Minecraft (2025 film)

[TheHaunter]

really going to be tough when they bring Minecraft to horror nights

I think it needs to get modded before it comes to Horror nights LMAO.

 

[saint.piss]

Call it a hot take, but:

1) Not everything is for everyone. Minecraft is massive and geared towards a younger audience and that crowd is unexpectedly eating this up. I don't think anyone is expecting this to hit hard with the older generations by any means.

2) Cinema is boring without the existence of some silly movies that are "bad". Not everything should be a Scorsese film. I love a good garbage flick.

I won't be watching this, but nothing wrong with it existing and leading to a good time (just respect the movie theater employees pls).

I don't disagree with any of this, but the movie is still pretty awful. You can still be goofy/silly while also being awesome. A huge example of this is the original Lego movie. Minecraft being what it is could've easily been turned into a great movie just like what they did with the Lego movie, both concepts heavily about creativity and have the same target demographics. The younger generation/audience deserves better than this shlock.

 

[Lucky Planet]

I don't disagree with any of this, but the movie is still pretty awful. You can still be goofy/silly while also being awesome. A huge example of this is the original Lego movie. Minecraft being what it is could've easily been turned into a great movie just like what they did with the Lego movie, both concepts heavily about creativity and have the same target demographics. The younger generation/audience deserves better than this shlock.

I don't know...... I don't know saint. to me they are equal. Mario, Lego movie, ready player one, Jumanji, Minecraft.... it feels like the same movie with different actors and different art styles,

and yeah the Lego movie had the message about creativity, but so did the Minecraft movie.
Minecraft movie was literally about the boy being creative and about not quitting on his creativity.... they both had the same message.

they all kind of start and end the same way,
they all have some deep message they are trying to teach, about family or creativity or courage or whatever.

I will give you that Minecraft might be more annoying than Mario or Lego movie ( to me they seem equally annoying) but it's ironic that Mario and Jumanji also had Jack black being equally annoying in all 3 movies lol.

personally I would rather watch Minecraft than Lego movie again.

maybe you just hate the Minecraft property. and that's ok too. I prefer minecraft as a property than Lego.

 

[Jake S]

and yeah the Lego movie had the message about creativity, but so did the Minecraft movie.
Minecraft movie was literally about the boy being creative and about not quitting on his creativity.... they both had the same message.

idk man, this is a pretty strange way to think about movies. saying two movies are the same because you think they have the same “message” is … well, it’s sure something!

 

[CoryLevy91]

There's something so inherently funny to me about older people looking at the Minecraft movie and going 'Nope, nope, nope! All wrong! Should be a much better film, with a deeper message and more creativity and better execution!' while theaters everywhere are packed with younger people having the literal times of their lives being outlandish and outrageous and not giving a squat about how good the actual movie is.

 

[rageofthegods]

Okay but kids crammed into theaters for Up and Ratatouille too. Like, they don't  have to suck.

 

[Tbad556]

Okay but kids crammed into theaters for Up and Ratatouille too. Like, they don't  have to suck.

I liked "good" kids books growing up, but I also loved "garbage" like Captain Underpants. Not everything has to be high art. It sucks to you. The kids love it.

 

[Lucky Planet]

idk man, this is a pretty strange way to think about movies. saying two movies are the same because you think they have the same “message” is … well, it’s sure something!

no. what I'm saying is that they follow similar structures and similar plot points and similar endings.
the same way superhero movies can have similar themes, and similar messages, similar endings.

how many movies ended up with a beam of light in the sky and in new York for example lol.
like Spider-Man or ninja turtles or RIPD among others,
Mario, Lego, Minecraft, Jumanji, ready player one, they are all starting to blend for me the same way some superhero movies were starting to blend with each other.

I personally in my own opinion did not think that Minecraft sucked it was just average.
and in my own personal opinion it was as average as Jumanji 2 was or as average as Mario was, or Lego was. maybe those other movies had much better acting, better pacing, but they were all similar and average and generic to me for my own taste.


Minecraft was very funny. I laugh good

 

[CoryLevy91]

Okay but kids crammed into theaters for Up and Ratatouille too. Like, they don't  have to suck.

