Window Seat

Window Seat is the first A. I. movie, and according to the trivia it is stitched together from four thousand different shots. I give it an A for effort. First thing is the talking in it is realistic. The second is the woman in it is super cute and the characters look kinda like little Lego folk.

The story or something like it actually happened about a decade ago a woman wrote a tweet in an airplane, and found out when she landed that the whole world was mad at her. The movie is dealing with the modern world.

I saw a work-in-progress in July. There is a plot about the bully that is pretty funny how it plays out. I wanted to watch it again.

Let me put this right out there from the very start. This movie sucks. It sucks from a technical aspect, from a story aspect, from a art aspect. So why do I say A for effort? It's because it's still impressive and shows what AI can do.

This is a movie that has no actors. All the faces and voices are AI generated. It tells the story of a man who discovers his high school bully is on the same plane. Cue the drama.

This movie takes place entirely in the uncanny valley. That's the place where images are so... wrong but not enough to put your finger on why they're wrong. It's just a visceral feeling you get. It's repulsive because faces don't move like that. Mouths don't move like that. And people don't speak like that.

This movie is disturbing on a deep level. To which the creator says to close your eyes and listen to it as a radio play. But that's the next problem. The dialogue sucks. Nobody speaks like a real person. It's just generative predictive text. Maybe the filmmaker wrote some of the dialogue but if he did, he can't write dialogue either.

Watch it as an oddity. Watch it as something that we might be seeing more of in the future. But don't tell me it's good when it's horrifying.

During the screening, the director said if the movie bothers you, to close your eyes and enjoy it like a radio play. Because movie has no human voice acting in it at all. All of it is machine voices. The best part is the comedy throughout it, such as the talk show scenes and the pilot.

The wacky surrealistic scenes was reminding me of Monty Python. He said, "because A. I. can't yet make a blockbuster," he tried to make it like the black and white indies of the 1980s. It can go in any direction. The directions that it go are quite serious and funny. The dialogue is sharp and the characters funny. Good job, A. I.

Saw this movie and really amazing achievement. The direction makes you forget it's AI often and the computer generation also creates some surreal imagery that otherwise hasn't been possible. AI films are absolutely inevitable and this gives a taste of what's to come.

I think what some people aren't realizing is that AI filmmaking democratizes filmmaking. Now anyone can create a very watchable and interesting film with minimal budget. They don't need to raise funding or go through gatekeepers.

Another thing people don't realize is how difficult it is to create such a project. AI image generation and voice requires an insane amount of hours and effort. Great achievement!

An A. I. Generated movie, coming out in the midst of a writers strike fighting against A. I. is an abysmal thing for any artist/writer/actor to think of.

Anyone who supports the arts in there right mind, should spit on this film.

This is a scab that hangs out to work, while workers on strike are fighting to keep food on their plates.

One day, maybe one day people will stop caring about what A. I. will take away from all of us, but not today.

In the event Mr. Hooroo Jackson sees this review, please do not add to the problem that we as actors/artists and writers are facing and utilize your talents for a better cause rather than feeding into the fear of Skynet.