• EfreetSK@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Why waste time like this? Wouldn’t it be better if cinemas would use vertical screens where a popular youtuber would describe the plot of the movie in like 30 seconds while talking at 2x speed?

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      5 days ago

      Or they could put subway surfers on the bottom half of the screen.

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      *an AI describes part of a scene in a movie, badly.

      And the title is something like “HE USES SUPERPOWERS TO SAVE HIS FRIEND #MOVIE #FILM #CINEMA #SHORTS”. Also, the name of the channel is any two word combination of: movie, cinema, star, summary, domain or reels. And each upload is either 15 to 25 minutes or a short and the channel uploads something every day.

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    6 days ago

    And also add a subway surfer with family guy funny Momentes for the ultimate goldfish experience

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    5 days ago

    Look, I am the type who watches lectures at 1.25x or 1.5x speed or something. But movies? It’d ruin the pacing. If you can’t bring up the attention to watch a movie then maybe you just shouldn’t

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    5 days ago

    Why waste time watching an entire movie when you can just read the spoilers and know what’s it about in less than 5 minutes?

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    I can kind of understand the people who speed up audiobooks and podcasts. But movies? That’s nuts. |

    I wonder if OP was alive during the VCR era. I bet they would have loved the FF button. AKA chipmunk mode.

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    Theaters and opera, too. I’m sure the actors will be willing to get their shifts cut by 20-50 % if we help them negotiate the same pay per performance.

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    Does this person not pay for their ticket? It costs 15$ for a ticket at our theater. Why would I want to waste that money by having it sped up? It’s hard enough finding movies that are worth watching in the first place.

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      The theater here does a half price deal on Tuesdays, two of us can go for like $12.95, it’s a great deal.

      Might be worth checking in your area, I’ve seen a lot more mediocre movies after we started going on Tuesday.

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    If you look at old silent movies, they were played at different speeds in different cinemas and projections. There wasn’t a standard way to play a movie, no “you NEED to play the movie at this specific speed or it will be ruined”. I’m not saying the same should apply to modern movies, but I find it interesting.

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      That is not true. There was a standard, which is different from todays standard. Which is why it looks funny being played at todays standard, but mostly they get digitally fixed and they look completely natural now.

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      I imagine in a few decades we might have AI media. You could read a web novel with a fewer or a lot of pictures, or read it as a manhwa / webtoon, or as an anime, or as a virtual reality 3D experience that is semi-interactive. And you could give instructions to shorten or expand it, or even diverge in the plot a little, or change the characters. More like the holodeck with a VR headset.

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          The book still exists, nobody is taking that away. But now you can enjoy it in different media forms.

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            Never said anyone was taking it from me. Just concerning that someone would think that any of those things are the same as reading a book.

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          Maybe more like someone reading you a book while you can ask questions or give feedback. And maybe instead of just watching pictures / illustrations, you could also describe your own imagination more detailed or give some rough sketches and create your own illustrations to the text. Like a modding feature for books and you can share the mods with other readers.

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            Again, none of those things are “enjoying a book.”

            And you don’t need AI to do any of those things. You can do them now if you want.

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              No you can’t, economics won’t allow it. Can you turns a novel into a comic or an anime or life action tv series? Creating good art or entertainment doesn’t just require some brilliant creative idea, but specialists who work together on things, using expensive specialist equipment. Youtube and cheap video cameras allowed for an explosion of individual content creators to create shows, replacing things like e.g. cooking shows, or shows about building or houses or traveling or gardening.

              With the right AI tools you could replace a lot of that. Obviously at a lower maximum quality. But we are already being fed corporate entertainment slop. There will be a lot of AI slop, but a few people will be able to turn their ideas into reality even if it’s not quite “Hollywood quality”. This short currently seems the best example. And the tools will only get better, and the medium will expand.

              When VR headsets came out (oculus, vive) there was a lot of talk about VR movies. I suspect that only with AI tools will we be able to have the creative freedom (= low capital costs) to do things like that.

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      It hasn’t…caught on? People have just stopped going to movies as much, and I don’t think 4 concurrent showings of the new Jurassic Park movie at speeds 1x thru 2x are saving them.

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      YouTube added customisable speeds recently!

      I find 1.4 to be enjoyable, but 2x if I need to get through something dense.

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        I usually watch anime on 2x, but I struggle with other media at that speed, probably cause I can read faster than listen to words in english lol. I do watch videos in my native language faster on the rare occasions I do watch any

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    For obvious reasons this will never happen. That being said, I do the same with most content. When YouTube I use from 1.25 as an absolute minimum to 2.0 a lot of the time. Average being 1.5. For movies/series I tend to opt for 1.25-1.33.

    But this all fails when any music is involved - then I dial it down to 1.0.