Notes on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

This is a quirky, unpredictable, and fun film. The set up is what looks like a deranged homeless person making a sudden appearance in a diner. He looks like he’s wearing a shower curtain decorated with trash.

He says he has a bomb connected to a switch in his hand.

He needs the attention of diners because he’s from the future and he needs recruits to help stop the end of the world.

Somehow, he knows personal details of many of the diners.

The first person to offer himself is rejected as he’s been an ‘albatross’ on previous attempts to prevent the end of the world. Over 100, apparently.

A woman offers to volunteer and slowly several others volunteer, including a young woman wearing a bedraggled princess costume, who the time traveler rejects, then accepts.

Then the police arrive and the question becomes, how to get out of the restaurant? And the first volunteer has the answer, which the time traveler finds suspicious, but what can you do?

The time traveler also explains what’s happened. That humanity started in the morning checking emails. Then an AI generated content that gave a reason to stay online and not get out of bed.

End of world.

Flashbacks convey the lives of the volunteers and the way society has been overtaken by AI.

I found it gloriously funny and the most enjoyable movie I’ve seen in years.

When the story seems to have a happy ending, the time traveler has a decision to make.

Highly recommended to anyone who wants a change of pace and a satire that skews modern society as we become happy, pacified consumers.

Et me, too.

If this happens to you in real life, don’t ask for kittens as an adversary.

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