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I mean, he pretty much solely does kids movies now. Minecraft, Mario Bros, Kung Fu Panda, Goosebumps, Jumanji, etc.. etc..
They are all mostly fine films for their intended audiences (kids).
'A Minecraft Movie' | Review Thread
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I mean, he pretty much solely does kids movies now. Minecraft, Mario Bros, Kung Fu Panda, Goosebumps, Jumanji, etc.. etc..
They are all mostly fine films for their intended audiences (kids).
Revolutionary
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ChuckeRearmed
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yeah it does not tell me anything eitherBecause Chicken Jockey
Yeah I don't get it either
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Took my son to see it. It was dumb, but I had a good time with him.
Despite having played plenty of Minecraft together, there were so many online-Minecraft-culture references that I didn't get (the pig with a crown? the chicken + zombie thing?) but that he immediately recognized and understood.
I've definitely seen worse kid films. It wasn't offensive or politicized or anything, just kind of dumb and mostly fun. I actually like Jack Black's career as a childrens movie star, a good niche for him and he seems to enjoy doing it.
Despite having played plenty of Minecraft together, there were so many online-Minecraft-culture references that I didn't get (the pig with a crown? the chicken + zombie thing?) but that he immediately recognized and understood.
I've definitely seen worse kid films. It wasn't offensive or politicized or anything, just kind of dumb and mostly fun. I actually like Jack Black's career as a childrens movie star, a good niche for him and he seems to enjoy doing it.
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Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Ooof!
Little Chicken
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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Massive $100M+ U.S. Opening, Best YTD, Warner Bros & Legendary Resurrect Box Office – Update
'A Minecraft Movie' from Warner Bros amassed $10.55 million in Thursday previews, the best ever for a videogame movie. The outlook is a huge $100M opening at the box office.deadline.com
Box Office: ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Digs Up Record $10.6M in Thursday Previews
That's the best showing ever for a video-game adaptation.www.hollywoodreporter.com
A Minecraft Movie has already set an impressive new box-office record
A Minecraft Movie has set an impressive new box-office record, becoming the biggest preview ever for a video game adaptation.uk.news.yahoo.com
‘Minecraft’ Movie Reviews Are In, And A Billion Dollar Haul Is Nigh
Reviews are in A Minecraft Movie, what looked like a likely disaster of a movie and they are…honestly, better than expected.www.forbes.com
UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘A Minecraft Movie’ builds its way into 675 cinemas
Monster comedy 'Death Of A Unicorn' starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega also opens.www.screendaily.com
It seems that it is, at least, commercial success. I am not the target audience and probably will never see it as I have got 0 interest in video games movie/tv series adaptations.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
and they do almost nothing with it
I can't imagine why they haven't released an official Minecraft VR on headsets like Quest. Games in the similar age niche -- particularly ones with online -- are extremely popular; kids play Roblox VR and Gorilla Tag and whatever else like it's crack. Having an official Minecraft VR with easy-to-join community worlds would be instant truckloads of cash... there's a community port that I've installed on our headset which has a ton of different problems and crashes, and even that is like a bragging point for our son ("can your dad install Minecraft on our headset too??").
...and this is the company that made the purely bs AR video of Minecraft on a table, but can't actually turn that into a consumer product on any of the VR storefronts with millions of users.
Or even forgetting the VR topic, they are just now looking to do a minor graphics update after announcing their "Super Duper Graphics Pack" as a major item in their 2017 E3 presentation.
Just an absolutely incompetent company to hold the rights to Minecraft, it could not be in worse hands.
Revolutionary
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I completely forgot that Microsoft bought Minecraft until this post.
Now I understand why certain folk have been championing it so hard... console warring sure has changed from when I was a kid lol
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
Minecraft is Lego, they don’t need to fundamentally change it. Microsoft know no one cares about the 0.5% of meme VR gamers, they drop merch constantly with small updates the community wants.
It was at 50 million sales at the point of acquisition it’s now the best selling game in history with 300 million MORE sales along with now being the largest video game movie launch in history even bigger than Mario they’re doing just fine.
Saw it with family yesterday
Kids liked it; I thought it would be much much worse
The audience was mostly adults, maybe 10% kids. Clapping and cheering a lot
Jack Black was doing Jack Black and singing a bit
Wokeism detected - Jason Momoa as clumsy loser toxic masculine gone-era man plus strong confident overweight black lady
A number of easter eggs, some popular Youtubers (apparently) and Technoblade
Awful green screen
1 minute cameo of Jermaine Clement, totally wasted
But was it much worse than the Super Mario movie? I wouldn't say so
Kids liked it; I thought it would be much much worse
The audience was mostly adults, maybe 10% kids. Clapping and cheering a lot
Jack Black was doing Jack Black and singing a bit
Wokeism detected - Jason Momoa as clumsy loser toxic masculine gone-era man plus strong confident overweight black lady
A number of easter eggs, some popular Youtubers (apparently) and Technoblade
Awful green screen
1 minute cameo of Jermaine Clement, totally wasted
But was it much worse than the Super Mario movie? I wouldn't say so
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Gamerfan81
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Personally for me it was a God awful movie. But both of my kids enjoyed it. That's all that matters.
