David Gott

@TheMindScourge Smart… and dumb.

When it comes to new technologies, you’ve got to be thinking dumber Consider the phone. Everyone’s walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket, and it’s used mostly to play Clash of Clans and watch TikToks What is the dumb application of AI? That’s what I want to know. That’s where the money and the majority of user minutes will be Everyone else is out there wondering if they can get AI to write Shakespeare or invent new physics I want to learn what the best dumb uses for AI are

@HwoodScrptReadr Heyanyone can sit down and write a world changing novel… but how many do?

All these posts about how AI is going to destroy Hollywood because soon you'll be able to make an entire feature film on your laptop with only a few prompts. What a bunch of bullshit. Leaving aside the fact that most of these reels people are posting look like hot garbage. We all know it's going to get better and better. Movies are still star driven. Tom Cruise might sell his likeness someday but you'll never be able to afford it and if you use it without permission you'll never be able to monetize it. Or you'll just get sued. What about animated or fully digital films? They still use actors whose names you all know to do the voices. Even AVATAR uses real actors for motion capture. Why? Because acting is a talent. But here's the part everybody forgets. If you have access to all this technology then so does Hollywood and their tech will always be much much better than yours. Suddenly, you're not competing with these bloated $100M+ productions. It gets cheaper and easier for them too. So any advantage you think you may have had has evaporated just like that. Anyway that's not the hard part. It never was. Movies are about more than spectacle. Otherwise we could sit there and watch car crashes and explosions for two hours. What's required is storytelling ability. Invest your time in learning that rather than the latest AI image generator. I have no doubt that these platforms will enable people to do amazing things with them. But at the end of the day the only ones who get rich off of this won't be you. It'll be the platforms themselves.

@Cozyreads_ “Author and Video Game Enthusiast” 😂

@EricDJuly This post will age well

Hot take: Hollywood and the mainstream aren’t getting “cooked” by AI just because the tech looks impressive. They’re only in trouble when AI is used in a commercially viable way — meaning it can consistently create and distribute original, monetizable IP at scale. Right now (see SeedDance), most of what’s being showcased is the tech wearing Hollywood’s skin. It’s their faces. Their characters. Their worlds. Their properties. If anything, that only proves the opposite of what some people think. It shows that the big companies and IP holders are still the ones positioned to monetize this tech (see Disney’s deal with OpenAI). The value is still anchored to their brands. And let’s be honest: they’re always one well-cut trailer away from making people swoon again.

Funny how Van Sant talked about how he wasn’t happy with his directing because the camera is so static. Guess he couldn’t afford the dolly moves and what not. But it actually works really well for this movie. The grittiness of the story and the fairly conventional staging of scenes is a nice contrast.

I finished Drugstore Cowboy (🌟🌟🌟🌟) at 4 AM on a Saturday morning. How am I supposed to sleep after seeing this? What do you mean Matt Dillon is capable of this sort of performance? What are you talking about? It’s difficult right now for me to come up with the right words to describe not just what this film is about- but how this film makes me feel. Guns Van Sant’s filmmaking is really interesting here but Matt Dillon’s performance is an avalanche of greatness. It is undeniable. How?? All I can think about is this guy’s acting. There is a parallel world where Matt Dillon became the next Jack Nicholson. Those of you who’ve ridden this far with me - who’ve hung with me for this long- you know how important Jack Nicholson is to my life. So when I tell you Dillon has that same Jack DNA, you should believe me. Part of what Dillon has that Nicholson also had is that Dillon can hold the camera by himself. What a gift as a filmmaker to have Dillon’s face at your disposal: he can shape shift his mouth, his brow, his eyes from ecstatic to dejected at the snap of a finger. Dillon’s charisma pulsates through the screen. Like Nicholson- or even Cassavetes, who I’ve written so much about lately- I can’t picture Dillon in anyone’s skin but his own. His confidence is unshakeable. In Drugstore Cowboy, Dillon plays Bob Hughes, a lost leader of a band of misfits who make a living robbing drugstores around the country. Their life’s mission is bouncing from town to town & pharmacy to pharmacy so they can keep stealing drugs to keep feeding their addiction. Consider how sad such a lifestyle is- consider how empty that pursuant must really be. The crux of the film here is about 1/3rd through, Hughes decides it’s time to shape up, damn it! No more drugs. No more robberies. Life’s too short. He has to find his real purpose. The problem? His past & his entourage won’t let him leave that easily, which is the entire foundation of this story: abandoning your past & building something new is harder than we sometimes imagine. Gus Van Sant directed the hell out of this film. I wrote during my review of The Secret Agent that it never makes sense to me why more directors don’t use cutaway editing- it’s such a powerful storytelling tool. Van Sant busts out basically all the stops here- he cuts back and forth through different timelines, he uses different color tones, he uses different music- he does whatever the fuck he wants & all of it works. Fearless direction. Imagine giving this guy notes- good luck. You think you’re qualified? I think a lot of directors today are afraid to deploy the filmmaking techniques Van Sant uses in this film because it might “take the audience out of the film”. Ok. So? Forget the audience. Give me something real, damn it. Make me feel something. That’s what Van Sant does here. This is gorilla filmmaking at its finest in part because Van Sant probably realized the moment he started filming this that he was working with an acting savant. Van Sant saw an opening & he hit the hole in stride. The opening 15 minutes of this film is how every film should start. If you haven’t seen Drugstore Cowboy, I’m personally asking you to give this movie a shot.

