Movie A Minecraft Movie (2025)
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Somehow, Minecraft turned things around from that heavily-disliked first trailer and tunneled through poor reviews like they were sand to get a huge opening weekend box office:
- biggest so far this year, beating out Captain America 4: Brave New World
- largest of all time for a video game adaptation, beating out The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Hollywood Reporter: "Box Office: A Minecraft Movie Strikes Gold With Record-Shattering $157M U.S. Launch, $301M Globally"
- biggest so far this year, beating out Captain America 4: Brave New World
- largest of all time for a video game adaptation, beating out The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Hollywood Reporter: "Box Office: A Minecraft Movie Strikes Gold With Record-Shattering $157M U.S. Launch, $301M Globally"
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Has anyone seen this yet?
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I doubt there's anyone on HN in the movie's demo. From what I know of Minecraft, it taps into the same creativity and imagination that Lego does. I'm not surprised it's a huge success.
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Yeah, Minecraft has been an extremely popular video game for kids/teens for over 10 years. Shows you how out of touch some of the Hollywood press/movie reviewers are thinking it would flop. The movie isn't meant to be some great story, its basically just a meme and joke references for all the kids/teens that play the games to have fun with.
My wife and kids saw it. Kids enjoyed it. Not surprised it's doing well. To expand on @wildturkey's statement, my wife's cousin is like late-20s/early 30s, and he grew up with Minecraft as the computer game he'd play with friends.
So it's got a pretty big target market and it misses a lot of people born before like 1990.
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I didn't know at the time it was a prophecy.
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It's the genius of the D, I guess. Perhaps that's one of those abilities that gets unlocked at much higher levels of smoking weed.
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Oh, I just bet you know all about the genius of "the D."
Says the guy with thousands of Gabe Kapler nudes saved on his desktop.
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My almost 6yo is wrapped up in Minecraft right now. He enjoyed the parts of the movie where they were actually in Minecraft land, but he had a terrible time staying engaged during the middle of the movie.