This one looks a tad less bad. Jack Black at least looks like he’s having fun. What I hate is the protagonists who are clearly there just to say either “Oh hell no” or “Well THAT just happened”
I don’t feel like that’s the point of the characters. The two whose concepts we know are both archetypes of Minecraft players, this movie is about Minecraft as a game…they’ve got their own stories. I just wish we knew a bit more about the other two so it didn’t feel like that for them.
People kept saying that in a Metaphor Refantazio stream by Jack Benci I was watching earlier today. And I thought it was just a silly joke everyone was spamming about the streamer going to a mine dungeon And then I watched the new trailer
“We wanted to do something different from what we’ve done before…therefore, we made something that looks exactly like every uninspired videogame movie ever made.”
At least Jumanji wasn't based on an actual videogame and so didn't feel the need to stop and have the characters explain the reference to a game mechanic every five minutes.
This actually sounds exactly like what was happening to Paper Mario for the longest time. Am I crazy? This attitude of "Why take an already established formula that works and is fun when we can instead make something NEW we've literally never done before!" This is what the Minecraft movie being live action is like to me.
@@Welcometocargoyep if done right it can work. Worked with Mario(the animated) And just the concept of being in the actual world of minecraft is interesting enough. It’d be terrifying.
the “yearns for the mines” line was in a text post meme for years before this trailer. It’s kinda crazy that they took a line like that and made it a plot point
They should've got a no name actor for Steve. Someone that you won't recognize from anything else. So that way when you you see him, it's just 'Steve', not "hey, that's Jack Black'. Because I think with even the name being just 'Steve', it needs to be just the most generic character ever.
"Children yearn for the mines" has been a meme for almost a decade. It was big when Minecraft first got HUGE, and then characters with a mining aesthetic got really popular around that time, so it became a joke that modern children wish to return to the days of digging in the mines all day.
Actually that would be a cool way to compromise on what mojang wanted out of a Minecraft movie! It’s something different and bold compared to the other animated minecraft projects while still keeping the same aesthetic, as well as still feeling like a step up from an ambition/production aspect!
I feel like the issue with JB for me is that Steve’s entire character design philosophy is Generic Human #1 because he was literally just a placeholder sprite that they ended up using and Jack Black is just not a generic human, he’s Jack Black
I feel like a best case scenario minecraft movie would be an incredibly atmospheric and lovely feeling movie that uses the unique feeling of loneliness in old Minecraft
OLD minecraft? Even on bedrock I can't find anyone to play with. HOWEVER single player minecraft its a very therapeutic kind of experience like if you just had a rough day at work you can just go strip mining and just zone out
@@Yuti640 Yeah, I guess. I seem to have Really bad luck when it comes to finding villages either there's like 3 small ones next to each other or a big one 10,000* blocks from my base
If they wanted to be different, they should've gone full art-film with it! Make it a stop-motion, minimal-dialogue story about Steve surviving in this bizarre world. Moments of quiet wonder and methodical creativity are Minecraft's whole BRAND.
I remember for the first teaser a friend of mine pointed this out: An isekai story about people from the real world being stuck in minecraft actually makes a lot of sense. Because unlike pretty much every other video game movie, you aren't playing as some "main character" and going through any set story. No, your story is literally just that: you've been dropped into this minecraft world with no context, no background, and if it was early enough, no idea how this new world you've entered works. Having a movie about Steve, the veteran, showing the ropes to Alex or some other new character makes perfect sense, and though it wouldn't be particularly new for minecraft it would be completely different from most other Hollywood movies. *but of course* that's all with the caveat that it still would've worked better animated, and this trailer hasn't convinced me otherwise. The gimmick of real people interacting with the game minecraft has merit, but that's something you do for a funny youtube video, not a feature length movie. Feel like no matter what the novelty will wear off, and the comedy and storytelling will all suffer in the long run from the limits of live action.
Two things that would have made the isekai approach better imo: 1. They literally get stuck in the Minecraft videogame. Judging by the trailers so far, Minecraft doesn't actually exist as a videogame in this movie's world. So from the characters perspectives, they just end up in some weird alternate dimension. Why have Jason Momoa's character be a retro gamer if not to have him comment on them getting stuck in a videogame? Sure, it wouldn't be _much_ better, as that's also the premise of the recent Jumanji sequels. But I think it would still be better. 2. This is more my brother's opinion, which I agree with. Have it actually look like Minecraft. Not this hyper-realistic cgi approach they've gone with. I think the contrast of these actors being plopped into the world of Minecraft as it usually looks might have been funnier for visual gags where the characters are all like "What the hell?"
I will say: them using classic Minecraft music at the start is very respectable. Hope they use more honestly, but I know C418 doesn't want Microsoft using his music anymore.
@ I think they know a thing or two about Minecraft which makes “made by people who have played a little bit of Minecraft” a bit of a disingenuous statement
I thought it was that Jack Black actually kinda shoved himself into the project, with him being somewhat in gamer culture and having reverence for Minecraft. Jason Momoa was cast as Steve first (and he actually looks the part)
i honestly wish that the minecraft movie had absolutely zero dialogue and the entire movie would be just the player characters just doing minecraft things but with an actual movie plot going on at the same time. it a really unique and truly beautiful movie but hollywood had to do what hollywood does of course
Steve has always seemed a bit more stoic to me. Like I know he has no canon personality, I accept that this interpretation of Steve is just as canon-accurate as my interpretation, but to me he doesn’t feel like Steve.
