Holup, The Terminator, one of the most popular sci fi movies of all time, is a “B-movie” now?
The one with Arnold?
Tf?
is a “B-movie” now?
Did you not read the article? It was regarded as a B-movie when it came out: a low-budget sci-fi slasher/horror film. Arnold referred to it as a B-movie when asked about it on the set of Conan the Barbarian (which had 3 times the budget as Terminator). The New York Times referred to it as a B-movie in its review, as discussed by this article, which is also why the headline uses quotes around “B-movie.”
Did you not read the article?
Brother, he ain’t even gonna read your reply, let alone the article.
Honest. I like it.
“B movie” is insane. But what they accomplished with their low budget is phenomenal, if that’s what they mean…
I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
That’s peanuts even back in 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TerminatorIndeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.
Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.
That can be the case, but IMO Terminator 2 was an amazing follow up, and it had 15 times bigger budget.
The threat of AI is not that it’s a cold, calculating, unfeeling killer, it’s that it can convince us about bullshit on demand by fooling our expectations.
I think we need to take our fear away from Terminator and apply it moreso to something like HAL. HAL is more realistic now than a cybernetic Terminator is.
Fearing AI because of what you saw in “The Terminator” is like fearing sleeping pills because of what you saw in “Nightmare on Elm Street.”
i’m not sure you understand the purpose/point of the entire scifi genre
Entertainment.
If you think it’s supposed to be predictive you’re perhaps confusing it with futureology, which is a more scientific field.
We cant stop enslaving other humans. Its entirely plausible that when AI becomes self aware and sees how flawed we are that it decides to remove us as a variable.
And that’s fine. We won’t be the first civilization killed by its own greed and hubris. Life uh finds a way.
Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai and turns out we already enslaved it to play some chatbot…
What makes you think an AGI wouldn’t need our species in some way?
Food, perhaps?
Don’t fret, we’ve been one step ahead of AI all along.
AI will consume our high calorie, high fat, high cholesterol flesh as biofuel.
Then, in a few years, dAIbetes will wipe them out.
This movie didn’t have any bees in it at all. Is the guy who wrote this article an idiot?
I admit it was quite some time since I last watched it but I remember quite a few B’s in the script
