I haven’t seen it, but is it possible that we as grown ups are looking at a kids movie meant for kids without considering that it’s meant for kids?
Again, haven’t seen it, but it’s just a thought.
Edit: okay, I’ve seen it, and I definitely think it suffers from being live action. Can’t know much about the actual story from the teaser, but it definitely took an “interesting” stylistic approach.
I think that would be true, sure. The biggest issue I’ve seen, and after reading some of your comments about the SMB movie, they could’ve knocked it out of the park by:
1: Taking the IP, and it’s respective audience, seriously and making sure it is faithful enough.
2: Keeping it FULLY 3D animated.
The fact they felt the need to pay these people for their faces, and (debatable) talent, they could’ve made the entire movie in animation and THAT would have definitely kept the respective audience more interested.
I’ve been saying it since the '10s, but not everything needs “real” actors and live action acting. Voice actors with quality animation can do just as good, if not better, for these types of movies. It’s just that it’s a cash grab, and the fact that culture seems to be dead, that we can sit here and objectively shit on it as adults.
Maybe? But in my opinion, judging from the trailer, this just feels like a cash grab made with horrible CGI.
If you feel you’ve outgrown MC, check out Vintage Story. It’s sort of TerraFirmaCraft, or its TerraFirmaPunk modpack, but as a standalone game with its own ideas and mods (excluding the insane metal tier grind).
And no, it’s not made my the TFC devs, since that rumor keeps on popping up. It’s made by the devs of Vintage Craft, which quickly saw the limitations of MC and moved to work on their own engine. But it takes a lot of inspiration from TFC and many mechanics will seem familiar.
I don’t feel I’ve out grown it, in fact I was just trying a new mod pack last weekend, and honestly I don’t think that’s possible. I’m just saying the primary audience (and the most influencial audience ofc.) is definitely children.
I will look into Vintage Story though, it sounds interesting!
Not that MC was meant to be an adult game, but I’d say it adhered more to a general audience in the past. At some point, likely after the MS takeover, this changed. I personally got really turned off when they started the whole chibi look thingy (during their presentations, or the fat bees…), which really opened my eyes to the direction the game was going - very much a complete opposite to what I hoped & wanted. Mods & modpacks became mandatory, rather than a nice bonus, but most great mods & modders already left long before I did and many major versions mod packs were a shadow of the great days. I think aside from a few good things (like the new & long overdue terrain gen), most updates and their content are not great, or even add things I very much dislike.
Yeah I can understand that. There was definitely a noticable shift in direction after the buyout, for better or for worse. The game 100% feels much more corporate than it used to. Its definitely not the same small scale indie game that became famous 10-15 years ago
Fucking hell, 15 years. Feels like just yesterday they released the 10 year map. Worse is that it feels like the 20 year milestone is forever away, when in reality it’s just around the corner.
Making a Minecraft movie only for kids because you can’t be arsed to produce something actually worthwhile must be one of the greatest missed opportunities in movie adaption history.
Not everyone can be Illumination with the Super Mario Movie I guess.
I never thought I would say or think those words. I think I need a shower.
The production companies on this one have made good movies in the past though
I’ve still only seen the sheep screenshots, it does kinda give me OG sonic movie treatment
I don’t get it, people literally have that first Steve at home lol
Yeah, and some people don’t, they have the knockoff version, hence the meme
…nobody has the Minecraft movie at home
I dunno. From what I saw it looked intriguing - lots of very bold choices.
Something of a sidenote: It’s interesting that there’s so much complaining at large about cookie-cutter movies coming out of hollywood, but when something strange or different from the expectation is even hinted at, there’s big outcries like this. Wonder why the studios so rarely take risks…🧐
“Bold” is certainly one way of putting it.
It’s not exactly fair to pretend like this is a good risk to take. If you take a beloved IP you better make something that the people who love it would like. From the trailer I don’t think they even knew who their audience is. From the humour to visuals this was not made for the people who love Minecraft.
You mean kids, right? It’s definitely not adults having a midlife crisis
Is this a crack at people who like minecraft and aren’t children or at studio Execs? Lol
I think they’re taking a crack at the idea it’s anything other than a kids movie targeted at kids and people are acting like it needs to appeal to the adults who played release Minecraft.
The complaints feel like someone complaining that a SpongeBob movie is silly or animated.
