{"id":292703,"date":"2025-11-18T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292703\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:58:07","slug":"mind-the-glitch-is-hollywood-finally-getting-to-grips-with-movies-about-artificial-intelligence-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292703\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind the glitch: is Hollywood finally getting to grips with movies about artificial intelligence? | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s easy to forget, given the current glut of robot-uprising doom flicks, that Hollywood has been doing the artificial intelligence thing for decades \u2013 long before anything resembling true AI existed in the real world. And now we live in an era in which a chatbot can write a passable sonnet, it is perhaps surprising that there hasn\u2019t been a huge shift in how film-makers approach this particular corner of sci-fi.<\/p>\n

Gareth Edwards\u2019 The Creator <\/a>(2023) is essentially the same story about AIs being the newly persecuted underclass as 1962\u2019s The Creation of the Humanoids, except that the former has an $80m VFX budget and robot monks while the latter has community-theatre production values. Moon (2009) and 1968\u2019s 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a> are both about the anxiety of being trapped with a soft-voiced machine that knows more than you. Her (2013) is basically Electric Dreams (1984) with fewer synth-pop arpeggios.<\/p>\n

No one is suggesting Hollywood should start making films about what AI actually does. It seems unlikely that film-goers would flood to multiplexes to catch a three-act tech farce in which a nefarious algorithm admits it can\u2019t answer the hero\u2019s question because it \u201cdoesn\u2019t have access to data yet\u201d. But we should at least be getting something that feels like it\u2019s been inspired by recent developments, rather than expensively produced and lavishly recycled takes on stories we\u2019ve all seen before.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

From the look of its debut trailer<\/a>, Gore Verbinski\u2019s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don\u2019t Die may not be the bold reinvention of AI cinema we might want, but it is at least gesturing towards something new. This time, the AI in question doesn\u2019t seem hugely interested in saving or destroying mankind; instead it\u2019s acting like a chaotic, reality-bending dungeon master, running humans through a cosmic escape room for reasons that make sense only to itself. Could machines of the future have taken a note from modern day YouTubers who spend all day and night livestreaming their own digital reality? Is this all just a great big laugh at the expense of humanity by a god-like deity?<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is more about the Deadpoolisation of modern blockbuster cinema, but the sense I get from this trailer is that Hollywood has finally run out of ways to make AI frightening, wise or soulful, and has decided to make it an endlessly glitched-out nonsense engine instead. A jittery man from the future (Sam Rockwell) bursts into a diner to inform a random assortment of strangers that they must help him prevent the AI apocalypse. Suddenly we\u2019re pinballing between spider-legged dollbots, neon-lit dystopian alleyways and what looks like a giant ungulate striding through suburbia, all intercut with quippy one-liners from people who seem to want to narrate their own AI apocalypse in real time. Mystical triangular glyphs are everywhere and set-pieces arrive with the panicked rhythm of a timeline that\u2019s clearly being reloaded every 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a definite hint of Everything Everywhere All At Once <\/a>in the over-caffeinated speed-cutting chaos too, but at least we\u2019re not being handed yet another ponderous parable about robot souls, digital enlightenment or the hubris of man. Verbinski\u2019s film also stars Juno Temple and Haley Lu Richardson and is out in February, when we\u2019ll presumably find out what unholy combination of prompts caused the timeline to glitch this badly in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s easy to forget, given the current glut of robot-uprising doom flicks, that Hollywood has been doing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-292703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}