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Discussion Minecraft movie teaser trailer

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My god. It looks terrible. I'm so excited. It looks like an early 2000s family adventure movie. This will be the best worst movie of 2025.
 
I think it looks fun! Video game movies outside of boarderlands have been generally good lately. I’ll give this the benefit of the doubt. It looks creative, and I dig the look of it.
 
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I'm almost impressed with how little this movie seems to care about its characters or its world as a whole. Shouldn't a teaser get you invested in the plight of the protagonists and stir a desire to learn about the world they're in? This feels like a bunch of people who've never played a minute of minecraft in their life pulled up the TVTropes page for Isekai and slapped the minecraft logo on top of it. Minecraft Superfans, I'm so sorry for your massacred boy.
 
This makes Minecraft Story Mode look like a masterpiece in comparison. Definitely a "sit around with a bunch of drinks and laugh" movie.

I for one can't wait.
 
They should have pulled the ultimate creative (and budget-friendly) flex of filming the entire movie in Minecraft itself, like the machinimas of old. That would have been a clever way to adapt the franchise to the big screen, and appealed to the nostalgia of people like me who were kids during the glory days of Minecraft YouTube.

Also, what's with the title "A Minecraft Movie"? Why not "The Minecraft Movie"? Odd choice.
 
They did the impossible and made Jason Momoa not hot.

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Balfreys said:
I'm almost impressed with how little this movie seems to care about its characters or its world as a whole. Shouldn't a teaser get you invested in the plight of the protagonists and stir a desire to learn about the world they're in? This feels like a bunch of people who've never played a minute of minecraft in their life pulled up the TVTropes page for Isekai and slapped the minecraft logo on top of it. Minecraft Superfans, I'm so sorry for your massacred boy.
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I have watched any teasers of other recent blockbuster films? They are all like this, regardless of the genre. Introduction of the World/Setting with an epic rendition of some pop song that dosen‘t really fit. Then boom, boom, boom, here are cool actor/character/Set Pieces everyone loves or are familiar with. At the end some inside joke and that‘s it.
 
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I seem to be more positive on this than most people. But mostly I was just curious how they'd go about it visually, and as far as something keeping the style of the source material while constructing it of more realistic looking materials and lighting that's much like the RTX version, seems like a fair job.
 
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Sturmgeist said:
How the fuck did they get the rights to a Beatles song?
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Why would it be hard for two multi-billion dollar corporations (Microsoft and WB) to get the rights to one song for a movie based on the most popular video-game maybe ever? This isn't some low-budget indie film lol
 
It doesn't look uniquely terrible, but it does look like a fairly generic family adventure flick set in a Minecraft world with a weird art style. Solid 4/10 territory.

TheMindOfThomas said:
Also, what's with the title "A Minecraft Movie"? Why not "The Minecraft Movie"?
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Because there's no way they'll resist making another movie when this one makes one minebillion dollars at the box office.

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Goddammit, that's such a good use of Magical Mystery Tour, over and otherwise bad trailer, I kinda dug it
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I think it's heresy but I'm also used to trailers being heretical by now.
 
TheMindOfThomas said:
They should have pulled the ultimate creative (and budget-friendly) flex of filming the entire movie in Minecraft itself, like the machinimas of old. That would have been a clever way to adapt the franchise to the big screen, and appealed to the nostalgia of people like me who were kids during the glory days of Minecraft YouTube.
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They really, really, shouldn't have done that lol.
 
browneyes84 said:
They really, really, shouldn't have done that lol.
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I'll actually go a step further and say Minecraft Machimas deserved to take off as an indie medium in the way Lego Brickfilms did. Machinimas are such an interesting art form since they essentially emulate the structure of making a live-action film, but in a virtual world. Warner Bros/Mojang having the guts to do one for a feature-length motion picture could have inspired others to do the same thing with the game and others like it - cementing the film as both a form of entertainment and a mass marketing tool for innovative new ways of filmmaking.
 
TheMindOfThomas said:
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I'll actually go a step further and say Minecraft Machimas deserved to take off as an indie medium in the way Lego Brickfilms did. Machinimas are such an interesting art form since they essentially emulate the structure of making a live-action film, but in a virtual world. Warner Bros/Mojang having the guts to do one for a feature-length motion picture could have inspired others to do the same thing with the game and others like it - cementing the film as both a form of entertainment and a mass marketing tool for innovative new ways of filmmaking.
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You're not gonna get asses in seats by making the kind of content people go to YouTube for.
 
We have Super Mario Bros. at home.
And we watched Stranger Things to design one of the character, afterwards, we lost all our creative juice and did a fumble on every single dice.
 
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JoshuaJSlone said:
You're not gonna get asses in seats by making the kind of content people go to YouTube for.
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I think you could arguably say that making a movie about Minecraft in general is making the kind of content people would go to YouTube for. Sure, it’s based on a massively successful video game - but I’d argue the YouTube community for it during the early to mid 2010s is what fostered it into the mega-hit that it became. So why not lean into those roots to create something that truly feels like an homage to the culture surrounding the game?

And there’s already rumors they’re going to have old Minecraft YouTubers make cameos anyways, such as DanTDM (who confirmed he visited the set). The immediate presence of a Pink Sheep in the trailer feels like a subtle ExplodingTNT callback. It’s not dissimilar to what the FNAF movie did, where you got people cheering in theaters for a MatPat cameo of all things, and a YouTube fan song they put in its end credits. If anything, I think that movie’s success disproves the argument that something YouTube inspired wouldn’t attract an audience. I think it actually says they should go all in on trying to capture the nostalgia of gaming YouTube circa 2011 - 2016.

But whether it would be the best business decision or not, going the YouTube-esque Machinima route would at least have made the movie feel inspired artistically. Which is something I’m not sure I can say about it in its current form.
 
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I don't know if it's partially because Jack Black's likeability took a nosedive for me after the way he broke off Tenacious D, but I dont think he's going to be able to save this movie for me. Something about this trailer (well almost all of it) does not jell with me.

Still crazy the little indie game I played in college back in 2011 became the biggest game ever and is getting a big budget movie.
 
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EvilChameleon said:
Oh is that what this is? The four leads aren't players, they're people who somehow got transported to the Minecraft world?
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"Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett 'The Garbage Man' Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers), and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative…the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world." That's the official synopsis.
 
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honestly Jack Black's take of "i...am steve." kinda works for me but the movie looks like such obvious shit that i can't tell if it's intentionally meant to look bad. like i wonder if this is a parody movie.
 
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They should go with a Colonialism Storyline for this movie. It‘s what Minecraft is truly about: A guy named Steve strands in an unfamiliar world. But he then not only tries to survive there, he mines all resources, systematically kills or farms any living being (be it a Monster, Animal or Villager) until he can completely shape the world to his own ideas and believes.
 
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