They don't care. And they're kids so neither do I.

 

[MrRoamer]

I have to say I liked this movie. Sure, the plot was kind of a mess and tripped over itself a lot but the I really liked the characters, and I feel like they took some chances on things that they didn't need to and it made the movie better. I do wish they would have reeled in Jack Black a little bit, since he seemed a little much a few times but overall its hard to not like him in a movie.

I do think that they could have done some AMAZING things for the entire franchise and hope that if they get a sequel that they really own the chance. Imagine if they did a Movie and Game unifying thing where they actually introduced Herobrine and made him real. That has been a myth almost as long as Minecraft has been a thing, and announcing him through this and making him into the new main villain would have been baller. My daughters said they noticed one part where Steve was different from all the other characters, so maybe they had an inkling of that thought.

My biggest takeaway is that this could potentially be the next or tipping point for the next Rocky Horror. I've never seen that many people getting that excited in a movie in a very long time.

 

[saint.piss]

Not saying this would've saved the movie but... it would've been more enjoyable with him as the lead. He would've added a bit more personality imo.

 

[Lucky Planet]

Not saying this would've saved the movie but... it would've been more enjoyable with him as the lead. He would've added a bit more personality imo.

it would have made it more sophisticated ( a little bit,) a little less hectic. but the high energy of Jack black is one of the reasons kids are living it lol

 

[saint.piss]

but the high energy of Jack black is one of the reasons kids are living it lol

That's my problem with this. Jack Black is literally just playing himself in this film. He's been doing that a lot lately but here... oh lord. It's the worst case of it I've seen. It's like they didn't even give him a script. His performance in this movie just feels entirely like improv. If the script was better that wouldn't have been an issue (Jumanji is a good example), but it's awful. Literally every line of his is just him giving exposition but with his crazy ass personality lmao

 

[Lucky Planet]

That's my problem with this. Jack Black is literally just playing himself in this film. He's been doing that a lot lately but here... oh lord. It's the worst case of it I've seen. It's like they didn't even give him a script. His performance in this movie just feels entirely like improv. If the script was better that wouldn't have been an issue (Jumanji is a good example), but it's awful. Literally every line of his is just him giving exposition but with his crazy ass personality lmao

yeah I can't defend his buffoonery. he's a little too much lol. I Love the Pick of Destiny movie he did, love school of rock, absolutely love nacho libre,
but, it was different when he was younger, felt different, I hate to say it, but it feels different now. it's not the same, I'm glad he has so much energy, but it's not as funny anymore.


but a new rocky horror picture show is born lol

 

[bdubsCEO]

Just saw it. 10PM, last showing before the theater closed. Still almost completely packed with people, almost exclusively late teens and early twenties. Everyone clapped and cheered every line. I’ll never forget the universal shared experience of the theater losing it’s collective mind at chicken jockey.

Absolute magic

 

[Lucky Planet]

 

[GA-MBIT]

Feels a lot like the "Gentle Minions" meme that happened a few years back. I've heard more than one person call this "Gen Alpha Rocky Horror".

It is what it is. I imagine a lot of the fun of this one comes from the communal experience of yelling at the screen. There's something to that. I know some people really into those cheap Public Domain cartoon horror movies, and the appeal is similar. Laugh ironically at a poorly-made film, and turn your brain off for a bit. I get it.

The Super Mario Bros Movie was also incredibly shallow. It was like the film equivalent of Cotton Candy; incredibly sweet and inviting, then once you take a bite you realize there was nothing there. It instantly melts away. Just sugar-y, fluffy void-space where an actual film should be. But I enjoy it fine enough, because I am not immune to nostalgia and brand marketing, and because despite my cynical adult brain I still fluttered a bit seeing the little references and hearing the music and all of that. I get it, yknow.

This is just not for me. I do kinda wish the biggest box office success of the year wasn't a cookie-cutter, cash-grab IP film marketed through irony-culture. I do think it's kinda fun though that no one could predict it. All of the analysts, studios, film publications expectations were wrong. It's fun to see that audiences are still very unpredictable, and can push things on their own when the situation arises. It's kinda like Barbenheimer again.

