Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025) - sounds pretty goofy, huh? It's a sort-of time loop sci-fi comedy about the evils of AI, directed by Gore Verbinski.
A strange man Sam Rockwell) bursts into an LA diner. He is bearded, disheveled and dressed in rags. He announces that he is from the future to save the world from the evils of AI. Nobody looks up from their phones - they've seen nuts like him before. So he reveals that he is wearing a suicide vests, and asks for volunteers, or he'll start drafting people. He knows that some combination of people from this diner can succeed in the quest, but he doesn't know which combination. He's tried this before, and failed all hundred-odd times.
He finally decides on a small group, and we get to see some of their stories. Michael Pena is a substitute teacher in the same school as his wife Zazie Beetz. He tries to take away a kid's phone, and an app alerts all students that he is the Enemy, and the whole school starts chasing them. They retreat to the diner.
Juno Temple's son died in a school shooting. Her insurance paid to have a clone of him grown, but it wasn't very convincing. But an AI construct of his personality is so close, she gets addicted to the app. That app tells her to go to the diner.
Haley Jo Richardson is a girl in a princess dress with messy makeup. She was employed as a princess for little girls' birthday parties. She is very allergic to electronics, and little children are relatively electronics free - for now. Her boyfriend is a rebel who destains electronics, until one day he tries a VR headset sent to them "by accident". Now he is addicted, and she runs away to cry at the diner.
With this group and a few others, Rockwell will attempt to get to a nearby address, where a young boy is about to develop the super-intelligence that will destroy mankind. But first, they need to get around the police blockade, because of the whole suicide vest/hostage situation. They will also face mysterious pro-AI warriors, and a monster or two.
This starts out as fun, but a little lame. Oh, yeah, AI will kill us all. Smart phones are destroying our minds. This movie started life as a proposed TV series, which explains the three character backstory episodes. There is a little bit of time-loopishness, but although Rockwell has done this many times, it's never the same twice. So even he is winging it. At least he gets to go back and try again. Everybody else just dies when they are killed.
I'm not sure the end really worked for me, although it had a nice scope. And did they save the world? SPOILER - no. But maybe next time.
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