That’s true, even my friends I would consider doing well aren’t spending multiple thousands of dollars on a phone right now. Economy isn’t in a state where sane people feel like giving away that much

People love giving away their hard earned money

Hi Poochie, you look like you have something to say!

And then they made him a weird ladies man that didn’t fit his character all. He was the poochie of parks and rec, and he wasn’t even added later

Maybe the fifth time she’ll be able to buy food. Or the 6th

When I worked at Best buy over 10 years ago they had the exact same propaganda. You know instead of union dues you could buy an Xbox! (From us no less!)

…okay I added that last bit but it was implied

Same, if I’m spending my time I need more than the predictable super hero plot, I want something with character and heart. It’s hard to find but it is out there.

For theaters there are smaller indie ones that do play big titles. Search out your local area to find what may be around you. Those are the ones worth giving your money to. I just won’t go to AMC or Cinemark anymore on my own because of how low quality it is

Some would call it “collusion”

Personally I can’t wait until Nvidia releases a new generation and they start shedding gpus. Helloooo secondary market!

2 people where at least one looks like a specific person who was not trained in the original model. As soon as you add something like a Lora into the mix it will try to make everyone like that person.

I disagree, these aren’t supposed to be major characters that have big backstories, these are just people in the universe. Fleeting characters who for a brief moment had massive impacts on the galaxy. That’s the point, that these people who are seemingly unimportant have one big impact by coming together for this one moment. Again these aren’t superheroes, they aren’t big characters that have big names like Skywalker or Palpatine, these are just people in the galaxy.

I think that’s a question for you. Why do they need a backstory in your mind to make them “interesting”? I see people with this decision thrust on them, and the very fact that we don’t know them but they have such a pivotal effect on the galaxy is why it stands out to me.

Honestly even stupider waste of money.

Not only a stupider app, but shouldn’t Sora/OpenAI be paying Disney then?

Episode 4 was also quite literally a hero movie though, R1 was about the actual soldiers in the trenches. While I love the original, it’s not comparable. You’re dealing with Jedi who have powers and the heads of the rebellion. R1, and Andor while touching on that are much more in the trenches, getting to know the every man/woman. Maybe that’s what is missing from your critique, that these aren’t meant to be power-weilding characters, not everyone needs to save the day.

While I love the original - it’s an action movie. The heroes are large, there are above-human powers, it’s larger than life. R1 is a more realistic movie about the actual people fighting in the trenches. You catch glimpses of the decision makers, but the movie follows some pretty standard soldiers who are pulled into a decision they have to make, and rise to become realistic heroes.

If you find that boring then, well I honestly feel sorry because I found it amazing. Not every story needs to have superheroes and overly charismatic guys and princesses. Sometimes even the “boring” soldiers trying to survive and do their job have a story to tell.

It takes place over 4 days what character development are you hoping for? It’s a setup for Episode 4, it’s about the sacrifice they make. To me it’s the connection they make over such a short amount of time barely getting to know each other, and then sacrificing themselves for almost total strangers for a better cause. (It’s also why I strongly disagree with the Andor/Jyn romance. It wasn’t a romance, they didn’t need to shoehorn in a romance story. They were simply connecting as two humans in their last moments) If you only saw “dark” in that then I think you missed the emotional hits.

Also insulting people who do like it while assuming their taste in film says that we should mostly disregard your opinion anyway.

Rogue one has some of the best drama, acting, and emotion since the original trilogy. If you didn’t like rogue one honestly I just wonder if you don’t like Star wars. Sequels I get not liking, a lot was wrong there, prequels too a lot wrong, but rogue one was top filmmaking in my book.

While I don’t like parking, I’ll say that student needs should take massive precedence over football needs. Absolutely insane that they can take student money and put it there. They view students as “We’ll always have them” but that they have to keep wowing people to come buy hot dogs. Absolutely infuriating. I also resent the fans of the football teams too, because they think they are supporting the college when really supporting the college would be not going to sporting events in protest.

Ah another billion, that will do it!

Seriously, sora is impressive for what it does, 10 second text to speech models. You cannot make movies with text to speech. You will never get a consistent face, expression, anything. By definition they are unpredictable.

So you train some Loras to try to get a consistent face, but then the model only can make that face. So you can’t have 2 people in the video.

So you get into advanced sectioning of frames and you generate then you replace person A with this face and person B with that face.

And then we haven’t even gotten into backgrounds, consistent sets, or anything.

And they want to make a whole damn movie with it.

At this stage, it’s literally easier to learn real film editing than it is to prompt engineer 1 minute of continuous footage.

1 billion ain’t enough mouse.

Look, the money we would give our students is going towards a new football stadium okay? We’re sorry, there’s just no money for new dorms or anything.

(Actually what happened on my campus. My tuition went to a new football not even stadium but tail gating entrance area, so out of town non students could come in and drink while I lived in moldy apartments. Grand total was something like 300 million)

Fair. I guess “Why” meaning Why would they need to be in that movie when it takes place 25 years before, well before either were born. Of course the why though is Money

Why?!