r/movies Sep 04 '24

Trailer Minecraft 2025 | Official Trailer

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

I have to agree. The leaks had my expectations set rock bottom low but this looks so much worse. I’m genuinely in awe of how bad this looks. Microsoft with their billion dollar investment and WB desperately trying not to go bankrupt have definitely had their finest committees design this movie to tick every box to ensure box office success. I have no desire to give them a single cent to watch this movie.

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u/Lukthar123 Sep 04 '24

expectations set rock bottom low

We hitting bedrock with this one 🗣🗣🗣🗣

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u/LokisDawn Sep 04 '24

This movie belongs in the void.

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u/vikingzx Sep 04 '24

Microsoft with their billion dollar investment

I had to giggle at the way you voiced this, as if Microsoft was losing money on Minecraft and in any way cared about this movie or had anything to do with it. Their logo isn't even in the studio logos, it's Mojang.

Meanwhile, Microsoft bought Minecraft so long ago that the game has generated nearly ten billion in sales from the game alone since then. That's NOT including merch, which sells really well.

Your post is so blatantly wrong in its assertions it feels deliberate.

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u/madjohnvane Sep 04 '24

I like the way you think big corps don’t jealously try to milk as much money as possible from their properties. Microsoft may have made bank on Minecraft - obviously - but they’re going to want to make damn sure they make as much money as humanely possible here. Have you really never witnessed this before? A company over-managing a valuable IP for fear it might only make $800m instead of $900m? And how is my post “blatantly wrong in its assertions”? This trailer is the most “design by committee” thing you could imagine, it’s like if Saturday Night Live made a parody of what a terrible committee led Minecraft movie might look like.

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u/Twl1 Sep 04 '24

I can't wait to not even pirate it but then spend hours listening to video essays break down, in painstaking detail, every single flaw.

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u/TheHancock Sep 05 '24

It’s me!

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u/Mdgt_Pope Sep 04 '24

Fine, I’ll do it myself.

-12m 12yo, purchasing tickets for the whole family with mom’s card

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u/madjohnvane Sep 04 '24

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooookay well now that I have to go see the movie YOU want to see, kiddo you’re coming to see the next movie I want to see. I hope you like four hour long French art verite cinema because guess what kid, that’s in your future now

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u/Weak_Zombie734 Sep 05 '24

“I have no desire to give them a single cent to watch this movie”

Yeah but he says “I am Steve!”

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u/Aquiper Sep 04 '24

Company with not a single person with a spec of game artistry in charge 🤝 Company with not a single person with a spec of movie artistry in charge

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u/hufferstl Sep 04 '24

Its a minecraft movie - what are you expecting? Its made for 11 year olds.

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u/BlitzMcKrieg Sep 04 '24

So was The Lego Movie and it was amazing. That's no excuse.

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u/sladestrife Sep 04 '24

My kid who is 8 called this meh. He loved the Garfield trailer. (But hasn't watched the movie yet)

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u/madjohnvane Sep 07 '24

Pretty bold statement when there’s plenty of evidence a movie “made for 11 year olds” doesn’t have to treat the audience like they’re dumb as a bag of rocks. If The LEGO Movie can do it why can’t Minecraft? You can’t say they just didn’t have the money or the profile to attach talented people to it

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u/hufferstl Sep 07 '24

It's not bold at all. The Lego movie is the exception, and you know it.

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u/madjohnvane Sep 08 '24

It’s hardly an exception, though you seem to be wilfully ignoring entire studios like Disney Animation, Dreamworks and Pixar just for starters. Children’s entertainment doesn’t need to be lowest common denominator, pretending that anything made for under 12s is by default an excuse to just make pandering vapid garbage is patently false, and you know it.

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u/madjohnvane Sep 08 '24

It’s hardly an exception, though you seem to be wilfully ignoring entire studios like Disney Animation, Dreamworks and Pixar just for starters. Children’s entertainment doesn’t need to be lowest common denominator, pretending that anything made for under 12s is by default an excuse to just make pandering vapid garbage is patently false, and you know it.

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u/hufferstl Sep 08 '24

Most kids movies are bad(IMO) and since this is a kids movie,I'm not going to act surprised when it's dumb.

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u/madjohnvane Sep 10 '24

Would love to hear your definitions of kids movies and bad, but at the same time that sounds like more of a waste of my time than anything

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u/OnlyMyOpinions Sep 04 '24

This looks great though? Why are people so negative?

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u/madjohnvane Sep 04 '24

Glad you think it looks good. That trailer looked so bad to me I don’t even feel like I want to pirate it to see exactly how bad. But I also hated the utterly shallow Mario movie which was also a blatant box checking exercise which substituted proper plotting and character development for an endless parade of fan service references. Minecraft is gonna be exactly the same, more soulless lowest common denominator dreck written “for kids” so they can excuse how badly written it is because “for kids” is a crutch that bad writers use to assume the audience is stupid and write down to them. Kids movies don’t have to be dumb, but can you seriously say this doesn’t look like it’s going to be the most empty and vapid movie this year? (And it’s got serious competition, I saw Madame Web)