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0:03
allan time to talk Minecraft a movie
0:07
that nobody asked for we've seen the
0:10
rise of the video game to movie
0:14
adaptation the Sonic series has been
0:17
very popular super Mario Brothers was a
0:21
colossal hit and it's been announced
0:24
there will be a Super Mario Brother two
0:27
next year
0:29
now Minecraft now Minecraft is a
0:32
different kind of game i have never
0:35
played it i downloaded it was like this
0:38
feels this game feels like work i don't
0:41
know what the story of Minecraft is but
0:44
doesn't need to be a movie let me just
0:46
say that my feeling is the people that
0:49
love the Minecraft game like playing
0:52
Minecraft and probably will not turn out
0:55
for this movie if only maybe for the
0:58
merch there's Minecraft popcorn buckets
1:01
and uh gifts and toys in theaters that
1:05
are playing this allan and I saw this
1:08
last night at a theater in in Vegas
1:11
before we following the Disney
1:12
presentation
1:14
yeah as we're going home um I'll tell
1:18
you what I thought this movie is
1:20
directed by someone I know Jared Hess
1:24
who directed Napoleon Dynamite who did a
1:26
movie called Nacho Libé with uh Jack
1:30
Black i like Jared Hess and oddly I was
1:35
very surprised because the first maybe
1:38
20 minutes of this movie that's in like
1:41
the real world actually is kind of
1:44
heartwarming you know Jason Mamoa plays
1:47
a a guy who's kind of a loser actually
1:51
who um he's Garrett Garrison who won a
1:55
video game championship and he's sort of
1:58
living off his past uh but he's kind of
2:00
a loser um there's we meet this um these
2:04
two young kids Natalie and Henry
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natalie's uh this young woman taking
2:09
care of her younger brother and um
2:11
Jennifer Culage is the principal at the
2:14
the high the school that uh Henry goes
2:17
to and uh it's kind of a human story the
2:21
beginning and feels very Napoleon
2:24
Dynamite danielle Brooks is Dawn this um
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I think she's a real estate agent that
2:30
sells alpacas or whatever she she wants
2:33
to run a petting zoo well apacas are a
2:36
big part of Napoleon Dynamite the weak
2:39
link in the movie well there's two
2:40
things once the movie goes into the game
2:44
world it's I don't get the logic it's
2:48
terrible so you have 20 minutes of kind
2:50
of what feels like an old indie movie
2:53
and then Jack Black is insufferable in
2:58
this film i'm sure he was very funny on
3:01
set and made people laugh when he came
3:03
up with different line greetings for
3:05
what he could say his way of acting in
3:09
this movie takes you out of the movie
3:12
it's god awful worst movie of the year
3:16
so far maybe worst movie of this decade
3:21
i mean I give it a I I I don't know it
3:24
just so many aspects of it there's a a
3:27
moment where um Jack Black as or uh
3:31
Jason Mimoa is like and and Jack Black
3:34
are kind of like hanging on to each
3:36
other sort of face to butt and they have
3:38
to like get really close and it's not
3:42
funny but they milk it and it's just
3:46
weird the stuff with the uh uncanny
3:49
valley like bad CGI effects are weird
3:53
jennifer Kulage's character as the vice
3:56
principal goes on a date with a
3:58
Minecraft car character villager yeah
4:00
the villager villager that they keep
4:02
cutting back to he likes that he's the
4:05
strong silent type
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what a god
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awful film i mean first of all also
4:14
kudos to
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uh kudos to Jared Hess take the money
4:20
because I know indie film you're not
4:22
going to be huge and Jared Hess has made
4:25
much better movies which are all of his
4:27
other movies but this you know what one
4:30
for you uh one for you and one for the
4:34
studio now he can make a good indie
4:36
films he can make more indie films now
4:38
yeah he can make more indie movies go
4:40
make another indie movie this is awful I
4:44
don't know I don't know if Minecraft
4:45
fans will like it but it looks like box
4:48
office wise this will eclipse Snow White
4:51
opening weekend allan what did you think
4:53
of Minecraft and I look I sat next to
4:55
you or we we were next to each other in
4:59
our recliners i kept looking over like
5:03
Yeah like they did but the thing is you
5:05
were you were legit laughing at moments
5:08
at the beginning of the movie laughing
5:10
out laughing out loud so dumb it was so
5:13
dumb okay so a couple things one is Jack
5:17
Black single-handedly destroys this
5:19
movie yes that is true like you said
5:22
insufferable which was a word I gave you
5:24
last night u you know it's it's the my
5:28
name is Steve and I like mining you know
5:32
this is this is the overthe-top acting
5:34
he brings to while everyone else is
5:35
trying to act normal um Jason Mamoa is
5:38
probably the best thing in the movie um
5:40
he is Napoleon Dynamite and when you
5:45
watch watch him in the real world and
5:46
think about Napoleon Dynamite and I
5:49
believe he is doing a Napoleon Dynamite
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impression here precisely okay unlike
5:54
you I have played hundreds of hours of
5:56
Minecraft
5:59
yeah i have a daughter who got me into
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the game she has played thousands of
