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[–] [email protected] 197 points 2 months ago

Inventory is stored in the cubes

[–] [email protected] 171 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This is one of those movies I will only learn about through memes.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (9 children)

ive experienced this effect with the movie titanic

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I just watched the trailer. Jesus Christ that looks awful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

It can still be redeemed. Look at Sonic.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sonic just needed a new CGI model to fix.

Minecraft would have to change, well, everything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still better than Borderlands where they would have had to change the entire cast.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Back then you had to wait for the SNL or MAD skit or Weird Al to make a song.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love the part where Steve says, “IT’S MININ’ TIME!”

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Oof. Right in the blocks"

"What a load of absolute blocks"

"It's the dog's blocks"

Camera zoom into extreme closeup. "oh... blocks".

Yep, that's the one.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Cubic warming is getting out of hand, I swear! I'm sweating my blocks off.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only in the British version.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago (3 children)

truly the low hanging fruit of a joke

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Whoever wrote it should get the sack.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Eh, don't get twisted up about it. They took a crack at it, that's what counts. Some times you have to feel around for the right joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Certainly nut the most creative joke

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You guys are testiN my patience.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

Everything in Minecraft is cubes so expect the cube humor. Testicles are particularly humorous so I have confidence in this prediction.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And I will laugh ( if I watch it)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Probably a pixelation joke too for nudity that the kids won't get but the adults will.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Look at the brass cubes on this guy!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We're really achieving the prophecy that is Idiocracy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Idiocracy is the 1984 for film nerds

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On the bright side we do end up with president Camacho in that timeline.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

At least Camacho was smart enough to listen to the world's smartest person's advice.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Sounds too close to pubes so they may say blocks instead

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I think you are being too optimistic.......

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Dunno why people would criticize Black’s characters in film. I mean, that’s what he does. Same as Sandler, Ferrell, or any of the rest of the low hanging fruit, cringe, or bro-humor comedy actors. I wouldn’t go to a movie with Jack Black in it and expect Shawshank Redemption.

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