Maybe I’m in a minority, but I thought Titanic was a bunch of melodramatic crap when there were more interesting true stories that the movie could have been about.
I guess I’m one of those people who would rather watch a low-budget movie with a good story than a big-budget movie with a lot of spectacle but a bad story. But I do understand people going to see a movie just for the spectacle. I’ve done it before. I just usually regret it.
I think it is a kind of spectacle that just doesn’t exist anymore. For example, going to a Marvel movie for the effects is sort of like watching a video game. When everything is pure CGI, it loses the appeal (for me).
But Titanic was right at the cusp of that. There is CGI, but there’s also bigatures and miniature work and practical effects, etc etc etc. In many ways it is James Cameron at his peak.
But totally agree that the plot is pretty corny and it could have been much better as a more historically-focused film which didn’t spend most of the time on a relatively generic love story.
I could go either way on this one. There’s no great cache of lore to betray, and everybody already sort of plays Minecraft how they want. It actually could work as a fairly generic but charming Jumanji clone.
It could also suck donkey cubes. I’m just saying the licensed IP isn’t really going to make or break this one.
The few bits of lore that exist are probably going to be fumbled. I really do hope they do just have herobrine in the background of some scene. The trailer looks like they are going all in on hoglins, which I’m completely meh on. Endermen are probably too scary for a little kid movie tho.
I’m looking forward to the part where his character’s best friend says “please don’t miss next time,” and then he never talks to his friend again even though they were equally important to the plot up until that moment
Naw, it’ll just play a metal-hitting-metal sound effect, he’ll brief make eye contact with the camera, give a little smirk, and the scene will continue with no further acknowledgement.
Who do you think is buying the movie tickets? Is your little cousin gonna smash his piggy bank and pay the $35 ticket with his leftover pennies and nickels?
It’s adults. Adults pay to watch the movies. I’d happily pay to watch Shrek again in theaters.
Lol parents are paying. And parents don’t give a single shit if the movie the kids want to see is good or not, we expect the worst. We sat through the emoji movie and every Minion thrown at us.
I doubt you have kids so you’re not paying for anything here.
Besides stop acting like you’re funding the movie and demand returns. If you don’t wanna see it don’t. Show them your disdain by withholding your money. But don’t get mad when it’s a big hit with kids and it makes a fortune.
Yeah, but they pay for their kids to watch. Similar to how adults will happily pay to send their kids to summer camp: it’s mindless daycare and the adults get to switch off for a while.
The best pieces of children’s cinema are always those with good writing that can simultaneously entertain and respect both the children and the adults in the teather. Everything else is rightfully forgotten as dumb slop. Pandering to little children humor is always a sure way for IPs to die in obscurity.
Most people don’t want their kids eating slop all the time.
Beyond that Minecraft is a considerably old game now, especially if you got into it in the very early days. It shouldn’t be surprising that there are older people paying attention to this.
I was in notch’s old threads on /v/ in the very beginning back as a young teen (yes 4chan, I was totally 18 years old, pinky swear). I’m in my 30s and have a kid now who is too young to play, but I will probably introduce her at an appropriate age if she likes computer games.
I’m not raging or anything, but I’m definitely paying attention enough to know if this movie is garbage to steer my kid away from in the future.
If they do not kill an Ender Dragon after first dying 40 times with unenchanted armor trying to blow up those things on the obsidian towers, I WILL SET FIRE TO THE THEATER!!! RESPECT MY GAMING EXPERIENCE!!!
I have played Minecraft for maybe only like 50 hours, and I’ve never done anything but just free build with no purpose, enemies or anything. I just use the game to build stuff that pops into my head. I’ve never actually played it to fight monsters or story mode or anything
All my nephews/nieces and my own kids can’t wait to see it. So clearly it’s working for the demographic it’s targeted at. You’re not the target audience. Additionally this is Minecraft ffs, not metal Gear solid.
So how about a movie that I’m the target demographic of: Borderlands, Clear example of hollywood not sticking to source materials and aiming for a quick, lazy cashgrab. Thankfully it backfired.
This looks to be the same recipe, throw some well known actors in, type out a generic story vaguely inspired by the source material, slap the vfx team on it and call it a day.