It baffles my mind how people think the movie looks good after this trailer. The trailer was certainly *better* than the teaser, but the movie still looks terrible. That’s just my opinion though
It’s relative. The first teaser was so poorly received that the new trailer is considered great by comparison. I bet that if this trailer was released first, there would have been a similar albeit less extreme reaction compared to the other.
It really didn't matter how good the movie actually looked, when the script seems to be so dry. Every trailer so far has every joke just be "Wow, this guy is so weird" "That's not how things actually work, therefore it's odd and dumb" and "well that just happened" especially the character played by Emma Myers where it seems like all they gave her was sarcastic comments on everything. The movie is trying to embrace the mechanics of the game while also poking fun at the ridiculousness and it just can't do both
Yeah, funny enough compare it to Parkour Civilization which only really manages to be interesting because it 100% commits to its own silly rules and NEVER lampshades anything or admits to its own silliness.
To you argument about "a dream to toil away in the mines." "Dwarf Core" is a really popular aesthetic and Minecraft is HUGE dwarf core. Honestly I would call it the 2010s "Steam Punk". Dig, build, dig more, dig too deep and loving it.
This movie still doesn’t look great, but the zombies and skeletons look so good. They’re so creepy and weird I love it! Makes me excited to see the Endermen.
I think what is a factor in why the trailer is making me almost 180 (but not quite so ehh 120?) on the film is that Jack Black/Steve is shown to be a lot more genuine in his love for the universe. Trailer 1 is "whaaaat this is so crazy, so dumb, right?" and Trailer 2 goes a bit more into "whaaaat this is so crazy, it's awesome, right?" Like it at least feels like it loves the IP then the first trailer hitting the "erm, that just happened"
IDK, maybe jack blacks character is like that but the wacky side characters seem absolutely fuckin insufferable like they're just there to be like "woah video games amiright?. who thought of this LOL xd".
I just can't get on board with this. Even if you look at it as a meta approach like what they did with Lego Movies, the live action segments were still segregated from the animation, emphasizing that video games take you to other worlds. We love it, BECAUSE it could never happen irl. Without getting too dank, I wouldn't want to be in a video game world as myself when you can be anyone, anyTHING even. If they wanted this to work like Lego, do it like a dream sequence with an old miner retelling his past while talking to his grandkids, but embellished with animated scenes. Movies like Big Fish or Benjamin Button that chronicle a life so amazing you wish you could share it with everyone. Then throw in some moral about living in the moment and finding joy in doing stuff together. It could work!
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I think this second trailer gives a much better vibe for the movie. That initial teaser just felt weird. The second trailer felt much more goofy, and I think while a laid back comedy wouldn’t be my first pitch for a Minecraft movie, I don’t think it’s a terrible idea. It probably won’t be good, but it might be fun.
While I didn’t see the new trailer, it is good to hear that the new info from it more justifies the concept and stuff, I don’t plan to watch the movie but I hope Minecraft fans will be at least somewhat happy with it overall
The concept displayed from this trailer had the impression of being a lot more ironic and dumb fun. If it was a 5 minute UA-cam video I’m sure it might be quite funny however knowing it’s a full length film that you have to pay for *and* it is still atleast somewhat reflective of the initial trailers quality regardless: it’s not enough to salvage for me
When talking about casting, I think someone who would’ve fit that role much better to what you described is Idris Elba. Now, he’s also kinda in everything, but mostly favors seriousness. But, with a few silly/serious roles in comedies already, I think he’d pull off your ideal Steve. He even kinda looks like Steve, lol
the second minecraft trailer made the movie seem more fun than the first trailer did. idk if it'll be good necessarily, but i think I'll have a fun time watching it
8:55 YES! After hearing the teenage girl's line in the first trailer (and the second, for that matter) I knew right off the bat that her entire character was going to be the person who's constantly pointing out the absurdity of the Minecraft world.
The plot is probably the artifact creates your dream world, and the 4 new characters are trying to tell him reality is better than a fantasy world. Once Steve comes to terms with life sucks but worth it, even if he never fit in, then they go home together. Defeating the Ender Dragon is how to return home.
10:20 My mind instantly jumped to J.K. Simmons here. Fantastic dramatic actor who also has some serious comedy talent. He made a movie back in 2022 called Glorious where he was the voice of an eldritch, Lovecraftian abomination that talks to a guy through a rest stop glory hole and it was one of the best things I've seen all year.
If the live action actors were turned into animated Minecraft Characters. Jack black would have worked a lot better. They had the zombie. They could have made regular Minecraft characters in the same vein.
To me, the teaser truly didn't sell much with the type of vibes the were aiming for, I aspect they wanted to test something completely different yet fun at the same time. But second trailer I loved how much more of a crafted story they are aiming for with keeping the lore mechanics of the game within it while not relying on heavy comedy that we know of yet. It just looks like one of those type of movies to be a good sit down movie flick. I wans't sure what to think with the teaser, but after they released the true 1st trailer though I am highly intrigued to see it more now. Looks like a fun time.
