The most aggressively anti-AI film of the ChatGPT era

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die takes a big swing at AI. Does it connect?

There is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a surge in AI-critical TV and filmmaking right now. Last year there was Pluribus, Companion, Mickey 17, MurderBot, Alien: Earth, etc. Guillermo del Toro punctuated press appearances for his Frankenstein film by uttering “Fuck AI” into the mic. However, there hadn’t been a film that articulated that particular sentiment quite so bluntly, at least not until Sam Rockwell came along in Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

And yes, this film is blunt. Critical reaction has been all over the map, as far as I can tell, with some finding it too moralizing and grimly familiar, and others praising those same qualities. It hasn’t exactly been a box office smash, either. But it does make me want to ask: What do we want in a relentlessly AI critical work of pop art like this? What works, what doesn’t?