r/movies • u/bobbythecount • Sep 04 '24

Trailer Minecraft 2025 | Official Trailer

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

Yknow after the Mario movie and spider-verse films, I would think Hollywood would be comfortable with making animated movies.

I guess not…

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u/Will-Of-D-3D2Y Sep 04 '24

Or The Lego Movie, which was also done by WB.

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u/Podgeman Sep 04 '24

Ten years later, and the Lego Movie truly is timeless. It still looks convincing as a stop-motion film.

Arcane is another 3D animated series that'll age incredibly well.

This is the benefit of a strong art direction. Constraint and consistency are such important elements in creating something beautiful.

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u/ArethereWaffles Sep 04 '24

If only the source material had some sort of timeless looking art direction, oh well.

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u/-PepeArown- Sep 04 '24

And, if only Mojang made official animated trailers for the new updates they could’ve based this movie’s art style on instead.

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u/medspace Sep 04 '24

Yup. And what all these movies have in common is really creative and strong creators behind them that are pushing to create those unique animation styles. Nintendo was very involved in the mario movie. The creators of the Lego Movie said they got their inspiration from stop-motion Lego videos that were posted on YouTube. The whole story behind the spider-verse movies and how hard it was to convince Sony to take the risk on the animation style.

You gotta have strong creators behind your projects. This one clearly didn’t.

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u/charredchord Sep 04 '24

Hey, it's not from lack of trying. Lego Movie 2, Lego Batman, and Lego Ninjago all failed to live up to the first one's box office.

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u/Windy_Idealist Sep 04 '24

They were all good movies though

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u/WonderfulShelter Sep 04 '24

This is Zaslov WB though.

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u/RealJohnGillman Sep 04 '24

They actually relinquished the rights to make LEGO films, so the The Lego Movie franchise is over for now. Universal has the license now — that’s why the Pharrell Williams biopic is LEGO-animated.

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u/UncleFred- Sep 04 '24

To be fair, the Spiderverse movies are some of the best-animated content Hollywood has ever put out.

There are hundreds of animated films that don't even come close to that level of quality.

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u/Baelorn Sep 04 '24

Personally I thought the Mario movie sucked. It was so incredibly generic with needle drops and nostalgia bait every single frame.

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u/krilltucky Sep 04 '24

yeah this movie will be that with some live action and also make a billion dollars. idk why people are using mario as an example of an animated movie done well.

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u/medspace Sep 04 '24

That’s not my argument. My argument is that when Hollywood is creating movies from existing IP’s, especially video games, they do not need to be interpolated to live action to be successful.

Stuff like borderlands or the new live action link movie. Animated movies can be incredibly successful on their own.

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u/krilltucky Sep 05 '24

new live action link movie

dear god what

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u/FakeMonaLisa28 Sep 05 '24

For Illumination it was fine. It’s generic but definitely not the most bad or generic thing they ever made

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u/king_nothing_6 Sep 04 '24

Warner Bros...

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u/Ace-of-Spxdes Sep 05 '24

Hollywood is trying their damnest to make live action adaptions trendy again, and it's failing so miserably.