#minecraft film

[jetra4ivor]

5 ways to do a Minecraft Movie that doesn’t suck:

1. Do an adaptation of Max Brooks: The Island. This is already a fascinating retelling of what waking up in Minecraft would be like and it was written by the guy who wrote World War Z! I genuinely don’t know why they didn’t do this in the first place because Jack Black is the guy who read the audiobook! It’s so obvious it’s painful!

2. If you must have “real people in Minecraft” then have them wake up there without knowing how they got there. Steve tells them if they defeat the Ender Dragon the portal that opens after will take them home. Boom. Now your entire plot is your characters working towards defeating the dragon and going home. You still get the nether and piglins. You still get creepers and villages and maybe even raids. You get the whole gauntlet of what Minecraft offers.

3. Do it Wall-E and Cast Away style. Guy wakes up in Minecraft, does not know how or why he’s there. Most of the action is conveyed entirely through pantomime, with one guy. He’s alone in Minecraft and he needs to survive. The film is him struggling as he comes to grips with the weird mechanics of the world such as floating trees and creepers.

4. Do it as a semi-horror movie. Have the majority of the day segments be about a guy trying to prepare, have the nights be horror filled encounters where each day there’s a new terror he’s not familiar with. Culminate with him slowly getting worse and worse off until he finds a village. Have him get taken in and brought back to health. He decides to defend the village, and the final battle is him putting his survival skills and knowledge to the test against a very aggressive raid.

5. Literally just animate Minecraft Story Mode. Keep it animated all the way through. It’s just Story Mode but with better graphics and more concise editing. Oh wait! That’s already being done now! It’s called “Block by Block: The Amulet” and it’s going to be premiering on YouTube in 2025 and it’s being made by fans of the game!

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And those are just the first 5 I literally thought up while in my car waiting to pick up food. This is not a hard concept. Like Minecraft offers up SO MANY potential ideas for stories. Why did they pick the worst way to do this?

[foxyfoxbiguito]

You get transported to a non-real world... Which would it be?

>>If you have another, put it in the comments!

[le-panda-chocovore]

Favorite youtube comments under the Minecraft Movie trailer :

It has apparently 1.8M dislikes

[bodybybane]

Jason Momoa accused of 'mistreating' crew on Minecraft film by YouTuber Valkyrae: 'It was pretty disappointing' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13857617/jason-momoa-accused-mistreating-crew-minecraft-film-valkyrae.html

[kierancampire]

I SAW A POST ABOUT THIS AND THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE. THAT'S REAL??? THAT'S REALLY HOW THEY FILMED IT AND THE EFFECT? THERE'S A MINECRAFT MOVIE AND THIS IS IT?????? FUCK OFF RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!

It looks so bad? :') Like the effect is fucking awful? :') Also, I feel so bad for the actors? Besides the human actors, literally every single thing looks green screen? How miserable of an environment is that to work in and film? To have nothing to work with and imagining every single little thing? That has to be awful? But again, that wasn't a joke? It really looks like that? That's the final product they are happy with and are shipping out? And it looks like that?

[edenfromneptune]

I was kinda skeptical about “Journey to the End” as a movie adaptation for Minecraft – it seemed to me like the studio was taking a lot of risks – but they absolutely pulled it off.

I was worried that a linear narrative about Alex and Steve making their way to defeat the Ender Dragon would be too simplistic and not really deliver the creative aspect inherent in an open world sandbox game, but after watching it, it’s clear the writers were very thoughtful as to how the story should unfold. The film feels like a tour of a Minecraft world more than a plot or even character driven film. It is in and of itself an exploration of Minecraft and its various biomes and inhabitants and the implied lore hidden in the various structures. Steve and Alex’s journey to get to the End is simply the vehicle through which the film shows you this vast world since you yourself are unable to explore like you can in game.

The lack of any verbal communication between Steve and Alex really adds to this. Anytime they communicate it is purely through combining simplistic gestures, much like how people communicate in multiplayer. The only kind of speech is the grunts and sighs made by the various Illagers and the Piglins, which are left untranslated to the audience, further emphasising how Steve and Alex are alone together, travelling through a vast and rich world and it is the world which creates the story.

