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Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made

Maybe it'll be an apocalypse movie

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It will be porn. I guarantee it.
- ........can I watch?

It won't even be good, either. It won't be some big-budget blockbuster; it'll be a movie by Dave, the guy in your survival group that just doesn't quite get it and still thinks there's anybody left alive to appreciate art. Also he plays all the characters.
- Except instead of Dave, it's Adam Sandler.
- Implying that big-budget blockbusters can be good

It'll be a porno

AI will continue making movies after we're gone. Bots will give reviews and post their opinion in forums
- Scarily plausible
- You overestimate how long the power grid can work without human interaction.
  
  I was just thinking this would make a good story. Solar panels begin to fail, the software is aware and experiences self preservation. Real Issac Asimov stuff
  
  tHe pOweR gRiD.
  You don't live in the same world. There will be at least a few bots powered by solar, running for decades more.
- This is roughly the plot of NiER:Automata
  Btw, I encourage anyone who likes entry-level philosophy and gaming to play it.
- Dead internet theory for a dead world.

Minecraft 2: This is The End
Starring Jack Black as Steve and Micheal Cera as Alex. Special guest star Seth Rogen as The Ender Dragon.
- Damn, I thought we had another year or three... That's already in production
  
  Have you SEEN the world we're in? This society is a dumpster fire!

Morbius II: The Morbin'

And the book will have been better.

Since movies take lots of time to make and being "finished" is an arbitrary decision made by the director and/or producer, it would be nearly impossible to pinpoint one as the last.
Kind of like a musician's last song. Was it the last one they published, recorded, or wrote? What about the last song they half wrote or maybe recorded some partial demos?

Well, it's difficult to define movie. There will be the last big blockbuster production. But maybe there will still be a smaller production that counts as blockbuster for some people. There will be documentation of stuff probably, does that count as a movie when people film their last days? I don't think there will this one clear final movie, but yeah, it will (probably) end eventually.

The Land After Time

Ah, but some day the sapient squids who come after us will re-invent video recording and, assuming they tell each other stories, the industry will inevitably start up again.
- And the reanimated corpses of lawyers will rise if that squid looks too much like Minnie Mouse.

Probably this or next century if global warming continues as it has.
Humanity doesn't have much time left

I don't think it will be an apocalypse movie, because nobody will want to watch it at that point.
Unless it's a documentary, of course. "This is why we will all die."

The Birth of a Nation II: The Rebirthing

It'll be the Skibidi Toilet Movie

As with everything that changes, there is no clean "cut off" where a last thing is made and then no more. Entertainment more than anything evolves and changes. There might be a last "traditional" movie made with a studio and sets and cameras, but by that time we will hardly notice, or our grandkids will hardly notice, as they have moved on to new more immersive or entertaining forms of escapism.
- Thats assuming that there won't be an end to all creative output on this planet in the next million years.
  Anything past 1000 years from now is beyond understanding, IMO.
  
  I think the post-human-creativity epoch is further down the road, our species has this habit of doing the same things over and over, so even in a world of technological miracles and Gods in bottles, we will still have plenty of poor communities, purists, "normal" people doing things the way their parents did for generations, working alongside mechanical wonders and partially submerged in some kind of information landscape we can barely imagine.
  If we do stay on this current course, we will eventually be easily outpaced by AI, likely much further away than the tech cultists and AI-bros want to believe but it is inevitable at this pace. I personally think it will be further away than a thousand years, our species is a very slow-turning boat. It's very possible that some segment of the population will in fact find some way to merge with machines in a way that lets them interact with larger systems and expand their consciousness in some way, which might be the only way we could ever say with even a little confidence that there is conscious, human creativity still in the universe, but like with the machine-born ideas and creations, they will be ideas and creations that will probably be outside of a normal human's capability to understand or even perceive.
- Does any form of entertainment really die though? We still have stage plays and novels even though entertainment has evolved to films and television
  
  I don't think so, there are plenty of hipsters dusting off old phonographs and vinyl records, hobbyists using old-fashioned cameras, modern musicians restoring old styles of instruments or tones.
  When I was little I used to imagine the future was going to be either some kind of sleek Star Trek world of clean utopian skylines, OR it would be an apocalyptic wasteland with people remembering the Before Times as the sky is choked with ash and smoke.
  The reality I have realized, is that the future is always just "more" of everything. We will have more poverty, more wealthy people, more diseases, more miracles, more hardships, more forms of entertainment, more wars and more peace. We will have more forms of entertainment and more ways to enjoy them.

But will the movies live on as oral tradition? Ala Reign of Fire ?https://youtu.be/NCBA1wii70o
- That movie shown me that I might have a post-apocalyptic job after all. All these years binge watching will have a purpose.

I bet they will keep making movies after we're gone
- "they" is rather ominous.

One thing's for sure: it will be part of Disney's IP.

It'll be another fucking Batman reboot. That's actually going to be the cause... Our tenuous grip on sanity will snap, rage will pour into the streets.
Think 28 days later, but the cause is one more fucking Batman reboot.

The last human to paint the last painting, to poop the last human poop. Just like civilization we're not frozen in biology either. Maybe we'll be replaced by one or more progeny species, maybe it'll be the end of the line for the great apes all together.
- Optimistic today aren't we?

https://youtu.be/LEENEFaVUzU

At this point, it'll be yet another crappy reboot of a remake of some story we've all seen dozens of times.

I don't know about the last movie, but I think the last video recording will be of a ~~woman~~ any gender with ~~unnaturally thick lips~~ unnatural pick-me-style talking about how the apocalypse is so hard and nobody seems to understand just how much its affecting ~~her~~ them personally and asking if anybody is alive out there to like and subscribe.
Edited to make it all nice and safe
- Tone down the misogyny bud. You're oozing it.
  
  Yeah i didnt mean to do a misogyny, it was the attention-removed i was aiming for. Fixed now

There's civilized humans? Where?

That has happened already. All we’ve been getting since are sequels, prequels, remakes, revamps, reboots, …
- This year alone:
  Sinners
  The Phoenician Scheme
  Companion
  Bring Her Back
  Black Bag
  Which are all original movies that are genuinely good. Expanding to others there's:
  The Legend of Ochi
  Ugly Stepsister
  Novocaine
  Clown in a Cornfield
  Eddington
  K-Pop Demon Hunters
  Oh, Hi!
  The Ballad of Wallace Island
  Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
  You don't put in the effort to see original movies and then removed that there aren't good movies
- Original movies are being released every week. If you care enough to complain, you should care enough to look up what movies are coming out

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