A Minecraft Movie - In A Nutshell
Not seen it? - We'll give you a quick spoiler-free breakdown!
Seen it? - We'll highlight things you may have missed even if you've seen it many times. Plus facts & trivia!
In this episode:
✅ **The Nutshell:** A clear, spoiler-free summary for new viewers.
✅ **What Did We Miss?:** Things you may have missed and hidden details.
✅ **Paul’s Facts of the Day:** Fascinating trivia and behind-the-scenes insights.
✅ **What Do We Think?:** Marc, Darren & Paul give their thoughts on the movie.
✅ **Listener Lounge:** Request a movie and have your questions answered!
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Transcript
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Speaker B:Hello and welcome to Movies in a Nutshell with me, Mark Farquhar, myself, Darren.
Speaker A:Horn, and I, Paul Day.
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Speaker B:So grab some popcorn and let's jump into this week's movie.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Minecraft movie last episode.
Speaker B:We didn't mention this because we didn't know we're gonna do it.
Speaker B:We went to the cinema to watch Minecraft Cinema trip.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And some people showed up, our fans.
Speaker B:It was incredible.
Speaker B:We put out a cry and some people actually showed up.
Speaker C:Sent my social anxiety through the roof.
Speaker C:But it's okay.
Speaker B:So yeah, it's just a spare of the month thing.
Speaker B:It was on.
Speaker B:Everyone was buzzing about it, so we had to see it.
Speaker B:We're also making a few changes and then we're making the episodes shorter.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Sometimes shorter is better.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So we're just.
Speaker B:Because they were pushing on 50 minutes initially started like that's too much.
Speaker B:30 to 40 minutes.
Speaker B:We movies in a nutshell.
Speaker B:We need to deliver this in a nutshell.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So just let's get to the point quicker.
Speaker A:So yeah, we carried away.
Speaker B:Maybe, maybe we may have to cut some things that we do need to cut.
Speaker B:So you can tell us listeners, once you've listened to this episode, let us know what you think.
Speaker B:Is that a good choice or a bad choice?
Speaker B:Yeah, we've streamlined it.
Speaker B:We made it a bit shorter.
Speaker B:Let us know what you think and.
Speaker A:Shout out to Kieran and Zara who were our.
Speaker B:Yeah, they came down.
Speaker B:It was good.
Speaker B:It was good fun.
Speaker B:It was good to chat to them and meet some people who listen to the show.
Speaker B:We'll do it again.
Speaker B:There's.
Speaker B:I think we worked out there's three months, other months in this calendar year that have five Tuesdays.
Speaker B:So we'll.
Speaker B:Three of the towns all got the same.
Speaker B:I think it was July, September and December.
Speaker B:Okay, we'll got the summer again.
Speaker B:Whatever's on at the time.
Speaker A:I feel like I need to do that in voiceover movie months.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:We'll do that.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Then let's break down a Minecraft movie.
Speaker B:In part one, we have the synopsis where we look at the actual synopsis and see how it sells the film, what we make of it.
Speaker B:And then we break the movie down for you guys.
Speaker B:So let's start with the synopsis.
Speaker B:I'll read the official synopsis out.
Speaker B:Garrett, Henry, Natalie and Dawn are transported through a mysterious portal into a fully cubic world to return home.
Speaker B:They must survive and master this new environment, aided by Steve, an expert crafter who was once a resident of the real world.
Speaker C:Yeah, no, it's awful.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:It doesn't really give you any idea of what it's about.
Speaker C:No, it doesn't even paint a picture in a world.
Speaker A:Sorry, I keep doing that.
Speaker C:It didn't even say the name.
Speaker C:Video game or computer game.
Speaker B:No, nope, it didn't really.
Speaker B:That was pretty boring.
Speaker A:It didn't entice you written down.
Speaker B:That's pretty dull.
Speaker C:It's unbelievably dull.
Speaker C:I'd be curious comparing it to the Jumanji synopsis because I would imagine Jumanji would have.
Speaker C:Because it's basically this a similar thing, isn't it?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, that's what I was expecting from it going in.
