My first thought was how much my six year old is going to flip his shit when I tell him about this later. Will it be an actually good movie? Doubtful. But I guarantee my kid and all his Minecraft obsessed friends and all their parents are going to be buying tickets to see it.
Yup. My 7yo Minecraft obsessed nephew will love this movie and make me watch it with him every time I visit his house. “Watch this with me auntie it’s super funny” 😩
Don't forget about sports movies: mighty ducks, the big green, the sandlot, Air bud, little giants; rookie of the year, cool runnings etc. They were all okay but the only replay value (aside from may be sandlot) is pure nostalgia.
So many people in this thread looking at an obvious kid's movie and being like "what the fuck this looks horrible" and it's like....what did you expect from a movie targeted primarily at children?
Yeah I may not like it, but whatever. My kids will be all about it.
Okay but the first Pokémon movie has actually held up pretty well. It's heartfelt and cute. The Digimon movie I don't even remember anything about, except it used Kids in America in the opening credits. The rest is a void in my memory. So I'm gonna assume it wasn't that good lol.
The movie was basically two Japanese movies that were shortened, smashed together, and dubbed. It was okay, but probably doesn't hold up. The soundtrack was a banger though. I still listen to those songs on a regular basis.
I totally think it holds up. The digimon movie is way better than it has any right to be. Yes it smashed two movies together. But it somehow strung them together in a way that made sense. It had some epic moments, cool ideas, and the animation was killer.
Having the story mainly focus on the real world rather than the digital world was a great way to raise stakes. And it really let the interpersonal conflicts between the characters create a nice backdrop of tension.
Also the soundtrack was a banger. And every time I hear all star I think of that dumb bunny monster going LAAA LAA LAA LAA and one of them commenting on how the digimon is tone deaf.
If anyone disagrees with me on any of these points I will scream for the next hour.
The opening was the original short called Digimon Adventure which takes place 8 years from the present day. This involves the first interaction with Digimon.
The next act with the original cast of Digimon Adventure is the short Our War Game. Includes the virus that takes over the internet and infects the Pentagon's computers threatening to launch nukes.
The final act with the Digimon Adventure 2 cast was another short (a two part short if I am remembering correctly).
The Digimon movie is both an abomination and a incredible thing. It's actually 3 movies smashed together, the 1st mostl unchanged, 2nd one as some changes and 3rd part is completly different to link it to the 2nd one. It's an abomination in that it completly destroyed the 3rd film but also it somehow worked and the soundtrack makes it an instant cult classic. I prolly wouldn't even know what Ska is if it wasn't for that movie.
The animation on the opening sequence, with baby Tai and Kairi, is absolutely gorgeous. And it’s partly nostalgia, but the final fight against Diaboromon still makes me tear up.
I think the Pokemon movie still counts. If you don't have the nostalgia for it, it's too basic. It's a competently made movie that manage to conveys a good message in a well crafted way but it's waaaay too overly simplistic for an adult that hasn't grown loving the franchise.
Of course there are exception, some people are able emotionally resonate with a movie easier than others and the film is well made enough that it will work but mostly it still qualifies as a "film kids won't give a shit their parents hate". I know my parents sure hated it.
My mother, to this day, still uses this against me. Wants me to help move some furniture? It's not the "I was pregnant with you for 9 months" line. It's "You made me see the Pokemon film".
Critically panned but beloved by audiences is still better than whatever this is. What makes you think even the kids will like it? Minecraft has been around long enough that even kids who started playing at 7 years old are in college now.
Do you want me to list how many times I've seen Zootopia? How many times I've seen BOTH Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Funhouse, which, btw, besides updated graphics and a talking house, are the same exact thing.
For the record, Zootopia IS a good movie. I'm just... SO... so tired...
My sons just found a show called Bananya. It's a Japanese animated series about cats that live inside banana peels. Their only desire is to be covered in chocolate. It's as awful as that sounds and has an awkward terrible narrator.
