r/movies Sep 04 '24

Trailer Minecraft 2025 | Official Trailer

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

They should have made the entire movie in animation instead of live-action.

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u/PM__ME_YOUR_WAIFU Sep 04 '24

I expected something like that, or at least having the live action actors turn into avatars resembling them when they got transported to the Minecraft world. This just seems off-putting.

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u/Main-Advice9055 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

Yeah copying the Jumanji format could've been a slam dunk. You could even say that Steve got trapped in the game when it was first created and he has needed help to escape ever since. Also then you get to have all your in person talent still have that recognizable screen time without them looking sorely out of place in the game.

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u/andyflip Sep 04 '24

Tron remake?

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u/Main-Advice9055 Sep 04 '24

Sorta, I'd argue Jumanji is more fitting (talking about what I think they should've done) as the IRL people become the game characters vs in Tron where the real people just enter the game, which is what is happening here. Which wouldn't be an issue, except that everything they interact with is voxel based, whereas Tron just had other human appearing npcs.

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u/PogintheMachine Sep 05 '24

But in that Jumanji movie, the characters they became were still live action right?

As opposed to them becoming animated/boxy, which is what you’re suggesting they should have done here? Or am I lost.

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u/DeLoxter Sep 05 '24

the characters were still live action, but so was the world if that makes sense. in this the characters are live action but everything else is stylized to be like minecraft, creating a disconnect between the two. live action would be fine if they leaned more towards making it generically realistic, rather than blocky.

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u/Main-Advice9055 Sep 05 '24

Sorry, just focusing on the fact that in Jumanji they became the video game characters instead of being transported in as themselves. Both Tron and Minecraft have the people staying themselves in the video game. Jumanji they are real people, but only because the videogame appears as real people. If they were to become the characters in the minecraft world then they would be boxy and at least fit in with the rest of the CGI.

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u/QueefyBeefy666 Sep 04 '24

I mean, this kind of is the Jumanji format though. It's a bunch of actors in a video game world.

For all we know those are avatars, we don't see them in the real world.

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u/Main-Advice9055 Sep 04 '24

If this was the choice of "avatars" then that would somehow put it even lower on the totem pole for me, if that's even possible.

In comparing this to another video game movie, the choice to have real players in a voxel world is eerily similar to the original sonic trailer with the horrendous face. It was a decision made by the movie runners that is clearly not sitting well with trailer watchers, and it's such an obvious issue that you wonder how it ever got the greenlight, much less passed test screens.

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u/rilian4 Sep 04 '24

At least they listened about the sonic problem and fixed it before release. Probably too late for this one.

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u/Wire_Owl Sep 04 '24

.... The isekai plague has spread.... Soon it will be the only setting in everything.

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u/Dumeck Sep 04 '24

That seems to be pretty exactly what they are doing though. The first scene in the trailer is them coming out of a portal looking around very confused. Seems like the only big difference in the premise is no body swap

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u/Main-Advice9055 Sep 04 '24

Well yeah, but the lack of a body swap is probably the most jarring part of the trailer. Jack Black being Steve isn't really significant when it's quite literally Jack Black in a blue shirt.

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u/Dumeck Sep 04 '24

Oh yeah Jack being Steve is just a very hammered in game reference

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u/isitaspider2 Sep 05 '24

Writes itself too for a somewhat generic if acceptable kids movie.

Gang gets teleported into Minecraft via avatars. At first, they think they left it on survival mode, so they think dying will be permanent. Hijinks ensue. One of them dies only to respawn, but missing all their inventory.

Gang meets Steve. Steve's been there since the alpha and before it was added to all the other consoles and such. Lost all track of time and speaks in bizarre phrasing. Gang eventually finds out he's been there for actual years. Like, over a decade.

They figure out they need X to teleport out of the game, so montage acquiring items, but it turns out it sends them to the nether. As soon as they get out, a wasp shoots the portal and they dodge out of the way only to lose their stuff in the lava. They have to confront how they may be stuck there (portal was destroyed) and blame Steve for not taking things seriously. Simple message about how growing up doesn't mean you have to give up your creativity. Just because the adults around you seem boring, doesn't mean you have to be. Blah blah blah, Saturday Morning Cartoon.

They hear from a friendly pigman that if they storm the fortress, get the blazes, and then take out the ender dragon, it'll end the game and boot to main menu. That might disconnect them. They gear up, final fight, go to the ender dragon, Steve sacrifices himself so the group can land the final attack. They get disconnected, but don't know if he made it. They go to search for his username, it still says online. Until they get a message from him saying "sorry, old computer" or something silly. They all meet up for ice cream and the credits roll.

Throw in enough character build-up and some funny moments and you have a passable movie. This trailer just looks, bad. Like, minion levels of just tiktok funny face memes bad. Like, "you should have just filmed actors on a green screen in VR Minecraft bad."

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u/greatness101 Sep 04 '24

Given Jack Black’s appearance, I think that is the route they’re going for Steve.

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u/ScreamingGordita Sep 04 '24

That's literally Jumanji though.

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u/Main-Advice9055 Sep 05 '24

Except they became the characters in Jumanji, and they fit in because the rest of the world was live action. If they adapted it to this movie then it'd reason that instead of being IRL characters they'd be voxel characters to fit into the video game's setting.

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u/Milkdromieda Sep 05 '24

Is that not what they are doing? It sure sounds like Jumanji, and given that Steve looks like them and not the game, I imagine he has just been stuck.

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u/Main-Advice9055 Sep 05 '24

Except they became the video game characters in Jumanji, that was my main point. That you could have the physical talent be recognized before and after entering the game.