Speaker A:Just from maybe the posters and the trailers, that kind of thing.
Speaker C:Yeah, totally.
Speaker C:Instead of Robin Williams, we get Jack Black.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:More than a game.
Speaker A:More than a game.
Speaker A:They could have used that tm.
Speaker C:This is why you should be getting the big bucks.
Speaker A:I know, right?
Speaker C:Minecraft, it's more than the game.
Speaker C:It's in the game.
Speaker C:It's in the game.
Speaker A:I have a feeling maybe Super Mario have already done this, but never mind.
Speaker A:Maybe that's what's in my head.
Speaker C:If you think you can do better, please write your synopsis for Minecraft and send it in.
Speaker B:Yeah, we'll read it out.
Speaker C:There won't be a present.
Speaker A:Okay, who's in it?
Speaker A:Who's in it?
Speaker A:Who?
Speaker A:We got Jack Black, Jason Momoa.
Speaker A:Yeah, there's the best friend in Wednesday.
Speaker A:I forgot Jennifer Coolidge.
Speaker C:Jennifer Coolidge.
Speaker A:Jennifer Coolidge.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Okay, in a nutshell, what is this movie about?
Speaker A:Based off the popular video game Minecraft, which I knew nothing about going into the cinema, so I can't really tell you much about it, but that's what it's based off.
Speaker A:Some people get sucked into a parallel world of creativity and block building fun, which is trying to be overtaken by another world of evil miniature pigs.
Speaker A:This sounds like I'm making this up.
Speaker B:But this is actually came from a video game.
Speaker A:So this is actually the thing, isn't it?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Would you describe them as a group of misfits?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:No, I mean it's trying to say they are because they're creative.
Speaker C:So they're.
Speaker C:Oh, it's hard being creative because you don't fit in.
Speaker C:And my middle brother doesn't really fit in because he's seen as an oddball.
Speaker C:Well, I work in an art College.
Speaker C:This isn't true with the cool people.
Speaker C:What the hell?
Speaker A:I think that's what it tries to say through it, I guess a band of kind of misfits, I guess.
Speaker B:But I suppose they stumble into the game world and they've got to learn to create to survive.
Speaker B:Creativity is kind of their.
Speaker B:Their way out.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:As they survive on.
Speaker B:The more creative you are, the better chances of getting out.
Speaker C:Yeah, totally.
Speaker C:And it's also saying that, you know, if you're creative, you're a misfit.
Speaker C:But also if you play Minecraft, you're a misfit.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker C:Minecraft is one of the biggest games on the entire.
Speaker C:Loads of people play it.
Speaker C:But it is talking about the importance of creat.
Speaker C:Creativity.
Speaker C:And what's quite nice is it's talking about how hard it is and creativity is.
Speaker C:It's so challenging for people because if you're a musician, you start with a blank page.
Speaker C:And that's a writer.
Speaker C:You start with the blank page.
Speaker C:A filmmaker, you start with a blank page and then you build from there.
Speaker C:And it's never as good as the thing in your head.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, and it's just a continual loop of disappointment being created or creating art and not connecting to an audience.
Speaker C:It's a really.
Speaker C:It's a big, big struggle.
Speaker A:We're making this sound like quite an academic movie when actually it's a video game movie.
Speaker A:That's big daft comedy of.
Speaker A:So we'll say.
Speaker A:We'll say misfits maybe just for that.
Speaker A:Everything Darren said.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:But to nutshell it, we'll say misfits.
Speaker A:There's a.
Speaker A:Basically a guy who used to be a video game champion, like at the arcades.
Speaker A:So think maybe Tron.
Speaker A:And he gets sucked in.
Speaker A:And then there's Jack Black's character.
Speaker A:He looks like he was stuck.
Speaker A:I don't want to give spoilers away.
Speaker B:He's been stuck in there for a long time.
Speaker A:He gets stuck in the game.
Speaker C:It's similar to Tron.
Speaker A:So the parallels, I would say is.
Speaker B:This is a difficult one not to spoil.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:But it's.
Speaker A:The parallels, I think are if you like other world sort of stuff like Tron or Jumanji, where they get sucked into another universe.