Reminds me of when my dad took my brother and I to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade along with Back to the Future 2 in the late 80s, my dad didn't like both films, but he saw how my brother and I enjoyed it and said that's the only important thing to him.
Reminds me of when my dad took my brother and I to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade along with Back to the Future 2 in the late 80s, my dad didn't like both films, but he saw how my brother and I enjoyed it and said that's the only important thing to him.
IlGialloMondadori
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Wokeism lol. Is the wokeism in the room with us now?
Jason Momoa was just a loser who got stuck in the past, not a toxic masculine guy. There was zero indication he was toxic to women, ever, he was just sort of a dude who still lived in an 80s hair metal video. He wore a pink tasselled cowboy jacket for god’s sake.
The black lady was just a black lady, not overly strong or confident, just a normal person fish out of water.
Stop seeing things that aren’t there.
LordBritish
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chicken jockey all over my insta reels, lol
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Kids today, they won't behave.
Portugeezer
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Damn, my girlfriend wanted to see this movie... Guess I'll be watching a shit movie.
Goalus
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Sure buddy. It would have been much better if a consortium of GAF members had acquired the IP rights. The people who loudly claimed that 2.5 Billion for the Minecraft IP is overpayment seem to be particularly suitable to manage the IP
StueyDuck
Member
Does she ever scream "Awww Heeeeeeelll nooo"
that's usually the telltale sign.
JCK75
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Taking my boy to see it tomorrow.. I was dreading it but this gives me hope it won't be as bad as it looks.
pasterpl
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‘A Minecraft Movie’ throws Hollywood a lifeline, raking in $301M global debut weekend
With school spring breaks ongoing, “A Minecraft Movie” is just getting started.
DenchDeckard
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My 18 year old kid and all his mates went. They walked out as they said the cinema "Stunk" and it was all 30+ year old nerds cheering every time Jack Black spoke.
I love Jack Black but he said the smell of the cinema nearly made him and his mates throw up, so they walked out. He said he wants to watch it once the hype dies down. He said the cinema was absolutely rammed though.
I love Jack Black but he said the smell of the cinema nearly made him and his mates throw up, so they walked out. He said he wants to watch it once the hype dies down. He said the cinema was absolutely rammed though.
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kruis
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touchfuzzy
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Not sure what’s wrong with adults in your guys areas, lol. My theatre was almost exclusively birthday party groups of 8-12 year olds with parents (including us for my 10 year old’s birthday). Movie was dumb but moderately entertaining and inoffensive. Interesting that it doesn’t do any dumb adaptation himbo-jimbo and literally adapts the game world along with all its game-y mechanics, not sure I’ve ever seen that in an adaptation before.
Man, if there’s one thing most people agree that MS did right, it’s Minecraft. It could absolutely have been in worse hands.
They made a PSVR Minecraft port. It probably didn’t set the world on fire in sales.
Ironic saying this while dropping a console warring post.
Dr.Morris79
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Makes shit Minecraft film
Still wont put Minecraft on Steam
Still wont put Minecraft on Steam
pasterpl
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Interesting calling movie a shit - have you actually seen it? It is most successful video game adaptation on a big screen, achieved better results than Mario movies and it is on trajectory to generate over 1bn in revenue making it very profitable. As I said in multiple post, people forget who the target audience is for this movie.Makes shit Minecraft film
Still wont put Minecraft on Steam
Re. Steam - it is already the best selling game in the history with 350M copies sold followed by GTA5 210M copies sold. Ok is 2nd best selling game in the history if you include Tetris.
Alebrije
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The Minecraft Minions are huge , they saved they movie from a proffit point of view.
Yes is a kids movie but it's the most stupid one I have seen, Steve was Black Jack and no viceverse. The jokes we very stupid Even for kids.
This movie surpass Pixels and now is the worse videogame adaptation ever.
But well it's generating money so a second part is possible.
Yes is a kids movie but it's the most stupid one I have seen, Steve was Black Jack and no viceverse. The jokes we very stupid Even for kids.
This movie surpass Pixels and now is the worse videogame adaptation ever.
But well it's generating money so a second part is possible.
Dr.Morris79
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Nope, it looks shit.
IlGialloMondadori
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No spoilers.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Hardly -- after showing things like their AR Minecraft demo at events to drive interest, they finally released a half-ass port to PSVR which doesn't even have motion controls. It's a shoddy version where you still play the normal way with your gamepad and nothing except visuals have any VR impact at all.
In comparison, the community-built Vivecraft which has a ton of users (and ports, eg to native Quest 2/3) is like world-class software in comparison. It has natural motion controls for everything, your inventory and health on your arm, actual mapping from your motion to your character's looking and motion for better online play, tons of options for locomotion, etc.
