Jennifer Lopez is filming another film, this time in science fiction, which has been labelled ‘AI propaganda’.
Netflix has released the first trailer for Atlas, featuring Jenny from the Block, who is fresh off her autobiographical film musical anarchy, which failed to impress audiences.
Simu Liu from Barbie, who plays a wicked AI named Harlan, joins the Shotgun Wedding cast, as do Sterling K. Brown, Abraham Popoola, and Mark Strong.
According to the description, ‘A talented data analyst with a strong scepticism of AI learns it may be her last option when a mission to apprehend a rogue robot goes astray.’
Scientists having to confront their scepticism of the technology they built to rescue the day is not a novel concept in science fiction, but something about JLo’s film has irritated audiences.
Following Netflix’s criticism for integrating AI in a documentary, many rejected Atlas as an attempt to ‘convince us’ that it isn’t harmful.
‘Why do I feel this film might just be Netflix trying to convince us all that AI is cool actually and we should just fully embrace it,’ wrote Timon Singh on X.
Lucidxunicorn shared: ‘Y’all made a movie about humans trusting A.I in order to fight evil A.I using your A.I algorithm? insane .’
‘Oh great an A.I. is good propaganda movie ,’ wrote FabianGabrielR6 as foul_g added: ‘I’m gonna watch it, for sure, but, this is just Hollywood making AI sound cool because corporate said so.’
Others complained that it felt like they’d ‘seen the whole movie’ in the lengthy two and a half minute long trailer.
Elkowalczuk scathed: ‘This is very good movie, thank you Netflix. 2 minutes and 35 seconds tells the whole story perfectly.’
‘That’s a good trailer — but feels like I’ve just watched the entire movie ,’ jokeddoncroiix as EJ added: ‘I feel like I just watched the whole movie .’
‘Netflix really make 1 good film out of 100 they release and this is not one of them ,’ added user hvssxin.
Atlas failed to impress some with criticisms of ‘stinker’ and ‘terrible’ being thrown around, although some did praise JLo for ‘branching out’.
‘Between this and Rebel Moon we are really spoiled, thank you Netflix ,’ shared florenzo84, referring to Zack Snyder’s sci-fi franchise.
Part two of Rebel Moon has recently premiered on Netflix, with the SuckerPunch director earlier claiming that the first installment had more views than Barbie.
Jennifer recently starred in This Is Me. Now, a semi-autobiographical film with songs written and performed by the Maid in Manhattan star.
Viewers criticised the film, and the accompanying documentary has become an online joke owing to viral snippets.
Like it or loathe it, Atlas is set to hit Netflix on May 24.
Source My Celebrity Life.