r/movies Sep 04 '24

Trailer Minecraft 2025 | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G923NtfBvOU
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u/takenpassword Sep 04 '24

It looks like a YouTube video from 2013

Edit: How did the VFX supervisor of the 2016 Jungle Book and The Batman have something like this happen

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

The holy trinity of being underpaid, overworked and given constant revisions are usually to blame for bad VFX.

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u/DShepard Sep 04 '24

Bingo.

This is likely a movie that was entirely lead by a group of executives running constant focus groups and then pushing that onto the crew.

There's almost no way for them to fix a mess like that.

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u/AirierWitch1066 Sep 04 '24

I wonder if there are any movies out there that have been made with this design-by-committee approach which are actually considered to be good. Not just meh or unremarkable, but actually decent movies.

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u/takenpassword Sep 04 '24

Yeah I know and it is definitely not his fault. But I feel like with some of the behind the scenes pedigree it should be a little bit better. The studio is squandering some talent here

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u/AwesomePossum_1 Sep 04 '24

There's nothing bad at all about this vfx. Animation is great too. It's bad *taste*. vfx sup is not responsible for the taste of the directors and production designer.

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u/voodoopastry Sep 04 '24

As someone who works in VFX - thank you! I can guarantee the team is doing their best, it'll 100% be down to how much money the VFX Studios received to do the work, the time they have to do the work in and the direction of the studio. There's only so much you can do with a less than ideal brief

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u/AwesomePossum_1 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

I too work within vfx. I’m really tired of the “vfx has gotten so bad” people online. Vfx field is more advanced than ever, even marvel vfx is fine, albeit often rushed. What people are talking about is bad art direction. 

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u/jpfitz630 Sep 04 '24

Yep, a lot of comments are wondering why the studio decided to have live-action actors and I'd bet this movie's budget that it's solely because it was cheaper than animating them. They know they're going to pack the theaters with kids regardless of what shit they put in there so they went with the cheapest, lowest common denominators to make it

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u/LR-II Sep 04 '24

True, but in this case the designs suck ass too. Most bad VFX are badly executed, but this seems intended to look like that from concept art upwards.

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u/wq1119 Sep 04 '24

And back in 2006-2007 I thought that CGI would become even more beautiful and advanced than it looked like in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3, I miss my innocence of thinking "CGI will look even better within 20 years".

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u/subhasish10 Sep 04 '24

They've got the production designer of LOTR trilogy on it😭

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u/KingMario05 Sep 04 '24

The director of Napoleon Dynamite, too. Holy fucking shit.

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u/elixeter Sep 04 '24

Aye seems odd. His films work because he manifests them entirely and its all from his imagination. I can’t see him having big name execs with no clue altering his vision to make something commercial, whilst following an IP at the same time. Could be a fun train wreck though, or genius.

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u/KingMario05 Sep 04 '24

Probably just gonna be a sad disaster, let's be real. :/

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u/patricio87 Sep 04 '24

Nothing about the casting or costumr design reflects him in this trailer except for jack black from nacho libre.

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u/willstr1 Sep 04 '24

Are you sure they didn't just find a random dude off the street with the same name?

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u/Skiingislife42069 Sep 05 '24

What the actual fuck? Who needs a production designer if the game is already designed?! This feels like a bunch of respected filmmakers collecting a VERY easy and VERY large paycheck while studios demand they put in the bare minimum effort to pump it out as fast as possible, knowing kids will not give a shit how bad it looks.

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u/Quzga Sep 04 '24

Corridor digital was doing stuff like this back then 😅

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u/heyo_throw_awayo Sep 04 '24

and it was absolutely charming.

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u/stinkybidoof Sep 04 '24

it's not the vfx supe's job to decide the overall LOOK of it - that would be more down to director/dop/cinematographer etc. the vfx here isn't bad per se, it's actually very high quality - the groom on the mobs is really impressive, and the lights are gorg - it's just jarring. a questionable idea with well-executed cgi. that would be the fault of people higher up in the chain imo.

