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Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I say if they're going to release dogshit movies, at least let people party in the theater
Im more concerned about the people who somehow manage to take the terrible film so seriously that other moviegoers disturb them.
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I'm sorry but I just can't believe that this is actually happening. This sounds so fake. What seems more reasonable, that crowds are going crazy in the theater and chanting to something from the (widely panned) trailer, or that the producers paid a couple people to write fake testimonials?
You just gotta go an try it out. It's an experience.
I don’t think the people who are shitting on the trailer online are in the target demographic…
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I don't understand why you would say this.
My experience when watching the Minecraft Movie was of shock and awe. It was a fantastic experience, probably the best I ever had in a movie theater. We cried and laughed together, chanted the same quotes as one, as if our awareness had fused, as if our thoughts and feelings acted as one: a single, beautiful entity that merges and encompasses everything, becoming part of a true collective. The only true path towards peace, a peace that will engulf us all, permanently, setting us free from any wrong choice, our distinctiveness becoming part of a whole. Why would you fight it? Why would you deny this fate to others? This is the only salvation.
Resistance is futile.
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I find it funny that the article uses a quote from Moist Critical's video on it (as well as I think Schaffrillis Productions and PhoenixSC, I know I've heard the quotes before on youtube) and they leave it anonymous as to who said it
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Sounds fun, not sure what's there to be theatrical about
Honestly, I watched the pirated version at home and thought it was dogshit... but...
I get it, this kind of stuff makes it actually enjoyable. This is like when people brought snakes in a can to Snakes on a Plane and got wild. You have to make your own entertainment sometimes. I probably would have ended up enjoying this movie had I seen it with an audience like this.
Good on these people and boo-hoo for the crybabies who can't handle other people having fun. They're not hurting anybody doing this.
Fyi the pirates version i found was a workgroup release and was missing a lot of visual effects at my first brief skim through it. That's the only reason we went to the movies to watch it (my kid's request).
Though, the movie really wasn't that good (from someone that never got into minecraft). But like, the world of war warcraft movie was a good stand alone movie (from someone that never got into WoW).
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I saw it with my kid today. There were a bunch of applauses to references which I didn't get (never played Minecraft). The chicken jockey and honestly can't remember the others, but there were like 3 more. It is annoying because the people who made the film can't hear you. Having said that, I attributed it to the people likely being kids who don't know how to act in a theater.
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It could be so good while high, imagine these bombs dropping ‘chicken jockey’. I don’t get it at all but it sounds like good fun or at least bizzare experience
Oh thank god. I saw it the first night in theaters and it was just a damn riot. Like I get why people complain about the behavior. But the movie really goes well along with it.
I was in tears from laughter by the end of the movie. I don't know what was intended and what wasn't, but I definitely had more fun than my kid.
Really? I don't get it. I chuckled a couple times at Momoa, but otherwise it felt like listening to a kid describe the game for 2 hrs. Like "HEY HEY HEY! We got Jack black to do his shtick to hide the fact that we didn't use any writers!"
I too loved it. Its almost as good as watching keys being dangled infront of my face.
We're well on our way to ASS, from Idiocracy.
Saw it last night with the kids, it was exactly as described above. I've never played the game, so nothing made any sense to me, but seeing the audience have such a great time made it fun for me.
I think if you're going to a movie about a popular video game, you should expect that people will respond positively to references to the popular video game. For myself, I wouldn't have a clue, because I've only ever used Minetest/Luanti.
Idiocracy.
Go to an indie theater screening of The Room or Rocky Horror. People interacting with the movie has been a thing for decades. People were shit-talking to the characters on stage during Shakespeare's plays during his lifetime.
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I'm reminded of a British comedy show called My Hero. (If you want to find it, you're better off googling "Thermoman") It is a show about an alien who comes to Earth and is basically a superhero with heat-based powers, but is also a bit of a doof. The show is actually kind of a rom-com as it focuses on his alter ego coming to terms with living among humans.
At one point, his girlfriends' parents are in a community theater production, and George (Thermoman's mild mannered alter ego) acts very inappropriately, trying to interact with the play etc. Because he had only been introduced to Christmas Pantomime* and wasn't aware there were different kinds of theater.
Getting mad at shit is like, my whole comedy persona or whatever, but I struggle to get mad at this. Maybe we should name it as a genre or something the way the British did with "Pantomime" versus other productions you're supposed to take more seriously. Even more "normal" comedies where you're allowed to laugh at jokes but are otherwise not supposed to try to contribute.
So...let's do it. Let's make audience participation cinema. I've read about a Taylor Swift movie where tween girls were singing along and dancing in the aisles. If the kids are enjoying it, who goddamn cares?
*This isn't really a thing in America, not sure about the rest of the English speaking world. It's a theater performance often done around Christmastime that has some comedy, some slapstick, some bawdy jokes, some audience participation, and the general idea seems to be "let's not take it so seriously and just have some fun" kind of theater.
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In fairness this is the only way to enjoy the film. Other than media literacy YouTubers that'll praise it in a few years, I think this is the best it'll get in a while.
Are there absurd transvestie aliens in this movie?