A solid port like that to the native Quest store would sell an absolute ton--look at the ruanway success of the social games for a similar demographic like Gorilla Tag, all its clones, even the VR port of roblox. And the Quest3 could handle their original AR concept extremely well, but they'll never release that.
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Little Chicken
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I'm famous
Skifi28
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For sure, I had at least 4 people talk to me about eating chicken today.I'm famous
Little Chicken
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They didn’t show that AR Minecraft demo to ‘drive interest’. They showed it to showcase AR on the HoloLens. I doubt the demo was any more complete than what they showed.
I think your perspective is being skewed by your love for VR. Since they bought the IP, they’ve sold a metric ton of units of the games, have launched multiple spinoffs, popularized Minecraft for education and kept the IP evergreen. We’re talking In a thread about a move adaptation that will certainly make MS a ton of money.
They’ve made some strange choices, like not putting Minecraft on Steam, but overall you’d be hard pressed to find anyone say that they’ve mismanaged the IP.
-Minsc-
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Hear me guys. The church I attend holds its service in the movie theatre. For a while the Minecraft movie poster on the wall was the simple one with the lone blocky bee. "OK, cute." I thought.
One day it switched to the poster with those guys on it. I was like "What?"
Having played extensively on the old GAF Minecraft server, talk about a buzzkill.
One day it switched to the poster with those guys on it. I was like "What?"
Having played extensively on the old GAF Minecraft server, talk about a buzzkill.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Kotaku up to their old shit. When is the next round of layoffs happening?
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
The Hololens story and "Minecraft for education" are both perfect examples of what's fundamentally broken with MS.
Hololens was a complete failure, that much is already in the past now-- a failure at the hardware design level, software level, and even overall strategic level in how they tried to position it. They objectively had the biggest failure to approach VR smartly of any of the big players who invested so far, and that's pretty much the same story for all their gaming-adjacent tech ventures across decades now. These are the kind of failed bets they made which would crush any smaller company, but they have one of these every generation with their main products and keep on sailing due to the massive cash they take in from the other side of their business.
The specific bit about Hololens which mirrors their Minecraft work is how they try to find a path to profits purely through government & corporate contracts, and only tease gaming benefits for the purposes of the press. The Minecraft AR demo led to a ton of press about Hololens (and I went back and read them a few times for humor: yes, most of the articles assumed it was a real upcoming game and the future of MS in vr/ar gaming tech), but they had zero intention of making it into a real product; Hololens in practice tried to live by getting high level government and corporate niche uses, but of course that completely failed as a strategy because it was poor tech.
Likewise with Minecraft for education: it has honestly zero value added except that it's a way to package up the game for a different captive audience, education/public-sector contracts which are very lucrative. Meanwhile, they directly promised (again at big gaming events) huge updates like the graphics pack from many years ago now, which never materialized. Under their leadership, the un-modded version of Minecraft is so stagnant compared to community additions that playing the vanilla is looked at like playing 1.0 Skyrim by the community of players: basically well known to be a stagnant legacy & unmaintained piece of software you have to install for corporate reasons before you fix it with 100% necessary modding. To get things like the graphics pack which never arrived but looks better in community mods anyway.
So yes, their stewardship of the game has been awful. It's just a tool in their arsenal that they've cynically used to try and get the corporate & public sector contracts they want (education sector; military sector with hololens, though it failed there of course, etc), with zero ability to actually move it forward for the gamers. This is who they are: they purchase things in order to reroute them to a different product center, and gaming is never really on the map strategically.
It had some finger wagging about toxic masculinity but less than it could have been.
Also, the sassy black lady actually doesn't end up saving everyone at the end.
The two white guys do most of the hard work and end up being the heroes along with the white kid.
So not the usual trash.
Also, the sassy black lady actually doesn't end up saving everyone at the end.
The two white guys do most of the hard work and end up being the heroes along with the white kid.
So not the usual trash.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
I don't even remember any uses of the word "toxic" -- could be forgetting something.
In any case, the men are the stars of the show and it's pretty (amusingly) obvious that the sister and black lady are sort of superfluous plot additions with no real purpose or impact on anything, lol -- except that the sister gives a vague domestic conflict for the boy, who is essentially then proven right in his inventive pursuits, in contrast to her former scolding. So it's one of those cases where the surface of the film already rejects any message they may or may not have wanted to insert into dialogue.
Goalus
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It doesn't make sense to put it on Steam for the same reason Fortnite is not on Steam.Makes shit Minecraft film
Still wont put Minecraft on Steam
Yeah I was pleasantly surprised when the women in the movie were mostly in a helper role and they ended up not really being the focus. Not a cinematic masterpiece or anything but it was a breath of fresh air compared to the Disney stuff lately. I'd recommend it for families with kids. I chuckled a few times myself. All you can ask for from movies like this.
near
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It was always going to do big numbers regardless of reviews. Never underestimate Minecraftians, a bunch of psycho kids.‘A Minecraft Movie’ throws Hollywood a lifeline, raking in $301M global debut weekend
With school spring breaks ongoing, “A Minecraft Movie” is just getting started.fortune.com