@TheCinesthetic Wow Easter Island? Sing me up.

After In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh sets his next film Wild Horse Nine for November 6. Starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, and Steve Buscemi.

@michaelmalice The mad genius of this is that Wilde knew anyone quoting him would fall prey to the very thing he was referring to.

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." --Oscar Wilde

@maxdaniellawton That face sculpture by the pool is insane. So cool.

Schizophrenically reading the SCIENCE OF LOGIC all around LA… writing so much in the margins, kind of talking to myself as I do… an elderly drunk at the bar asks me to summarize and I try to in earnest. Within three minutes, he’s lost interest and cuts off the convo

@Rangers91Z @Gibboanxious It’s all foreign cinema to him (he’s from UK) 😂

@Gibboanxious Dudes allergic to foreign cinema it seems. Loser

Edgar Wright's handwritten list of 10 greatest films ever made

@Gibboanxious He really put Riki Oh above everything? 😂 Probably why he’s a great filmmaker. Still just a big kid. Remember me and my friends thinking this movie was the greatest thing ever… actual ultra violence. Taboo for the time. A true cult movie.

@KaidenThoughts Facts

@ItsDavidGott the act of doing itself, the inputs, matters more than finishing, than arriving. it always have been, it always will be.

It’s not about finishing… it’s about doing. Your work, whatever it is, exponentially improves once you internalize this and put it into practice.

@RTthinks Yeah that’s why the whole idea of flow is so powerful imo

@ItsDavidGott I used to always have a "let's get it over with" attitude. But I felt it was kinda like a trap. Only focusing on finishing, made me hate the work lol

@JosephKahn Neither is the greatest movie ever made.

Jaws is not the greatest movie ever made. That's Titanic. I love Jaws, but it trades romance for bromance. It's part of Spielberg's early "Handyman" movies - films about men fixing things, from Duel to Jaws to Close Encounters to Raiders. It's not until E.T. that Spielberg earns his sentimental manipulator reputation. Jaws is an incredible movie, an expertly crafted movie, but Titanic is a MOVIE. Spectacle, romance, man vs. nature, man vs. man, rich vs. poor, love, sacrifice, honor, old and young, life and death, women and children first - basically everything you could ever want out of Hollywood. It's Jaws with the iceberg as the shark, but also Romeo and Juliet as a ship sinks. It's the ultimate Spielberg movie that Spielberg never made. Filmmakers love the craftsmanship and existential simplicity of Jaws, but deep down, the audience wants more than to beat a shark. They want Leo DiCaprio to tell them to live.

@brookstweetz No it will be able to but we won’t care if humans aren’t performing it.

“Give AI 5 years and it’ll look incredible” No matter how *good* AI gets it’ll never be as good as something created by humans. An AI can’t create a scene like this.

@Steven_Hyden No it proves that highly open individuals are highly susceptible to rabbit holes. You know Avery is smart because of how he talks about movies.

Is it possible Tarantino wrote PULP FICTION with the dumbest man alive as an artistic challenge?

@digijordan The valid concern though is not earning money without any UBI in the near future.

People are afraid Ai will take their jobs. But most people hate their jobs. So… The issue is not Ai taking jobs… The issue is people are afraid of losing their identity. Because most people’s identity is at least partially connected to their job. And it shouldn’t be. We are entering the most important era in human history. When we can have computers and machines do menial tasks and create freedom for people to explore what it really means to be HUMAN.

@walterkirn I appreciate Arthur C Clarke’s “invisible”prose style but I never could relate to his stories. Not sure why.

I just finished reading the novelization by Clarke of his script for 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was terrific. He really gets inside the head and the predicament of the lone astronaut hurtling toward the edge of knowing. Elegant philosophical meditations from the narrator too.

@romanhelmetguy 🎯

I don’t think AI movies will ever replace real actors. It will be able to, we just won’t want to watch them. Yes we’ll consume some slop, but art is the craft of evoking emotion. And watching a fake AI “actor” cry will never hit as hard as watching a flesh and blood human. We’ll also make robots that can play soccer better than any human, but we’ll never watch robots play soccer.

@Authw8 As short clips they have some value I guess but for a feature yeah I don’t see it… unless your personalized AI film is crafted to a master level.

i think what we're going to find with personalized AI movies is that people mostly don't want to watch personalized AI movies. they want to watch the same movies everyone else is watching

@distortedshapes Absolutely

@ItsDavidGott Make putting in the reps non-negotiable. That's the key.