I couldn't disagree any less for the first 8 minutes, then I couldn't agree more for the rest. This trailer was just more of the first trailer. It feels like the Concord of video game media. Just chasing the trend, and making all of the most generic choices available, from story to writing, to casting. It's wild to me that they saw the intensely negative feedback from the trailer, and responded by digging their heels in. If they wanted to take the meta approach (which they definitely didn't need to), then they should have gone with telling a story about how people play the game. Show the SMPs and the minigame servers. Spotlight the player archetypes & all different forms of creativity, and promote their cooperation in achieving goals together. Instead we have Jack Black reading us the minecraft guidebook. This feels like an ad to the distant parents of children who play minecraft, and not an ode to its players. I will be keeping an open mind and taking my siblings to see it (...probably on a $5 Tuesday) But it just doesn't look good.
I’ve been playing Minecraft for years and I am so excited about this movie. I know it could be awful but I feel it will be a fun awful, similar to the original Mario Bros movie. I think the most enjoyment will be seeing Minecraft brought to life. Seeing real life versions of the items I know and love. And that auto cooked chicken device? Yep, I’ve totally made that in my Minecraft worlds. 😂
This was definitely a better trailer for the minecraft movie, and did a far better job of explaining the movie, but it also solidified my opinion that it's not for me, and I now have even less desire to see it than I did after the teaser.
I staunchly believe that Jason Momoa was supposed to play Steve, but after executives saw Jack Black in every videogame movie they said money this and money that.
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I actually admire the choice to make as many of the sets and props practical as they could. That behind the scenes video was really cool, but it's just slightly even more disappointing then that the movie don't really make use of that. The lighting on outdoor shots in the minecraft world still feel like they're in a set, and adds to the unnatural look these practical sets are supposed to have. If you watch this trailer in the shoes of the artists on this film, I can see a lot of passion. It's just not fully there in the final version.
it's silly, it doesn't look good at all, and the writing is typical "child movie schlock" quality. in other words it's gonna make a billion dollars in the box office, which bothers me cause it literally seems like they got chat gpt to write this thing
Definitely felt like this trailer made the "Minecraft but real life" world interesting. Stuff from the game happens, even more subtle stuff like the wolf getting a collar once you give it a bone. I'm not expecting a masterpiece or something like other great "surprising" movies based on kids stuff like the LEGO Movie, but I do think I'll enjoy it just for how fun it looks to watch. Still not sure if it will be fun-bad or if it's gonna just be a fun "oh that's cool" movie, but this definitely made me lean more towards the latter. The thing that could bring it down is the characters, but we haven't seen much of their character roles beyond the synopsis and their "funny" interactions. I would've preferred a more serious (less "zany" or "funny") Steve than what they're doing. Jack Black's Steve will feel more like Jack Black showing us what Minecraft is than a vanilla-Steve, but I think that's fine given Steve is meant to be shaped into you the player.
I think it's strange how they chose to market the movie in the first trailer. Like for example, the scene in the first trailer where Jason Momoa makes that weird double bucket thing got a lot of people riled up because that's not a recipe in the game, but then a few days later they show the full scene and its revealed that yeah, the item's all messed up cause he didn't follow the recipe, showing that they do understand how Minecraft mechanics work (I personally think it would have been funnier/more accurate if nothing got produced at all from randomly scattering stuff, but still). Heck, they even have a clip of Steve accurately making a sword that they could have used instead for the trailer! Its like they were intentionally trying to annoy people with that trailer and make them think the people making it had no clue what they were doing.
Maybe the idea was to make a bad teaser so the trailer looks even better in comparison. With it being Minecraft they might have thought they couldnt really lose at the end.
Minecraft movie, starring Jack Black, directed by the Napoleon Dynamite guy. Yup, nothing about that sentence is something I would have predicted or asked for.
I think there's something a lot of people probably aren't considering when talking about how this movie could be so much better if it were way more intentional/atmospheric/etc. I generally agree you could probably make a better movie that way, but the fact is that movie will probably not sell. This movie might come out and suck pretty hard, but it's a movie about Minecraft starring Jack Black, so people are gonna watch it. As tired as it may be for some people, you have to consider that the generic hollywood family movie formula has been good enough to make good money for years and continues to be today. It's part of why Transformers One shot itself in the foot, with its first trailer really leaning into that aspect when it wasn't even really like that, because someone assumed how it had to be marketed. Sad though it is, that movie probably had no chance from the get-go, I find it hard to imagine one different trailer would have propelled it into a major box office success. If anything, this is likely just a lesson that anytime something you've loved for years is getting made into a movie, you should temper your expectations, because for many people in filmmaking, money is more important than making you happy. It's truly rare for a movie to really appreciate its target audience, and you just have to embrace those when they come around. Please bear in mind that I'm not a filmmaking expert, this is just my observations.
Jack Black looks a heck of a lot like Steve. I feel that's why he has been casted. And as you mentioned, Jack is a good fit for the role based on what you mentioned, Arlo. I mean, would a more serious actor fit nicely? Maybe, but who knows? But the video was entertaining.
The biggest complaint I saw was that people didn’t like the animation style they chose for the Minecraft world. If it had just been the game graphics with real people walking around I think it would have been better received.
They should have chosen the most average Joe to play Steve and given him some insanely hillarious one liners in the most "bored office guy" way. As much ch as I love Jack Black, he doesn't feel like a Steve
you don't know, maybe at the end of the movie we see steve go back to the real world and see his missing poster of J*** B**** and all ends with based on a real story
I would have loved a serious actor playing all the silly things totally straight like Adam west when he was Batman, it’s the sort of comedy you just don’t see anymore and I think it would work really well in a minecraft movie
I get the argument for how this is a meta take on Minecraft, a movie _about_ Minecraft... but that doesn't feel like a good argument for why it should be live-action. There's no reason why the human characters couldn't turn animated after getting isekai'd into Minecraft world. Or, for that matter, why the Minecraft world should look the way it does in the movie.