Speaker A:Even the first Super Mario Brothers, where there's a parallel universe in that.
Speaker A:So if you like them sort of things.
Speaker A:So maybe touching on a bit the Marvel stuff, bit of the Doctor Strange or the portals, that kind of thing.
Speaker C:But you're also right, it talks about peeking too early and particularly being it's also.
Speaker C:It's a weird theme to have, but it's a theme about being an older guy who peaked in your teens and when you were younger.
Speaker C:Those are the best times.
Speaker C:And now you're struggling with loneliness.
Speaker C:Like I did not expect that to be in the Minecraft movie.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So what do you expect when you go expect Jack Black.
Speaker A:Craziness, Chaos.
Speaker A:Video game references and some of the themes that were on about as well.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So they team up with Steve in what they call is the overworld.
Speaker B:Is that the main world there?
Speaker A:Minecraft.
Speaker B:They've got to face challenges to building their way through.
Speaker B:But like they come across the piglin queen.
Speaker B:Malgosha.
Speaker A:You're doing very well remembering all these.
Speaker A:And he doesn't have his notes on this.
Speaker A:He's actually remembering these.
Speaker A:I'm impressed.
Speaker B:So she threatens not only the Minecraft world but their route home.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So that's what they.
Speaker B:That's what they're.
Speaker B:And basically create in that world.
Speaker B:You can create anything because creativity is.
Speaker C:Because the creativity was stunted.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:Which isn't that the story of Hitler?
Speaker C:Like he was a.
Speaker C:I never thought.
Speaker A:We'D go there with my friends.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker C:Wasn't he an artist?
Speaker C:He didn't.
Speaker C:Art college in Austria or somewhere.
Speaker C:And he wasn't successful so he invaded the rest of Europe.
Speaker A:I feel like that should be in the next bit.
Speaker A:But hey, we've hit there early.
Speaker A:Listener.
Speaker A:We've hit there early.
Speaker C:We need to ping something that other podcasts aren't going to say.
Speaker C:I know they're not going to say.
Speaker B:It usually comes from you to be fair.
Speaker A:Very true.
Speaker B:That's why.
Speaker B:So keep you around.
Speaker A:So there's also bits of the plot again which all leads into those other kind of films where there's a crystal that goes inside another crystal that opens the portal to the other the world.
Speaker A:And then that world could be in danger from being destroyed by the baddies.
Speaker A:And there's goodies and so there's a lot of that kind of.
Speaker A:Which you find in video game movies, I suppose.
Speaker A:Quite a bit.
Speaker C:Had a bit of Minions vibes.
Speaker A:Bit of Minions, yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:With all the little characters and the.
Speaker C:Casual violence between them.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker C:It was always fun to see a big piglin kick a little piglin and see him hurt across the screen.
Speaker A:Yeah, that is true.
Speaker A:It's a very CGI computer generated imagery, special effects driven movie.
Speaker A:Though if you're not into that kind of film, you probably won't get much out.
Speaker B:I don't think you would have to have played the game to watch this movie.
Speaker B:Well, nothing you would have to make a difference.
Speaker A:Have you played the game then?
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker B:I played it.
Speaker B:I played it quite a bit when it first came out, which is what, over 10 years ago now?
Speaker C:Again this afternoon.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:I've never played it, so I've not played it since.
Speaker B:But yeah, I've realized it was more aimed at children, but I recognized, I recognized the creativity side of it.
Speaker B:Like, wow, you can literally create anything which is great for younger people in that, in that sort of environment.
Speaker A:We call this a kids film, then.
Speaker A:Family film.
Speaker B:Kids family film, I would say.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:But also Minecraft's doing great things with education, I'm sure.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:But also, I'm sure people have built a gigantic library in a Minecraft server where it hosts all the banned journalistic kind of stories from across the world.
Speaker C:So if you're a journalist in like Russia or, you know, around probably even America at this point, and your stories aren't getting published, they're hosted in this massive kind of library so you can go and access.
Speaker C:It's basically freedom of like press, freedom of speech.
Speaker C:And Minecraft is doing that, you know.
