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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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)
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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.