"It's hard not to agree. The entire show operates in the mode of meaningless montage, because stitching together a collection of barely-related, aesthetically generic shots is the only mode of "filmmaking" that AI is suited for. The effect is like watching an extended advert. But whereas a commercial usually has the good manners to wrap up in less than a minute, Aronofsky's monstrosity slogs on with its cavalcade of quick-cutting but slowly-moving close-ups, as if to demonstrate to maximum effect how utterly inane this all looks."
"The reviews, predictably, are brutal. In one titled 'Requiem for a film-maker,' The Guardian's Stuart Heritage blasted its faux-photorealism aesthetic as 'ugly as sin,' and called out its overreliance on center-framed, back-of-the-head shots. 'This is, after all, because the back of an AI-generated head is far less likely to send people into screaming fits of trauma than an AI-generated face,' Heritage wrote."
Darren Aronofsky produced a short episodic series called "On This Day ... 1776" that uses AI-generated visuals to depict events from the American Revolutionary War. The series features jarring anachronisms and visibly flawed images, including period scenes with modern details like vinyl siding. The visual approach favors center-framed, back-of-the-head shots and a montage of loosely related, generic images. The pacing relies on quick cuts and slowly moving close-ups that create an advert-like effect rather than coherent storytelling. The series has generated intense negative reaction and damaged perceptions of its artistic credibility despite big names being attached.
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