• originalucifer
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      ive experienced this effect with the movie titanic

      never seen it, know the entire plot through memes/parody

      • circuitfarmer
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        569 months ago

        Titanic is actually worth a watch though. Whereas for Minecraft, I found even the teaser to be a challenge.

        • Flying Squid
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          209 months ago

          Maybe I’m in a minority, but I thought Titanic was a bunch of melodramatic crap when there were more interesting true stories that the movie could have been about.

          • circuitfarmer
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            119 months ago

            That’s fair. But it’s worth watching even just for the effects and set work.

            • Flying Squid
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              139 months ago

              I guess I’m one of those people who would rather watch a low-budget movie with a good story than a big-budget movie with a lot of spectacle but a bad story. But I do understand people going to see a movie just for the spectacle. I’ve done it before. I just usually regret it.

              • circuitfarmer
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                99 months ago

                I think it is a kind of spectacle that just doesn’t exist anymore. For example, going to a Marvel movie for the effects is sort of like watching a video game. When everything is pure CGI, it loses the appeal (for me).

                But Titanic was right at the cusp of that. There is CGI, but there’s also bigatures and miniature work and practical effects, etc etc etc. In many ways it is James Cameron at his peak.

                But totally agree that the plot is pretty corny and it could have been much better as a more historically-focused film which didn’t spend most of the time on a relatively generic love story.

                • Flying Squid
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                  39 months ago

                  The last movie I went to purely for the spectacle was Dunkirk and I was pleasantly surprised that it was an enjoyable film as well, so I guess sometimes it’s worth it even in more recent times.

              • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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                29 months ago

                I guess I’m one of those people who would rather watch a low-budget movie with a good story than a big-budget movie with a lot of spectacle but a bad story.

                Might I make a suggestion?

                The Man From Earth

                • Flying Squid
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                  29 months ago

                  Thank you, I have seen it and I really love it! I hear there is a sequel, which seems needless so I never watched it. But I’ve seen that one twice.

          • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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            39 months ago

            It’s reached Rocky Horror Picture Show in my household.

            It’s silly. You quote lines. You laugh at motives if you think about it.

        • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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          79 months ago

          Minecraft just seems like the type of movie where lines like, “Were gonna rock our blocks off!” And that will be their peak writing.

        • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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          69 months ago

          A teaser is of course just a teaser and not the final product.

          It can still be redeemed. Look at Sonic.

        • originalucifer
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          19 months ago

          its almost a principal at this point.

          admittedly, no semblance of logic at play… I spose ill get to it someday

      • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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        129 months ago

        Titanic is fantastic. You watch the movie completely ready for the ship to crash. But at some point, your brain stops and you’re more invested in the characters. Then boom, motherfucking iceberg.

        True Lies, another James Cameron movie, does that twist too. Where you watch it for one thing, then surprise, you’re now invested in another thing.

      • oni ᓚᘏᗢ
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        39 months ago

        Me with the entire Star Wars franchise, Harry Potter and The Lord of the rings

        • @chetradley@lemmy.world
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          39 months ago

          They’re all corporate cash grabs now. Watch what you enjoy and don’t let anyone tell you you’re missing out on them.

      • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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        No you don’t. You only know about flying and French girls. You don’t know anything else about the rest of the movie.

    • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      249 months ago

      I was thinking about this recently. There’s a lot of bad movies that come out every year since forever. Usually, they just kind of disappear and die.

      But only thanks to social media have we had a way to mock the studio.

      I’m just imagining the memes made of bad movies from the 2000s.

  • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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    439 months ago

    I could go either way on this one. There’s no great cache of lore to betray, and everybody already sort of plays Minecraft how they want. It actually could work as a fairly generic but charming Jumanji clone.

    It could also suck donkey cubes. I’m just saying the licensed IP isn’t really going to make or break this one.

    • @MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
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      119 months ago

      The few bits of lore that exist are probably going to be fumbled. I really do hope they do just have herobrine in the background of some scene. The trailer looks like they are going all in on hoglins, which I’m completely meh on. Endermen are probably too scary for a little kid movie tho.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        49 months ago

        Not those guys who melt in the rain and can be dealt with by sloshing a bucket of water on them! Or just standing under a low overhang…

        Even the Daleks eventually figured out how to fly up stairs.

  • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    279 months ago

    Naw, it’ll just play a metal-hitting-metal sound effect, he’ll brief make eye contact with the camera, give a little smirk, and the scene will continue with no further acknowledgement.

  • Cyborganism
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    169 months ago

    We’re really achieving the prophecy that is Idiocracy.

  • shastaxc
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    99 months ago

    Sounds too close to pubes so they may say blocks instead

  • @Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world
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    89 months ago

    Remember when JB said, “I blacked out. Did something important happen?” in borderlands.

    Me either, but he did, and we’re gonna get that joke again too.

    • @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      109 months ago

      Most people don’t want their kids eating slop all the time.

      Beyond that Minecraft is a considerably old game now, especially if you got into it in the very early days. It shouldn’t be surprising that there are older people paying attention to this.

      I was in notch’s old threads on /v/ in the very beginning back as a young teen (yes 4chan, I was totally 18 years old, pinky swear). I’m in my 30s and have a kid now who is too young to play, but I will probably introduce her at an appropriate age if she likes computer games.

      I’m not raging or anything, but I’m definitely paying attention enough to know if this movie is garbage to steer my kid away from in the future.

      • Flying Squid
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        69 months ago

        I was an adult when Minecraft was new and I played the shit out of it back then.

    • @Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world
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      109 months ago

      Who do you think is buying the movie tickets? Is your little cousin gonna smash his piggy bank and pay the $35 ticket with his leftover pennies and nickels?

      It’s adults. Adults pay to watch the movies. I’d happily pay to watch Shrek again in theaters.

      • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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        29 months ago

        Lol parents are paying. And parents don’t give a single shit if the movie the kids want to see is good or not, we expect the worst. We sat through the emoji movie and every Minion thrown at us.

        I doubt you have kids so you’re not paying for anything here.

        Besides stop acting like you’re funding the movie and demand returns. If you don’t wanna see it don’t. Show them your disdain by withholding your money. But don’t get mad when it’s a big hit with kids and it makes a fortune.

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        19 months ago

        Yeah, but they pay for their kids to watch. Similar to how adults will happily pay to send their kids to summer camp: it’s mindless daycare and the adults get to switch off for a while.

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          The best pieces of children’s cinema are always those with good writing that can simultaneously entertain and respect both the children and the adults in the teather. Everything else is rightfully forgotten as dumb slop. Pandering to little children humor is always a sure way for IPs to die in obscurity.

          • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            19 months ago

            I agree, but Hollywood doesn’t want to grow an IP, it wants fast quick money now, and if peddling fart jokes is all it takes to separate overwhelmed parents from their cash, then they’ll do it

    • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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      If they do not kill an Ender Dragon after first dying 40 times with unenchanted armor trying to blow up those things on the obsidian towers, I WILL SET FIRE TO THE THEATER!!! RESPECT MY GAMING EXPERIENCE!!!

      • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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        49 months ago

        I have played Minecraft for maybe only like 50 hours, and I’ve never done anything but just free build with no purpose, enemies or anything. I just use the game to build stuff that pops into my head. I’ve never actually played it to fight monsters or story mode or anything

      • swab148
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        29 months ago

        Meanwhile every Minecraft youtuber: beats the dragon in twenty minutes Okay, now we can get started…

    • @olicvb@lemmy.ca
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      39 months ago

      Plenty of non 30+ years old have the same complaints, we just happen to be on a platform that not a lot of young people use.

      • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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        29 months ago

        All my nephews/nieces and my own kids can’t wait to see it. So clearly it’s working for the demographic it’s targeted at. You’re not the target audience. Additionally this is Minecraft ffs, not metal Gear solid.

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          So how about a movie that I’m the target demographic of: Borderlands, Clear example of hollywood not sticking to source materials and aiming for a quick, lazy cashgrab. Thankfully it backfired. This looks to be the same recipe, throw some well known actors in, type out a generic story vaguely inspired by the source material, slap the vfx team on it and call it a day.

          They are disrespecting the franchises they depict and by letting it be we show them it’s okay to do so. Kids don’t know what’s good or how to spot a lazy cashgrab. Most of them haven’t been deceived by greed yet, this could be it. I think they deserve better.