"I was reincarnated in another world with my friends but everything is a block and there's this guy named steve" would be the japanese light novel title.
@@biyurica Survival In Another World With My Mistress. it samples from a lot of games but Minecraft and 7 Days to Die are most prominent... and blatant.
@@The_SSSlopper usually even among main characters you got one that is more main than others, like Jumanji itself, four kids sucked in game were main characters but one seemed more main than others, didnt it?
The biggest problem are the human characters in a Minecraft world. Why though? There's absolutely NO REASON to have real life actors in a pure CGI environment.
@@supermariohack3218Yeah, but the difference is that both Sonic' and Mario's worlds don't look that different from a real one. They are just unrendered, pixilated rocks, trees, grass and characters. Why can we imagine real world sonic? Because we HAVE that detailed sonic already. Yes, it's like 16 pixels, but, with how shapes are structured, you can easily imagine what it would loik like irl. But MINECRAFT, on the other hand, has a completely different artstyle. Everything is blocks. Not very detailed, messy blocks. Steve is pretty much just 6 blocks smashed together: head, body, 2 legs, 2 arms. 16 px or 4K px, Steve will still have the same shape, made out of 6 blocks. Smae goes to zombie, skeleton, sheep and so on. If you try to give Steve realistic arms, and legs - that won't be Steve anymore. That'll be a guy named Steve that looks like a famous blocky game character.
I 100% agree with you, why would piglins raid the world if they have WHOLE Nether for that? And also, why didn't they zombify into pigmen if they are already in the overworld 💀
I understand how translating Minecraft into a blockbuster movie is definitely a hard feat and that it would be unreasonable to expect it to look like Minecraft SMP with RTX on, but I still kinda wish they pulled more of a Lego Movie approach to Minecraft (they’re both childhood games centered around creating anyways), with the main characters being from and centered a Minecraft society and the style being more of a stylized version of the Minecraft style with a higher level of detail (instead of being a generic “what if real life people entered video game world and have to find their way back home!1!1!!” and having this weird clash with hyperrealism and blocks). Some part of me hopes that the Minecraft movie in the the trailer was just a joke but the first stage of grief is denial.
Yeah, like before this thing actually became realized, I always imagined the theoretical Minecraft movie to look like the style Mojang uses in those animations.
@@strangeaelurus a minecraft movie should look like a minecraft machinima ez. people have made careers off of it on youtube for 10-15 years but do they hire them to do the official feature film? noooo
It all looks AI generated. Like the giant cubes in the landscape. Minecraft doesn’t have those unless the terrain generation glitched out somehow. It looks like someone put “Minecraft landscape” into some image generator. Or maybe some exec who has never played Minecraft asked for it to look “more blocky.”
@@layan1533 Or, just like how techbros have latched into AI, another equally annoying group have latched onto AI as a cringe blanket term for anything they don’t like
This movie has the same problem that a lot of imagination movies have. As in, the characters and the world are designed in the style of 2D animation, but they're rendered as someone'd render standard marvel-like CGI. Take the sheep for example. They are designed as a more "stylized" take on the standard Minecraft sheep, but they are rendered as someone'd render the model of an ACTUAL REAL-LIFE SHEEP. I think this is where a lot of the uncanniness comes from. Melding MC's unique style with Real Life almost never goes well, unless some HUGE liberties are taken with the characters and environments.
I think proprtions is the main Problem here, just look at that Big Head and Big eyes and their tiny Legs, then they tried to give it a Crazy Farm Animals vibe, basically they tried to give it more protagonism than they really have, if only they had shown us the same design, more proportioned and simply doing Farm Animal things, they would have gone unnoticed.
I think the creeper is like the only thing so far that really made the transition into live-action flawlessly. The design is pretty much the same, but the added moss texture gives it more dimension without going completely into the uncanny valley like with the sheep or the llama.
I just don't like the body that is so much thinner than its head. They've been doing that with lego as well but if you look at a creeper in game you'll see that from the front it looks like a solid rectangle, i think that makes it more menacing.
6:40 I also had that opinion. And im glad ur making that point. But after a while I do understand the outrage, the sheep can look realistic and derpy, but they not only did that, they also made it look absolutely horrendous, it looks like a juiced up sheep full of steroids screaming in pain, the skin is so pale he looks like a walking cadaver. They can make it look derpy, but they should make it look cute at least. the ingame mobs also look derpy, but still somewhat cute. I think the piglins are perfect, those look absolutely horrifying and I love it. But they should not go the same route with the cute animals from the Minecraft world.
Honestly this. I feel like he didn't do a good job breaking down the design of the mobs. Felt like he just looked at the minecraft sheep, saw it had derpy eyes, and went "Oh it's fine!", without looking at the rest of the features of the sheep. The sheep literally looks imperfect and weirdly meshed, especially for something made out of perfect cubes. Which is a shame, cuz this guy was supposed to look at the entire trailer with an Artistic lens, but ended up just generalizing most things imo.
esp since i feel like nowadays a big part of minecrafts appeal is to be calm and relaxed while playing, and the sort of dumb placidity of the animal mobs adds to that sensation. making them look kind of terrifying absolutely breaks that appeal.
but it's not just that they transferred the minecraft aesthetic into something realistic, it's not even. like the sheep. they gave it teeth like that, but sheep don't have upper teeth at all in the real world, and we don't see the teeth on minecraft sheep at all. and the proportions on nearly all the mobs are so. why are they so out of place? same with the world itself, you see the big stony arch in there and it's made of blocks, yes, but not in the way minecraft worlds are. minecraft is made up of a bunch of equally sized blocks that pretty naturally create kind of curves and more natural transitions, as pixels should, but in the big stone arch there arw a bunch of weird inconsistently sized big blocks for no reason. and they're not even squares, they're kinda stretched out. i think the reason the bee looks good is because they changed its proportions the least, and the creeper isn't that different either, though i personally think the color and texture on it is a bit too uniform and looks more like a bunch of the grass you get after mowing your lawn, real grass and moss have much more texture. or the wolf we saw; why does it have like a gap between the front of its body and the back? the minecraft model doesn't? it's not that they just unsuccessfully interpreted the minecraft models, it seems more as though they didn't even look at them for longer than a glance and just did whatever the hell came to mind. it feels kinda insulting if you like the game, disrespectful that they didn't even try. like any bad adaptation i guess. well, anyway
Its because the style and plot is taken directly from minecraft legends. Everything in rhis movie can be traced directly back to that game except steve
In my opinion THEY COULD JUST MAKE IT A FANTASY MOVIE, a group of in universe heroes and not live action ones, within like a dungeon & dragons type world, they go on a mission in search of something Like how you would be during your first time playing minecraft, going on an adventure, getting stronger, discovering new weird things to gwt creative with, all to defeat the Ender Dragon
I think the more pressing issue that you lightly brought up at the beginning is that their is a level of uncertainty in how commited they are to a unique personal tone that fits minecraft, rather than by the numbers kid movie slop.
My biggest gripe with this movie is not the cringe dialogue or the fact that it's a Jumanji remake in the Minecraft world or even the nightmare fuel mobs. My biggest problem with this movie is the fact that it really would have worked better as a fully animated film, something like the Lego Movie.
I think people are less concerned with why the Minecraft Movie isn't realistic enough and more why wasn't it just animated. It's a stylized world with a very iconic look so applying real life textures and anatomy to these blocky freaks just looks off. It's uncanny and weird looking, its never going to look good especially next to real people. Going for something more along the lines of the Lego movie or even something like Fantastic Mr Fox would be better to either keep its unique stylization or to be cohesive in a psuedo realistic look respectively.
@@TheLastApostle And everyone knows how much people care about the Minecraft spinoffs. Minecraft gimmick was building and crafting, when you take that away you might as well be playing something else.