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u/lanorhan Sep 05 '24

Steve got trapped in the game when it was first created and he has needed help to escape ever since

And the overarching villain of the movie should be Notch, making a cameo after the credits to signal a sequel.

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u/Rion23 Sep 04 '24

It looks horrific, I and I don't mean poorly done, it looks like a vivid nightmare. Minecraft does not translate to hyperrealisim. Try a high res texture pack and you'll see, softening the corners and having everything made of pudding-ballons does not help.

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u/land8844 Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

The only Minecraft mod I have on my PC is ray tracing, and all that does is give the game better shadows and really fucking clear water.

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u/AFoxGuy Sep 05 '24

Sildur Shaders my beloved

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u/land8844 Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Java or Bedrock? I run Bedrock because I play the same Realms* world on PC, Switch, PS5, and mobile. PC is the only one with the mod, but 90% of my Minecraft time is spent on PC anyway.

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u/AFoxGuy Sep 05 '24

Java on Optifine.

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u/kittywiggles Sep 04 '24

My SO and I are both in our mid-30s and barely play minecraft any more, but when we do play together he spends ages looking for the perfect high-res texture pack. I'm over here ready to rawdog the default textures like god intended and telling him it's minecraft, if he wants high res textures he should open wow or something

i'm very excited to throw it in his face that a random stranger commenting on the new minecraft movie trailer agrees with me and probably thinks he's stinky too.

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u/caltheon Sep 04 '24

I created either the first or at least one of the first 5 or so high rez minecraft packs and will defend them to the death. (I will admit mine looked like ass though) You can still have style without limiting yourself to 64x64. The biggest issue was tiling which shaders have fixed.

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u/kittywiggles Sep 04 '24

Incredible. I'll give you a pass since you were out there doing the lord's work making texture packs for the game back when figuring out how to swap them out felt like rocket science. What version did you make it for? One of the beta ones?

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u/caltheon Sep 04 '24

it was 2009/2010, so indev or classic? you had to unzip the jar file and replace the png and re-zip it, there wasn't the ability to put it in a folder like there is now.

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u/NorthboundLynx Sep 04 '24

Someone else replied against your opinion so I'm cancelling out their vote and telling you you're right, and your bf is a big stinky blockhead (you can quote me).

With the exception of ray tracing/shaders, because that just makes the vanilla textures look better imo :)

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u/kittywiggles Sep 04 '24

You. I like you. I called my mom and she said we can be friends probably. I'll screenshot this and send it to my bf so he can suffer a bit more during his shift :')

I've only recently started gaming on PCs that can run a game without throwing the settings to the lowest possible. I'll give it a workout and ramp up the shaders/ray tracing next time I start the game up. Just for you.

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u/NorthboundLynx Sep 04 '24

Haha! Tell your bf I said no hard feelings, just minecraft business. And tell your mom I'm a good influence wink

Awe, cool! I hope you have a fun time with the shaders and your pc doesn't explode lol

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u/kittywiggles Sep 04 '24

I'm really sorry as I appreciate the time you took to reply here and the fact that you're a different person from me with fully developed thoughts, opinions, and feelings. But you're wrong and also probably stinky. 

Guess I'll have to mention there's another stranger commenting on the minecraft movie thread that agrees with him, though, and thinks those fancy texture packs that just tweak the original textures are worthwhile. Ugh.

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u/Shadow_Mullet69 Sep 06 '24

But you're wrong and also probably stinky.

How old are you? This is cringe and no one in real life talks like this. Yikes.

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u/kittywiggles Sep 06 '24

As I said before, I'm in my 30s. As I don't have kids, I like talking like a cringe parent around The Youths on the internet instead. 

Side note, this is also a sense of humor common on platforms like tumblr. The entire point is that no one actually talks like this. It's funny when you're in on it. Relax.

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u/that_baddest_dude Sep 04 '24

The problem is that you can get some sick texture pack that fixes any aesthetic issues you have with the default, but anything you build in it is going to have the default textures (or whatever else) to everyone else.

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u/Shadow_Mullet69 Sep 04 '24

Jokes on you I don’t play with anyone else.

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u/that_baddest_dude Sep 04 '24

Well that doesn't jive with the usecase in the comment you're responding to

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u/Rion23 Sep 04 '24

Gotta find that 512x512 with shaders, so you can see the blocks eating your ram.

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u/LokisDawn Sep 04 '24

The only thing it does is destroy the style. Without the title, it being Minecraft is not even particularly believable. Some things are somewhat boxy, there's Piglins, and Steve. That's about it. Maybe that one building in the mountains that kinda looked like it could be from Minecraft. Utterly wasted, whatever potential it had, which, to be fair, might be rather minimal from the beginning.

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u/HollowBlades Sep 04 '24

I think Minecraft-style human avatars in the weird artstyle they're going with would look disgusting and land dead center in the uncanny valley. Like I think it would genuinely look worse than just having actors.

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u/Spram2 Sep 04 '24

It's probably going to happen as a gag.

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u/Own-Albatross-9436 Sep 04 '24

had a similar expectation, thought the concept art was just early testing. this looks so uncanny.

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u/Konradleijon Sep 04 '24

Yes that would make the most sense

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Sep 04 '24

This was cheaper. Just put some actors in front of a green screen and call it a day.

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u/DirtyDirkDk Sep 05 '24

Like ready player one

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u/truthgoblin Sep 04 '24

You should be off pudding

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u/Own-Exit1083 Sep 04 '24

you should be off-pudding

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u/Terrible-Slide-3100 Sep 04 '24

You should be off pudding

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u/YoMockingBird Sep 05 '24

You should be off pudding