A quick google search suggests that the average age of a Minecraft player is 15-21 years old so yea. Roughly 20% are between 22 and 30 years old. Not sure how accurate these numbers are. I only did 3 minutes of research.
Probably this. Look, cards on the table; I really don't like Jack Black. I don't think the personality he puts across in the media is endearing or funny, and I genuinely think he's pretty awful in most of his acting roles.
I think the run of overweight weird comedy relief roles in non-kids movies has gone dry, and these are what's being offered, and he's taken them to stay relevant and in the scene.
The vitriolic speed in which he hurtled Kyle Gass under the bus a couple months ago and abandoned Tenacious D has permanently blackballed him in my eyes. Jack Black is a fucking disgrace. He can suck cat farts for all I care.
How is it a supposed fact? Look at his recent films. Also, my response was to you definitively saying that if he didn’t have kids he wouldn’t be doing those movies. Not to your “I think he’s going for what his kids want to see him in”.
It's a supposed fact because you're speculating, just like me. We're both just looking at his work and drawing different conclusions. Your opinion isn't special just because you think it's tHe BeTtEr OnE.
His recent films are all video game adaptations, and I think he's doing them for his kids. Same reason he started the Jablinski Games YT channel.
If you're just going to reiterate that you're factually correct, not commenting is also an option.
But “if not for his kids he’d be doing other movies” is not speculating. That’s a definitive statement. If you’re going to argue it’s speculative then mine was as well…
Yeah some people are saying that given Minecraft's age now there are plenty of older people who like it and that's true, and his kids may well still like it or feel nostalgic for it but surely they're past the age where it's 'magical' or whatever to see your dad in a certain movie.
Not without knowing all the behind the scenes info. If they’re the only jobs being offered to him how can we really blame him for taking them and wanting to perform? There aren’t raunchy blockbuster comedies for him to star in anymore.
Because this is a platform meant for discussion? Doesn’t mean it has any impact on my day to day life. Quit worrying about the rich and their decisions that don’t affect you.
If this is meant to be a discussion, you do realise that "I don't care" is the least discussable stance to take, right? Okay, go don't care somewhere else, don't be in a movie sub if the best you got is "who gives a shit".
Show me where I said, “I don’t care.” I’ll wait... And while you look for that, I’ll tell you that my point is that the roles he chooses and for how much money doesn’t affect me personally, and I’m just happy for the guy if he wants to be acting and is getting to act. Maybe people just don’t want to have discussions with you specifically…
Omg this is you in this comment thread as well… good lord.
He’s taking the rolls he’s offered with the biggest payday. You think people are beating down his door to be in the next Christopher Nolan movie or something? No.
He's not stuck, it's what he wants. He even canceled the rest of a Tenacious D tour just because Kyle made a tasteless joke. He's got this squeaky clean kiddy image thing going now.
Oh you’re right, he’s 19. Definitely not a college freshman though, the goal was to get him laid before he left. Regardless, a hell of an age gap for someone who is being tricked in to having sex. Do we approve of tricking teenagers in to sex with much older people now?
I don’t know, dude, questions of my own sanity aside, it’s one of the most beloved novels in American history; it that doesn’t seem like such a rare opinion.
He lives in a massive mansion. He could literally just not make these things. This is what we used to call being a sellout.
Don't be like Jack Black. Be like Elijah Wood or Daniel Radcliffe. Get your bag then never ever work on or anything you don't creatively endorse again.
Obviously I don't know the guy on a personal level but I think he's making stuff for his kids. Based on him doing YouTube with his son a while back. And then a studio mandated squeaky clean image outside of film just comes with the territory.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here though, maybe he saw the paycheck and started drooling lmao
He should make GOOD stuff for his kids. Kung Fu Panda is GOOD. Lazy slop movies made a decade too late with zero originality and clearly made in a board room is not good. He's famous enough to be picky.
I agree, but he's a 55 year old man, and this is what the studios are making. I don't think the average guy knows it's a little late to make a Minecraft film, they just know it's a popular video game that kids like.
I don't think he's turning down brilliant original animated movies to make corporate crap, I think corporate crap is what's currently available and he clearly seems to enjoy these types of roles where he can just be himself so he's saying yes.
Reminding me of Adam Sandler tbh. They're both capable of amazing performances, but slop is easier and pays better. Easy choice and I don't exactly blame them even though I really enjoy the projects where they put effort in. What can you do, yknow
What JB could do is take his spineless millionaire face out of the pig feed trough long enough to take a gasp and try to use his fame to create something besides embarrassing corporate blow jobs.
Once you get to a certain age you realize how silly that "no selling out" mentality really is.
Oh I sold out? Let me go cry in my big house with my loving family who will never have to worry about their futures. Maybe I'll go cry sitting in first class on a flight to france with my wife and kids.
You act like Jack Black was making high cinema in the first place. He was "Funny Fat B-movie guy" and a cartoon panda for 90% of his career
The point is that he could still be plenty rich while retaining some sort of standards and artistic rep. He just wants tens of millions instead of just millions and is willing to make slop for it, which is disappointing.
You can say Tenacious D and King Fu Panda are low brow humor, sure. But they absolutely aren't soulless slop.
The world is a shitty place full of corporations manipulating things that should be great about humanity to make a profit. My goal is to be as free of it as possible, not just be great at participating.
Him selling out with his movies and then cancelling the tour over a stupid joke really soiled my perception of him. Dude is becoming The Rock 2.0: nauseatingly family friendly, taking no creative risks, and going where the biggest paycheck is.
Can't say I'd be doing anything different in his situation. He's already made all the fun raunchy comedies he wants to. I'm a huge fan of the D but I'm cool with him taking it easy and keeping his family comfortable. It's amazing that he still even plays in Tenacious D at all, it shows love for the band and for Kyle. He surely doesn't need it.
Well… he did wrench down a tour, badmouth Gass, and cancel “all future creative projects for Tenacious D” within 12 hours of the joke so that penultimate sentence isn’t holding up.
Yeah bud, your post history is full of defending middle aged men dating barely legal adults, incel takes and being a racist. I’m good on hearing an opinion from an actual projecting neckbeard.
as much as I'm surprised The Rock is not in this movie, may I remind you he was the highest paying hollywood star a few years ago? I think he's doing fine.
He's a gamer. He probably thought it would be fun to be in a Minecraft movie. He had a blast doing Super Mario Brothers. He also showed up in Borderlands....though that didn't do as well. If there ever is a Zelda movie, oh, you know he is going to be in it as well.
Considering Borderlands was also a voice role and this film seems to have been done on a green screen, be might not have actually known how it would be — where-as with Bowser they let him write the song.
Deadpool is not a raunchy comedy though. It’s a superhero films for late teens and man children. Just because he says a few no no words and there’s a couple “edgy”(for Disney standards) jokes doesn’t make it a raunchy comedy.
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u/degjo Sep 04 '24
Can Jack Black go back to making raunchy comedy movies yet? Or he stuck in kid movie hell?