@@JorakinHost i agree. And they should market this movie with the legends brand in some way so people dont get the wrong idea. But they wont do that because they know original minecraft is the only popular minecraft game
6:30 does anyone remember the minecraft theory about creepers being peat moss and that's why they exploded? that was what immediately jumped to my mind when i heard you describe the texture as mossy
I assume Creepers are made of iron and covered in moss and vines/leaves. I use that to explain why they have bits of white in certain spots and why the Minecraft book shows them with TNT inside of them.
I want this movie to flop, it would be disrespectful to more traditional and stylized forms of animation which are still seen as "childish" if the movie succeeded.
What if that's the genius move they have up their sleeve? What if WB already made a proper trailer, but they took a page out of Sonic's book and released that abomination to make people talk about it. And when we're done screaming at, well, this - they whip out the actual trailer, suddenly becoming the good guys again.
There were leaked style guides that WB actively tried to censor, by your theory, style guides wouldn't be made, but if they were, they'd be made to give publicity, yet they were censored, actually very well, relatively. Also on the topic of the Sonic movie, it worked well for them in the end, by a miracle, really. They actually had merch of the old design ready, in production even, they wouldn't make that mistake if it was a whole marketing thing
I don’t think the designs of the mobs themselves are the worst things. But the fact that it’s just real life human characters instead of also having cgi textured square men as our protagonist
@@1stCallipostle Who Frames Rodger Rabbit only worked because the cartoon characters were appealing and they acknowledged that they were cartoon characters.
i always thought steve was just a castaway from a sunken ship or something and he washed up in a foreign land cuz back in 1.2.5 i almost always spawned in on a beach and the default skin does look like he has wet arms and an unkept beard thats why he looks different to the villagers and cant understand what they are saying too so he can only trade physical goods at inconsistent rates the villager arms being stuck together was never a meat loop to me and always just felt like some sort of cultural habit since when they become zombies the arms come apart sunken ships and alex getting added to the game later just feels like confirmation for it since all the shipwrecks are a completely different style to villager construction and theres now a second person who looks like steve though i almost exclusively play back on 1.7 so i dont know how much has been added that can further reenforce or falsify(?) my opinion i know bedrock has abunch of characters that seem like they are all part of a civilised community but i dont play bedrock and they feel more like just sample skins for people so i dont consider bedrock exclusive content to be true to the world maybe the minecraft movie is just the windows store edition world lol
The game survivalcraft, which is very similar to minecraft,, starts with a pirate ship sailing away from you as you stand on a beach. This made me think of that.
I think everything here still fits really well even with updates over time fleshing out the world and history more. There's different factions out and about like the pillagers and the piglin, and some hints of an ancient builder civilization, but the player character is something different and definitely out of place compared to it all. The castaway theory is a pretty good one.
@@ariannasv22 All the iilagers use the same "arms in their sleeves" pose, and the unused illusioner has an animation where he waves his arms. This lends credence to the idea they are _not_ flesh loops.
@@elpsykoongro5379 Technically, with Steve's canon weight and height, Steve actually is a pretty chonky boi 😂 It makes sense why his limbs are so thicc compared to the rest of him XD Tho all of that could also be muscle. How else he gonna carry all that gold?! XD
I would have been *so* sold on a life action dark fantasy minecraft movie that basically just shows steves progression from a wooden house to defeating the ender dragon. Minimal dialogue if any, less blocks, soundtrack by C418, just the *feel* of minecraft. I want a movie that feels like playing 2012 minecraft when you watch it.
My main problem is that they made the Minecraft world into a world and not a game- like- the reason why the shapes are cubic is because it’s supposed to mimic a retro esthetic- that’s why the textures are pixels and not hyper realistic. If they made the world more game like and less realistic- it would make so much more sense. But they wanted the world to be a second dimension for some reason.
Yeah, shouldn't they be kinda like ghosts? I'm not sure what the exact lore is for the ghasts existing, but I'd imagine they're more like ghosts, not flesh pillows. 🤢
@@iceprism367 Yeah. They for some reason stuck with the binary of furry or leathery, but things like ghasts could have been quite a unique sight to behold, I imagine them translucent like jellyfish (or ghosts, of course!)
i really want to be wrong, i really, really wish this doesnt happen, but with the quality of humor in this trailer i just think its entirely possible that they're gonna reveal the villager in the same style of the sheep and llama, the quirky squad of misfits are going to go "oh boy he sure looks weird, do we try to talk to him?", the villager is going to turn around and its just Chris Pratt
While this video is a great explanation for why adapting the Minecraft world into a realistic environment is inherently problematic, I feel like this doesn't address the main critique I've heard about the movie's artstyle at all: Nobody I've talked to or heard talk about this has said they did a bad job at making Minecraft's mobs and world realistic, the problem is that they shouldn't have tried making Minecraft realistic in the first place. Adapting Pokémon into a realistic movie is easy. Look at any of the games, especially the newer ones. They're all representations of what a real world might look like if it had Pokémon in it. It takes minimal effort to put elements from the Pokémon games and extended property into a realistic environment, because the games themselves are already trying to be realistic. Same with Sonic, to name the other example you talked about. This doesn't work with Minecraft. Minecraft is and was never trying to be realistic. The physics are not realistic, the gameplay is not realistic, the artstyle is not realistic. Of course Minecraft is largely inspired by the real world, in many of its animals, block types, biomes, et cetera, but largely it is trying to be unique instead of being realistic. Mobs aren't designed to look realistic, because they don't need to be. Most blocks aren't affected by gravity, because realism wouldn't really add anything to the game. Minecraft isn't trying to create the most realistic environment, just one with immense creative potential. Minecraft is inherently unrealistic, which is why the Minecraft Movie had to jump through so many hurdles to force its elements into a realistic environment. Minecraft's defining characteristics do not work in a realistic world, because they weren't designed with realism in mind, and should therefore not be adapted into one. Making the Minecraft Movie into a live action one was a fundamentally terrible idea. The Minecraft Movie should by all means have been an animated movie, upholding and refining Minecraft's artstyle and world, rather than replacing it and forcing its elements into a world they don't belong to.
THIS!! So many people dont get it. The internet is mad because it's live action, that's it. And then we are being told we shouldn't be mad with the movie because it does a good job making Minecraft look realistic? Uhmm no, we never wanted it to be realistic because we knew from the start that it would look this ugly. Just give us Minecraft Story Mode's style of animation and a plot that does not revolve around humans being teleported into the world of Minecraft, that's so boring and cliché. It would be better if the movie revolved around Steve being a character FROM the Minecraft world. For example, in Detective Pikachu the story isn't about a teen being teleported into the world of Pokémon, it's a about a teen FROM the world of Pokémon living in the world he always knew and going on an adventure. I would've preferred it if the movie was something like: Steve is a human from a different continent in the world of Minecraft where everything is mostly similar to our world, but one day he somehow found himself on the other side of the world where creatures have evolved to have different biological features, like Creepers being the shape they are and having the ability to explode. Creepers never evolved to exist in Steve's continent, they are a species of "animal" that only exist in this land, so Steve would be terrified of them and everything else in this new continent. And Villagers could have the same ancestors as Steve, but evolved to look different and speak a different language. Ughh its so easy to make a kind of interesting plot for a Minecraft movie, it took me a couple of minutes just now. But anyway, lets just sit back and wait for more trailers to come so we can laugh at the garbage they are trying to sell us
@@TheLastApostle "Eho would market a blockbuster movie directly to toddlers?" Hollywood does that exact thing. I play Minecraft, but I also know how Hollywood works. The trailer they presented doesn't look like a family movie; it looks like a pure kids' movie. There is a difference, and pretending they wouldn't spend millions of dollars on a movie like that is insane. They spend millions on horrible projects all the time. They dumbed down Borderlands from a hard R/M to a 13-movie. I doubt the people in charge know anything more about Minecraft than they did Borderlands. Also, calling it a blockbuster seems WAY too far.
