Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die: Sam Rockwell Has Fun with the Apocalypse

One of the better movies out there about the apocalypse, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, is in no way subtle about the problems we currently face as a society from the improper use of technology and the AI singularity. You see Sam Rockwell at his best in this weird role with even weirder roles of his castmates.

Plot of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

When a man from the post-apocalyptic future enters a Norm's Diner ( one hell of a promotional opportunity, btw ), he takes a few select people with him to stop the start of an apocalypse that will destroy our way of life as it stands today.

You get amazing performances from Haley Lu Richardson as Ingrid - a complete enigma, Juno Temple as Susan, and a smattering of great performances from Asim Chaudhry as Scott, the Uber driver, Michael Peña, and Zazie Beetz as Mark and Janet, who are high school teachers.

Mankind is lured to a virtual reality created by an AI that simulates a constant utopia to their VR devices, not unlike society's obsession with social media and the way AI controlled humans in The Matrix ( 1999 ).

The scene where a kid is running from a drone armed with a buster bunker missile aimed at his bunker home directly hints at conflicts in the Middle East and Western powers.

The depiction of the physical form of AI is quite impressive in this movie, with wires swirling like a metallic spaghetti storm and terminating in various ports. There is also a mess of vintage robots that are part of the wire pile, which is shown in a stunning scene that is a great representation of how we are handling tech today.

The meat of this movie is not in the plot, CGI, or originality, but in great execution and a consistent storyline. The visuals are great, with teens being zombified by their phones, watching meaningless content in the form of reels one after the other. It isn't easy to predict how things will unfold in this movie, which is rare these days, online or in the theaters.

Gore Verbinski Movies

The Ring and The Cure for Wellness are some other movies that deal with sci-fi/horror tropes, along with other major movies on other themes, such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Mexican, and The Lone Ranger.

The Ring is an identical remake of the movie Ringu, which I think is done really well and has also achieved cult status and pop culture relevance by being parodied and memed extensively.

The Cure for Wellness is a great psychological sci-fi thriller/horror movie that makes you feel claustrophobic and ratchets up the horror with both science and what seems like occult practices.

The other three movies are well-known, although The Lone Ranger wasn't that well-liked by the critics; The Curse of the Black Pearl and The Mexican achieved great mainstream success.

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Should You Watch It? Yes!

This is a great movie that is both on-the-nose about society and entertaining, and deserves to be viewed in the theaters for a great experience. It is funny in places, suspenseful, and does not have too much gore or scenes that are gratuitous.

So go ahead, take a look at our present and possibly our near future through the eyes of Gore Verbinski.