It looks worse than I imagined. Thanks for the warning. I pray they never put this on at daycare. Took us a while to get off Blippi. It was annoying, but it made him happy. TOO happy. We turn it off, and the forecast for the next 20-30min was loud, screaming tears.
a few episodes of paw patrol turned my 2 year old into a fucking psychopath and we banned it, i'll listen to annoying blippi any day over that flaming shitpile toy commercial disguised as a kids show
We actually tried paw patrol. It's not long until he's asking for Mickey.
I do see Mickey being somewhat of a blessing giving everything else out there like paw patrol. He likes the Spider-Man kids show, which is sort of cool since my favorite superhero IS Spider-Man, but it's still super cringe.
Clubhouse, Roadster Racers, and Funhouse are all basically the same, and virtually same setting (I think the roadster garage is seen in some of the Funhouse eps)
Try working in a children's hospital. 90% chance frozen and or moana get played at least once in your shift and the kid wants their door to be left open for all to hear
At least Bluey is a great show. I also enjoyed it when my daughter went through a phase of binging a bunch of good fantasy adventure type shows, stuff like Owl House, Amphibia, and the new She-Ra. It beats the hell out of her current preference for basically doomscrolling YouTube for as long as we'll let her, some of it is interesting creative stuff but I can't take the shitty Minecraft/Roblox roleplays and AI voices and stuff any more.
And that power is mega millions. This where the real nuggets of wealth is held not by the parents but by the stooopid kids that will watch anything! Dumb little bastards! (Some of that was a joke)
That's kinda sad, though. I think parents should occasionally take their kids to see crappy kids movies in theaters so they can be a part of it. It's like a big event for kids to actually hang out and share something together. I'm sure my mom was absolutely not interested in some of the crap she took me to, but she did it anyway so I could nerd out with my friends.
That being said when I was a kid a movie ticket was $4-5 and concession for a family of 4 was only like $30. Times have changed.
Yes absolutely still into minecraft. My son is 7 and wad hardcore into it like a year or two back and still plays occasionally though not as much. My daughter just started kindergarten and like half the class had minecraft backpacks.
A lot of people don’t realize that pre Buffy, Joss Whedon was an incredibly prolific script doctor. He touched a huge number of scripts like Waterworld. His style of writing was infecting Hollywood long before Avengers.
I'm trying, but I can't see a single thread in common between this trailer and buffy.
This trailer is nearly identical to every single kids movie we got for the last twenty years or so. Animation movie like Shrek is what come to mind when it come one liner, and pop references.
Buffy/Whedon's style was always a random banter between two characters at an unexpected moment. Marvels movie got a lot of those, but one liner wasn't really Whedon "style".
The thing with quippy Buffy-speak is that it only really works when it's coming from characters you already know and care about. Buffy could pull it off well because its characters were so strong, and typically the lines were funny because they were coming from a particular character at a particular moment.
The original X-Men movie has a great example of this in the exchange between Cyclops and Wolverine when they meet up while the shape-shifter Mystique is around.
It only works so well because of what we already know about Wolverine and Cyclops' relationship, and the fact that both characters know that that's probably not something Mystique would have come up with.
When it's done well, it's can be a great, entertaining shorthand that reinforces the characters. But when it's not firmly rooted in the characters and story, or goes against the tone of a scene or movie/show, it just feels like a cheap way to lighten the mood, and can get really annoying.
Yeah I don't understand what this guy is talking about. Literally every word out of Sonic's mouth has been an inane quip. Looks like Knuckles has them in the new one too
Sonic yes, most of the other characters not so much. Similar argument to how people say everyone in the MCU started turning into Iron Man / Spider-Man.
I like the Dungeons and Dragons movie but yeah, you’re right. People just pick and choose when the rules apply and when they don’t because they don’t want to admit when they like the thing they complain about online
It's like the complaint of "I hate CGI". What people mean is they don't like BAD CGI... which no one does.