@rolay7730 its a blockbuster movie. Its budget is 100% for sure above 100 mil. And toddlers are 2-3 years of age. Nobody is going to make a movie that costs that much and market it towards kids that are barely even old enough to walk and can barely talk. This movie is marketed towards late teens and up. The people who have been playing minecraft for years and years. Thats why they hired jack black and whats his face. If this was made and marketed directly to toddlers they wouldnt have wasted time spending so much money on the cast. Toddlers dont know who they are. Toddlers dont even know the difference between a lego and a cookie my guy. I think the problem is you keep calling them toddlers and you really mean just young children. Probably youre including kids as old as 9 or 10. The definition of toddler is a kid of the age of 1-3. This movie isnt made for them dude
I hadn't actually considered a big part of Minecraft's identity being pixel art before. I mean, I knew that was part of Minecraft's look, but I just thought it went back to things being blocky. Essentially, what I'm trying to say is thanks for pointing that out for me, as I've never considered it before.
It's funny how you said that the creeper is supposed to be moss, not fur, because Notch himself actually found it interesting how the creeper in the trailer was "furry" when he originally imagined it like a leafy texture. So even Notch himself thinks the creeper is furry.
@@TheLastApostle My point was what Notch thought it was. But it does kind of look a bit like a mix of furry and mossy to me, not just one or the other; maybe I'm wrong though. The dark setting in the trailer alone though does make it look just furry, so if that's all Notch looked at before he made that conclusion, it would make sense for that to be what he believes.
Fantastic video that shows such a clear understanding of what would've gone into making this movie and what boundaries would've been put onto the artists, a level of critical thinking the wider internet had neglected to apply to the discussion. Excellent!
I am honestly just consistently blown away by their decision to make this movie look this way. I don't know much about art design or anatomy or anything like that, but as just a casual viewer? This is, seriously, one of the ugliest and most unappealing things I've ever seen in my life. Everything looks so lumpy and textured and diseased. It's basically that meme where people draw cartoon characters hyper-realistically. You know, the one where the entire point of it is to get a repulsive visceral reaction out of people. I'm not refusing to watch this movie out of some sense of loyalty, like "oh it's too different from the source material" or anything like that: I'm refusing to watch this video because I don't want to spend 2 hours of my life watching a marshmallow made of necrotic flesh float around and harass a cancerous-looking sheep with horribly defined human teeth while Jack Black is there for some reason.
I would like to say I agree with the idea that it is on brand with some of the charming official minecraft animations. They’re brighter colored, and the humor seems to be pretty similar.
Oh I think thats ok. If I remember correctly the creepers texture was based off leaves. Since its an ambush predator (lol) it could make more sense to adapt for tall grass
Imo they should've done what the Sonic movie did. Have Steve enter the real world rather than the humans entering the Minecraft world. They can still keep Steve's characteristic blocky artstyle, so then that way it won't be as uncanny.
@@pineapplesauce2718 You have a point. It's hard to think of how this movie could've gone in a better direction while still keeping the same familiar Minecraft feel.
@Donut-im9lk yeah, tbh the only idea I can think of was to focus on the experience when you create your first world, with Steve helping the main cast out as a mentor. No evil villain, no twist villain, just no villains, the only "antagonists" being each other. Like learning to work together to make something beautiful, despite hardships they face.
steve just does not have any unique features that would ahve worked in the real world. Might be an interesting movie to see how a supersonic hedgehog might work in the real world, but Steve has nothing to offer... The one thing he is famous for is 100% tied to the physics and rules of the minecraft world. It would remove all iconic features of minecraft, including the landscape and the mobs, for the sake of introducing a feature less, bland character into a world that we already know. The reverse, introducing real people into minecraft, is the more natural approach and emulates the game much closer, where you as the player, a real human, are introduced to the world by living in it. It is a fantasy world that you are thrown into to explore. It picks the viewer up where they are, the real world, to move them into the game. People just had that "uncanny"-reaction and doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on the first emotion they had, trying to explain how that emotion is the only truth they care about.
I don't think that would work. Sonic has a history with human characters, and even if you take Sonic out of the context of his world and friends he still has a strong personality. Steve is a joke name for an avatar. I like Steve, but most players don't even see him since they use custom skins. He is iconic, but unlike Sonic there's nothing that defines him as a character. Sure he mines and crafts, but he doesn't have emotions or motivation. Minecraft Story Mode had the right idea of having distinct characters in the Minecraft world (even if it didn't do an amazing job). Fan content has done a good job too, with Fallen Kingdom being a great example of telling a simple story in the world of Minecraft. By just existing in the game's world (and not being live action people from the real world) the characters just passively embody Minecraft better. TLDR Minecraft is defined by the ingame world, so putting it in the real world takes away the little character there is.
8:45 Those mostly weren't a product of stylization but technical constraints-Minecraft's Steve, on the other hand, is represented as such due to the style of the game. In fact, during the early development of Minecraft, Markus Persson experimented with much more defined/graphically-intensive, style-dissonant mobs.
with minecraft being such a major IP there is just no way an executive would have allowed anything other than a hyper literal interpretation of the minecraft characters. can i just nitpick that they remembered llamas dont have an upper set of front teeth but forgot that sheep also dont which i think adds to the creepiness.
0:35 the fact that this was probably the funniest moment in the entire trailer (probably the whole movie) really says something. It may also be because that joke is exactly how the community reacted to the sheep.
I can't find any other word for the style of the mobs than just disgusting. It's like a creepypasta. "I went into the Mincraft world but the sheep had hyper-realistic eyes and teeth"
I really disagree about respecting the nuance of this movie. I love Napoleon Dynamite, but this is not the place to use that kind of creative freedom. Like you said, the movie has to stay true to the brand, so maybe it shouldn’t have been live action in the first place. To be frank, the entire movie was doomed from the outset, and I’m not typically one to say that kind of thing. I usually think that execution is what matters most in a creative project, but this is a case where I’m seriously questioning that line of thinking. I don’t believe the state of this movie is excusable, and I don’t think this is a “wait and see” kind of situation. The movie looks awful, the character designs are heinous, and the comedy presented in the trailer doesn’t even line up with the considered absurdism of the director’s best work.
The mob design and even the terrain to an extent almost seem AI generated. Like, it's weirdly uncanny and it's almost hard to believe that a real human actually came up with this shit.
I feel like a lot of the issues that is related to the Minecraft movie is that it's not animated. Minecraft had been feeding us so many animated shorts, videos, and promotions that we CANNOT imagine a minecraft movie that is live-action as not only does it break the consistency that they're trying to have with their brand but also unreasonably curves the lamp-shade higher. We all know that these blocks won't be realistic, they just won't, yet we can AT LEAST suspend our beliefs for a bit for enjoyment, but going realistic is not the way to fit that in-between. We have games like Mineacraft: Legends, Minecraft: Dungeons, or even Minecraft: Story mode!! STORY MODE!! They could've gone with the style and Minecraft story mode and it would've been BETTER! It allows us to suspend our beliefs and not think about too many of the logistics of whatever they're doing while at the same time staying true to the game to a degree.
All they needed was to make textures pixelated but instead we got RTX on mod pack. They don't even stick to the Minecraft geometry. You can see round flowers, real life water and fire in some shots. Also, I hated how they didn't just make Steve a Minecraft character. We all know Jack Black is good at voice acting as we saw him as Bowser. Instead we just got Jack Black in a teal shirt.
I think live action could work really well if they didn't make it blocky. I like to imagine that you're not playing in a world made of blocks, you're in a world made of grass and stone and wood and water, and when you place stairs with trapdoors on the sides, it's not just a short flight of stairs but an actual chair. If they did that with live action it could've been epic and epic, OR if they wanted to go blocky they could've done fully animated. Not this live action that wants so badly to be animated look they've gone for. (could you tell I wrote this before even watching 1 second of the video?)
