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Posted on Friday, May 14th, 2021 by Rafael Motamayor Though we continue to see movies with ’80s-inspired aesthetics, we’re starting to see modern films embrace the 00’s, and even the 2010s, especially in how they deal with social media and our relationship with it. The problem is that the use of current references in a movie, like the use of memes or viral songs, can make a film feel dated or even gimmicky by the time they’re released. That’s not the case with The Mitchells vs The Machines , a film that perfectly brings the Extremely Online Generation to life and captures the look of YouTube videos from the early 2010s without feeling like a relic.
Gravity Falls) and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller ( The Lego Movie), is absolute pandemonium — in the best way possible. The story of a highly dysfunctional family’s road trip vacation, and a poorly timed machine uprising, beams with bright, electric visuals. But through hand-scribbled flourishes and zany robot fights, Rianda finds heart, humor, and a family message that isn’t super cheesy. In fact, The Mitchells vs. the Machines is one of the sharpest movies about technology and the online generation out there. The Mitchells vs. the Machines starts with a deceptively simple setup: Katie (Abbi Jacobson), a tech-savvy young filmmaker, is fed up with her old-fashioned father, Rick (Danny McBride), who just doesn’t “get” her. A fight on her last night at home before college prompts Rick to drag the whole family on a cross-country road trip so they can all drop Katie off. Just when things couldn’t get anymore tense, an evil AI named PAL (Olivia Colman) launches a Skynet-like apocalypse. Robots capture almost every human on the planet, except for the Mitchell family. Katie, her dad, her mom Linda (Maya Rudolph), and her brother Aaron (Rianda himself) struggle to survive killer machines and themselves.
Wombo generates an AI-powered video that moves a person in a photo so they look like they are singing and dancing along to a song. Recently, these lip-synced videos have been gaining popularity on Twitter, where users have been using photos of themselves or photos of celebrities to make them sing songs like “Funkytown,” “YMCA,” and more. Although the list of song choices is limited, the options are still pretty good. Naturally, we decided to put some Penn State figures up on center stage with the app, and we were not disappointed. The Nittany Lion As weird as it seems, the Nittany Lion gives off the same vibes as Shrek. Don’t believe me? You can totally see it when the Nittany Lion sings “All-Star” by Smash Mouth.
This Week in Apps: Parler denied App Store re-entry, Walmart doubles down on TikTok live shopping, Instagram Lite rolls out worldwide Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.
This Week in Apps: Parler denied App Store re-entry, Walmart doubles down on TikTok live shopping, Instagram Lite rolls out worldwide Read full article March 13, 2021, 7:00 AM·19 min read Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.