6:04
hours of Minecraft uh so one thing
6:08
important to say is the movie really
6:10
doesn't explain Minecraft so if you have
6:12
never played Minecraft you're going to
6:14
struggle with this movie uh I mean you
6:17
you didn't know what's going on yes I
6:20
did not yeah um the other thing is so uh
6:26
you know there's there are two elements
6:27
to Minecraft there's the building the
6:29
creation world building of Minecraft and
6:32
then there's the uh the battle you know
6:35
at the end you got to get to is it a
6:36
dragon or something at the end yeah
6:38
there's a dragon at the end that you
6:39
want to kill my daughter was uh a lot
6:42
into the action-based elements of
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Minecraft which is what this is trying
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to um portray versus the creative one
6:49
that that I played
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um uh the the thing is is that I think
6:55
one of the problems the fundamental
6:57
problems with the Minecraft movie is
6:59
when you play the game of Minecraft you
7:02
are building you are you are making your
7:05
own movie you are building a world you
7:08
are interacting with the environment you
7:09
are role playinging and things like that
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and now here comes a movie that says now
7:13
I'm going to tell a Minecraft story i'm
7:16
gonna put on a big screen and it's going
7:17
to look nothing like uh like you
7:19
remember from the game like there
7:21
there's there characters there are
7:24
things that I don't remember seeing in
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the game it may be because I haven't
7:27
played in five years that they they may
7:29
have added these things but I don't
7:30
think they're there um you know it just
7:33
becomes uh you know I think people who
7:37
have never played the game are going to
7:38
be lost because when you see game things
7:42
happen you don't know why it's happening
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uh and the other thing is if you are a
7:45
fan of Minecraft uh this is this is not
7:49
this is not the movie you imagine when
7:50
you play Minecraft um but apparently so
7:55
far the the uh the box office seems to
7:57
be okay um you know there's enough
8:01
estimated like 70 million yeah 70
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million which is okay um you know it's
8:07
got the characters you're familiar with
8:09
but they're not doing things you're
8:10
familiar with um so you know I the look
8:15
the best thing I could say through say
8:17
about this is I got through it i got
8:19
through the beginning and and I will say
8:22
that this you say this is the worst
8:24
movie no this is better than Oh of this
8:26
year of this year no okay this is better
8:28
than Snow White i would watch this movie
8:31
again over Snow White oh fair fair
8:34
enough um I just think it's terrible i
8:38
had no expectations and it was below
8:41
that the only thing I really liked was
8:43
Jason Mimoa as this loser he's like a
8:45
Billy Mitchell you know um No but he's
8:49
look he's into tots uh you know the way
8:52
he speaks is very much like Napoleon
8:54
Dynamite yeah it's it's the elements
8:56
that Jared Hess brought in from his
8:59
indie film you know background were good
9:02
but it's like the small part of the
9:04
movie and then every scene Jack Black is
9:07
in I want to like just I I it was just
9:11
it was just insufferable insufferable is
9:14
the only It's like he's in a different
9:16
movie and everyone else like the It was
9:19
ve like the the the brother sister that
9:23
was actually very sweet mhm but they're
9:25
not they were good it's like they could
9:29
be in in an indie movie jared has
9:32
brought something to this but it is just
9:35
bad bad beyond belief
9:39
i can also tell you that um you know my
9:41
daughter who is a massive uh Minecraft
9:43
fan the moment she heard that Jack Platt
9:46
Jack Black was cast as Steve I mean
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Steve is the iconic character of it and
9:51
to bring in Jack Black and and that's
9:54
that's our representation of Steve um I
9:57
think that turned off a lot of people i
9:59
can tell you that well here's here's the
10:00
big question your daughter played
10:03
thousands of hours of Minecraft is a
10:06
Minecraft fan does she want to see the
10:08
movie do you want No she doesn't want to
10:10
see the movie she does okay she target
10:13
demo i was offered to watch the movie
10:16
earlier today i refer I screamed friends
10:18
have invited her to see the movie and
10:20
she said no no she's not going to say
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people have also been asking me what you
10:22
think okay we're we're doing a screen
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okay we're doing a show yeah yeah um we
10:29
don't want to dox your daughter here i
10:31
know you have a daughter who look and
10:33
look let's I'll be upfront she's the ga
10:36
she's my gauge currently with the youth
10:38
but she does again people pointed out
10:40
she doesn't exactly represent all youth
10:42
but I think she has you for dad pretty
10:45
close she has you for dad all right all
10:47
right so um Allan I give it a two out of
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10 i give it a three just because I got
10:54
through it
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