Speaking of conspiracies, I have a friend who's in a little too deep, he thinks the president is already decided and voting doesn't matter because both the parties are the same but he doesn't know who will win or why they do different things and have different plans. He thinks kamala had Bluetooth earings even though he couldn't explain what they would even be telling her to say and also doesn't have an explanation why she would have said something false if she was being fed answers. It's kind of sad actually because I ask questions and he then locks onto something and gets all offended or is like "well ok I guess you're just right 100% of the time and just listen to the government" And also he's black and when I showed him the hatian thing wasn't true and they weren't eating cats he said "you cant prove they weren't doing it, maybe the news is covering it up? Lol" Bro wtf?? The news would EXPLODE if there was EVEN 1 example of MAYBE that happening and you would be ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED IT WAS TRUE. And then he gets all butt hurt because I say "no it's not real you just want it to be real" it's sad really
You know... I have a fanfiction about my OC getting into the Minecraft world... And the "core idea" of that was exactly this conflict between real life creature and this blocky workd with it's own logic(like not being able to place any items, eating a whole bread at a time and other stuff), which gets broken by my character, because he just doesn't understand, that what he does shouldn't be possible in this world. And I think that is a really good idea. Those characters in the movie could do the same thing - get trapped in this world, start breaking its rules, while exploring it and trying their best to find the way back. My fanfiction isn't finished, but it probably should be finished with the iconic slaying of the Ender Dragon, and so should the movie I think. Because it's actually what the Minecraft is!!! And they could even make an awesome thing - let some characters choose Minecraft over their real world. They might find it more interesting, letting them express themselves however they want, giving them endless possibilities, very interesting to explore and create. They could show throughout the movie how these characters build awesome stuff out of limited options, just like real Minecraft builders do, that could've been so frickin cool and promoting the game as it is.
Im terrified about the storyline of this movie. I wish they would bring classic Minecraft ideas to the movies. Like herobrian and the lore/ stories behind him. I wish they'd bring back OG TH-camrs like some of the Hermits, Stampy and his crew, or the non problematic people from Team Crafted (the like 3 that remain lol) instead of Jack Black. I hope they'll show genuine bits of actual love and creation for this movie, just how we all showed that to the game for so many years. The biggest fear is that they wont understand the weight Minecraft has on so many people. I know when i am stressed or having a meltdown i will still put on Minecraft music or watch old lets plays and i know that is the same for so many people. Point is, they're marketing it for all the dumb kids in the crowds rather that the kids that remember when the idea of a Minecraft movie was just announced and we lost our little minds. You can have a movie that adults now can watch and remember all the beautiful memories we made while playing the game while inspiring the next generation to make even more. But no, funny sheep makes loud noise. yippee.
Ngl when i first watched the trailer for the minecraft movie i got desensitized after a few watches but now that i have the prospect of time on my side im no longer desensitized!!!! YAY!!!
As much as I love Jack Black, I have a mental image in my head of what Steve, as a real human person, would look like. He’s a 6 foot tall bearded beast whose so jacked his arms are as thick as his torso so… not Jack Black
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"I was reincarnated in another world with my friends but everything is a block and there's this guy named steve" would be the japanese light novel title.
Funny enough there was an actual minecraft isekai manga/light novel. It wasn't actually minecraft but it was a lot like it.
@@jkbmcminer source?
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@@biyurica Survival In Another World With My Mistress. it samples from a lot of games but Minecraft and 7 Days to Die are most prominent... and blatant.
imagine if the minecraft movie was just a no commentary playthrough of hit video game _minecraft story mode_ (2015-2016)
I mean, if I remember right, Minecraft story mode was available on Netflix
@@crystalalumina oh god your right, but you could only play it if netflix detected an xbox connected to your system.
@@tomcaniff6437wait but i played it and i dont have an xbox
Minecraft Story Mode is currently getting a remake and has a trailer!
@@thedoglovinggamer5825Really?!!
damn, Jack black was in Jumanji as a side character, now he's gonna be the main character of a jumanji-like movie, that's progression
It’s the other way round.
I’m not sure if he’s the main character or who the main characters in the movie probably the boy
@@tedtalk9999 there can be multiple main characters. In this film it seems the main characters are the four people who have been sucked into the game
@@The_SSSlopper usually even among main characters you got one that is more main than others, like Jumanji itself, four kids sucked in game were main characters but one seemed more main than others, didnt it?
it looks like he's going to be a side character in this movie for some reason
The biggest problem are the human characters in a Minecraft world. Why though? There's absolutely NO REASON to have real life actors in a pure CGI environment.
would you prefer them to digitally alter the actors to be a blocky body horror mess? didn't think so
@@skandto we would rather the environment to be just more realistic or everything be animated obviously
Because i guess isekai stories are the easiest choice when it comes to writing video game movies. Hell, even the Mario and the Sonic movies did this.
@@supermariohack3218Yeah, but the difference is that both Sonic' and Mario's worlds don't look that different from a real one.
They are just unrendered, pixilated rocks, trees, grass and characters.
Why can we imagine real world sonic? Because we HAVE that detailed sonic already. Yes, it's like 16 pixels, but, with how shapes are structured, you can easily imagine what it would loik like irl.
But MINECRAFT, on the other hand, has a completely different artstyle. Everything is blocks. Not very detailed, messy blocks.
Steve is pretty much just 6 blocks smashed together: head, body, 2 legs, 2 arms.
16 px or 4K px, Steve will still have the same shape, made out of 6 blocks. Smae goes to zombie, skeleton, sheep and so on.
If you try to give Steve realistic arms, and legs - that won't be Steve anymore.
That'll be a guy named Steve that looks like a famous blocky game character.
In the pseudo-lore the player is not native to the overworld right?
It doesn’t even make sense for the piglins to be in the overworld and raiding the village. It shouldve been pillagers
true it's weird that they didn't use the illagers
I 100% agree with you, why would piglins raid the world if they have WHOLE Nether for that?
And also, why didn't they zombify into pigmen if they are already in the overworld 💀
@@Redosus1010 it's so cool how this movie is trying to be minecraft but they forget about or butcher most of the mechanics with no explanation
I mean, while I agree, it is literally the plot of minecraft legends so it's not like it was made up, not even that they can do
Its from minecraft legends. The piglins are in the overworld in that game
I understand how translating Minecraft into a blockbuster movie is definitely a hard feat and that it would be unreasonable to expect it to look like Minecraft SMP with RTX on, but I still kinda wish they pulled more of a Lego Movie approach to Minecraft (they’re both childhood games centered around creating anyways), with the main characters being from and centered a Minecraft society and the style being more of a stylized version of the Minecraft style with a higher level of detail (instead of being a generic “what if real life people entered video game world and have to find their way back home!1!1!!” and having this weird clash with hyperrealism and blocks). Some part of me hopes that the Minecraft movie in the the trailer was just a joke but the first stage of grief is denial.
Yeah, like before this thing actually became realized, I always imagined the theoretical Minecraft movie to look like the style Mojang uses in those animations.
@@strangeaelurus a minecraft movie should look like a minecraft machinima ez. people have made careers off of it on youtube for 10-15 years but do they hire them to do the official feature film? noooo
I was literally going to also comment about how the Lego movie was done.
hehe, blockbuster
Basically story mode, it's almost just that. But maybe more accurate storywise.
The animals look like if you gave an image AI the prompt of "a photo realistic picture of a Minecraft llama"
It all looks AI generated. Like the giant cubes in the landscape. Minecraft doesn’t have those unless the terrain generation glitched out somehow. It looks like someone put “Minecraft landscape” into some image generator. Or maybe some exec who has never played Minecraft asked for it to look “more blocky.”
"It looks like AI" - how original!