Executive1: the Mario movie was a success what was the reason? Executive2: Jack black a big video game IP and celebrities. Executive3: Jack black, Minecraft and Jason Mamoa.
"I'm not going to follow this up with any other trailer. It comes out in April. I'm not going to be following all the trailers. I'm not gonna do that. Just ragging on the Minecraft movie is not going to be a part of my career. We will talk about it again when the movie comes out. I will go. I will probably bring my nephew. And we will talk about it then.” - 2 Months Later...
The yearn for the mines joke was the one point I'll give them, haha. That actually got a laugh outta me. I literally make that joke with my friends when playing. I'm not sure the humor is gonna be my cup of tea in any other aspect, though. And the creatures just remind me of those freaky photorealistic skin packs my boyfriend used to freak me out with back in the day 😭 They're so uncanny valley
"the children yearn for the mines" is a twitter-borne meme joking about the popularity of a game about mining & manual labor among children, & they're just referencing that minecraft community in-joke - and i think it's a good indicator of how seriously the movie is taking itself. if it's somewhat self-aware about its own goofiness and camp then i find that more charming than annoying. i might even argue that feels pretty in-line with how people approach minecraft's world.
Personally I thing they shouldn’t have swapped Jack Black and Jason’s roles, Momoa being this serious muscular dude fits Steve better, and Jack Black being a old washed up Video Game Legend makes way more sense
I’m still more preferential to an animated film; however, I think the fact that they demonstrated a much better understanding of the game in this trailer makes the live-action blockbuster (har har) aesthetic work better for me.
Eh, sometimes a meta movie about playing a game rather than the story of the game can get you The Lego Movie, but other times it can get you Dragon Quest: Your Story. And we do not need more DQ:YS.
This one looks a tad less bad. Jack Black at least looks like he’s having fun.
What I hate is the protagonists who are clearly there just to say either “Oh hell no” or “Well THAT just happened”
Yeah jack feels like he actually cares considering he actually plays minecraft
@@Octav2000 Because thats the point? Its the story from different perspectives.
We have Mod kid, Old gaming specialist, a guy who just like to mine...
"Jack Black looks like he's having fun" you mean like literally every other Jack black movie ever made?
I don’t feel like that’s the point of the characters. The two whose concepts we know are both archetypes of Minecraft players, this movie is about Minecraft as a game…they’ve got their own stories. I just wish we knew a bit more about the other two so it didn’t feel like that for them.
Yeah, the black lady is there to play a black lady who talks like a black lady.
"As a child, I yearned for the mines." 💀
What were they thinking? XD
Such a stupid line but it did make me laugh
People kept saying that in a Metaphor Refantazio stream by Jack Benci I was watching earlier today. And I thought it was just a silly joke everyone was spamming about the streamer going to a mine dungeon
And then I watched the new trailer
@@grenindraw6947the best lines are usually the ones you can remember
@@CheesyLizzyThat's simply legendary!
“We wanted to do something different from what we’ve done before…therefore, we made something that looks exactly like every uninspired videogame movie ever made.”
We wanted to do something different, so we did Jumanji
At least Jumanji wasn't based on an actual videogame and so didn't feel the need to stop and have the characters explain the reference to a game mechanic every five minutes.
This actually sounds exactly like what was happening to Paper Mario for the longest time. Am I crazy?
This attitude of "Why take an already established formula that works and is fun when we can instead make something NEW we've literally never done before!"
This is what the Minecraft movie being live action is like to me.
Well I think it's alright.
@@Welcometocargoyep if done right it can work. Worked with Mario(the animated)
And just the concept of being in the actual world of minecraft is interesting enough. It’d be terrifying.
the “yearns for the mines” line was in a text post meme for years before this trailer. It’s kinda crazy that they took a line like that and made it a plot point
and it was very explicitly a line about *child labor*
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The movies seems to be relying on memes, so throwing a in few deep cuts in the least they could do.
@@hichaelhyers Arlo didn’t understand that line was a reference to a twitter post.
@@reitonkyoju8I mean not definitely. The children yearn for the mines is a long running joke since at least peak minecraft
They should've got a no name actor for Steve. Someone that you won't recognize from anything else. So that way when you you see him, it's just 'Steve', not "hey, that's Jack Black'. Because I think with even the name being just 'Steve', it needs to be just the most generic character ever.
For me that's the problem with practically every big actor, their career overshadows their role
This would have been a MUCH better idea. I mean, I like Jack Black but him being himself takes away from Steve's character.
And if you need a big actor Steve from Blues Clues is the perfect choice
It should have been Steve from Blue's Clues
I see what you mean but I think the way they justify it is "steve is the player that is playing the game, steve is anyone. our steve is jack black!"
"Children yearn for the mines" has been a meme for almost a decade. It was big when Minecraft first got HUGE, and then characters with a mining aesthetic got really popular around that time, so it became a joke that modern children wish to return to the days of digging in the mines all day.
A stop-motion Minecraft movie would’ve been so cool.
