I know this sounds obvious and nobody was expecting anything less, but that Minecraft movie looks God awful, and I haven't played Minecraft in over a decade.
@dick Do kids still play Minecraft?
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@xianc78 @dick actually yes, I see kids wearing minecraft shirts all the time. They will probably eat it up even though it's going to be complete slop. I'm sure for many of them it will be the point they realize that bad movies exist, kind of like how you hit a certain point where you realize bad games exist as a kid. You go from playing licensed movie game slop and loving the hell out of it to one day realizing what they are once you have had enough experience.
@beardalaxy @dick The scariest part about that is that Minecraft is probably older than those kids at this point, but Minecraft by it's very nature is infinitely replayable and is a completely different game than it was when it first started so I guess I could understand that. I just think that this movie would've done slightly better back when Minecraft was at peak popularity (when it was still popular with LPers) or a few years after.
The movie reminds me of those animated Minecraft videos that weren't animated using the game itself, but through Blender or 3DSMax just so they can give the characters awkward facial animations, except this is worse. The live action characters look jarring because they don't respect the proportions of the original mobs compared to the humans in game, and Jack Black looks nothing like Steve.
I also don't understand the characters who are transported into the Minecraft world. I think all the characters should be kids and/or the adventurous types, but the two adults are some drag-queen looking guy and some obese black woman, both of which don't seem like the types that would care about video games or adventure. (I swear if these two adults are those kids' adoptive parents, I...I don't know what.)
