Wasnโt expecting Jason Mamoa to get top billing since I assumed Jack Black was the main character.
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I can't tell if this is satire.
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?
Lmao, was about to comment the same thing
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
Just do what sonic did and rework everything. This is going to be a joke.
I thought this had come out already? All the garbage is blurring together.
this movie has never stopped looking EXACTLY like those shitty โminecraft in real lifeโ renders.
This will either be regular terrible, or so terrible that it actually becomes sort of funny.
I really hope it'll be the second because I'm kinda hyped for this film and I don't even know why.
It's from the same brain that gave us Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. It's weird on purpose, y'all.
And only one of these movies is good tho.
Somehow worse than I expected!
Borderlands movie vibes
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.
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.
That's kinda the point I think. The only thing they had was the aesthetic and they half assed that so its kinda pointless ๐ Not only do they not have the original fans, they won't have any new fans either. Just a waste of everyones time.
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?
Should they go back to adapting books, plays, short stories, poems, tv shows, board games, tabletop games, songs, toy lines, childrenโs games, other movies, or an older version of the same movie instead?
Other than the title and creatures the poster doesnโt really scream Minecraft.
I don't think even Jack Black can save that one.
He is the last one who can save anything. What's the last good movie he was in? School of rock?
The new Jumanji movies are great
Idk, I think Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny was good enough to make up for a bunch of bad ones...
Kung-fu panda is pretty good.
Which one? The first one came out in 2008 which makes it more than 16 years old.
Newer than school of rock though
Jack Black has been a negative selling point for movies since the first Jumanji remake.
Oh, I didn't even know he was in that movie, didn't really watch it or pay attention to its promotion material...