Yes, like how everybody got into using those magnetic blocks. But just like amped up by a million
Get Aardman on it, they know how to cook up a banger.
It exists. Look up Lego Titan Pictures. There's like 4 seasons and a total of like 3 to 4 hours of Lego Minecraft Stop Motion. It's pretty good.
Actually that would be a cool way to compromise on what mojang wanted out of a Minecraft movie! It’s something different and bold compared to the other animated minecraft projects while still keeping the same aesthetic, as well as still feeling like a step up from an ambition/production aspect!
That would be awesome
I feel like the issue with JB for me is that Steve’s entire character design philosophy is Generic Human #1 because he was literally just a placeholder sprite that they ended up using and Jack Black is just not a generic human, he’s Jack Black
I feel like a best case scenario minecraft movie would be an incredibly atmospheric and lovely feeling movie that uses the unique feeling of loneliness in old Minecraft
OLD minecraft? Even on bedrock I can't find anyone to play with. HOWEVER single player minecraft its a very therapeutic kind of experience like if you just had a rough day at work you can just go strip mining and just zone out
@ in old minecraft that feeling of loneliness was a lot more realised but these days structures and villagers are a lot more common
See, that’d be a story IN Minecraft. This seems meant to be a story ABOUT Minecraft, and Minecraft has become a lot more than what it used to be.
@@Yuti640 Yeah, I guess. I seem to have Really bad luck when it comes to finding villages either there's like 3 small ones next to each other or a big one 10,000* blocks from my base
The Martian vibes adventure through to the end
As a child, I yearned for the Arlo Minecraft movie review.
If they wanted to be different, they should've gone full art-film with it! Make it a stop-motion, minimal-dialogue story about Steve surviving in this bizarre world. Moments of quiet wonder and methodical creativity are Minecraft's whole BRAND.
I remember for the first teaser a friend of mine pointed this out: An isekai story about people from the real world being stuck in minecraft actually makes a lot of sense. Because unlike pretty much every other video game movie, you aren't playing as some "main character" and going through any set story. No, your story is literally just that: you've been dropped into this minecraft world with no context, no background, and if it was early enough, no idea how this new world you've entered works. Having a movie about Steve, the veteran, showing the ropes to Alex or some other new character makes perfect sense, and though it wouldn't be particularly new for minecraft it would be completely different from most other Hollywood movies.
*but of course* that's all with the caveat that it still would've worked better animated, and this trailer hasn't convinced me otherwise. The gimmick of real people interacting with the game minecraft has merit, but that's something you do for a funny youtube video, not a feature length movie. Feel like no matter what the novelty will wear off, and the comedy and storytelling will all suffer in the long run from the limits of live action.
Two things that would have made the isekai approach better imo:
1. They literally get stuck in the Minecraft videogame. Judging by the trailers so far, Minecraft doesn't actually exist as a videogame in this movie's world. So from the characters perspectives, they just end up in some weird alternate dimension. Why have Jason Momoa's character be a retro gamer if not to have him comment on them getting stuck in a videogame? Sure, it wouldn't be _much_ better, as that's also the premise of the recent Jumanji sequels. But I think it would still be better.
2. This is more my brother's opinion, which I agree with. Have it actually look like Minecraft. Not this hyper-realistic cgi approach they've gone with. I think the contrast of these actors being plopped into the world of Minecraft as it usually looks might have been funnier for visual gags where the characters are all like "What the hell?"
I will say: them using classic Minecraft music at the start is very respectable. Hope they use more honestly, but I know C418 doesn't want Microsoft using his music anymore.
Why doesn't C418 want Microsoft to use their music?
The music feels very out of place for an action/comedy film though
@@GoodlyPenguiniirc they wanted the rights and he wouldn’t make anymore music if that was the case
@@GoodlyPenguin Sadly music artists tend to be really stingy about music copyright, and he's one of those greedy people
Hearing Arlo talk with actual Minecraft gameplay behind it is insane and somehow very cathartic.
Is Bedrock even really real Minecraft though?
It’s very much a Minecraft movie, made by people who have played a little bit of Minecraft
and also the Minecraft creative team but go off I guess
@@jacketofdiamondsdo you think the creative minecraft team knows anything about making movies?
@ I think they know a thing or two about Minecraft which makes “made by people who have played a little bit of Minecraft” a bit of a disingenuous statement
@@jacketofdiamonds the people that are effectively making the movie are not from the creative mojang team though and that was your stance
@ …are you familiar with the concept of artists from different disciplines cooperating with each other?
9:50 They picked Jack Black, in part, because he played Minecraft with his kids extensively. He knows the world and the language.
I was just about to comment this
I thought it was that Jack Black actually kinda shoved himself into the project, with him being somewhat in gamer culture and having reverence for Minecraft. Jason Momoa was cast as Steve first (and he actually looks the part)
Didn’t her burn down PewDiePie’s house?
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@@N1NTENDUDE In Minecraft
i honestly wish that the minecraft movie had absolutely zero dialogue and the entire movie would be just the player characters just doing minecraft things but with an actual movie plot going on at the same time. it a really unique and truly beautiful movie but hollywood had to do what hollywood does of course
Steve has always seemed a bit more stoic to me. Like I know he has no canon personality, I accept that this interpretation of Steve is just as canon-accurate as my interpretation, but to me he doesn’t feel like Steve.
I agree, and I feel the same way about Bowser, but I don't think all that many people agree with this take.