They are disrespecting the franchises they depict and by letting it be we show them it’s okay to do so.
Kids don’t know what’s good or how to spot a lazy cashgrab. Most of them haven’t been deceived by greed yet, this could be it. I think they deserve better.
Pythaggregator
The Picard Maneuver
Inventory is stored in the cubes
Surely they’re his blocks
“Oof. Right in the blocks”
“What a load of absolute blocks”
“It’s the dog’s blocks”
Camera zoom into extreme closeup. “oh… blocks”.
Yep, that’s the one.
Cubic warming is getting out of hand, I swear! I’m sweating my blocks off.
oblate cuboid
isnt it more of an endless plane that gets more laggy the closer you get to the end?
Imagine the voxels on that one.
Only in the British version.
This is one of those movies I will only learn about through memes.
ive experienced this effect with the movie titanic
never seen it, know the entire plot through memes/parody
Titanic is actually worth a watch though. Whereas for Minecraft, I found even the teaser to be a challenge.
I just watched the trailer. Jesus Christ that looks awful.
A teaser is of course just a teaser and not the final product.
It can still be redeemed. Look at Sonic.
Sonic just needed a new CGI model to fix.
Minecraft would have to change, well, everything.
Still better than Borderlands where they would have had to change the entire cast.
Yeah, I don’t have an issue with the actors (aside from Jack Black and Jason Momoa’s hair).
Maybe I’m in a minority, but I thought Titanic was a bunch of melodramatic crap when there were more interesting true stories that the movie could have been about.
That’s fair. But it’s worth watching even just for the effects and set work.
I guess I’m one of those people who would rather watch a low-budget movie with a good story than a big-budget movie with a lot of spectacle but a bad story. But I do understand people going to see a movie just for the spectacle. I’ve done it before. I just usually regret it.
I think it is a kind of spectacle that just doesn’t exist anymore. For example, going to a Marvel movie for the effects is sort of like watching a video game. When everything is pure CGI, it loses the appeal (for me).
But Titanic was right at the cusp of that. There is CGI, but there’s also bigatures and miniature work and practical effects, etc etc etc. In many ways it is James Cameron at his peak.
But totally agree that the plot is pretty corny and it could have been much better as a more historically-focused film which didn’t spend most of the time on a relatively generic love story.
its almost a principal at this point.
admittedly, no semblance of logic at play... I spose ill get to it someday
Sufficient
I was thinking about this recently. There’s a lot of bad movies that come out every year since forever. Usually, they just kind of disappear and die.
But only thanks to social media have we had a way to mock the studio.
I’m just imagining the memes made of bad movies from the 2000s.
Back then you had to wait for the SNL or MAD skit or Weird Al to make a song.
I could go either way on this one. There’s no great cache of lore to betray, and everybody already sort of plays Minecraft how they want. It actually could work as a fairly generic but charming Jumanji clone.
It could also suck donkey cubes. I’m just saying the licensed IP isn’t really going to make or break this one.
The few bits of lore that exist are probably going to be fumbled. I really do hope they do just have herobrine in the background of some scene. The trailer looks like they are going all in on hoglins, which I’m completely meh on. Endermen are probably too scary for a little kid movie tho.
Not those guys who melt in the rain and can be dealt with by sloshing a bucket of water on them! Or just standing under a low overhang…
Even the Daleks eventually figured out how to fly up stairs.
truly the low hanging fruit of a joke
Whoever wrote it should get the sack.
Certainly nut the most creative joke
You guys are testiN my patience.
Someone needed to make that joke and I just happened to have the cojones to do it.
Eh, don’t get twisted up about it. They took a crack at it, that’s what counts. Some times you have to feel around for the right joke.
It certainly is
Everything in Minecraft is cubes so expect the cube humor. Testicles are particularly humorous so I have confidence in this prediction.
Look at the brass cubes on this guy!
Remember when JB said, “I blacked out. Did something important happen?” in borderlands.
Me either, but he did, and we’re gonna get that joke again too.
I don’t but if i had i would have used that line with my friends when the credits rolled
Ack! My voxels!
