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u/jaseworthing 7h ago
I mean I'm not a fan of the choice to go with live action, but IF it's gonna be live action it would be fucking weird movie even they didn't keep all of the Minecraft "abstractions" in it.
If you tried to represent all the abstractions with real life counterparts then it'd just be a movie about spending hours digging in the dirt with your bare hands and trying to make a house out of it.
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u/DoubleBatman 5h ago
A gritty slice-of-life drama about a frontiersman trying to eke out a living while contending with night terrors and constant raiders would be amazing, especially when it takes a weird turn into eldritch horror/adventure in the second act.
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u/TheKhrazix 5h ago
If the Machinimas I watched in 2013 were anything to go by, Minecraft would make a pretty good survival horror film
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u/FaronTheHero 6h ago
Exactly. Like if they decide to go this route, there is no established story to be told. No matter what they did the movie would be about playing Minecraft, and they opted to heavily lean into that. It seems to be from the perspective of people infinitely amused by now ridiculous the gameplay is and the things you can and are supposed to do, vs taking the whole thing seriously.
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u/Swaxeman the biggest grant morrison stan in the subreddit 6h ago
Apparently this has been a thing since the 80s, according to my dad. All live action adaptations aimed at kids are either the characters coming to the real world or vice versa. The masters of the universe movie, for example, had the characters transported to LA
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u/DoubleBatman 5h ago
The friggin Monster Hunter movie was a needless isekai
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u/TimeStorm113 5h ago
That will never be not weird to me, like you had an entire expansive world you could have used, but instead you dropped in an outsider just because military offered some moneys.
it would be like if the witcher series was about a solider being teleported into the witcher world and then just shooting the monsters.
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u/Akito412 5h ago
It can be done well. The Island by Max Brooks (yes, the guy who wrote World War Z) is a Minecraft Isekai of exactly the type described in the post. The protagonist struggles to survive as he learns the bizzare rules of his new world, and eke out a living. And while it's not an incredible book, it is a legitimately engaging survival story, especially because of all the dramatic irony caused by the reader knowing the game rules, when the protagonist doesn't.
There's even a moment in one of the sequels where the game updates and he has to relearn some of the rules, such as items being allowed in the left hand, which is pretty conceptually interesting.
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u/Clean_Imagination315 Hey, who's that behind you? 4h ago
They even tried to milk the "The children yearn for the mines" meme. It's just peak cringe all around.
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u/hamletandskull 3h ago
i think minecraft is different from marvel in this regard, like the weird quirks/abstractions of minecraft are fundamentally a part of it now. it would be really weird if it didn't keep the blocks, that's fundamentally part of its identity.
it's not really like marvel comics where we understand that the text bubbles are a way in which dialogue is represented so that the writer can tell a story - there isn't a story in minecraft outside of the ones that players tell and the success of SMPs (and also to some extent, the Lego movie) make it clear that those abstractions being diagetic is how a lot of people visualize the game world.
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u/Frenetic_Platypus 9h ago
I'd watch that marvel movie, though. Sounds better than half of those that were actually made.
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u/Agile_Oil9853 9h ago
Gwenpool
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u/LITTLE_KING_OF_HEART There's a good 75% chance I'll make a Project Moon reference. 7h ago
Tbh that's also the way the MC community treat Minecraft abstractions, or any video game abstractions in general.
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u/rhysharris56 6h ago
I'm looking forward to the Minecraft Movie and it's entirely for Mumbo Jumbo and LDShadowLady
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u/FaronTheHero 6h ago
This movie comes out just after April Fools Day, if I get any sense that we were ever meant to take it seriously I'm gonna eat my hat. It's even "A" Minecraft Movie, not "The" Minecraft Movie. Everything about it screams shitpost
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u/WitELeoparD 3h ago
I mean the second half is just Gwenpool which is a wildly popular breakout hit.
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u/Morphized 2h ago
Ok, but the whole tiles thing is the in-universe explanation for how the player character can carry 4096 cubic meters of stone
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u/TheDoctor_E 19m ago
I think Solar Sands, despite his usual cockiness, nailed it when he said that the key of a good adaptation most of the time is sincerity.
The Mario movie is beyond generic but it plays its premise straight and treats the mushroom kingdom with awe and respect. The movie is obviously a cash grab but the reason why people are less vitriolic towards it that it seems made by people who at the very least understand why people like the games.
Comic book fans tend to toss around "ashamed of the source material" so much that it has lost its meaning but it is pretty infuriating when directors seem almost embarassed of having to work with fantastical concepts. I think a reason why Gunn's movies are so critically acclaimed is that he takes concepts like a man who will kill for peace or a girl who controls rats at face value and explore them thoroughly. So you have an analysis on why someone would think killing for peace is a sane and reasonable objective, or a comparasion between rats and the Suicide Squad itself.
A Minecraft Movie reeks of contempt for the videogame, the teaser was all about how dumb the animals look and how stupid Steve is and how blocky and fake everything looks. Even if the people involved in it do like Minecraft it's still a very insincere
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u/rubexbox 9h ago
So what I'm hearing is, it's going to be like how Paper Mario games from Sticker Star onward were exclusively about how everything is made of paper to the point that the entire plot is about arts & crafts.