New Minecraft Movie Trailer Digs Into Steve's Backstory

It looked ugly whatsoever reason.
I voted Snow White 2025 than minecraft movie.

Hey, it's silly, but considering they are targeting the first grader MC players, I guess they could do MUCH WORSE than this. Really, not that bad, discount Jumanji vibes, blah blah, etc, etc

Anyone else feel like Jack Black has sold out now? He was supposed to be taking a step back to support his family, but instead he didn't stand up for his buddy Kyle over a comedic response & focused on securing his contracts with Dreamworks etc. I would have much preferred if Jack re-focused on Jablinski Games on YT.

They‘re gonna make tons of money with this because every kid in the world will want to see it. And they won‘t accept any no‘s.

Don't care what the haters are saying, this looks pretty funny. Mediocre, but funny. Undoubtedly will be full of cheap laughs, but I am in the market for cheap laughs.

From the moment Miyamoto announced that Jack Black would be the voice of Bowser, I knew he was gonna be great.

From the moment they announced Jack Black was going to play Steve in the Minecraft movie, I had serious doubts.

You can love an actor but simultaneously acknowledge that not every role is for them.

You can tell when someone is casted because they're the right fit for the job, verses when they're casted because an exec thinks it will put butts in seats.

@sikthvash I'm not convinced that "joke" was even a joke, and given today's political climate and also the fact it involved a real human being who almost died (irrespective of one's opinion on said human), I thought the whole thing was pretty tasteless. I don't blame Jack for condemning it--even if they are close friends. Friends still need to hold each other accountable sometimes.

Edit: That said, as someone who recently got into content creation, I understand the risk you take with each joke, not knowing whether or not they're going to land. Comedy is walking a fine line between being entertaining and offensive. So, although I don't know anything about Kyle to be honest, I do still have sympathy with him. I don't like cancel culture, whether it happens to people on the Right or the Left.

I think if I'm Jack, the best approach is to say, "The joke went a little too far, we apologize if we made any of our fans feel alienated because of their political beliefs, and we don't condone violence. But at the same time, Kyle is my friend and I know he'd never wish actual harm on anybody, so I hope the internet can cut him some slack and forgive him instead of harassing him as the internet is prone to do."

That's how I would have handled it. I don't know what Jack said exactly, but if he only did the first half of that and not the second half, maybe he did throw his friend under the bus, I don't know. I like to take a nuanced approach with these sorts of things and try to see it from every angle.

I played Minecraft for the first time ever on my Switch at the weekend, with my two young daughters. It’s not my type of game at all, but I thought my girls would enjoy just building stuff. My goodness how wrong I was. It’s terrible. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about? I hope it’s because we didn’t know what we were doing but goodness me, this just reinforces how far removed I am from modern gaming trends. Minecraft, Fortnite, open world games. They’re terrible. I’m thankful I grew up in the 90s, otherwise I would not be a gamer at all.

As someone that has been playing Minecraft since it came out in 2009.....I will not be watching this movie. It just looks awfull.

@Arkay I always love it when someone's pfp perfectly matches what they have to say.

Why is Jason Momoa wearing one of Joan Collins old wigs from Dynasty?

I hope this flops hard. This is textbook how NOT to adapt a video game into a movie

this is gonna be the worst movie ever but I'm still going to see it

As someone who really liked the Jumanji movie but skipped the sequel b/c the trailer looked so bad I think I’ll be skipping this sequel as well, just like the Rock did to have his character played by Jason Momoa. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ok I suppose if my family is all together one night and the curiosity gets the better of us, I mean we watched Monster Hunter, New Mutants, Madame Web and Morbius, then I’ll watch this too, but I’m expecting it to be just as bad as they were, probably worse.😩

At least this is better than the first trailer we seen.

@GravyThief When the game launched, it was a lot easier to get into. These days, just the starting screen alone is a giant slog to get through. Don't get me started on the marketplace.

And with all the new elements implemented, the game never got better for it. In fact, I would say the game became worse with every update. At the very least it became less beginner friendly. The only meaningful change in my book, better villages and villlagers, will never happen.

So I can totally understand you not liking it.

I think people are underestimating this. It looks much better than the last trailer, and the abundance of practical sets and props makes me very happy indeed

I don’t like Minecraft. I have kids, they love Minecraft. I’ve lost count of how many times I bought Minecraft. Ill be watching this. It will be silly fun. I like silly fun. Kids like silly fun. Everyone wins

@duerer
Discount Jumanji is what all the Jumanji sequels are!

This movie exists to be made fun of, that has to be the reason, right?!

@Not_Soos Excellent points, & the best stance to take on the issues raised. Do love our community here on NL ^_^
Tastless, probably, but then I do think back to Gilbert Godfried and how he got cancelled for telling a 9/11 joke... anyway, I digress. Jack Black was great as Bowser and that was always going to be a job you can't ignore.

"As a child, I yearned for the mines"
brother what? 😭🙏🏻

@CaleBoi25 yeah ig so 🤣

I think I love it for "as a child, i yearned for the mines" alone

@Steel76 Ehhhhhhhh, I wouldn't say that. For every amazing film that pushes the boundaries of art like Secret of Nimh or Batman the Animated Series theres was low effort slop that talked down to kids like Captain Planet(barring the drug episode) or A Troll in Central Park.

