, but the movie feels like that should definitely be there. Also, my local cinema only showed this in 3D and the effects are very weak and absolutely not worth it. They do things like putting up a circle in the middle of the screen and zoom in a bit (on flying drone footage) and that’s it.

Near the end of the movie they also put in this overdone trope of a human convicing a machine with their feelings and the AI judge glitches and starts to feel bad for the family of the father, which didn’t work for me at all. Really felt a bit like a propaganda action movie. But i still enjoyed it, it works for what they set it up to do.

Just one more note: I think when they started to produce this, we were still miles away from the current AI slop cycle and it was still new and exciting technology. This movie coming out in 2026 has already aged it poorly, because everyone hates AI now - and there just wasn’t a lot of interest for it anymore. Only two other people in the cinema decided to watch this.

The Information says it is not clear if Apple plans to sell the pin on its own or bundle it with future smart glasses or other devices, but the physical button and built-in cameras, speakers, and microphones suggest that it can operate independently.

How about not releasing this at all? Nobody wants this.

True, but it also didn’t help that Microsoft set really low system specs for “Windows Vista Ready”. So we had a lot of computers with an official Vista badge that weren’t really capable of running it well.

The specs to earn that badge were 512MB of RAM and an 800MHz processor, which was absolutely not enough for it.

That’s hilarious! :D A friend of mine bought a Sony Vaio laptop back then which had a 64bit CPU, but only 32bit drivers. Not even XP, only Vista, so you couldn’t even downgrade.

Windows Vista also needed more than 1GB and some manufacturers still sold their subpar devices with it. Some things never change.

Last year we had Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man in theaters

And “Spy x Family: Code White”! Which is also a really great series, two episodes in season 3 had me bawling my eyes out.

Maybe not from Disney, but at the end of 2023 we got Mars Express, which is basically like Blade Runner and Cyberpunk combined, from a French studio. It was really good. That year we also got Robot Dreams, a Spanish-French coproduction.

I’m sure there will still be great animated movies in this day and age. I’m rooting for France!

According to some analysts, at least until 2027…

The Whale broke me. And Zone of Interest is also a really hard pill to swallow. First time I was sitting in a fully packed theater and not a single person bought any snacks. We all knew it would be horrible.

The Legend of Ochi.

The trailer made it look like a great indie-fantasy movie with Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson. But the actual movie is full of AI-generated environments, the acting is subpar and Dafoe and Watson don’t have a lot of screentime.

Sometimes I really question my AAA24 membership. 😅

Megalopolis was equally disappointing. Granted, the movie has some amazing VFX and practical effects, so they cut all of the best shots into the trailer and made this trainwreck look competent and interesting. The actual movie then felt like a fever dream, you can really see respected actors like Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel struggle with their own script. Plus all of the really bad VFX shots that did not make it into the trailer, of course.

At least we got the “Get back to the club” meme out of it.

I watched this yesterday in the cinema and lost at least 30 brain cells. All of the world’s natural disasters happen at once and they seem to be exclusively hunting Gerard Butler. It was so stupid it was funny again.

Cut - tectonic plate shift - cut - tsunami - cut - radioactive cyclone - cut - meteor blasts out of orbit :D

What a load of crap! A true trash gem. But the last 20 minutes were just painful, to be honest.

I won’t watch it, because sadly I lost all hope in modern Trek ever getting good again, but I’ll enjoy all of your memes.

Sure, but there’s a difference between the software and some hosting provider hosting this software, even if it’s on wordpress.com. But I don’t hold it against you, that domain is deliberately confusing.