It really feels like an introduction to Minecraft, but it avoids the pitfalls of being condescending to the audience or over-explaining. “Journey to the End” is just as the title calls it; “Hey. Let’s go on a journey. Take my hand. I wonder what we’ll see on the way?” Even though it is undoubtedly a movie about Minecraft, it is crafted to be enjoyed just as easily by someone who has never played the game. There isn’t some lore dump for newcomers. All the information the audience needs is given through environmental storytelling.

And speaking of, I appreciate that the film added to the lore in the same style that Minecraft builds its own lore. Throughout the film are subtle details that, when an audience really thinks about it, raise questions that have no solid answers. Why did that rogue ravager suddenly turn against the pillagers controlling it after seeing the blacksmith ring the village bell? Why did the guardians seem friendly, perhaps even eager to see Steve, until they got closer? How did Alex know which was the right enchantment even though we see Steve unable to read the enchantment language? Who else could have taught Alex to read if not Steve? Who built that little abandoned cobblestone shelter they found in the Nether? It encourages the audience to build their own story and theories just as the game does, the world brought to life not only by the gorgeous, dynamic animation and faithful art style, but by the audience’s own imagination.

The subtle nod to Herobrine was also nice. I think keeping him as just a silent, haunting character in the far background, appearing only at the very beginning of the film and when Steve and Alex enter the Nether and End. It’s very blink-and-you’ll-miss-it. I had to rewind and pause a few times to spot him. But it’s a great nod to fans of Minecraft who spot him in the film without ruining the mystery surrounding the Herobrine urban legend.

Overall it’s very clear that the animators and writers and even the small team of voice actors that did the mob sounds all love Minecraft and love the film they made. The film exudes love for the game. It feels like they wanted to say “Hey, we love Minecraft, here’s why!” And managed to capture in a bottle the lightening that is playing Minecraft for the first time and discovering new things. It’s a film that’s made not just for kids or for old Minecraft fans, but both. For anyone who has ever loved Minecraft. It shows that animated films and films primarily aimed at children can still have depth and meaning and care put into them.

The end credits being in the style of the End Poem was a nice touch too :)

It would be funny if we goncharoved a better minecraft movie

It would have to have a proper name and not The Minecraft Movie TM so the abomination doesn’t get clout but

[life-in-toontown]

AMEN 🙌

[wren-kitchens]

wow I can’t imagine how much effort the makers of the minecraft movie had to put into creating something original. it's not like they had anything else they could have taken inspiration from

wow that's. that's so impressive of them.

[skull-pun]

God is dead and we killed him

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Minecraft had to pull the Minecraft movie and fully animate it and they deleted the trailer and shii. They also send the producers to jail for like 6 months for making a bad movie so far. I fear.

[krystal-blossom]

NO, YOU ARE NOT!!!! YOU ARE FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD ACTOR JACK BLACK!!! YOU ARE A BEARDED WHITE MAN IN A BLUE SHIRT!!! STEVE IS A SILENT, BEARDLESS BROWN-SKINNED MAN!!! YOU CAN'T FOOL ME!!!

[jetra4ivor]

I do not like that the Sonic Movie set the precedent that enough online backlash can bully a major studio into completely changing their film before release.

I think that a lot of times “fans” and “fandoms” don’t actually know why certain things in their fandoms work and sometimes you need new perspectives to bring in new fans into the mix. Like how the 2009 Star Trek film rekindled a lot of people’s interest in Star Trek.

I also think that sets a dangerous precedent that could be used by bad faith actors or vocal online groups to bully movie studios into catering to their highly restrictive and toxic will. And that could be used in sone really awful ways to oppress minorities and hurt lgbt+ representation in films. Like how religious groups keep Disney from embracing lgbt+ content in their films.

And yet…

Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bully Warner Bros into completely redoing the Minecraft movie?

Please?????

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

[yrdcraftyt]

La épica aventura de Arturo en Minecraft: El héroe medieval que salvó el...

[natdafat]

Being deadly 60 serious, I would have preferred if the whole minecarft movie looked like those Top Gear edits

Would really give the idea of oh dam, these people are in minecraft. As well its just funny

[imagine-darksiders]

Me seeing what Warner Bros did to one of the most beloved franchises in the world: