• Ech@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Tbh, that’s probably the only casting that would give me any interest in watching a movie about Minecraft.

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      11 months ago

      “Hey you know this game where it’s basically just legos and survival and there’s no story whatsoever? What if we made a live-action movie with people who aren’t legos and wrote a story to it? The fans will obviously love it because it has the same name!”

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        11 months ago

        Tbf the LEGO movie was pretty good. I’m willing to give a minecraft movie a chance, won’t be happy if it’s shit though.

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          11 months ago

          The lego movie was good because it wasn’t about the legos though. It used legos as a medium for telling a really heartfelt story about a father and son.

          If they do that with Minecraft, fantastic. I’m just not expecting it in the slightest.

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            11 months ago

            It also used nothing but lego pieces and had overall amazing animation, complete with the limited movement of lego figures accounted for.

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              11 months ago

              True, nothing but lego pieces*

              *non-lego pieces that were real-world objects and real human people excluded

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            11 months ago

            Also because a lot of us played with Legos as kids and the movie properly captured the nostalgic feeling of playing with Legos.

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              11 months ago

              There are already people feeling nostalgic for Minecraft, more so by the time this movie comes out.

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              11 months ago

              Sure, and yeah some people are nostalgic for Minecraft, but “The LEGO Movie except it’s Minecraft” is a lousy idea for a movie

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    11 months ago

    Seems like an odd cast, but I’m down to watch Jack Black in basically anything.

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          I think Jack Black can be considered a voice actor and a traditional actor, he has done a lot of good work for both

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          There are very few voice actors who didn’t come up through “traditional” acting.

          Especially notable is Bojack which is considered the GOAT and to my knowledge doesn’t feature anyone who hasn’t done theatre, tv or film.

          Mel Blanc did TV before he did cartoons

          Dan Castellaneta did Second City and character comedy for years before the Simpsons

          Tom Kenny was an actor for 10 years before SpongeBob

          And so on

          the only one I can think of that would meet this description is Seth MacFarlane.