A Minecraft Movie

this is gonna be one of those films that becomes popular and successful entirely through irony and then hollywood decides 'we don't need to put any effort into making vidya game movies, people will see them if they look terrible!' right
 
Adding to my last comment, methinks they are ripping off Minecraft Legends with this plot. "OoOoh piglins are attacking the overworld without ever zombifying and its up to you to stop them OoOoOo"

And @SparksMarioWiki is right; the animated versions of the trailer are way better.

To be critically honest, Minecraft: Story Mode is gonna be better than this monstrosity of a video game movie for money. (Again, I bet even the animated Netfilx series that's coming eventually will make more money and be ten times better)
 
If I was making the Minecraft movie, I'd make the main character alone for most of the runtime, and have little to no dialogue, I think my ideal Minecraft movie would walk the line of being almost frustratingly boring at some points, and I'm not kidding.

It would also need to be a little spooky. I'd want to give children nightmares about endermen.
 
So I've seen a new scene from the movie floating around, it's quite short, and it's actually a longer cut of one of the scenes that was already in the first teaser trailer, specifically when Garrett (Jason Momoa's character) makes buckets and shouts "Kadoosh!"

 
I have hope this won't be the worst thing ever, as in the info they showed in Minecraft live it feels like they're not completely clueless as to what they're doing. (Well either that or they're just really convincing)
 
Personally not sure whether or not this will be good-it all depends on execution. Like, sure having the characters look live-action looks weird but that doesn't I think necessarily mean it won't be done well. I guess we'll see. There have been movies before that had trailers people thought looked stupid and then when they started showing they actually did well, so.....

peachie said:
that looks plain horrible. they should have done animated, not live action XD
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I wish somebody would tell Disney that when it comes to those awful live-action remakes of their most-liked animated films and cartoons........😒
 
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Okay so I've just seen the new trailer and it's definitely looking a bit better now. It's good to see C418's music appear in this trailer, even if only somewhat briefly. I still think it probably won't be great, but it looks okay ish at this point, in any case I definitely will watch it.
 
"As a child I yearned for the mines"
I'm sorry, the opening is so weird.
 
Looks like the Shrek trailer wasn't the only thing to drop on my birthday - WB has released the final trailer for the Minecraft Movie



I definitely think that I'll see this movie and that I'm much more optimistic about it than I was when the first trailer dropped, but I still don't think it looks particularly great and still find the animation style a little bit cursed particularly since it's mixed with a live action main cast.
 
Zatanna said:
Looks like the Shrek trailer wasn't the only thing to drop on my birthday - WB has released the final trailer for the Minecraft Movie



I definitely think that I'll see this movie and that I'm much more optimistic about it than I was when the first trailer dropped, but I still don't think it looks particularly great and still find the animation style a little bit cursed particularly since it's mixed with a live action main cast.
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Agree with ya there! This movie looks so much better that I might just go to see it. It's also great to see Jack Black having a blast; he seems genuinely lively.
 
The movie's animation style is just "Minecraft graphics will look like this in 2060".
 
I've just seen this movie, and I'm going to be frank, this movie is so cringe it loops right back around to being entertaining.

The entire movie feels like a lazy cash grab "here's minecraft but it's on the big screen", written by people who fundamentally don't understand what made Minecraft such a great game. The story is entirely predictable, cliché, non-engaging, and full of clearly forced plot points that make no sense whatsoever. It feels like it was written by an AI, yet somehow worse. The visuals are a cursed mixture of live action and animation, and I still have mixed to negative feelings about how the mobs look. The introduction to the movie feels like some incredibly rushed exposition, followed by a brief intro to the Minecraft world, followed by an overly drawn-out exposition of the main cast back in the real world. The movie has no good characters, Steve feels like a walking tutorial voice (though at least Jack Black brings energy to the character), and the main villain is a particularly bad offender, her backstory is so dumb it's actually laughable. But props for including Pigstep in this movie I guess. The writing is incredibly cringe (e.g. "unalive", the unfunny butchered Spanish), and full of extremely forced lines, with a particularly bad offender being:
The name drop near the end of the movie, "first we mine... then we craft ... Let's minecraft"

This movie is supposed to be being about how special creativity is (which indeed is one of the biggest if not the biggest reason Minecraft is such a great game), yet I struggle to think of anything more they do to convey this with the Minecraft world beyond some kid building a tater tot cannon.

The movie is full infuriating inconsistencies not only to the game it's based on but also to its own logic. Like they say "villagers are vegetarians" only to show minutes later a villager running a stand where chickens are brutally killed by lava for a food stall (and yet the movie's credits have the gall to say "no animals were harmed in the making of this film", not to mention the multiple times the human characters are seen eating real meat, where do they think that comes from?), and the village features fishermen and butchers.
Steve having a Creeper farm literally in the middle of his minecraft railway is incredibly dumb and blatantly forced, not to mention that that the only way to get only Creepers to spawn is to use trapdoors to limit spawn height, which we can evidently see is not what is happening in Steve's farm.