We’re really achieving the prophecy that is Idiocracy.
On the bright side we do end up with president Camacho in that timeline.
At least Camacho was smart enough to listen to the world’s smartest person’s advice.
Bitch better have my money…
Black is just playing his character from Tropic Thunder.
Idiocracy is the 1984 for film nerds
Note that Idiocracy and Youtube premiered around the same time…
That username is great! Sunny Day Real Estate is one of my favorite bands.
Probably a pixelation joke too for nudity that the kids won’t get but the adults will.
I’m looking forward to the part where his character’s best friend says “please don’t miss next time,” and then he never talks to his friend again even though they were equally important to the plot up until that moment
And I’m gonna giggle like a little girl when it happens.
Pics or it didn’t happen? (Will that work? We’ll find out!:-)
Naw, it’ll just play a metal-hitting-metal sound effect, he’ll brief make eye contact with the camera, give a little smirk, and the scene will continue with no further acknowledgement.
What’s with all the 40 year olds in basements bitching about this movie? It’s not for you dude
Who do you think is buying the movie tickets? Is your little cousin gonna smash his piggy bank and pay the $35 ticket with his leftover pennies and nickels?
It’s adults. Adults pay to watch the movies. I’d happily pay to watch Shrek again in theaters.
Lol parents are paying. And parents don’t give a single shit if the movie the kids want to see is good or not, we expect the worst. We sat through the emoji movie and every Minion thrown at us.
I doubt you have kids so you’re not paying for anything here.
Besides stop acting like you’re funding the movie and demand returns. If you don’t wanna see it don’t. Show them your disdain by withholding your money. But don’t get mad when it’s a big hit with kids and it makes a fortune.
Yeah, but they pay for their kids to watch. Similar to how adults will happily pay to send their kids to summer camp: it’s mindless daycare and the adults get to switch off for a while.
The best pieces of children’s cinema are always those with good writing that can simultaneously entertain and respect both the children and the adults in the teather. Everything else is rightfully forgotten as dumb slop. Pandering to little children humor is always a sure way for IPs to die in obscurity.
Ahh I see. You’re the type of person to pull out their phone in the theater. 👍
Most people don’t want their kids eating slop all the time.
Beyond that Minecraft is a considerably old game now, especially if you got into it in the very early days. It shouldn’t be surprising that there are older people paying attention to this.
I was in notch’s old threads on /v/ in the very beginning back as a young teen (yes 4chan, I was totally 18 years old, pinky swear). I’m in my 30s and have a kid now who is too young to play, but I will probably introduce her at an appropriate age if she likes computer games.
I’m not raging or anything, but I’m definitely paying attention enough to know if this movie is garbage to steer my kid away from in the future.
I was an adult when Minecraft was new and I played the shit out of it back then.
If they do not kill an Ender Dragon after first dying 40 times with unenchanted armor trying to blow up those things on the obsidian towers, I WILL SET FIRE TO THE THEATER!!! RESPECT MY GAMING EXPERIENCE!!!
Meanwhile every Minecraft youtuber: beats the dragon in twenty minutes Okay, now we can get started…
I have played Minecraft for maybe only like 50 hours, and I’ve never done anything but just free build with no purpose, enemies or anything. I just use the game to build stuff that pops into my head. I’ve never actually played it to fight monsters or story mode or anything
Plenty of non 30+ years old have the same complaints, we just happen to be on a platform that not a lot of young people use.
All my nephews/nieces and my own kids can’t wait to see it. So clearly it’s working for the demographic it’s targeted at. You’re not the target audience. Additionally this is Minecraft ffs, not metal Gear solid.
So how about a movie that I’m the target demographic of: Borderlands, Clear example of hollywood not sticking to source materials and aiming for a quick, lazy cashgrab. Thankfully it backfired. This looks to be the same recipe, throw some well known actors in, type out a generic story vaguely inspired by the source material, slap the vfx team on it and call it a day.
They are disrespecting the franchises they depict and by letting it be we show them it’s okay to do so. Kids don’t know what’s good or how to spot a lazy cashgrab. Most of them haven’t been deceived by greed yet, this could be it. I think they deserve better.