It baffles my mind how people think the movie looks good after this trailer. The trailer was certainly *better* than the teaser, but the movie still looks terrible. That’s just my opinion though
People allow emotions to rule over reason.
It’s relative. The first teaser was so poorly received that the new trailer is considered great by comparison. I bet that if this trailer was released first, there would have been a similar albeit less extreme reaction compared to the other.
I personally hate it so much I don't understand why everyone changed sides so quickly
I thought it looked good from the beginning
Yeah Personally i think the movie will be mid at best. I don't know why people changed how they feel so quickly.
It really didn't matter how good the movie actually looked, when the script seems to be so dry. Every trailer so far has every joke just be "Wow, this guy is so weird" "That's not how things actually work, therefore it's odd and dumb" and "well that just happened" especially the character played by Emma Myers where it seems like all they gave her was sarcastic comments on everything. The movie is trying to embrace the mechanics of the game while also poking fun at the ridiculousness and it just can't do both
Yeah, funny enough compare it to Parkour Civilization which only really manages to be interesting because it 100% commits to its own silly rules and NEVER lampshades anything or admits to its own silliness.
To you argument about "a dream to toil away in the mines."
"Dwarf Core" is a really popular aesthetic and Minecraft is HUGE dwarf core. Honestly I would call it the 2010s "Steam Punk". Dig, build, dig more, dig too deep and loving it.
Doozers are Dwarf Core.
This movie still doesn’t look great, but the zombies and skeletons look so good. They’re so creepy and weird I love it! Makes me excited to see the Endermen.
I agree, the uncanny look is really appropriate for undead monsters!
I think what is a factor in why the trailer is making me almost 180 (but not quite so ehh 120?) on the film is that Jack Black/Steve is shown to be a lot more genuine in his love for the universe.
Trailer 1 is "whaaaat this is so crazy, so dumb, right?" and Trailer 2 goes a bit more into "whaaaat this is so crazy, it's awesome, right?"
Like it at least feels like it loves the IP then the first trailer hitting the "erm, that just happened"
IDK, maybe jack blacks character is like that but the wacky side characters seem absolutely fuckin insufferable like they're just there to be like "woah video games amiright?. who thought of this LOL xd".
I just can't get on board with this. Even if you look at it as a meta approach like what they did with Lego Movies, the live action segments were still segregated from the animation, emphasizing that video games take you to other worlds. We love it, BECAUSE it could never happen irl. Without getting too dank, I wouldn't want to be in a video game world as myself when you can be anyone, anyTHING even. If they wanted this to work like Lego, do it like a dream sequence with an old miner retelling his past while talking to his grandkids, but embellished with animated scenes. Movies like Big Fish or Benjamin Button that chronicle a life so amazing you wish you could share it with everyone. Then throw in some moral about living in the moment and finding joy in doing stuff together. It could work!
That guy was really having trouble getting up the water dang
The children yearn for the mines, Arlo. *Embrace the longing within.*
My family is currently watching the new matt Walsh documentary and I'm about to explode because of it. Thanks for the comforting content, as always. It means a lot to me, especially now 💜
Liberal Crime Squad 2008 ass dialogue box🗿🗿
I think this second trailer gives a much better vibe for the movie. That initial teaser just felt weird. The second trailer felt much more goofy, and I think while a laid back comedy wouldn’t be my first pitch for a Minecraft movie, I don’t think it’s a terrible idea. It probably won’t be good, but it might be fun.
The reason I enjoy your content is that regardless of what you’re talking about, I always feel happier after listening to what you have to say.
While I didn’t see the new trailer, it is good to hear that the new info from it more justifies the concept and stuff, I don’t plan to watch the movie but I hope Minecraft fans will be at least somewhat happy with it overall
As a kid I yearned for the yarn
The concept displayed from this trailer had the impression of being a lot more ironic and dumb fun. If it was a 5 minute UA-cam video I’m sure it might be quite funny
however knowing it’s a full length film that you have to pay for *and* it is still atleast somewhat reflective of the initial trailers quality regardless: it’s not enough to salvage for me
Children yearn for the mines is a meme
When talking about casting, I think someone who would’ve fit that role much better to what you described is Idris Elba. Now, he’s also kinda in everything, but mostly favors seriousness. But, with a few silly/serious roles in comedies already, I think he’d pull off your ideal Steve. He even kinda looks like Steve, lol
Arlo flirting with the apocalypse by bringing his sonic movie takes back up
the children yearn for the mines
Butternut Squash? Yes Please!
Its great. The amount of practical effects and fun designs makes it even better!
It doesn't look great, but I think it'll be funny, either in a genuine way or an ironic way. Regardless, I'm VERY excited to watch it with friends
Love Jack black but I’m glad finally someone else agrees with me about Jack Black
MR PRESIDENT A SECOND TRAILER HAS HIT THE INTERNET
the second minecraft trailer made the movie seem more fun than the first trailer did. idk if it'll be good necessarily, but i think I'll have a fun time watching it
Im glad you said what you said about jack black because i felt the same thing right away
8:55 YES! After hearing the teenage girl's line in the first trailer (and the second, for that matter) I knew right off the bat that her entire character was going to be the person who's constantly pointing out the absurdity of the Minecraft world.
The plot is probably the artifact creates your dream world, and the 4 new characters are trying to tell him reality is better than a fantasy world. Once Steve comes to terms with life sucks but worth it, even if he never fit in, then they go home together. Defeating the Ender Dragon is how to return home.
