movies

I think if you're going to a movie about a popular video game, you should expect that people will respond positively to references to the popular video game. For myself, I wouldn't have a clue, because I've only ever used Minetest/Luanti.

We’re not gonna make it are we? People, I mean.

I'm reminded of a British comedy show called My Hero. (If you want to find it, you're better off googling "Thermoman") It is a show about an alien who comes to Earth and is basically a superhero with heat-based powers, but is also a bit of a doof. The show is actually kind of a rom-com as it focuses on his alter ego coming to terms with living among humans.

At one point, his girlfriends' parents are in a community theater production, and George (Thermoman's mild mannered alter ego) acts very inappropriately, trying to interact with the play etc. Because he had only been introduced to Christmas Pantomime* and wasn't aware there were different kinds of theater.

Getting mad at shit is like, my whole comedy persona or whatever, but I struggle to get mad at this. Maybe we should name it as a genre or something the way the British did with "Pantomime" versus other productions you're supposed to take more seriously. Even more "normal" comedies where you're allowed to laugh at jokes but are otherwise not supposed to try to contribute.

So...let's do it. Let's make audience participation cinema. I've read about a Taylor Swift movie where tween girls were singing along and dancing in the aisles. If the kids are enjoying it, who goddamn cares?

*This isn't really a thing in America, not sure about the rest of the English speaking world. It's a theater performance often done around Christmastime that has some comedy, some slapstick, some bawdy jokes, some audience participation, and the general idea seems to be "let's not take it so seriously and just have some fun" kind of theater.

NO LITERALLY my friends and i’s entire movie experience[…]

lol I’m just imagining saying “Get your hands off i’s burger! It’s i’s, not yours!” or the like.

It's a shitty movie about Minecraft... let people have their fun. The jokes and memes around it are the best part.

This is dumb to me, but I'm not the target audience for this movie. It sounds like the people who are the target audience are having a blast and that's awesome.

Saw it last night with the kids, it was exactly as described above. I've never played the game, so nothing made any sense to me, but seeing the audience have such a great time made it fun for me.

I say if they're going to release dogshit movies, at least let people party in the theater

Honestly, I watched the pirated version at home and thought it was dogshit... but...

I get it, this kind of stuff makes it actually enjoyable. This is like when people brought snakes in a can to Snakes on a Plane and got wild. You have to make your own entertainment sometimes. I probably would have ended up enjoying this movie had I seen it with an audience like this.

Good on these people and boo-hoo for the crybabies who can't handle other people having fun. They're not hurting anybody doing this.

Idiocracy.

Is this the new Rocky Horror?