{"id":15841,"date":"2024-09-10T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/does-the-minecraft-movie-really-look-that-bad-only-a-10-year-old-can-tell-us\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:37:16","slug":"does-the-minecraft-movie-really-look-that-bad-only-a-10-year-old-can-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/does-the-minecraft-movie-really-look-that-bad-only-a-10-year-old-can-tell-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Minecraft movie really look that bad? Only a 10-year-old can tell us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reactions to the trailer have ranged from \u2018awful\u2019 to \u2018horrendous\u2019. But what does its target audience think?<\/p>\n

Nothing makes you feel older than watching someone two generations younger than you play Minecraft \u2013 except, perhaps, watching someone two generations younger watching someone else<\/em> play Minecraft on YouTube. (What are they doing? Why are they always so over-excited?) This might all seem a bit 2011: gen A have generally moved on to watching YouTubers play Fortnite, Roblox and Elden Ring with their minds<\/a> instead. But there are still millions of people, most of them kids, playing every month, and there\u2019s powerful nostalgia for this blocky virtual-Lego game among the gen Z young adults who grew up with it. A Minecraft movie was inevitable.<\/p>\n

This film has been on the cards since 2012, originally with Ryan Reynolds\u2019 Wrexham FC mate Rob McElhenney on to direct, and Steve Carell to star. Various botched attempts, Covid, and the pesky actors\u2019 strike, meant that filming didn\u2019t start (in Auckland, New Zealand) until early 2024. A Minecraft Movie, out April 2025, is directed by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess, and stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Jennifer Coolidge, Jermaine Clement and Matt Berry. From the trailer released this week, it\u2019s even more bonkers than you would imagine.<\/p>\n

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\nReactions to the trailer have ranged from \u2018awful\u2019 to \u2018horrendous\u2019. But what does its target audience think?
\nNothing makes you feel older than watching someone two generations younger than you play Minecraft \u2013 except, perhaps, watching someone two generations younger watching someone else play Minecraft on YouTube. (What are they doing? Why are they always so over-excited?) This might all seem a bit 2011: gen A have generally moved on to watching YouTubers play Fortnite, Roblox and Elden Ring with their minds instead. But there are still millions of people, most of them kids, playing every month, and there\u2019s powerful nostalgia for this blocky virtual-Lego game among the gen Z young adults who grew up with it. A Minecraft movie was inevitable.
\nThis film has been on the cards since 2012, originally with Ryan Reynolds\u2019 Wrexham FC mate Rob McElhenney on to direct, and Steve Carell to star. Various botched attempts, Covid, and the pesky actors\u2019 strike, meant that filming didn\u2019t start (in Auckland, New Zealand) until early 2024. A Minecraft Movie, out April 2025, is directed by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess, and stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Jennifer Coolidge, Jermaine Clement and Matt Berry. From the trailer released this week, it\u2019s even more bonkers than you would imagine. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reactions to the trailer have ranged from \u2018awful\u2019 to \u2018horrendous\u2019. But what does its target audience think? Nothing makes you feel older than watching someone two generations younger than you play Minecraft \u2013 except, perhaps, watching someone two generations younger watching someone else play Minecraft on YouTube. (What are they doing? Why are they always …<\/p>\n

Does the Minecraft movie really look that bad? Only a 10-year-old can tell us<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}