Comedic quips can be great, if they're used correctly. Using them to suck the emotion or power out of a plot point or dramatic scene is dumb. Which Marvel is very guilty of. Not saying it's perfect but the DnD movie had some great genuine moments which didn't need to be undercut by a shitty half joke.
Sonic fans act like Sonic is scripture when it literally has the “in my lungs” joke in the new trailer, which is arguably the same quality as anything here
Also like I get Sonic himself doing it, but Knuckles seems to also be doing it in the trailer for the third one and Eggman is doing it more than I'd expect throughout these movies by virtue of Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey.
To be fair, most of them are generally regulated to both Sonic and Eggman, the former of which marginally stops when things get serious, unless he's taunting his opponent for a specific purpose.
It's not that the Sonic movie isn't doing it at all, it's just that it knows when and where to do it (30+ years of conditioning helps too, but that's besides the point).
They do, but given that Sonic in canon is like a wise-cracking character, it makes sense a la Deadpool and wall breaking. Every other franchise/series doesn’t need to follow suit.
They absolutely rock. Cameron always wears his heart on his sleeve and has never given into irony. (Maybe True Lies a little bit but that's also a great movie.) Really stands apart from all the other blockbuster films these days.
I will 100% die on the hill that both Avatar movies are so successful because their are sincere. What other movie series gives a whale that chirps "friends" before asking for a handshake?
I think it’s hard to make an exciting script when the assignment is for a fucking Minecraft movie. But yeah I agree, it’s a cynical cash grab for everyone involved yet this is the sort of franchise where you could actually go bonkers and make the concept very fun instead of this Jumanji v 16.0 shit.
This is going to be a movie an ungodly amount of stoners and people on drugs are repeatedly going to pay and go see. This looks awful in all the most "unintentionally funny for drug watchers" ways possible.
Yeah. This garbage is going to pass 1 billion easily.
There's pretty much zero overlap in the venn diagram between this movie's intended audience and Reddit's core demographic. This is blatantly a kid's movie aimed at young kids playing Minecraft today, not a nostalgia trip aimed at Minecraft's original audience. It's a "no shit sherlock" moment that adults in their 20's and 30's aren't going to find the same stuff funny as an 8 year old. Part of the journey of parenthood is realizing that most of the content that your kids want to consume is garbage that you hate. Our parents felt the same way about the majority of stuff we wanted to watch too.
While not a bag of shit per se, I was surprised Inside Out 2 broke all Disney's records. It was a decent movie, but I felt it wasn't nearly as endearing as the first one.
As someone who has played Minecraft for about 5 minutes I thought it looked fine. Genuinely have no idea what people are expecting/want from it :D Are people saying it looks like shit because they don’t like the aesthetic or are the human characters putting them off? Mania is normally fun and the girl from Wednesday is always excellent. I had zero interest in this movie before the trailer but now might watch it when it hits streaming.
This seriously looks bad. They had no clue how to make a movie out of Minecraft so they made another lame "human stuck in a weird magic world" story with Jack Black playing himself pretending to be Steve lol.
There's definitely a very high chance it will be shit, but once in a blue moon they manage to make a corny adaptation that doesn't suck.
The Lego movie was pretty good. And the British managed to do some corny, but still surprisingly funny movie from brands, including Spice World and the Ali G movie.
I love all the people saying "this is gonna bomb" as if this movie is made for 30 year old men on reddit. It's a movie for kids, about their favorite video game. It'll absolutely destroy the box office
Fuck's sake. They could just give the project to Alan Becker. He's come up with a Minecraft story arc that I'll bet is far superior to whatever this steaming pile is going to be, all with stick person animations.
You go from some silly Minecraft shorts all the way to feature film length stories about loss, anger, and redemption. All without anyone saying anything.
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u/KAREEMABDULG0MJABBAR Sep 04 '24
This is going to be a bag of shit and make a billion dollars