Movie Review: In ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,’ a Man From the Future Fights an AI Apocalypse

Movie Review: In ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,’ a man from the future fights an AI apocalypse

By JAKE COYLE In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” a strange unnamed man (Sam Rockwell) steps into a Los Angeles diner and declares that he’s from the future. “All of this is going to go horribly wrong,” he says. Norm’s diner on La Cienega might not seem like the most likely battleground to decide the fate of the world, but that’s exactly what this fellow — bearded, with a wreath of wires around his he…

‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ review: Anti-AI romp zany, half-baked

Inside a diner in Los Angeles, customers scroll through their phones as coffee is poured, burger patties are flipped, food is plated and a selection of condiments is dramatically lit. Ultimately, in “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” the well-meaning but disappointing first film in a handful of years from “The Ring” director Gore Verbinski, it’s the phones that are important. A hooded man (Sam Rockwell) enters the diner, announcing that he’s from…

‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Review: Gore Verbinski’s Big Screen Return Is a Scattershot but Delightful Anti-AI Adventure

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when a movie as intensely anti-phone as “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” would probably have been seen as insufferably preachy, or, at the very least, deeply embarrassing. Think of the period in the mid-2010s when people had generally positive opinions about Elon Musk, when Jason Reitman’s internet morality play “Men, Women, and Children” was received with scorn upon release, when “Black Mirror” was p…

Movie Review: In 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die,' a man from the future fights an AI apocalypse

It’s been argued that with the onset of AI, storytellers need to get weirder, more imaginative, more human.

Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

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Sam Rockwell on His Most Overlooked Films and Working with Gore Verbinski

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. And sometimes we’re lucky enough to talk to the movie stars about their B-Sides. The great Sam Rockwell joins us today to chat about his new film, Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, as well as B-Sides like Lawn Dogs, Safe Men, Snow Angels, and The Winning Season. We marvel at the r…