I really can’t decide; there’s some built in momentum because OMG MY CHILDHOOD among zoomers and such but it also feels bleak and deflated and is chasing a weary gimmick.
It will make a decent amount of money and leave no cultural impact
Sort of like the bazinga-flavored wet fart that was the Ready Player One movie?
I’ll take it.
God that movie was so fucking disappointing. The book was soooo good and the movie straight up left one of the main characters out of the plot entirely. What the fuck were they thinking.
The book was soooo good
I have so much I could say about that but I’ll try not to yuck your yum instead.
It’ll do alright, I’m sure it will turn a profit, but it’s gonna make nowhere near Mario movie numbers. So it’ll live in that weird space where it’s not a flop but does well under the expectations the studio had for “tie-in movie for the most popular video game.”
Mario’s been around longer and has that many more people with nostalgia for it. Minecraft appeals to a much smaller percentage of old farts
What world are you living in where you think the target market for the minecraft movie is old farts? Approximately 80% of kids aged 6-15 play or played minecraft
It’s not, but the studios want their sweet “four quadrant” hits
the midpoint between mario and borderlands, perhaps
I feel like my kiddo is a solid barometer for what will hit the pop culture.
His take on the Minecraft movie is he doesn’t like the way they screwed up the scale, the crafting, and the weird animation/live action hybrid…but he’s still super excited for it.
I think it will be a decent hit, turn a profit…then completely evaporate and leave no lasting cultural impact.
I don’t think there is any possible way that it’s actually good, but whether that translates to success or failure is a different question that I don’t have any answer to.
I think it’ll make a profit but barely, but just making a profit is not seen as success in current-day Hollywood.
it’ll turn a huge profit but still underperform expectations
Sounds like the fate of the Dead Space series.
I never played past the second game because it has a happy ending where isaac gets away safe with his new friend :)
if i was a gaming youtuber i would play every game including like the mobile games and the wii rail shooter and do a video called STRATEGIC DISMEMBERMENT & HAUNTOLOGY: A Dead Space Deep Dive Series Retrospective and it’s 3 hours long, but i’m not that cool
I never played past the second game because it has a happy ending where isaac gets away safe with his new friend :)
That’s probably for the best.
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The lack of a jump scare at the ending, to contrast with the first game, actually made the moment perfect, too.
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That ending is one of the few times I’ve laughed at a horror game because the developers meant it to be funny and not 'cos’ve, like, an attempted scare that didn’t work or something.
Third game is pretty meh anyway, and publisher interference was enough for me to consider it less genuine than the first two installments.
Def flop.
Its gonna make over a billion dollars. Why? idk but its gonna happen
I’m leaning on “it’s absolute slop for younger slop hogs” and by sheer volume of young slop hogs to the trough it may score that billion.
They’re definitely going for a quantity versus quality approach here.
A Five Nights At Freddy’s movie would probably make bank.
I thought there already was one?
I didn’t know, if that’s the case.
There was and I think it bombed
There was also a Nic Cage movie that seemed like it started with a FNaF spec script
It did just shy of $300 million in the theaters. No where near Barbie, Mario, or Oppenheimer, but also only had a $20 million budget so the return on investment was decent.
i mean i expect it to be completely unimaginative and shallow but still turn a profit, so anything beyond that low bar will be a win for gamers everywhere
My Nephew’s favorite thing is Minecraft. It seems like the easiest way to make a huge profit is getting the attention of children. They will beg their parents for the treats and the parents will oblige.
I agree with everyone’s assessment it will probably be profitable (ranging from slim to hugely) and have no cultural impact most likely.
I do think there is a slim golden path like possibility where it’s actually bizarrely fun and ends up a camp classic, against all expectations.
Kind of like every “remember this thing from your childhood? DAE think nostaligia so good?!” movie that has come out in the last decade. They’re always the safest they can possibly be, focus tested into being as unchallenging and inoffensive as possible so they are an “enjoyable” experience that moviegoers forget 5 minutes after seeing it.
Probably mild success. Less than Mario and FNAF but still profitable
I think it won’t be much of a commercial success, but won’t flop either. The public is too slop-worn for another soulless kids’ movie to be as big as Mario so soon after, but it still has enough going for it that I can’t see it failing Morbius style.
i mean i thought marioslop would flop too and people still gaslit themselves into thinking it was a good movie so idk at this point. still probably, like, team ‘minecraft will flop’ purely because i feel like i haven’t seen anyone sincerely say they thought the trailers were good but at the same time it’s possible enough people just watch it regardless it succeeds.
The kids will love it I’m sure. The adults? I’m highly skeptical.