Speaker B:So it's in the sandbox of the Minecraft world.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:Obviously I'm not 47 years old.
Speaker C:I'm not savvy with the language here, but I don't know the kids whether you can kind of go access it.
Speaker C:But yeah, it's a creative tool.
Speaker C:It's unbelievable.
Speaker C:And it's what people, they're given like those sandbox games where the audience or the players get to get to decide how they're going to use it.
Speaker C:Yeah, I just love games like that.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, it's good.
Speaker B:I get the appeal of it.
Speaker B:That's why it's still going today.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker C:So whenever I've been, when I was playing it, you know, like, like you said eight, 10 years ago, whenever I was ill, off work with flu, this is a game I'd play.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was just relaxing.
Speaker B:And then sometimes when you could team up with a buddy and you could both create something.
Speaker C:No, I had no friends.
Speaker B:But that is part of the appeal of it as well as the sense of community as well.
Speaker B:So if someone was introverted, does not like no social skills, they could still do this online with someone and have gained friends in the community.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And it is making big, big money.
Speaker A:So I wonder if that's related to the fans of the game, like some of the other movie video Games or whether it's just caught in the culture.
Speaker B:Or do kids just love anything Minecraft and they've all forced their parents to go and see it.
Speaker A:Quite possibly.
Speaker A:But it's making big money.
Speaker B:Every parent I've asked, have you seen Minecraft?
Speaker B:Yes, twice.
Speaker A:And of course the other, the other bit is.
Speaker A:I guess there is a healthy dose of Jack Black in here.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Singing at times as well.
Speaker A:So if you're a Tenacious D fan, maybe it's for you.
Speaker B:He was definite the right character singing.
Speaker A:About lab a chicken at one point become like a chicken.
Speaker B:Chicken jockey.
Speaker A:Yeah, and chicken jockey and all these things.
Speaker A:So there's lots of random stuff in the mix.
Speaker A:It's a very random comedy kind of that.
Speaker A:Random comedy, isn't it?
Speaker B:Yeah, I think it made sense to me a little bit more because I'd seen that I played the game.
Speaker B:Okay, maybe someone who hasn't.
Speaker B:Older people, if you're like not that a different generation you hadn't played the game, you'd be kind of like it'd be a bit bemused by it.
Speaker C:There's like something like a 10 or 15 minute intro there, isn't there?
Speaker C:And it's called like a legend where they can.
Speaker C:Well, usually a legend is when it's text on screen.
Speaker C:Falcon or Star Wars.
Speaker C:Yes, something like that.
Speaker C:Whereas it's Jack Black's doing the voiceover, isn't it?
Speaker C:And he's like, so this is my story and it's like 10, 15 minutes.
Speaker C:So it's going to bring you, it's going to bring you up to speed as to what's going on.
Speaker A:And it sounds like if you have children who like Minecraft, it doesn't matter what we say in this nutshell, you'll be dragged to see this film.
Speaker B:Okay, so we move into part two.
Speaker B:So part two is the unboxing.
Speaker B:In part two we have.
Speaker B:What did we miss?
Speaker B:We will challenge the ways of this movie, revealing hidden details and overlooked moments.
Speaker B:And in Facts of the Day, Paul shares his behind the scenes trivia and interesting facts.
Speaker A:That's still a very good pun on my name, by the way.
Speaker B:In what do we think?
Speaker B:This is where we finally share our thoughts on the movie.
Speaker B:So let's begin with what did we miss?
Speaker C:It's hard to say.
Speaker A:It is hard to say.
Speaker B:I literally just seen it and we've only seen the once is about, I.
Speaker C:Think the importance of creativity.
Speaker C:And there is a hero's journey in this where people.
Speaker C:It's also where people kind of develop their skills and creativity Learn how they're important.
Speaker C:And then you know, one of the characters is then the self defense instructor at the end because she's learned how to like be brave and stuff.
Speaker C:I was surprised to see that male loneliness element of it and I'm curious about that because in a way you look at Minecraft players as being quite geeky.
Speaker C:And I'm sure I read a story years ago that the Minecraft inventor is quite lonely now and he lives in like.
