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Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue April 28, 2026 7:05 pm
by tree_
The Running Man (2025)
Well-made and energetic, but I never felt any real stakes. The tone and lead performance kept it from landing, and the social commentary felt obvious and kind of juvenile.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 6:35 am
by Dev
tree_ wrote: Tue April 28, 2026 3:32 pm
10 Cloverfield Lane
Straightforward:
Really enjoyed it—tense, well-acted, John Goodman is incredible. Just wish it stayed a pure psychological thriller. The ending didn’t feel earned and took it down a notch for me.
A little sharper:
90% of a great psychological thriller, then it pivots into something else entirely. Goodman carries it, but the ending feels unearned and undercuts what made it work.
More blunt:
Loved the bunker stuff—could’ve been a classic. The ending feels like a tacked-on genre shift that doesn’t match the rest of the movie.
More casual:
Super tense and engaging, Goodman is awesome. Just wish it didn’t go full sci-fi at the end—it felt kind of random and not really earned.
This post is both bizarre and creative.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 11:43 am
by The Argonaut
It's AI, I assume. Not sure what tree was going for there
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2026 1:02 pm
by tree_
The Argonaut wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 11:43 am
It's AI, I assume. Not sure what tree was going for there
this is correct. i was chatting with ChatGPT about the movie and i asked it to sum up my thoughts on it for the board, and this is what it gave me, and i thought it would be fun to just copy and paste it all. make no mistake though, these are my thoughts about the movie
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 1:08 am
by The Argonaut
Those are not your thoughts. They might be what you think, but they're not your thoughts
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:13 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Trying to watch Final Reckoning but attention span suffering today. I’ll pick it back up tomorrow.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:43 am
by tree_
The Argonaut wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 1:08 am
Those are not your thoughts. They might be what you think, but they're not your thoughts
I had a long in depth discussion with it about the movie and had it sum up my thoughts about it
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:55 am
by LoathedVermin72
What a profoundly sad post, jesus
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 3:02 am
by tree_
What's sad to me is how judgemental you are about something you apparently know so little about.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 4:01 am
by BurtReynolds
Don't talk about tree's ai girlfriend like that!
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 4:15 am
by LoathedVermin72
I will continue to judge AI users harshly and I will continue to feel just fine about it
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 10:30 am
by The Argonaut
We can get ai-sounding messes anywhere else on the internet, tree. We've all been reading your posts for decades and like them, no need to add a new layer of filter now
Give us the uncut stuff, we want pure tree
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 1:14 pm
by tree_
I wasn't even trying to hide it though. It Will actually improve our posts, better articulate what we are trying to say if only we use the tools freely at our disposal. It's a new age folks and it's time to embrace it
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 1:25 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I’d rather kill myself. In fact I’d rather we all kill ourselves.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 1:42 pm
by tree_
It's no different than singing with autotune or using a drum machine or synthesizers. As long as the human is there to dictate it and shape it the way it pleases him the product is still ultimately from the human. You're just attached to acoustic instruments
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:16 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Ridiculous comparison, go talk to your clanker
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:16 pm
by Jorge
The "instrument" here is the part of your brain that turns a thought into a sentence, and that’s the part you outsourced. That’s why it sucks.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:17 pm
by LoathedVermin72
That’s ONE reason why it sucks. Among many others.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:19 pm
by tree_
Jorge wrote: Sat May 02, 2026 2:16 pm
The "instrument" here is the part of your brain that turns a thought into a sentence, and that’s the part you outsourced. That’s why it sucks.
But I had to articulate my thoughts at length in order to get its summary of them correct.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 2:21 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Sounds pretty inefficient then!