The first teaser for A Minecraft Movie released in September to some decidedly mixed reactions, particularly concerning the CGI and character design and especially Jason Momoa’s hair. And yes, there were many ridiculous memes. We were inclined to give it a chance based on the casting of Momoa and Jack Black. Now the full trailer has dropped, and honestly, odd design choices aside—and they are indeed odd—it looks like a perfectly acceptable fun family film and not much more, albeit very light on actual plot.
YouTube Trailer: A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer
When will they simply understand that it should be animated?? That live-action still looks like shit.
Why are people so angry about this movie anyways? It’s not like we’re adapting Anna Karenina over here, it’s Minecraft. My kids who play the game wanna see it, and that’s really the target audience.
If I had to nail it down to just one thing, I would say that it’s the trope of the sarcastic teenager who just makes fun of all the stuff we think is cool about the source material. The only point for a character like that is to put down the fans who are trying to like the final product and pay for tickets.
I want a movie made by fans for fans, I don’t want a movie made by Hollywood writers who only know about a product from their third cousins son and a quick glance at Wikipedia.
The sarcastic teenager trope happens so much, and we see writers and directors who are proud of the fact that they don’t know the source material so often; I’m so tired of it. It symbolizes a banal cash grab. Will the end product this time be a cash grab? I don’t know, but that’s what I don’t like so far drilled down into one specific thing.
i still don’t know how to feel about the “as a child, I yearned for the mines” line tbh
This is beautiful! Where is it from?
Not sure. Just saw it on lemmy or reddit a while ago and found it again to post here.
I think this would be great as like a 15 minute YouTube skit.
I came around as well on my outlook of the movie. I think it helped knowing that Mumbo was partially involved in the project, but I’m still holding my breath that there will be a hyper-realistic texture pack joke involved in some way to explain all the CG.
What if they released a texture pack for the game that matches the movie?
Fuck Jack Black he is a piece of shit. Hard pass on anything he does again.
Citation?
Probably bc he broke up tenacious d after KG said the next guy shouldn’t miss in regards to the Trump assassination attempt. A lot of people thought it was a spineless move.
Whoa really? That’s wild.
Edit: Here’s a video/article
Wonder if this means he’s a trump supporter or if it was really just the violent comment.
Think of all the stupid fucking things jack black has written lyrics in songs about. He kicked a dog to death in anchor man. But your long time friend makes a joke and the lawyers say it’s gonna hurt your bottom line, time to break up the band.
I’m just now hearing this, and I agree. It’s spineless and I have just lost a lot of respect for JB.
