‘A Minecraft Movie’ At $157M A Record Opening For Videogame Pic, Toppling ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’
‘A Minecraft Movie’ At $157M A Record Opening For Videogame Pic, Toppling ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’
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I’m actually shocked. Every single review I’ve seen bashed this movie to hell.
I loved it. Glad to see it doing well, though I did like the Mario movie more.
Well deserved. Movie was incredibly fun and entertaining. And I have never played Minecraft.
The few reviews I’ve seen have been “surprisingly” positive, but I can’t help but take with a lick of salt. I’ll watch it eventually, cause I’m not really invested in it at all and I don’t care if it’s bad or not.
~~Edit: downvoted for holding opinion until I see it for myself, classic.~~
It’s gonna probably surpass Mario’s entire theatrical run in due time
I don’t know why every one is shocked, it’s a movie marketed to kids, the same kids who were willing to pay $120 for a bottle of prime. (well their parents were but they were the ones begging for it)
It was always going to with millions of kids forcing their parents to take them cause it’s Minecraft. It was always gonna be irrelevant how good it actually was
If I had a nickel for every time Jared Hess directed a movie set in a midwestern town that got terrible reviews from critics but became an instant cult classic with teens, I’d have two nickels
“Chicken Jockey” is the new “Tina you fat lard come get some dinner!”
I mean, is it *really* that shocking that it’s doing well? It’s a) a Minecraft movie and b) kids will eat this shit up like crazy cause it’s colorful and has dumb jokes. Another factor is also people who go watch it “to see how bad it is”.
People can bash it online how much they want, sadly this will make a shit ton of money cause of those reasons.
Live action Jack Black is still a big draw imo, dude is the best physical comedian of the generation
49% on Rotten Tomatoes and it’ll still make over a billion
I’m a fan of the renaissance of video game movies, however
millions of 8 year olds collecting the overwieght middle aged man in a blue shirt action figure from their happy meals
took my nephew to see it, it was pretty bad but he enjoyed it. The nod to technoking was nice.
OOOOOO~ YOU JUST GUNNA TAKE THAT, MARIO BROS!?
Great example of knowing your audience
are we really surprised, this is minecraft, it was going to do well
People who hate on it are like the folks who hate on Big Bang Theory
They wanna appear super smart/cool and don’t actually care if it’s bad or good. They just need you to know they don’t like it.
Ugh. This is why they never have to try to make anything good.
You all take thing too seriously, it’s a family take your kids to the movie and get a bucket of popcorn flick, it’s not that serious
I went. It was a fun movie. FUN more than movie.
Also L-L-L-Lava chicken was great.
I did enjoy this movie. It may not be the best film, but i felt like it was a faithful adaptation of Minecraft that still managed to be fun.
What
That is shocking.🗿🗿
I didn’t know this was a Jared Hess movie so I’ll be watching unironically now
A bunch of us watched it the other night. Some liked it because it was dumb, some liked it because it was so bad it’s good, but most of us liked it. I was expecting 2/10 schlock, but it’s a legit 6-7 if you just want a dumb funny video game movie and turn your brain off.
God Reddit is such a bubble and it really shows. Nobody who watched this movie, especially kids, was going to give any stock to critic reviews. Everything doesn’t have to be a cinematic masterpiece.
Does this mean that cancer kid who got to see the Minecraft movie early is dead?
Fortnite watching silently..
I went to see it with some friends after work on Friday- all of us in our late 20’s, mostly just to point and laugh at how bad it was, and I’ve gotta say, we were all how shocked at how much fun we had. And not just in a “so bad, it’s good,” kind of way, either. The first half hour (the section that takes place in “the Real World”) was literally non-stop jokes that hit every single time.
I’m sure that the environment in the theater helped too, every time something that would have been cringy happened, it got a solid 5-10 seconds of uproarious applause. It felt like everyone in there was like us, expecting to make fun of a bad movie, and being shocked at how much they were enjoying it.
Unintentionally one of the best $13 I’ve ever seen spent on a movie.
I liked it but my kids sure as hell probably had it as their favorite movie ever.
the drop-off will be hard and fast, every review from anyone older than 12 is bad.
I didn’t want to see it but the whole family did because the kids wanted to see it. A few funny bits but overall it was pretty bad.
As I was telling my friends “It doesn’t matter how good it is to us, because the target demographic is eight years old.”