10:20 My mind instantly jumped to J.K. Simmons here. Fantastic dramatic actor who also has some serious comedy talent. He made a movie back in 2022 called Glorious where he was the voice of an eldritch, Lovecraftian abomination that talks to a guy through a rest stop glory hole and it was one of the best things I've seen all year.
"Let's put someone more serious in"
Counterpoint - Christopher Walken as Steve
Woulda been perfection
If the live action actors were turned into animated Minecraft Characters. Jack black would have worked a lot better. They had the zombie. They could have made regular Minecraft characters in the same vein.
I actually think it's rather impressive that most of the blocks are props. Kudos to warner bros. For not using cgi when it isn't necessary.
8:48 Your Sonic 2 review is the best video of all time
To me, the teaser truly didn't sell much with the type of vibes the were aiming for, I aspect they wanted to test something completely different yet fun at the same time. But second trailer I loved how much more of a crafted story they are aiming for with keeping the lore mechanics of the game within it while not relying on heavy comedy that we know of yet. It just looks like one of those type of movies to be a good sit down movie flick. I wans't sure what to think with the teaser, but after they released the true 1st trailer though I am highly intrigued to see it more now. Looks like a fun time.
Rumor has it the movie will have a homage to Technobalde in the movie so that’s nice.
This trailer gave me a bit of hope. I’m Cautiously optimistic!!
I couldn't disagree any less for the first 8 minutes, then I couldn't agree more for the rest.
This trailer was just more of the first trailer. It feels like the Concord of video game media. Just chasing the trend, and making all of the most generic choices available, from story to writing, to casting. It's wild to me that they saw the intensely negative feedback from the trailer, and responded by digging their heels in.
If they wanted to take the meta approach (which they definitely didn't need to), then they should have gone with telling a story about how people play the game. Show the SMPs and the minigame servers. Spotlight the player archetypes & all different forms of creativity, and promote their cooperation in achieving goals together. Instead we have Jack Black reading us the minecraft guidebook. This feels like an ad to the distant parents of children who play minecraft, and not an ode to its players.
I will be keeping an open mind and taking my siblings to see it (...probably on a $5 Tuesday) But it just doesn't look good.
OK. So Steve isn't blocky in the movie cos hes a person from our world. Glad they explained that part in the new trailer.
I'm not quite convinced it will be a good movie, but it does look like a much more faithful adaptation than it initially seemed.
I’ve been playing Minecraft for years and I am so excited about this movie. I know it could be awful but I feel it will be a fun awful, similar to the original Mario Bros movie. I think the most enjoyment will be seeing Minecraft brought to life. Seeing real life versions of the items I know and love. And that auto cooked chicken device? Yep, I’ve totally made that in my Minecraft worlds. 😂
As a subscriber, I yearn for the slop.
+B-but you're supposed to be hero, Brian!
+Hmm, Herobrine, I like that name
Using a text post meme about *child labor* in your fun kids movie is WILD
This was definitely a better trailer for the minecraft movie, and did a far better job of explaining the movie, but it also solidified my opinion that it's not for me, and I now have even less desire to see it than I did after the teaser.
Correction: This is the first trailer. What we got before was the teaser.
We didn’t laugh this movie out of existence? 😳
I staunchly believe that Jason Momoa was supposed to play Steve, but after executives saw Jack Black in every videogame movie they said money this and money that.
I love TopicArlo because I just enjoy hearing your opinions about things. We have similar taste, hence why I'm subscribed to both channels, but there's just enough difference that your perspective is interesting to me.
I actually admire the choice to make as many of the sets and props practical as they could. That behind the scenes video was really cool, but it's just slightly even more disappointing then that the movie don't really make use of that. The lighting on outdoor shots in the minecraft world still feel like they're in a set, and adds to the unnatural look these practical sets are supposed to have.
If you watch this trailer in the shoes of the artists on this film, I can see a lot of passion. It's just not fully there in the final version.
I like the approach that this movie looks to be going for. Gives me Lego movie vibes
it's silly, it doesn't look good at all, and the writing is typical "child movie schlock" quality. in other words it's gonna make a billion dollars in the box office, which bothers me cause it literally seems like they got chat gpt to write this thing
so... an isekai. got it
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am STEEEEEVE
@TopicArlo, please tell me that you remember that as children, we all yearned for the mines.
Definitely felt like this trailer made the "Minecraft but real life" world interesting. Stuff from the game happens, even more subtle stuff like the wolf getting a collar once you give it a bone. I'm not expecting a masterpiece or something like other great "surprising" movies based on kids stuff like the LEGO Movie, but I do think I'll enjoy it just for how fun it looks to watch. Still not sure if it will be fun-bad or if it's gonna just be a fun "oh that's cool" movie, but this definitely made me lean more towards the latter. The thing that could bring it down is the characters, but we haven't seen much of their character roles beyond the synopsis and their "funny" interactions. I would've preferred a more serious (less "zany" or "funny") Steve than what they're doing. Jack Black's Steve will feel more like Jack Black showing us what Minecraft is than a vanilla-Steve, but I think that's fine given Steve is meant to be shaped into you the player.