Children's entertainment has always been a mixed bag lol, nowadays we get crap like this and Turbo but we also get media that still treats kids with respect like Puss in Boots the Last Wish or Gravity Falls

@PinballBuzzbro I was literally watching Secret of Nimh the other night — and yeah it reminded me just how hit and miss Don Bluth can be - for as unrelentingly dark his films often are at times, he can be unbearably twee to the same degree.

@PinballBuzzbro Excuse me?

Captain Planet was our hero!!
He was gonna take pollution down to zero!
He was gonna help us put asunder
Bad guys who like to loot and plunder

But now we know why he didn't succeed. It's people like you, who hated his message!!

I am kidding, of course.

@GravyThief "Minecraft, Fortnite, open world games. They’re terrible. I’m thankful I grew up in the 90s, otherwise I would not be a gamer at all."

This resonated with me. Indeed, if this was my introduction to computer games, I cannot see myself being that into it if these were the games crazes people were into. I do get a lot is an age thing, but nice to know your daughter's did not click with it though!

@Steel76 Kid's movies definitely had more of an edge back then. Even stuff like Willow and Pee Wee's Big Adventure, had their share of disturbing imagery. Large Marge anyone?

@Mana_Knight my daughters’ introduction to gaming has been Luigi’s Mansion, Mario, Zelda, and Super Lucky’s Tale. They even recognise what a Metroid looks like, even if they’ve never played the game. So they were never going to be into Fortnite and Minecraft to be fair! 😀

It looks awful it should have been fully animated like Mario movie I don't understand WB Nowadays

@Gamergirl94 The contract for the movie was for it to be a live action film though. WB had to do what it agree to do.

@sikthvash

Thank you! I wouldn't say Gottfried got canceled for that, as I was born just two years before 9/11, and I've been familiar with his work all my life. And I don't just mean stuff that predated when I was born, but even stuff like the character Dr. Bender from Fairly OddParents and a cameo in SpongeBob, which came years after the fact.

Granted, he did fall into some controversy and lose his role as the Aflack duck after making a joke about the tsunami Japan suffered back in 2011. Ironically, Japan was apparently the world's leading consumer of Aflack insurance, lol. So maybe he somehow came back from being canceled and then was canceled again?

For me, a lot of it comes down to intent. I'm not gonna pretend like I've never made a 9/11 joke, but I think a lot of people--myself included--use dark humor as a way to cope. When I first learned about 9/11, I found it deeply traumatic and even to this day, I can't look at imagery of the event without it causing major distress. So, I think that's what Gilbert was doing--trying to bring levity--but when it's a joke about the death of a politician, especially one people have such strong opinions on as Trump, that's where I'm more inclined to believe it was meant sincerely.

The problem is there's no way to really know for sure, though. A comedian can come out and say, "it was just a joke, I never meant that," and how are we to know the truth? I don't want to make an incorrect judgment about a person's character.

Comedy is hard, and the internet just makes it worse. You may think you know your audience, but if someone records your skit and uploads it to YouTube, it's going to be seen by a much larger demographic of people who may not have the same sense of humor as someone who bought tickets to your show knowing what they were in for.

It's something I try to keep in mind on my own YouTube channel. A while back, I made an "Allahu akbar" joke in one of my videos, but then I took a step back and thought about it and decided that wasn't the sort of humor I wanted to make on my channel. My faith as a Christian is deeply important to me, and I don't like when others make jokes about my religion, so if there's a chance a Muslim person will watch my video and feel alienated or like I've blasphemed against them, I don't want to be the cause of that.

At the end of the day, I suppose I have to accept that there's always someone who is going to get offended, no matter how seemingly innocuous I think my joke is going to be. But, I try to make sure the jokes are never made with malicious intent. Because, again, I think intent is the #1 most important thing.

This movie is gonna be ass.

@Steel76 There were still mediocre to bad films like garbage pail kids, mac and me, double dragon, Robocop 3, Superman 3, Theodore rex, etc. Kids entertainment, animated or live action has always been a coin toss in terms of quality lol.

@Andee Love Pebble and the Penguin cause it's basically if Frankenstein's monster was in animated movie form, just a bunch of random conflicting elements thrown in colliding with eachother resulting in an incoherent abomination LOL. That movie is basically just the secret prequel to the norm of the north movies

This movie will SUCK but i'll probably still see it

This is going to make the Borderlands movie look like a masterpiece of cinema.

Looks like a terrible movie, I never understood the appeal of the game but to each their own. I don't have kids so I'll never have to watch it.
At least it isn't a shot for shot live action remake of a movie that isn't that old, and the first two movies are almost perfect as is

@Anti-Matter voted? Am I missing a poll of some kind?

@GravyThief Good parenting!

If Jack Black hadn’t sold out his band mate I would think this is cool actually. But considering the story behind the main actor I will not be seeing this. I’m pretty sure people will still go and like it tho 🤷‍♂️