Good Luck, Have Fun Don’t Die – downthetubes.internet

Review by Tim Robins

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026) is a shouty, slapstick time journey journey that jogged my memory of higher films, however nonetheless succeeded in entertaining me proper to the tip.

The movie’s director Gregor “Gore” Verbinski is, maybe, finest identified for the primary three Pirates of the Caribbean films and, the Oscar-winning animated journey Rango (2011). It is the spirit of madcap journey that separates Good Luck, Have Fun Don’t Die from Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (itself an adaptation of 1962’s La Jettee) to which it has been in contrast. But there’s none of Gilliam’s claustrophobic sense of paranoia, and positively little of Gilliam’s eye for element, to which the costume of this movie’s time traveller gestures.

Sam Rockwell performs the traveller who arrives in an American diner to recruit a crew to go together with him to the long run and defeat an AI that has turned us into drooling customers of digital actuality. This is his 117th try to win towards the machine, to date every has led to failure. This life or dying wrestle has taken on the standard of a pc sport, with the traveller resetting occasions every time he and his companions are “killed”.

There’s no clarification as to why the diners include the right resistance power, simply that profitable requires recruiting simply the precise mixture of individuals. This trip, the recruits embrace a few college lecturers, Mark  (Michael Peña) and Janet (Zazie Beetz), and Ingrid (Haley Lu Richardson), a sketchy kids’s entertainer with an allergy to know-how. Some of the characters’ backstories are revealed in Black Mirror-ish flashbacks of a not fairly current through which, for example, victims of faculty shootings might be returned to their mother and father as clones.

The script manages as well step its approach over any paradoxes that may come to thoughts. The alternate pasts and futures start to look implausible. Are we actually alleged to imagine that the time traveller and his mom disguise out in a bunker till an AI managed drone discovers them? Or that the long run will embrace a big, actual life, cat with cloven hooves and a physique composed of the faces of mewling kittens? Could it’s that all the pieces we see, previous, current and future, are merely a digital actuality sport?

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was enjoyable to look at and positively raised a variety of laughs from the viewers. The movie gained me over, with out getting slowed down in twisty turny, timey wimeyness. Its amiable solid definitely helped, and so did the serio-comic conditions, which see Mark and Janet pursued by college students zombified by good telephones and Ingrid struggling to succeed as a Disney Princess, whereas her boyfriend falls in love with a digital actuality.

Being enjoyable with out totally insulting my intelligence was no imply feat. At the outset, I believed we have been going to be handled to a dramatisation of our authorities’s deeply misguided media coverage. 

You assume cell phones are disrupting class rooms? Try travelling again to the Nineteen Fifties when, as a trainee trainer, my mom needed to cope with milk bottles being rolled down the aisle.  As for right now, ChatGPT is being utilized by lecturers to jot down their lesson plans and by college students to jot down essays. In the long run, perhaps  AI might be left to query and reply itself and human beings can simply get on with their lives.

Good Luck, Have Fun Don’t Die, looks like its script and visuals have been educated on different movies: perhaps The Matrix, but additionally Toy Story, with a smattering of The Stepford Wives. Much just like the presently predicted way forward for AI, this was a case of cinema consuming itself.

Tim Robins

Good Luck, Have Fun Don’t Die is in cinemas now

POSTSCRIPT: In the spirit of the movie, Tim thought he’d ask ChatGPT to jot down a assessment of it, too. Hilariously it reviewed the mistaken film, describing it as “raw, reflective, and unexpectedly tender”, and a “thoughtful, grown-up memoir about staying standing when life doesn’t go to plan”. You couldn’t make these things up… oh, wait, AI did. As you have been…

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