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Originally Posted by AgrippinaX
Originally Posted by exiler96
(again though, I don't see exactly how different it is from using typical special effects to make this more morally questionable...maybe it wasn't a bad use afterall, heh).
Frankly I think that's what worries some people so much. What if this technology (lower cost, good enough results to be included in the final film) *doesn't* look creepy after a while... I may not like it, but the next generation of viewers, raised with all kinds of fake tweks on their daily social media tools, will care less I imagine...

Originally Posted by FilmBuff
Originally Posted by Allaby
Films use other tools like makeup, visual effects, and editing to make actors look and sound better and to improve the look of films. I don't think AI is that much different from any of the other tools used.
Isn't it more impressive that she did that by studying and practicing all of those various accents over the years?

Originally Posted by mattiasflgrtll6
It would be a disgrace, and no longer make her as worthy of all the accolades she's received.
It effectively devalues and undermines the efforts of so many actors (not just Meryl) over the years who made an extra effort to master difficult accents, something that very few actors have truly excelled at.
Once everyone can do it (with the AI), then it won't be remarkable at all.
If they had made Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with this technology, then even Kevin Costner could have delivered his lines with a flawless British accent, and not sound like California Robin Hood.

Originally Posted by FilmBuff
Originally Posted by Allaby
Films use other tools like makeup, visual effects, and editing to make actors look and sound better and to improve the look of films. I don't think AI is that much different from any of the other tools used.
Isn't it more impressive that she did that by studying and practicing all of those various accents over the years?

somedays i just really sad for no good reason. today was not one of those days. but it could have been.

Originally Posted by Allaby
Films use other tools like makeup, visual effects, and editing to make actors look and sound better and to improve the look of films. I don't think AI is that much different from any of the other tools used.
Isn't it more impressive that she did that by studying and practicing all of those various accents over the years?

Originally Posted by AgrippinaX
I don’t really understand your point/angle here. ‘Typical special effects’ could never make someone who isn’t, I don’t know, Peter Cushing look like Peter Cushing.
It was something I was oddly enough more okay with at the time, but nowadays I feel like they probably shouldn't have done it. Trying to make an actor who's been dead for 26 years look like he's still there is veeeeery creepy looking back.

Originally Posted by mattiasflgrtll6
Wish The Shoutbox would allow you to edit your comments... -_-

Couldn't stand Ian Holm's role in Alien: Romulus. Moral ethics aside, it was the most irritatingly blatant use of fanservice that only makes it feel like they're trying WAY too hard to harken back to the original movie. Was no reason for it to be there at all.
The callback to "Get away from her, you bitch!" made me cringe really hard too.
The callback to "Get away from her, you bitch!" made me cringe really hard too.

Originally Posted by exiler96
I admittedly don't watch a lot of new relases as I do older movies, but the one time that it bothered me (from an otherwise good movie) it was bringing Ian Holm back from the dead for Alien: Romulus.
(again though, I don't see exactly how different it is from using typical special effects to make this more morally questionable...maybe it wasn't a bad use afterall, heh).
(again though, I don't see exactly how different it is from using typical special effects to make this more morally questionable...maybe it wasn't a bad use afterall, heh).