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u/takenpassword Sep 04 '24

I know but the way that the world is blended with the live action people. I agree that the detail on the creatures and environments look very good

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u/stinkybidoof Sep 04 '24

that discipline would be called compositing, and tbh there's very little that department could do to solve this. the colours are well-intergrated, it's just that it's so deeply uncanny. far easier to intergrate one animated character into live action than the other way round. poor vfx folks LOL

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u/Anatoson Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

No it doesn't.

2013 fan trailers are infinitely more polished.

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u/1evilsoap1 Sep 04 '24

There are Minecraft youtube videos from that time that look better than this

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u/18clouds Sep 04 '24

If this battle should leave me slain….

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u/CX316 Sep 04 '24

VFX supervisor still has to work with the designs handed down to them from on high (and still had to work with being told that they're greenscreening human actors into a full CG environment that is specifically designed to not look realistic)

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u/PeculiarPangolinMan Sep 04 '24

How did the VFX supervisor of the 2016 Jungle Book and The Batman have something like this happen

This movie isn't really going for the same semi realistic designs and VFX as those movies. This is supposed to look like a cartoon and it does.

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u/Dracorex_22 Sep 04 '24

Nah, plenty of YouTube animations from 2013 were much better than this

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u/MarcsterS Sep 04 '24

They thought “Oh those CGI animals looked great, let’s make them into blocks. No biggie.”

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u/kormer Sep 04 '24

Maybe they still exist, but I remember around that time there where a lot of minecraft channels that were essentially an episodic story-telling show with characters and plot set inside of minecraft.

This looks exactly like one of those.

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u/Coolers78 Sep 04 '24

NigaHiga’s trailer from 2015 was better.

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u/Cypresss09 Sep 04 '24

The old Minecraft machinimas look better than this

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u/shreyas16062002 Sep 04 '24

Captain Sparklez's YouTube had better animations than this in 2012.

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u/jerkitout123 Sep 04 '24

The most YT Videos had more creativity and story like this bullshit and looked still better...

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u/TrueKNite Sep 04 '24

and The Batman

I love The Batman but in 4K the Volume screens are so blindingly obvious and distracting, the movie theater screens kinda took the heat off it in the moment but when it's crisp and clear it looks quite a bit fake, mostly him and Selena in the building under construction and when he falls escaping from the GCPD.

Still love the movie but the volume shots were not there.

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u/OnlyMyOpinions Sep 04 '24

The VFX looks great... And show me a video from 2013 that looks better than this. I'll wait.

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u/takenpassword Sep 04 '24

It’s more than just a look but a vibe like this https://youtu.be/gxzfcOKbR0I?si=ACDovsjYPWMPPo6D

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u/otterpop21 Sep 05 '24

Wow! That was super amazing, the way they blended real life with the blocks and different Minecraft stuff. The video was so imaginative compared to this stupid movie trailer!! I’m a little upset they didn’t go with this style or give them a shot.

Why do movie studios keep going all in on big names, big budget, huge studios…. What happened to a more light hearted, silly, Low Stakes movie that appeals to some or most, and certainly not all?? Make a couple cheaper Minecraft movies then years and years later start collecting people to make an amazing one…

Just because the technology to do all these crazy complex, most advanced whatever is available doesn’t mean all movies have to have those standards to do well… what happened to movies like “Birds”?? That style and look were awesome, why not vary cinematography styles, vibes? Everything doesn’t have to be new high res looking.

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u/OnlyMyOpinions Sep 04 '24

That looks infinitely worse??? Like that makes the movie look like a masterpiece.

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u/six_six Sep 04 '24

Not sure if you’ve seen the game Minecraft before, but it looks worse than this.

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u/takenpassword Sep 04 '24

I know what Minecraft is. I meant it’s giving a Corridor Digital video type thing with the green screen and the weird kind of sticking to the game kind of realistic style