I think we use to have one of these threads at some point, but this is just a general talk thread about current movie stuff, less about what you just watched, which is for the other threads, but more on trailers, news, etc. No spoilers for movies other than what trailers show, so no talk about leaks or the early previews and such.
I'll kick it off by being both surprised, but also not surprised by how bad the Minecraft trailer looks lol To me I got Spy Kids vibes, where you have this excessive amount of CG, but then throw in real people who don't match into it at all. It's wild how we've had decent game to movie stuff lately like Sonic, Mario, FNAF, Detective Pikachu, and then we still get such outright major disasters like Borderlands and I don't expect too much better from this.
Not that this will be Borderlands bad, that movie seemed to have suffered through development hell from the sound of it, and the director for this is the guy from Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite, so he can at least do something kinda funny, but the visuals are wildly distracting to me. I'm also a big softie for Jack Black (Not even he can get me to watch Borderlands lol), but this is maybe the most "Jack Black" I've seen him in a movie, where it feels like he's doing an SNL bit or he was brought in to be in a Youtube Minecraft video, rather than playing a character. Jason Momoa is also doing something with his look, but I have no idea what lol
I expect it to do well, like it's Minecraft, the children yearn for the mine, and if the kids like it, that's all that matters, but this was such a weird direction to take things lol
