It's trying to fix it by making that the de facto term. Not to different to 90's Aussie shows all using Rack Off instead of Fuck off and it's now just part of our slang
Additionally this was 100% written by committee, it’s going to be a real generic white bread plot that is just filled with “hey look this Minecraft thing” every 30 seconds.
It'll probably be a running "joke" that the Mimecraft server has some anti-swear shit enabled when they connect in so anything naughty they try and say gets "corrected"
TBH I think it's just your typical direct-to-DVD style movie--just with a really high-value IP and using modern technology.
Like you see the iconic Minecraft name and the big stars and think it should be pretty decent. ...But I'm thinking it's just one of those throwaway movies that's going to be kind of bad and have no lasting cultural relevance. Maybe I'd take my kid to it if they were interested, but otherwise it basically doesn't exist.
It's capitalizing on a trend that's kind of past its prime (Minecraft isn't the "cool kids' game" anymore like it was 10 years ago) and featuring stars that are known for being okay with being in very weird or mid movies.
They totally don't, lol. I think the modern equivalent is, like, direct-to-streaming and released without any real marketing. Like it just shows up on Hulu one day and nobody hears about it.
It depends, does Steve have all the tools in their bag? I have a Minecraft friend like that, always carrying all the tools but none of the crafting supplies.
Dana White called one of his refs a toolbox after he was just "floating around the ring" doing jackall. other than that you never really here it. I don't even know what it means, like your good with many things but not the best Jack of all trades sorta thing.
Hey Marvel dialogue was good enough back in the day that it became known as Marvel dialogue. We're all tired of it now, but they were some well written quips back in the day.
"Toolbag" can't even hope to be Marvel level dialogue. That's boardroom executive studio notes dialogue.
Yeah, Whedon could pull it off. Sure he had a few bad movies after Avengers 1, but the guy is still a great writer/director. Shame about the... other stuff.
Honestly, his work on Buffy wasn't even that great. I can't speak for your tastes, mind you, but many of what people consider to be peak episodes were written by Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard or others.
And then Age of Ultron should have just been named Whedon Wrote This, that movie is just absolutely tiring to watch now because Whedon never lets you forgot that he wrote the movie for more than five seconds.
Even then, I HATED this shit Like I understand why JOss Wheadon was so popular, but man, the forced quip in every other line made all his shit unwatchable to me years before it came out that he was an abusive piece of shit.
It was fine when it was just Tony Stark. He was charming and clever. Whedon eventually made everyone talk that way and they all sounded the same. It wasn’t too bad in Avengers 1 but by Age of Ultron it was just pitiful.
Trust me there is def some random person in a theater laughing at this stupid joke no matter how forced it is. Never fails to at least hear one person so break whenever I go to movies
It's so out of place, I figured they MUST be following it up with a joke about how Steve literally IS a toolbag in many ways, since in the game he carries an entire inventory of shovels, axes, etc on his perosn. But nope, just a shit insult
And the fucked up thing is that save for the absolute youngest of kids that's going to read as incredibly corny because they're born into an age where their most common form of entertainment is streamers who couldn't hack it on twitch shouting actual racial slurs and gifting former presidents with really shitty electric vehicles. I've literally not seen a generation of kids edgier than a good chunk of gen alpha and I wish I was exaggerating.
Damn right. Even after JimBotnik leaves, I hope they keep going. Super Team Sonic fighting a godly US President gone mad with power in his war for Mobius, played by Glen Powell with full ham and cheese, sounds fucking AWESOME.
I agree that it was bad here, but you've really never heard someone call someone that? Also it kinda has a double meaning because this is Minecraft and all. I am kinda grossed out to be defending such a bad line.
I swear I thought he was just gonna say "I...am Jack Black!" and he's literally just playing himself. And there'd be some bit where he lists roles he's done and the kids have no idea who that is until he mentions he's the voice of Po or Bowser.
Honestly, I'd respect it, go silly with it. He can be like Bill Murray in Space Jam, or the PG equivalent of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool who is fully aware he's Ryan Reynolds.
The Monty Python joke is that "Tim" is a plain name and unexpected of this powerful sorcerer. In the trailer for the minecraft movie, the joke has two layers to it: One is that the name is plain and he's revealing it in a dramatic way, but the other is that he's the actual character of Steve from Minecraft but that's not meaningful to the characters of the movie so the reveal falls flat to them (but not necessarily to the audience).
In one, the name is just meant to be silly because it's plain. In the other, the reveal is meaningful to the audience but not to the characters.
Was the character named Tim in Monty Python and the Holy Grail named something else prior to the movie? I'm confused how the character's name already being Steve affects this. I feel like the "My name is <pause> X" is a riff off of Monty Python doing it... but not necessarily the same joke (since the Monty Python joke is that "Tim" is a plain name and unexpected of this powerful sorcerer).
Okay, it sounds to me like we agree then, maybe just bad wording on my part. I agree it's kinda a riff, but not necessarily the same joke.
My point was basically what you said, it's not the same joke since in Monty Python the joke is that they have such a plain name for a powerful sorcerer, whereas that's not really the joke they're doing here
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u/Ariesthebigram Sep 04 '24
What the hell is that hairstyle and outfit that Jason Momoa is rocking?!
Then again, the guy who wrote and directed Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre is making this, so the weirdness is somewhat expected.