That's why I'm not too worried about studios' taking the wrong lessons from this. These situations are always incredibly singular events. "Saw Patrol" didn't work. Morbius actively lost more money because of the memes. If WB tries to greenlight "A Roblox Movie" or "A Fortnite Movie" or whatever, I just can't see it recapturing this energy. Not even the Lego Movie sequels could do that after the first one, and that first film is legitimately wonderful.

I'm still not watching it; I'd be dreadfully bored honestly lmao; but there is a lot to think about here regardless.

 

[Jake S]

Not even the Lego Movie sequels could do that after the first one, and that first film is legitimately wonderful.

lego batman is the best batman movie change my mind

 

[Lucky Planet]

Feels a lot like the "Gentle Minions" meme that happened a few years back. I've heard more than one person call this "Gen Alpha Rocky Horror".

It is what it is. I imagine a lot of the fun of this one comes from the communal experience of yelling at the screen. There's something to that. I know some people really into those cheap Public Domain cartoon horror movies, and the appeal is similar. Laugh ironically at a poorly-made film, and turn your brain off for a bit. I get it.

The Super Mario Bros Movie was also incredibly shallow. It was like the film equivalent of Cotton Candy; incredibly sweet and inviting, then once you take a bite you realize there was nothing there. It instantly melts away. Just sugar-y, fluffy void-space where an actual film should be. But I enjoy it fine enough, because I am not immune to nostalgia and brand marketing, and because despite my cynical adult brain I still fluttered a bit seeing the little references and hearing the music and all of that. I get it, yknow.

This is just not for me. I do kinda wish the biggest box office success of the year wasn't a cookie-cutter, cash-grab IP film marketed through irony-culture. I do think it's kinda fun though that no one could predict it. All of the analysts, studios, film publications expectations were wrong. It's fun to see that audiences are still very unpredictable, and can push things on their own when the situation arises. It's kinda like Barbenheimer again.

That's why I'm not too worried about studios' taking the wrong lessons from this. These situations are always incredibly singular events. "Saw Patrol" didn't work. Morbius actively lost more money because of the memes. If WB tries to greenlight "A Roblox Movie" or "A Fortnite Movie" or whatever, I just can't see it recapturing this energy. Not even the Lego Movie sequels could do that after the first one, and that first film is legitimately wonderful.

I'm still not watching it; I'd be dreadfully bored honestly lmao; but there is a lot to think about here regardless.

I'm glad someone finally called the Mario Bros movie what it is.

as for studio lessons, if anything they might not greenlit ROBLOX or FORNITE, but it is absolutely might teach them that audiences will run back to theaters if it's a meme movie. an ironic movie, if it's going to be an experience. (and why was the BARBIE movie so successful? what could Minecraft and barbie have in common to succeed? )
Barbie also had the Barbie/Oppenheimer meme to help it .
that Barbie movie also has that meme on opening weekend, which helped those two movies.

 

[GA-MBIT]

I'm glad someone finally called the Mario Bros movie what it is.

as for studio lessons, if anything they might not greenlit ROBLOX or FORNITE, but it is absolutely might teach them that audiences will run back to theaters if it's a meme movie. an ironic movie, if it's going to be an experience. (and why was the BARBIE movie so successful? what could Minecraft and barbie have in common to succeed? )
Barbie also had the Barbie/Oppenheimer meme to help it .
that Barbie movie also has that meme on opening weekend, which helped those two movies.

I think all of these big new video game adaptation films have been like this so far, Minecraft included. I've never been a big fan.

And hmm,, I'm not so sure about the Barbie thing. Barbenheimer definitely helped the energy around both films, but I think both would've still done incredibly well even without the meme. Both are legitimately wonderful movies that people were legitimately excited for.

I think trying to recreate the "irony" culture around this film risks making films like Birdemic 2, where the movie itself is in on the joke, and thus isn't anywhere as interesting or funny. It's what Sony did with "Morbius". You can't purposefully recreate something like this.