Speaker C:Like he got billion.
Speaker B:Is it Mojang?
Speaker B:Is it the.
Speaker B:The company that does.
Speaker C:I remember.
Speaker C:I'm sure I read that he had basically like an aquarium the size of this room in his mansion and he had divers that would clean it and stuff.
Speaker B:This is a big room room by the way.
Speaker B:It's a hole.
Speaker A:Imagine a Bond villain lair.
Speaker A:That's kind of what's up.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And the door keeps closing on us.
Speaker C:It's scary.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:But that.
Speaker C:But I wonder if there's like an element of that.
Speaker C:Particularly male gamers lonely.
Speaker C:Particularly in Minecraft.
Speaker C:Like you did say you can play at co op, but.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Does everyone do that?
Speaker C:So I'm just curious.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's like the online side of open world.
Speaker B:Like massively mmo, they call it massively multiplayer online.
Speaker C:But it's also a story about a broken family which feels.
Speaker C:Although that girl is insanely young.
Speaker C:Why is that 12 year old driving a car?
Speaker A:Yeah, I think that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Like she's not responsible adult.
Speaker A:Recognize the actress from Wednesday?
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker C:I didn't catch that.
Speaker A:She's very blonde in Wednesday.
Speaker A:That's her best friend, isn't it?
Speaker A:Who?
Speaker A:He's like her roommate.
Speaker A:That's her.
Speaker A:Emma.
Speaker A:Name's gone up my head.
Speaker A:I'm gonna research it.
Speaker C:But there's, there's an element of like broken families there.
Speaker C:Like we don't really.
Speaker C:When mum's passed on is I think what it established.
Speaker B:We don't know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So it is about just overcoming the kind of limitations that you're giving with, with life.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And like how are you going to engage with life again?
Speaker B:How are you going to grow in America?
Speaker B:Haven't you got to be 21 to drink and drive Norway?
Speaker B:She's 21.
Speaker B:What's going on there?
Speaker A:Unless she just looked young.
Speaker A:I'm not sure.
Speaker A:Maybe there's the other character who comes in who's doing all these side hustles.
Speaker B:Oh yeah.
Speaker B:She's got exotic animals or something.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I'm trying to figure out how she's fitting in because she hasn't quite Found a purpose.
Speaker A:So she's doing all these sides of the zeitgeist.
Speaker C:Now everyone's talking about side hustles.
Speaker C:Like, this is a side hustle for us.
Speaker C:Musician.
Speaker C:That's your side hustle.
Speaker C:Like, we're in a world now where you can't exist with one job.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Hashtag side hustle.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Particularly if you want to get financial freedom or have options.
Speaker C:It's harder now.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:So I think there's a lot of stuff going on in this movie.
Speaker C:Yeah, there's also.
Speaker C:Which I don't quite get.
Speaker C:The divorce story, the Jennifer Coolidge story.
Speaker A:That felt very random.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And it feels.
Speaker C:It felt like a parallel narrative.
Speaker C:It felt like it was doing its own thing and had nothing to do with anyone else.
Speaker A:But again, was that about loneliness and finding someone as well?
Speaker A:Maybe.
Speaker A:Maybe that was the way.
Speaker C:And accepting others who don't look like you.
Speaker A:And any Matt Berry fans.
Speaker A:Just stick around for the credits.
Speaker C:What did Matt Perry do in the credits?
Speaker C:Yeah, you.
Speaker A:I think you went to the toilet at that point.
Speaker B:You went to the toilet.
Speaker C:I missed the best part of the movie.
Speaker A:It was my favorite.
Speaker B:Tell him what he missed.
Speaker A:So there's a character we're in spoiler zone for.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:We're in spoiler zone.
Speaker A:The character who came through from Minecraft World, who spent the whole film being like, that's my best impression I can do.
Speaker B:He finally spoke at the end.
Speaker A:Finally speaks.
Speaker A:But it's Matt Berry.
Speaker C:Did he say mother?
Speaker A:Well, no.
Speaker A:He was like, I have learned to do the thing.
Speaker A:I can't remember what he said, but very Matt Berry.