@@FilmShiz almost like people can have similar thoughts
@@layan1533 Or, just like how techbros have latched into AI, another equally annoying group have latched onto AI as a cringe blanket term for anything they don’t like
that or an off-putting photo manip in an old youtube thumbnail
This movie has the same problem that a lot of imagination movies have. As in, the characters and the world are designed in the style of 2D animation, but they're rendered as someone'd render standard marvel-like CGI. Take the sheep for example. They are designed as a more "stylized" take on the standard Minecraft sheep, but they are rendered as someone'd render the model of an ACTUAL REAL-LIFE SHEEP. I think this is where a lot of the uncanniness comes from. Melding MC's unique style with Real Life almost never goes well, unless some HUGE liberties are taken with the characters and environments.
Yeah and it's basically just those "this will be graphics in 2013" memes done unironically.
Minecraft earth wants to talk.
MC Earth is less about "Melding" MC's Style with real life and more about putting MC's style as IS into real life. u@@TiredMoonRabbit
@@simply_curri1410 I'm aware, my point was that it works, look at pictures of real people inside of their build templates, it looks perfectly fine.
I think proprtions is the main Problem here, just look at that Big Head and Big eyes and their tiny Legs, then they tried to give it a Crazy Farm Animals vibe, basically they tried to give it more protagonism than they really have, if only they had shown us the same design, more proportioned and simply doing Farm Animal things, they would have gone unnoticed.
I think the creeper is like the only thing so far that really made the transition into live-action flawlessly. The design is pretty much the same, but the added moss texture gives it more dimension without going completely into the uncanny valley like with the sheep or the llama.
I just don't like the body that is so much thinner than its head. They've been doing that with lego as well but if you look at a creeper in game you'll see that from the front it looks like a solid rectangle, i think that makes it more menacing.
And the bee
I think the heads a bit tall and would prefer more colour variation but compared to everything else, I can’t complain
It helps that it doesn't have realistically-identifiable facial features, as its mouth and eyes are just black voids.
it could use better textures and proportions. blender youtubers have given their take on the creeper and its leagues better than what we have
6:40 I also had that opinion. And im glad ur making that point. But after a while I do understand the outrage, the sheep can look realistic and derpy, but they not only did that, they also made it look absolutely horrendous, it looks like a juiced up sheep full of steroids screaming in pain, the skin is so pale he looks like a walking cadaver. They can make it look derpy, but they should make it look cute at least. the ingame mobs also look derpy, but still somewhat cute. I think the piglins are perfect, those look absolutely horrifying and I love it. But they should not go the same route with the cute animals from the Minecraft world.
Honestly this. I feel like he didn't do a good job breaking down the design of the mobs. Felt like he just looked at the minecraft sheep, saw it had derpy eyes, and went "Oh it's fine!", without looking at the rest of the features of the sheep. The sheep literally looks imperfect and weirdly meshed, especially for something made out of perfect cubes. Which is a shame, cuz this guy was supposed to look at the entire trailer with an Artistic lens, but ended up just generalizing most things imo.
Dude, i swear Hollywood isn't still over with that screaming goat meme
@@PlansalagaDon agree
@PlansalagaDon yeah but seriously what features does a minecraft sheep have that the weird realistic version doesn't
esp since i feel like nowadays a big part of minecrafts appeal is to be calm and relaxed while playing, and the sort of dumb placidity of the animal mobs adds to that sensation. making them look kind of terrifying absolutely breaks that appeal.
skin corners
Flesh cube
Best "cluster" thing is Steve's smile/beard. The original idea was a beard, but people interpreted it as a smile.
but it's not just that they transferred the minecraft aesthetic into something realistic, it's not even. like the sheep. they gave it teeth like that, but sheep don't have upper teeth at all in the real world, and we don't see the teeth on minecraft sheep at all. and the proportions on nearly all the mobs are so. why are they so out of place? same with the world itself, you see the big stony arch in there and it's made of blocks, yes, but not in the way minecraft worlds are. minecraft is made up of a bunch of equally sized blocks that pretty naturally create kind of curves and more natural transitions, as pixels should, but in the big stone arch there arw a bunch of weird inconsistently sized big blocks for no reason. and they're not even squares, they're kinda stretched out. i think the reason the bee looks good is because they changed its proportions the least, and the creeper isn't that different either, though i personally think the color and texture on it is a bit too uniform and looks more like a bunch of the grass you get after mowing your lawn, real grass and moss have much more texture. or the wolf we saw; why does it have like a gap between the front of its body and the back? the minecraft model doesn't? it's not that they just unsuccessfully interpreted the minecraft models, it seems more as though they didn't even look at them for longer than a glance and just did whatever the hell came to mind. it feels kinda insulting if you like the game, disrespectful that they didn't even try. like any bad adaptation i guess. well, anyway
Its because the style and plot is taken directly from minecraft legends. Everything in rhis movie can be traced directly back to that game except steve
Omg someone finally pointed it out! YES, sheep AND other animals in their same group, don't have upper teeth!! XD
That's why it's so gross and weird!
its like they made designs from memory rather than from reference..
Finally found more people talking about the sheep's upper teeth!
In my opinion THEY COULD JUST MAKE IT A FANTASY MOVIE, a group of in universe heroes and not live action ones, within like a dungeon & dragons type world, they go on a mission in search of something
Like how you would be during your first time playing minecraft, going on an adventure, getting stronger, discovering new weird things to gwt creative with, all to defeat the Ender Dragon
What we need, but not deserve
If they wanted an Isekai situation they should've just adapted Minecraft: The Island
This is literally Minecraft story mode. and as much as it has bad writing, it'll probably be better than the movie
I think the more pressing issue that you lightly brought up at the beginning is that their is a level of uncertainty in how commited they are to a unique personal tone that fits minecraft, rather than by the numbers kid movie slop.
My biggest gripe with this movie is not the cringe dialogue or the fact that it's a Jumanji remake in the Minecraft world or even the nightmare fuel mobs. My biggest problem with this movie is the fact that it really would have worked better as a fully animated film, something like the Lego Movie.
I think people are less concerned with why the Minecraft Movie isn't realistic enough and more why wasn't it just animated. It's a stylized world with a very iconic look so applying real life textures and anatomy to these blocky freaks just looks off. It's uncanny and weird looking, its never going to look good especially next to real people. Going for something more along the lines of the Lego movie or even something like Fantastic Mr Fox would be better to either keep its unique stylization or to be cohesive in a psuedo realistic look respectively.
The world acrually looks exactly like the world of minecraft legends. Like, one to one.
@@TheLastApostle And everyone knows how much people care about the Minecraft spinoffs. Minecraft gimmick was building and crafting, when you take that away you might as well be playing something else.
@@JorakinHost i agree. And they should market this movie with the legends brand in some way so people dont get the wrong idea. But they wont do that because they know original minecraft is the only popular minecraft game
Lol. The whole thing either should have looked like real life (NO BLOCKS OR GAME LOOKING STUFF) or the thing should have been completely animated!.
6:30 does anyone remember the minecraft theory about creepers being peat moss and that's why they exploded? that was what immediately jumped to my mind when i heard you describe the texture as mossy
Notch said theyre made of dry grass and leaves and moss.
@@TheLastApostle i guess it's not just a theory anymore then
@mintykiwi think he said it way bsck ehen creepers were first put into the game
I assume Creepers are made of iron and covered in moss and vines/leaves. I use that to explain why they have bits of white in certain spots and why the Minecraft book shows them with TNT inside of them.
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I want this movie to flop, it would be disrespectful to more traditional and stylized forms of animation which are still seen as "childish" if the movie succeeded.
What if that's the genius move they have up their sleeve? What if WB already made a proper trailer, but they took a page out of Sonic's book and released that abomination to make people talk about it.
And when we're done screaming at, well, this - they whip out the actual trailer, suddenly becoming the good guys again.
