"We are all guilty of pulling out our phones and doomscrolling through stressful headlines or mindnumbing videos when we should be doing anything else. We know it's bad, but we still do it because it's hard to resist when much of our time is spent living and working on our devices. And even though we understand that we'd be better off with less screen time, our extremely online society doesn't exactly encourage that kind of healthy behavior."
"These are some of the familiar ideas at work in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, director Gore Verbinski's new sci-fi film about a man's desperate fight to save humanity from an apocalyptic future where machines have taken over the world. Though the movie's time-travelling, robot-fighting premise immediately calls the Terminator and Matrix franchises to mind, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a much weirder and more whimsical exploration of our anxieties about artificial intelligence."
"Set largely in present day Los Angeles, Good Luck follows an unnamed man claiming to be from the future (a surprisingly magnetic Sam Rockwell) as he holds up a diner and tries to convince its patrons to join him on a quest to prevent AI from becoming an unstoppable threat. In the time traveler's reality, what's left of humanity has gone into hiding."
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die centers on a time-traveling man who claims humanity must be saved from a future where AI dominates. He holds up a Los Angeles diner seeking recruits to prevent an AI apocalypse, revealing a homemade, explosive-wired time suit. The film links present-day screen addiction and unthinking adoption of technology to societal collapse, using zaniness and whimsy to explore anxieties about artificial intelligence. Comic moments sometimes falter while trying to map complex causes to contemporary device habits. Sam Rockwell delivers a magnetic lead amid a weird, satirical sci-fi narrative.
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