Who wouldn´t 
? Description sounds very tasty but 750 is a bit out of range for the normal Bond fan I guess…
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It may appear dark and mysterious, yet on the palate it surprises with elegance and lightness.
I feel I have been summed up in a sentence.
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Did anyone see our Dutch female skaters yesterday at the Olympics?
They were fantastic!
First Femke Kok got a very fast time, but than Jutta Leerdam showed her immense talent and was even faster! She is a glamour girl and not everyone here in Holland likes that, but she also delivers when she has to and yesterday she ruled!!
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I saw them, they beat out our American speed skater Brittany Bowe who finished fourth. They looked pretty good, which the Dutch usually do in speed skating.
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“Don’t they have showers at the ice rink?”
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“In next to no time, one person is going to be able to sit at a computer and create a movie indistinguishable from what Hollywood now releases. True, if that person is no good, it will suck. But if that person possesses Christopher Nolan’s talent and taste (and someone like that will rapidly come along), it will be tremendous.”
The 15 seconds in question:
These 15 seconds are the result of a mere two lines of prompt for one of the latest image generators. The usual accusations of breaching copyright laws are flying - but in a world where the rules-based order is actively reshaped by a wrecking ball of outright corruption and villainy even the courts will have a hard time getting on top of this. There is really no saying how much of the classic entertainment industry model will still be standing by 2035.
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Terrible, mainly because too many will love this, having no problem with dreck and the role humanity plays within the arts.
Goodnight, humans!
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In all fairness, the article hints at the possibility/potential/hope of a ‘deal’ between Hollywood and the AI sector. But it’s not clear where that would come from when the LLM approach is based on ignorance of any kind of copyright and intellectual property. They use everything for free, they could never afford paying royalties to all their source material creators. Nor can they key their models to unlearn everything coming from protected sources. Un-stirring the eggs is not an option.
Likewise I doubt this technology can be somehow contained. Even if Hollywood was prepared to pay off the AI sector to restrict their programs to ‘professional use only’ - buying back their stolen property from the ChatGPT mob - this technology is now out there and any number of players willing to break up things and profit from the chaos will be ready to offer even more potent applications for less money.
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The studios see something else: eliminate all the production people, employ one guy and have him do the blockbuster on his own (via the remix machine called AI).
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Can I ask something about The Wild Geese what I’m asking myself for decades?
When I am watching this movie I always think who is that fourth guy, Hardy Kruger? He is top billing with Burton, Moore and Harris and his image is also on the movieposter, but he is the only guy from the main cast I only know from this movie.
Was he famous and international known or only in Germany?
He is in some movies I have watched in the past like A Bridge Too Far and Wrong Is Right, but I can’t remember him being in it.
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Hardy Krüger, BIG German star of the 50s and 60s, started an early international career with THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY, a German fighter pilot downed over Britain, interned in various camps until he escaped from a Canadian POW camp and returned via USA to Germany and picked up service in the Luftwaffe again. One of the rare German antiheroes the Brits grudgingly/secretly adored because he wasn’t depicted as a raving Nazi lunatic but an upright officer regarding it as his duty to return to his country.
The film was a success and a year later Krüger already did two British films, then some French-Spanish-German coproductions. 1962 came HATARI with John Wayne,
Then 1965 THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Interestingly, while Krüger for a long time tried to avoid the cliché role of the Bilderbuch-Nazi he later took it in some of his war films.
What few people during the 60s talked about was, Krüger came from a fanatical Nazi family, was signed up by his parents at one of the elite NSDAP boarding schools and marked up for cadre education. His looks, blond, blue-eyed and sporty, got him a role in the Nazi propaganda film JUNGE ADLER, some flick that should indoctrinate youths with white supremacy ideology.
Krüger was 15, a dedicated Hitler Youth cadre and entirely believing in the Führer, racism and the Nazi ideology. While shooting JUNGE ADLER he met Hans Söhnker, at the time a supposedly ‘unpolitical’ star who opened his eyes about the true nature of the regime, its crimes and murders. Shortly before the end of this evil cesspool that was NS Germany, he was enlisted in some Waffen SS unit from where he deserted.
After his acting career, Krüger gradually shifted into making travel documentaries for tv and wrote a number of successful books. He is without a doubt one of the most popular actors/journalists of his generation and his several travel series made amongst others Africa and Australia destinations in demand with his audiences.
Krüger also supported a number of nonprofit NGOs aimed against rightwing extremism and rightwing violence, a problem that was never entirely absent after 1945 and became increasingly more acute after reunification in 1990.
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But humanity always responds with „but it’s so fun and I won’t have to work anymore and who cares and don’t be such a party pooper and it’s coming anyway so why bother resisting?“
Which reminds me: are we really living in the 21st Century or are we just remaking that 20th Century IP with a slight update yet lazier and more absurdly?
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Thank you so very much for all this explanation, I realy appreciate this.
After asking here I find out myself also a couple of things. This for excample:
In 1945 while in combad he refused to shoot to an American squad and he was arrested and setenced to death for being a couward, but some officer rescued him.
How may people would dare to do this in war time knowing this would mean a sertain death? That is hero stuff. Oh and he was only 18 years old when this happened.
Of all the guys in The Wild Geese he is probabely the only one who realy could be one in real life.
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Someone just sent me this…
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The white Lotus Esprit Turbo will be the next one from Scalextric!!
I have to have one! Nice next to my 1:1 version.
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I just came across this nifty build-your-own TSWLM Lotus model, a steal for just € 2.299…
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Yeah, they have a lot of those model kits at the 007 store. One expect than at least a 1:1 model kit so you can sit in it and go to the bottom of the sea.
If I am honest even a real Lotus looks like some kind of model kit because it is made from polyester.
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