God I really hope so but then again denial is a river
Youre giving them way too much credit
Stage one: Denial
There were leaked style guides that WB actively tried to censor, by your theory, style guides wouldn't be made, but if they were, they'd be made to give publicity, yet they were censored, actually very well, relatively.
Also on the topic of the Sonic movie, it worked well for them in the end, by a miracle, really. They actually had merch of the old design ready, in production even, they wouldn't make that mistake if it was a whole marketing thing
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I don’t think the designs of the mobs themselves are the worst things. But the fact that it’s just real life human characters instead of also having cgi textured square men as our protagonist
Surely that would have been easier than compositing Jack Black into every single shot.
@@VoxAstra-qk4jzsurely that would not look even worse
Look, the whole half live action jank has been done well before.
Those... Atrocities though? Never would
@@1stCallipostle Who Frames Rodger Rabbit only worked because the cartoon characters were appealing and they acknowledged that they were cartoon characters.
I can't wait for the sequel:
B Minecraft Movie
It's just a remake of Bee Movie with the first minecraft movie's artstyle
@@frenchfriesfan2005
Is Barry a Minecraft Bee or a horrifying live action character
@@sumthinorother9615 He looks like the bee from that one snapchat filter.
i always thought steve was just a castaway from a sunken ship or something and he washed up in a foreign land
cuz back in 1.2.5 i almost always spawned in on a beach and the default skin does look like he has wet arms and an unkept beard
thats why he looks different to the villagers and cant understand what they are saying too so he can only trade physical goods at inconsistent rates
the villager arms being stuck together was never a meat loop to me and always just felt like some sort of cultural habit since when they become zombies the arms come apart
sunken ships and alex getting added to the game later just feels like confirmation for it since all the shipwrecks are a completely different style to villager construction and theres now a second person who looks like steve
though i almost exclusively play back on 1.7 so i dont know how much has been added that can further reenforce or falsify(?) my opinion
i know bedrock has abunch of characters that seem like they are all part of a civilised community but i dont play bedrock and they feel more like just sample skins for people so i dont consider bedrock exclusive content to be true to the world
maybe the minecraft movie is just the windows store edition world lol
The game survivalcraft, which is very similar to minecraft,, starts with a pirate ship sailing away from you as you stand on a beach. This made me think of that.
I think everything here still fits really well even with updates over time fleshing out the world and history more. There's different factions out and about like the pillagers and the piglin, and some hints of an ancient builder civilization, but the player character is something different and definitely out of place compared to it all. The castaway theory is a pretty good one.
I always thought the villagers just had big sleeves like in some Asian cultures, and did the thing where you tuck both your hands into the sleeves.
@@Awkci_gaming I thought of that too
@@ariannasv22 All the iilagers use the same "arms in their sleeves" pose, and the unused illusioner has an animation where he waves his arms. This lends credence to the idea they are _not_ flesh loops.
5:30 bro really went back in time to 2013 when "what does the fox say" came out
edit: also the 3 seconds of silence after that really got me
But we still don't know what it says.
I honestly would’ve rather paid to see a feature length let’s play on the big screen.
You can get so many of those on TH-cam
8:30 That looks more like Steve than Jack Black ever could ngl-
Steve is suppose to be tan with a short beard and short hair
And he's tan because he actually works and those stuff and isn't fat
@@elpsykoongro5379 Technically, with Steve's canon weight and height, Steve actually is a pretty chonky boi 😂 It makes sense why his limbs are so thicc compared to the rest of him XD
Tho all of that could also be muscle. How else he gonna carry all that gold?! XD
Have you seen the image of Jason Mamoa as steve? Can't forget that this Steve can punch out a tree.
I would have been *so* sold on a life action dark fantasy minecraft movie that basically just shows steves progression from a wooden house to defeating the ender dragon. Minimal dialogue if any, less blocks, soundtrack by C418, just the *feel* of minecraft. I want a movie that feels like playing 2012 minecraft when you watch it.
12:20 i for some reason don't think the creators were going for '90s cgi' level of uncanny graphics
I just realised, this is basically Jumanji
yes
6:05 that weird green portal… is looking pretty blue to me.
Green? Blue? Looks red to me
0:20 I was confused because River is my first name
Professor River Song, is that you?
My main problem is that they made the Minecraft world into a world and not a game- like- the reason why the shapes are cubic is because it’s supposed to mimic a retro esthetic- that’s why the textures are pixels and not hyper realistic. If they made the world more game like and less realistic- it would make so much more sense. But they wanted the world to be a second dimension for some reason.
Its styled directly from minecraft legends dude
I don't think ghasts are supposed to be made from skin
Yeah, shouldn't they be kinda like ghosts?
I'm not sure what the exact lore is for the ghasts existing, but I'd imagine they're more like ghosts, not flesh pillows. 🤢
@@iceprism367 Yeah. They for some reason stuck with the binary of furry or leathery, but things like ghasts could have been quite a unique sight to behold, I imagine them translucent like jellyfish (or ghosts, of course!)
Looking at the baby ghast from dungeons, you’re probably right.
yeah, i was thinking they might have more the quality of a jellyfish
the mobs’ designs remind me of those “minecraft mobs in real life” youtube videos from 10 years ago
The big mistake was not making the film fully animated 😅
Since they clearly weren't going to give us a dark fantasy type movie
i really want to be wrong, i really, really wish this doesnt happen, but with the quality of humor in this trailer i just think its entirely possible that they're gonna reveal the villager in the same style of the sheep and llama, the quirky squad of misfits are going to go "oh boy he sure looks weird, do we try to talk to him?", the villager is going to turn around and its just Chris Pratt
Steve (Black)
I mean if they were able topulloff the Lego movie, then they have no excuse
0:19 You're being awfully generous describing anything in this trailer as "funny"
I always imagined the llamas as regal.
Not... whatever that thing is
While this video is a great explanation for why adapting the Minecraft world into a realistic environment is inherently problematic, I feel like this doesn't address the main critique I've heard about the movie's artstyle at all: Nobody I've talked to or heard talk about this has said they did a bad job at making Minecraft's mobs and world realistic, the problem is that they shouldn't have tried making Minecraft realistic in the first place.
Adapting Pokémon into a realistic movie is easy. Look at any of the games, especially the newer ones. They're all representations of what a real world might look like if it had Pokémon in it. It takes minimal effort to put elements from the Pokémon games and extended property into a realistic environment, because the games themselves are already trying to be realistic. Same with Sonic, to name the other example you talked about.
This doesn't work with Minecraft. Minecraft is and was never trying to be realistic. The physics are not realistic, the gameplay is not realistic, the artstyle is not realistic. Of course Minecraft is largely inspired by the real world, in many of its animals, block types, biomes, et cetera, but largely it is trying to be unique instead of being realistic. Mobs aren't designed to look realistic, because they don't need to be. Most blocks aren't affected by gravity, because realism wouldn't really add anything to the game. Minecraft isn't trying to create the most realistic environment, just one with immense creative potential.
Minecraft is inherently unrealistic, which is why the Minecraft Movie had to jump through so many hurdles to force its elements into a realistic environment. Minecraft's defining characteristics do not work in a realistic world, because they weren't designed with realism in mind, and should therefore not be adapted into one. Making the Minecraft Movie into a live action one was a fundamentally terrible idea. The Minecraft Movie should by all means have been an animated movie, upholding and refining Minecraft's artstyle and world, rather than replacing it and forcing its elements into a world they don't belong to.
THIS!! So many people dont get it. The internet is mad because it's live action, that's it. And then we are being told we shouldn't be mad with the movie because it does a good job making Minecraft look realistic? Uhmm no, we never wanted it to be realistic because we knew from the start that it would look this ugly. Just give us Minecraft Story Mode's style of animation and a plot that does not revolve around humans being teleported into the world of Minecraft, that's so boring and cliché. It would be better if the movie revolved around Steve being a character FROM the Minecraft world. For example, in Detective Pikachu the story isn't about a teen being teleported into the world of Pokémon, it's a about a teen FROM the world of Pokémon living in the world he always knew and going on an adventure.
