#that's how you end up with 30yo's calling people slurs on the internet for not considering homogeneous greenscreen marvel slop peak cinema

[juniperjelly]

been thinkin bout the minecraft movie trailer

i see a lotta folks sayin it's aimed at kids n that's why so many people online don't like it, but tbh i find that kinda hard to believe when you think about it for more than a minute:

most people who grew up watching jack black (which is who would be most interested in seeing him in cast in more movies) are past or nearing their 20's, so why bother casting him to play himself when any guy making an ass of himself on set would be functionally identical to a younger demographic?

why pay a fortune to use a beatles song from the 70's if you aren't tryna harp on a sense of nostalgia, which children born around 2010 most likely wouldn't have for the song, and when it would almost certainly be more effective on both children AND adults to use an existing minecraft parody or make a new one?

most people who are popular for playing minecraft are 20+ and make up a pretty dedicated portion of the fanbase, and while their own fanbases may skew younger that's not gonna matter when those people become vocal about their disinterest or disgust in the movie.

and most importantly, minecraft itself is a game without an intended target age demographic (word of mojang) that originally came out in 2009, so the game itself is already 15 years old (older than this apparent target demographic of children) and its original players would likely be nearly 20 at the youngest.

not even mentioning the fact that some kids are scared off by the designs, if they were tryna market a kids movie they failed spectacularly almost every step of the way