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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People pissing their pants, and I don't care. I won't even bother reading the comments. I will watch it, and I may like it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Godspeed person with reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It’s about money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wasn’t expecting Jason Mamoa to get top billing since I assumed Jack Black was the main character.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I can't tell if this is satire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Just do what sonic did and rework everything. This is going to be a joke.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So this DIDN'T come out and flop already?

Also, anyone else remember when they used to look forward to seeing Jack Black's name on something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lmao, was about to comment the same thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I thought this had come out already? All the garbage is blurring together.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh boy can't wait for off brand Jumanji

Seriously tho, there's so much you could do with Minecraft and the settled on making a Jumanji clone

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

this movie has never stopped looking EXACTLY like those shitty β€œminecraft in real life” renders.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This will either be regular terrible, or so terrible that it actually becomes sort of funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I watched first trailer and thought what crap with a total miscast (beside maybe Steve), then I watched the final trailer and it looked at least tolerable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I really hope it'll be the second because I'm kinda hyped for this film and I don't even know why.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's from the same brain that gave us Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. It's weird on purpose, y'all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And only one of these movies is good tho.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Borderlands movie vibes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think even Jack Black can save that one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He is the last one who can save anything. What's the last good movie he was in? School of rock?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The new Jumanji movies are great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

can't tell if sarcastic or not

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not sarcastic, they're fun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Idk, I think Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny was good enough to make up for a bunch of bad ones...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kung-fu panda is pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which one? The first one came out in 2008 which makes it more than 16 years old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Newer than school of rock though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jack Black has been a negative selling point for movies since the first Jumanji remake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, I didn't even know he was in that movie, didn't really watch it or pay attention to its promotion material...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't understand. I mean that honestly. Is it really this hard to make a movie that's true to its video game roots? You already have a built in fan base, so you know they will help with ticket sales and word of mouth. You need it to be accessible to normies, which is fine you can dumb things down but it's MINECRAFT, it's not like we're talking super dense lore here.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's not really anything in the game that's worthy of a movie anyway. Don't get me wrong, it's one of the best things I've ever played and the fun we had on multiplayer servers hosted with my friends will stay with me forever, but it's not exactly bursting full of lore and storylines.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's kinda the point I think. The only thing they had was the aesthetic and they half assed that so its kinda pointless πŸ˜„ Not only do they not have the original fans, they won't have any new fans either. Just a waste of everyones time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can they just stop making video game movies and have some originality for once? I thought the writer strikes were over. Why is shit still so uninspired?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Should they go back to adapting books, plays, short stories, poems, tv shows, board games, tabletop games, songs, toy lines, children’s games, other movies, or an older version of the same movie instead?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Other than the title and creatures the poster doesn’t really scream Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Somehow worse than I expected!