Speaker A:It's my favorite part.
Speaker B:Me and Paul just looked at it and just started laughing.
Speaker B:And like, we were both.
Speaker B:I could tell.
Speaker B:We're thinking, Dan's fucked up here.
Speaker A:It's like, he would have loved this bit.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:That really funny.
Speaker A:You have to watch it all again, Darren.
Speaker A:Anyway.
Speaker A:Anyway, the side story, like you say.
Speaker A:But maybe that was about connection as well.
Speaker A:Maybe that's the theme.
Speaker A:Connection.
Speaker A:Because they connected with each other.
Speaker A:There's the loneliness.
Speaker A:And then she.
Speaker A:Obviously, she divorced.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker A:It turned out she divorced the other teacher who was in it as well.
Speaker A:That was kind of a.
Speaker C:And it is.
Speaker C:And it goes back to.
Speaker C:Who's the queen of the Piglins called?
Speaker C:Like, she tries to dance and gets laughed at.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:Piglin Queen Malgosia.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:So her backstory is the fact she was on, like, the pig version of Pop Idol.
Speaker A:American Idol.
Speaker C:No, no.
Speaker C:Weird thing.
Speaker C:Yeah, Go for it.
Speaker C:So this story is about a Character who dances and gets mocked, and so she decides she's going to destroy all creativity.
Speaker C:And it's directed by Jared Hess, whose first movie was Napoleon Dynamite, which is famous for having a dance scene which is kind of mocked.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Still haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker A:Don't judge me.
Speaker B:We need to put on the list.
Speaker A:I need to get on the list.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But that's interesting, though, that he threaded that through then.
Speaker C:Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker C:I feel like when Jared Hess was young, he may have had some experiences.
Speaker C:Yeah, he was mocked.
Speaker A:You know what this movie needs?
Speaker A:I think we need the dance thing.
Speaker C:You should not mock people who don't dance in terms of societal norm.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Anything else to add?
Speaker A:The other bit is.
Speaker A:Feels like what we said in the first bit, or I was saying it's a bit like Tron.
Speaker A:It's a bit like Jumanji.
Speaker A:It's a bit.
Speaker A:So in some ways it felt like a bit of a mishmash of some of them different ideas put into one.
Speaker A:So Jason Momoa.
Speaker A:How did I say it before?
Speaker A:It made Darren laugh.
Speaker A:Jason Momoa, his character is very much like Jeff Bridges almost in Tron, where he's the arcade gamer and he gets sucked into the other world.
Speaker A:And Jack Black's character, he's in an office and he's kind of bored with normal life.
Speaker A:How he knows about the mines in the first place.
Speaker A:There's a.
Speaker A:There's a few things where you have to just suspend your disbelief, obviously, and think.
Speaker A:He's like, I wanted to work in the mines.
Speaker A:It's like, how did you even know about them?
Speaker A:What did.
Speaker A:Anyway?
Speaker A:So it just feels to me like it was, let's put that in and let's put this in, and it's kind of lots of different elements all put together.
Speaker A:And sometimes I was thinking, like, why have they got all these different characters?
Speaker A:But maybe like we said before, the bit we're missing is that thread between all the characters of.
Speaker A:They're all a bit lost.
Speaker A:They all haven't found themselves.
Speaker C:Misfits create this gang, but they're not the Goonies.
Speaker A:And then there's random things and you might be able to confirm this.
Speaker A:I meant to ask, in the game, does it do this thing where it goes.
Speaker A:It's in the game.
Speaker A:Does it go dark?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You have to sort of get shelter and hide from all this weird stuff.
Speaker A:Without knowing about the game, I was just a bit like, oh, yeah, that's random, isn't it?
Speaker C:It's like 20 minutes.
Speaker C:Like, I played it for 20 minutes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:When he said that.
Speaker B:That did make me laugh because I was like, oh, yeah, that's exactly how it feels.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:So that's very much for the game as the reference.
Speaker C:It's a race.
Speaker B:As soon as you notice the, like, starting to diminish.
Speaker B:I better get this building finished.
Speaker B:Get a little closer.