I would've preferred it if the movie was something like: Steve is a human from a different continent in the world of Minecraft where everything is mostly similar to our world, but one day he somehow found himself on the other side of the world where creatures have evolved to have different biological features, like Creepers being the shape they are and having the ability to explode. Creepers never evolved to exist in Steve's continent, they are a species of "animal" that only exist in this land, so Steve would be terrified of them and everything else in this new continent. And Villagers could have the same ancestors as Steve, but evolved to look different and speak a different language.
Ughh its so easy to make a kind of interesting plot for a Minecraft movie, it took me a couple of minutes just now. But anyway, lets just sit back and wait for more trailers to come so we can laugh at the garbage they are trying to sell us
5:32 gave me just enough time to laugh before he started again 💀
I don’t understand why it has to be hyper realistic
Like maybe just tune it down a lot lol
Did they swear in the trailer? I thought this was a movie for toddlers. I am going to treat it WAY harsher now.
Toddlers? You have never played minecraft i guess. Eho would market a blockbuster movie directly to toddlers? Smh
@@TheLastApostle
"Eho would market a blockbuster movie directly to toddlers?"
Hollywood does that exact thing.
I play Minecraft, but I also know how Hollywood works. The trailer they presented doesn't look like a family movie; it looks like a pure kids' movie. There is a difference, and pretending they wouldn't spend millions of dollars on a movie like that is insane. They spend millions on horrible projects all the time. They dumbed down Borderlands from a hard R/M to a 13-movie. I doubt the people in charge know anything more about Minecraft than they did Borderlands.
Also, calling it a blockbuster seems WAY too far.
@rolay7730 its a blockbuster movie. Its budget is 100% for sure above 100 mil. And toddlers are 2-3 years of age. Nobody is going to make a movie that costs that much and market it towards kids that are barely even old enough to walk and can barely talk. This movie is marketed towards late teens and up. The people who have been playing minecraft for years and years. Thats why they hired jack black and whats his face. If this was made and marketed directly to toddlers they wouldnt have wasted time spending so much money on the cast. Toddlers dont know who they are. Toddlers dont even know the difference between a lego and a cookie my guy. I think the problem is you keep calling them toddlers and you really mean just young children. Probably youre including kids as old as 9 or 10. The definition of toddler is a kid of the age of 1-3. This movie isnt made for them dude
It looks like a green screen with cgi on top and people edited in. Minecraft should have been a dnd quest that happens to happen in a cube world
Minecraft always felt sad to me when i play, the opposite of comedy
I only feel this way when playing by myself, everything does feel much more desolate and survivalist...
for me it's more sentimental and introspective.
I hadn't actually considered a big part of Minecraft's identity being pixel art before. I mean, I knew that was part of Minecraft's look, but I just thought it went back to things being blocky. Essentially, what I'm trying to say is thanks for pointing that out for me, as I've never considered it before.
It's funny how you said that the creeper is supposed to be moss, not fur, because Notch himself actually found it interesting how the creeper in the trailer was "furry" when he originally imagined it like a leafy texture. So even Notch himself thinks the creeper is furry.
Yeah I was hoping the creeper would look more like those walking cactuses from Rango
Its not furry tho. Its mossy. Like clearly lol
@@TheLastApostle My point was what Notch thought it was. But it does kind of look a bit like a mix of furry and mossy to me, not just one or the other; maybe I'm wrong though. The dark setting in the trailer alone though does make it look just furry, so if that's all Notch looked at before he made that conclusion, it would make sense for that to be what he believes.
I always thought it had a green pig like skin because of the origins of how the first creeper was actually a glitched pig which exploded on impact.
0:29 I did not even realized that this was supposed to be funny lol
This is why Minecraft story mode will always be the canon Minecraft movie
Some of those realistic Minecraft art pieces go so hard
The trailer looked like someone edited clips of actors into a mobile game ad
3 different segments of unskippable ads for a twelve minute video. I fucking hate this godawful app.
basically their mistake was trying to make it "live action" (*not actual live action because everything is cgi)
Finally a game that perfectly encapsulates the body horror in my nightmares! I will never forget the cantaur with a meat slab for front legs
I actually really really like them and I hope people become more accepting of the realistic minecraft creatures
Fantastic video that shows such a clear understanding of what would've gone into making this movie and what boundaries would've been put onto the artists, a level of critical thinking the wider internet had neglected to apply to the discussion. Excellent!
I am honestly just consistently blown away by their decision to make this movie look this way. I don't know much about art design or anatomy or anything like that, but as just a casual viewer? This is, seriously, one of the ugliest and most unappealing things I've ever seen in my life. Everything looks so lumpy and textured and diseased. It's basically that meme where people draw cartoon characters hyper-realistically. You know, the one where the entire point of it is to get a repulsive visceral reaction out of people. I'm not refusing to watch this movie out of some sense of loyalty, like "oh it's too different from the source material" or anything like that: I'm refusing to watch this video because I don't want to spend 2 hours of my life watching a marshmallow made of necrotic flesh float around and harass a cancerous-looking sheep with horribly defined human teeth while Jack Black is there for some reason.
dude I love your Transformers collection.
10:35 If you look very closely to the right you can actually see the villagers
I would like to say I agree with the idea that it is on brand with some of the charming official minecraft animations. They’re brighter colored, and the humor seems to be pretty similar.
The movie is entirely based off minecraft legends. The world design and the entire plot
It is... so whelming
the creeper is not made of grass. they did that wrong too.
Oh I think thats ok.
If I remember correctly the creepers texture was based off leaves.
Since its an ambush predator (lol) it could make more sense to adapt for tall grass
@@tirramasu7948 they should add different creepers for different biomes
the art direction is simply fantastic
Imo they should've done what the Sonic movie did. Have Steve enter the real world rather than the humans entering the Minecraft world. They can still keep Steve's characteristic blocky artstyle, so then that way it won't be as uncanny.
But Steve is just meant to be a stand-in for you, the player. The world is the focus, so a story like that just can't work.
@@pineapplesauce2718 You have a point. It's hard to think of how this movie could've gone in a better direction while still keeping the same familiar Minecraft feel.
@Donut-im9lk yeah, tbh the only idea I can think of was to focus on the experience when you create your first world, with Steve helping the main cast out as a mentor. No evil villain, no twist villain, just no villains, the only "antagonists" being each other. Like learning to work together to make something beautiful, despite hardships they face.
steve just does not have any unique features that would ahve worked in the real world. Might be an interesting movie to see how a supersonic hedgehog might work in the real world, but Steve has nothing to offer... The one thing he is famous for is 100% tied to the physics and rules of the minecraft world.
It would remove all iconic features of minecraft, including the landscape and the mobs, for the sake of introducing a feature less, bland character into a world that we already know.
The reverse, introducing real people into minecraft, is the more natural approach and emulates the game much closer, where you as the player, a real human, are introduced to the world by living in it. It is a fantasy world that you are thrown into to explore.
It picks the viewer up where they are, the real world, to move them into the game.
People just had that "uncanny"-reaction and doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on the first emotion they had, trying to explain how that emotion is the only truth they care about.
I don't think that would work. Sonic has a history with human characters, and even if you take Sonic out of the context of his world and friends he still has a strong personality. Steve is a joke name for an avatar. I like Steve, but most players don't even see him since they use custom skins. He is iconic, but unlike Sonic there's nothing that defines him as a character. Sure he mines and crafts, but he doesn't have emotions or motivation. Minecraft Story Mode had the right idea of having distinct characters in the Minecraft world (even if it didn't do an amazing job). Fan content has done a good job too, with Fallen Kingdom being a great example of telling a simple story in the world of Minecraft. By just existing in the game's world (and not being live action people from the real world) the characters just passively embody Minecraft better.