And the movie references that iron golems attack only when provoked, which seems like an accurate reference to the game.... except that those iron golems were player-built not naturally spawned so the "neutral mob" rule doesn't apply to player-built golems AND even if it did, that rule is irrelevant to piglins, whom iron golems attack anyway without provocation needed.
Steve somehow has multiple Elytra despite the fact that there's no way he could have visited the End dimension. Winged boots are a thing in this movie despite not existing in game at all, and.
are used to create a stronger version of the iron golem, which also does not exist in the game at all.

Now one complaint I did have about the movie before it came out was that the Piglins are a poor choice for the main villains, and the Illagers would've been better, but at least it was good that Illagers and the Woodland Mansion did appear in-game. That said, it's a shame we never saw the Evokers/Vexes magic in action, and movie is horribly innaccurate with the third floor having a ton of treasure guarded by an Enderman, not to mention how unbelievably dumb the team's plan of invading the mansion is when they could've just towered to the third floor to avoid all the Illagers and worn a pumpkin to avoid the Enderman's gaze.

I also didn't really like the subplot with the Villager who goes to the human world and falls in love with a human, I just found it kind of weird/cringe.

Garrett's sacrifice was also very poorly done in my opinion, there was literally no reason he needed to "sacrifice" himself, it was so obvious that Garrett didn't really die, and it was so obvious when Henry was falling that Garrett was going to save him.

Now I get this movie is for kids but in no way is that an excuse for being as lazy and cringe as this movie is. Like, MLP G5 gets a fair amount of hate for being too targeted at kids, which I personally feel is undeserved, because at least they put effort into doing a good job of it and I definitely still love watching MLP G5 even as an adult. But that's not what I'm seeing from A Minecraft Movie.

The redeeming factors for this movie are extremely few and far between, I liked the orchestral remix of C418's "Minecraft" (though this movie absolutely SHOULD have featured far more songs from the game, as it is I believe it's only this one and Lena Raine's Pigstep), and
the Technoblade tribute "is that a king... no, that's a legend." This was my favourite part of the movie. Technoblade Never Dies.

I also enjoyed Jeb's cameo in this movie as the waiter at the restaurant.

Finally, I also did stay behind and saw the post-credits scene, and it's good that Alex appears since I always preferred her to Steve, but I'm not sure if they'll be a sequel and if there is I don't know how to feel about that.

Overall, A Minecraft Movie is easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen, it is a lazy cash grab movie full of cringe writing and clichés, and does very few things well. It's considerably worse than I expected based on the trailers, even prior to the second trailer which had at the time made me a bit more optimistic. But as I said before, it's badness wraps all the way round into being funny and entertaining, and I don't regret going to see this movie, because I wanted to see what it was like after we've been waiting for A Minecraft Movie for a decade. I would rate A Minecraft Movie a 2/10, but I wouldn't discourage others going to see it if they'd like to.
 
According to MiracleDinner and Wikipedia, the general consensus is that the movie received mixed to negative reviews. It seems this film is a weird uneven combination of pleasing the Minecraft fandom and writing a good movie for everyone, even having famous Minecraft YouTubers cameo in the film. As a result, those unfamiliar with the game itself will have no clue what's going on. Of course, the film also looks to be a cash grab. Jason Mamoa and Jack Black have received high praise though!

If I ever do get the chance to see this film, I'll take it. I'm curious to see what I'd think of the movie after seeing it myself. Who knows? Maybe it'll be better than I expected, surpassing my expectations even.
 
I might watch it just because it's Minecraft. But it's a shame that it sounds like a lot of fans didn't like it, a lot of critics didn't like it, or both. MiracleDinner's bad review of it makes me kind of hesitant to watch it.

Green Arrow said:
Now I get this movie is for kids but in no way is that an excuse for being as lazy and cringe as this movie is. Like, MLP G5 gets a fair amount of hate for being too targeted at kids, which I personally feel is undeserved, because at least they put effort into doing a good job of it and I definitely still love watching MLP G5 even as an adult. But that's not what I'm seeing from A Minecraft Movie.
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MLP G5 gets hate for being "too targeted at kids" when it's part of a kids' brand of plastic toys made by a kids' toy brand? Yeah, that makes sense (sarcasm!). 🤣

Like seriously a lot of adults liked Friendship Is Magic but even that wasn't aimed at adults; it was aimed at kids. Like, come on, let's all be honest with ourselves here.

The argument about MLP G5 being "too kiddy" also especially seems ironic given that adults really like Bluey as it's not an "exceptional" kid show objectively, although I recently also became a fan of it so that might make me a hypocrite LOL.

All these statements by me are all a bit off topic though; sounds like the Minecraft movie did terribly unfortunately.

Ok never mind apparently it's doing well; it's just that initially people haven't really liked its art style. It's a big hit though. Maybe Princess Viola was right and this'll be a big hit and be popular entirely through irony.
 
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