One day arlo will realize that jack blacks costume is literally steve from minecraft
I think it's strange how they chose to market the movie in the first trailer. Like for example, the scene in the first trailer where Jason Momoa makes that weird double bucket thing got a lot of people riled up because that's not a recipe in the game, but then a few days later they show the full scene and its revealed that yeah, the item's all messed up cause he didn't follow the recipe, showing that they do understand how Minecraft mechanics work (I personally think it would have been funnier/more accurate if nothing got produced at all from randomly scattering stuff, but still). Heck, they even have a clip of Steve accurately making a sword that they could have used instead for the trailer! Its like they were intentionally trying to annoy people with that trailer and make them think the people making it had no clue what they were doing.
Maybe the idea was to make a bad teaser so the trailer looks even better in comparison.
With it being Minecraft they might have thought they couldnt really lose at the end.
Minecraft movie, starring Jack Black, directed by the Napoleon Dynamite guy. Yup, nothing about that sentence is something I would have predicted or asked for.
I think there's something a lot of people probably aren't considering when talking about how this movie could be so much better if it were way more intentional/atmospheric/etc. I generally agree you could probably make a better movie that way, but the fact is that movie will probably not sell. This movie might come out and suck pretty hard, but it's a movie about Minecraft starring Jack Black, so people are gonna watch it. As tired as it may be for some people, you have to consider that the generic hollywood family movie formula has been good enough to make good money for years and continues to be today. It's part of why Transformers One shot itself in the foot, with its first trailer really leaning into that aspect when it wasn't even really like that, because someone assumed how it had to be marketed. Sad though it is, that movie probably had no chance from the get-go, I find it hard to imagine one different trailer would have propelled it into a major box office success. If anything, this is likely just a lesson that anytime something you've loved for years is getting made into a movie, you should temper your expectations, because for many people in filmmaking, money is more important than making you happy. It's truly rare for a movie to really appreciate its target audience, and you just have to embrace those when they come around.
Please bear in mind that I'm not a filmmaking expert, this is just my observations.
I agree with your take on Jack Black but hard to say for sure until the movie comes out of course
I'm actually excited for this now ❤
Jack Black looks a heck of a lot like Steve. I feel that's why he has been casted. And as you mentioned, Jack is a good fit for the role based on what you mentioned, Arlo. I mean, would a more serious actor fit nicely? Maybe, but who knows? But the video was entertaining.
Anyone know the background music to this video? Im really digging it
The biggest complaint I saw was that people didn’t like the animation style they chose for the Minecraft world. If it had just been the game graphics with real people walking around I think it would have been better received.
They should have chosen the most average Joe to play Steve and given him some insanely hillarious one liners in the most "bored office guy" way. As much ch as I love Jack Black, he doesn't feel like a Steve
you don't know, maybe at the end of the movie we see steve go back to the real world and see his missing poster of J*** B**** and all ends with based on a real story
A Henry Caville or Daniel Craig type woulda been hilarious Steve casting
I would have loved a serious actor playing all the silly things totally straight like Adam west when he was Batman, it’s the sort of comedy you just don’t see anymore and I think it would work really well in a minecraft movie
I get the argument for how this is a meta take on Minecraft, a movie _about_ Minecraft... but that doesn't feel like a good argument for why it should be live-action. There's no reason why the human characters couldn't turn animated after getting isekai'd into Minecraft world. Or, for that matter, why the Minecraft world should look the way it does in the movie.
I think the trailer was better than the teaser, but I dunno if the film will be any good honestly.
Executive1: the Mario movie was a success what was the reason?
Executive2: Jack black a big video game IP and celebrities.
Executive3: Jack black, Minecraft and Jason Mamoa.
"I'm not going to follow this up with any other trailer. It comes out in April. I'm not going to be following all the trailers. I'm not gonna do that. Just ragging on the Minecraft movie is not going to be a part of my career. We will talk about it again when the movie comes out. I will go. I will probably bring my nephew. And we will talk about it then.” - 2 Months Later...
I never played Mine Craft, but I might watch this.
The yearn for the mines joke was the one point I'll give them, haha. That actually got a laugh outta me. I literally make that joke with my friends when playing. I'm not sure the humor is gonna be my cup of tea in any other aspect, though. And the creatures just remind me of those freaky photorealistic skin packs my boyfriend used to freak me out with back in the day 😭
They're so uncanny valley
it looks a lot better now i just wish the other cgi animals looked as good as the chicken
welcome back jumanji
Arlo calling himself cynical makes me feel like Rick Sanchez in comparison lmao
Where’s the video on the DKC addition to Super Nintendo World?
"the children yearn for the mines" is a twitter-borne meme joking about the popularity of a game about mining & manual labor among children, & they're just referencing that minecraft community in-joke - and i think it's a good indicator of how seriously the movie is taking itself. if it's somewhat self-aware about its own goofiness and camp then i find that more charming than annoying. i might even argue that feels pretty in-line with how people approach minecraft's world.
It certainly looks ALOT better
Personally I thing they shouldn’t have swapped Jack Black and Jason’s roles, Momoa being this serious muscular dude fits Steve better, and Jack Black being a old washed up Video Game Legend makes way more sense
I’m still more preferential to an animated film; however, I think the fact that they demonstrated a much better understanding of the game in this trailer makes the live-action blockbuster (har har) aesthetic work better for me.
Eh, sometimes a meta movie about playing a game rather than the story of the game can get you The Lego Movie, but other times it can get you Dragon Quest: Your Story. And we do not need more DQ:YS.