TLDR Minecraft is defined by the ingame world, so putting it in the real world takes away the little character there is.
1:28 I miss the times where Sam Raimi could say "Yeah, web shooters are unnecessary. We are doing web shooting powers." for Spider-man
Also, they should've made the teeth of the animals one set of bone. Drawing teeth one by one makes characters creepy (or sometimes trashy).
8:45 Those mostly weren't a product of stylization but technical constraints-Minecraft's Steve, on the other hand, is represented as such due to the style of the game. In fact, during the early development of Minecraft, Markus Persson experimented with much more defined/graphically-intensive, style-dissonant mobs.
with minecraft being such a major IP there is just no way an executive would have allowed anything other than a hyper literal interpretation of the minecraft characters. can i just nitpick that they remembered llamas dont have an upper set of front teeth but forgot that sheep also dont which i think adds to the creepiness.
I sure hope the artistic choices of the movie really enrich a somewhat absurd narrative, as you said
Talking about these games as brands is the reason why we are in such shit.
Leaves≠moss, creeper should not be mossy
They could've just made the MC look like Minecraft Update Trailers
0:35 the fact that this was probably the funniest moment in the entire trailer (probably the whole movie) really says something. It may also be because that joke is exactly how the community reacted to the sheep.
I can't find any other word for the style of the mobs than just disgusting. It's like a creepypasta. "I went into the Mincraft world but the sheep had hyper-realistic eyes and teeth"
I really disagree about respecting the nuance of this movie. I love Napoleon Dynamite, but this is not the place to use that kind of creative freedom. Like you said, the movie has to stay true to the brand, so maybe it shouldn’t have been live action in the first place.
To be frank, the entire movie was doomed from the outset, and I’m not typically one to say that kind of thing. I usually think that execution is what matters most in a creative project, but this is a case where I’m seriously questioning that line of thinking.
I don’t believe the state of this movie is excusable, and I don’t think this is a “wait and see” kind of situation. The movie looks awful, the character designs are heinous, and the comedy presented in the trailer doesn’t even line up with the considered absurdism of the director’s best work.
The mob design and even the terrain to an extent almost seem AI generated. Like, it's weirdly uncanny and it's almost hard to believe that a real human actually came up with this shit.
I feel like a lot of the issues that is related to the Minecraft movie is that it's not animated. Minecraft had been feeding us so many animated shorts, videos, and promotions that we CANNOT imagine a minecraft movie that is live-action as not only does it break the consistency that they're trying to have with their brand but also unreasonably curves the lamp-shade higher. We all know that these blocks won't be realistic, they just won't, yet we can AT LEAST suspend our beliefs for a bit for enjoyment, but going realistic is not the way to fit that in-between. We have games like Mineacraft: Legends, Minecraft: Dungeons, or even Minecraft: Story mode!! STORY MODE!! They could've gone with the style and Minecraft story mode and it would've been BETTER! It allows us to suspend our beliefs and not think about too many of the logistics of whatever they're doing while at the same time staying true to the game to a degree.
All they needed was to make textures pixelated but instead we got RTX on mod pack.
They don't even stick to the Minecraft geometry. You can see round flowers, real life water and fire in some shots.
Also, I hated how they didn't just make Steve a Minecraft character. We all know Jack Black is good at voice acting as we saw him as Bowser. Instead we just got Jack Black in a teal shirt.
I think live action could work really well if they didn't make it blocky. I like to imagine that you're not playing in a world made of blocks, you're in a world made of grass and stone and wood and water, and when you place stairs with trapdoors on the sides, it's not just a short flight of stairs but an actual chair. If they did that with live action it could've been epic and epic, OR if they wanted to go blocky they could've done fully animated. Not this live action that wants so badly to be animated look they've gone for.
(could you tell I wrote this before even watching 1 second of the video?)
Flesh corners is a phrase that i never knew i never wanted to hear again. Thanks internet [=
Thank you for actually breaking it down 👍
The sheeps back left leg is either horribly deformed or nonexistent.
Metroplex In the background🔥🔥🔥
2010s fox joke…noice
honestly I think they tried too hard to have the realism AND the blocky aesthetic when those things really just don't mix well
The environment looks stunning, but then the actual CGI mobs threw me out of it. I wish there was a better way to design them
This movie isn't a Blockbuster, It's a block failure
Speaking of conspiracies, I have a friend who's in a little too deep, he thinks the president is already decided and voting doesn't matter because both the parties are the same but he doesn't know who will win or why they do different things and have different plans.
He thinks kamala had Bluetooth earings even though he couldn't explain what they would even be telling her to say and also doesn't have an explanation why she would have said something false if she was being fed answers.
It's kind of sad actually because I ask questions and he then locks onto something and gets all offended or is like "well ok I guess you're just right 100% of the time and just listen to the government"
And also he's black and when I showed him the hatian thing wasn't true and they weren't eating cats he said "you cant prove they weren't doing it, maybe the news is covering it up? Lol"
Bro wtf?? The news would EXPLODE if there was EVEN 1 example of MAYBE that happening and you would be ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED IT WAS TRUE.
And then he gets all butt hurt because I say "no it's not real you just want it to be real" it's sad really
if element animation acually voiced villagers, that might save the movie (spoiler, it wont)
absolutely subscribing after the fox joke
You know... I have a fanfiction about my OC getting into the Minecraft world... And the "core idea" of that was exactly this conflict between real life creature and this blocky workd with it's own logic(like not being able to place any items, eating a whole bread at a time and other stuff), which gets broken by my character, because he just doesn't understand, that what he does shouldn't be possible in this world.
And I think that is a really good idea. Those characters in the movie could do the same thing - get trapped in this world, start breaking its rules, while exploring it and trying their best to find the way back. My fanfiction isn't finished, but it probably should be finished with the iconic slaying of the Ender Dragon, and so should the movie I think. Because it's actually what the Minecraft is!!! And they could even make an awesome thing - let some characters choose Minecraft over their real world. They might find it more interesting, letting them express themselves however they want, giving them endless possibilities, very interesting to explore and create. They could show throughout the movie how these characters build awesome stuff out of limited options, just like real Minecraft builders do, that could've been so frickin cool and promoting the game as it is.
Im terrified about the storyline of this movie. I wish they would bring classic Minecraft ideas to the movies. Like herobrian and the lore/ stories behind him. I wish they'd bring back OG TH-camrs like some of the Hermits, Stampy and his crew, or the non problematic people from Team Crafted (the like 3 that remain lol) instead of Jack Black. I hope they'll show genuine bits of actual love and creation for this movie, just how we all showed that to the game for so many years. The biggest fear is that they wont understand the weight Minecraft has on so many people. I know when i am stressed or having a meltdown i will still put on Minecraft music or watch old lets plays and i know that is the same for so many people. Point is, they're marketing it for all the dumb kids in the crowds rather that the kids that remember when the idea of a Minecraft movie was just announced and we lost our little minds. You can have a movie that adults now can watch and remember all the beautiful memories we made while playing the game while inspiring the next generation to make even more. But no, funny sheep makes loud noise. yippee.
This is such a good video. Subscribed
Ngl when i first watched the trailer for the minecraft movie i got desensitized after a few watches but now that i have the prospect of time on my side im no longer desensitized!!!! YAY!!!
As much as I love Jack Black, I have a mental image in my head of what Steve, as a real human person, would look like. He’s a 6 foot tall bearded beast whose so jacked his arms are as thick as his torso so… not Jack Black
I mean. He literally brings down trees by punching them
it's "A Minecraft Movie" not "The Minecraft Movie"
Jake black has been playing Minecraft to make he not going in blind
i don't care if it is action or comedy, animation or live action it doesn't matter to me