Speaker B:Create a door so I can protect myself.
Speaker C:Just dig a cave in a wall and put a door in it.
Speaker B:Yeah, you just dig a hole and I put, like a door, like a mesh thing on the side.
Speaker A:They don't really explain it in the film.
Speaker A:They're just like, oh, yes.
Speaker C:Every 20 minutes and it's genuinely scary.
Speaker C:All these zombies come out and you can hear the, like, different monsters, weird.
Speaker B:Sound effects, like, oh, that doesn't sound good.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Oh, actually, there was.
Speaker A:It makes more sense now.
Speaker C:There was it that you can play on.
Speaker C:What's it called in you.
Speaker C:You.
Speaker C:If you die, you die.
Speaker A:Like survival mode before, isn't it?
Speaker C:There's this guy who had been playing that, I think for years, like two years, three years, and he would live stream and then he just made, like a rookie mistake and died.
Speaker C:And his response on, like, live chat, he just went quiet and welled up and he's like, not like this.
Speaker C:And all the chat was just positive.
Speaker C:Just like, so kind.
Speaker C:Just like.
Speaker C:But also, what a metaphor for life.
Speaker C:Like, how many of us are gonna die and be like.
Speaker C:And our last thought is going to be like, not like this.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker B:Okay, let's move on to facts of the day.
Speaker B:What have you got for us, Paul?
Speaker A:There's not that many.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:It's fairly new, so there won't be.
Speaker A:Too many because it's not that many.
Speaker A:But there's a few, of course.
Speaker A:So this film was originally going to be directed by Shawn Levy, but he left the project after disagreements with the Minecraft developers, as they thought his idea did not suit the game.
Speaker A:So I can see Shawn Levy directing something.
Speaker A:He obviously directed Deadpool vs.
Speaker A:Wolverine and he directed Stranger Things some of the episodes.
Speaker A:I think he's a producer on Stranger Things as well.
Speaker A:Still, is it Free Guy?
Speaker A:The Ryan Reynolds nonsense?
Speaker C:Night in the museum, Night at the museum.
Speaker A:So I could see why they would go for Sean.
Speaker A:This is kind of very much in his wheelhouse.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker A:But, yeah, there you go.
Speaker A:They thought his idea did not suit the game.
Speaker A:So not for Sean.
Speaker A:This is one Darren said before.
Speaker A:There's many references, apparently, to Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker A:Not just the one you said, apparently.
Speaker A:The troublesome alpacas.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:The storing of the tater tots in pants pockets.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:And the self defense training dojo.
Speaker C:So Jared Hess fancies himself a bit of an auteur.
Speaker C:Just.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker C:Referencing his own work.
Speaker A:Just saying.
Speaker A: and him after Nacho Libre in: Speaker A:Nacho Libra was 19 years ago.
Speaker A:Okay, that's scary.
Speaker A:Oh, this was an interesting one because I know you like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as well though.
Speaker C:Quality show, Rob.
Speaker A:I can't pronounce his second name.
Speaker B:Help me, Michelini.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Was hired to direct the film but dropped out due to creative differences.
Speaker A:There's a few of these.
Speaker A:Creative differences.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:I think I know what the creative differences are, but I'll tell you in the next segment.
Speaker A:Oh, excellent.
Speaker A:I look forward to that.
Speaker A:Matt Berry.
Speaker A:Yeah, this is the bit where you don't go to the toilet just as the credits come on because you'll miss Darren.
Speaker A:Matt's Matt's thing.
Speaker A:He was originally meant to play Steve in a Minecraft movie as well.
Speaker A:Unfortunately, this didn't end up happening due to scheduling issues.
Speaker C:Creative differences.
Speaker A:Scheduling issues.
Speaker A:On this one, it says at the same time, for filming a Minecraft movie, he was already busy shooting the last season of what we did in the Shadows.
Speaker C:Nice show.
Speaker A:Couple more.
Speaker B:Yeah, go for it, go for it.
Speaker A:Okay, a couple more.
Speaker A:Jack Black was set to only appear as a cameo in the form of a talking pig.
Speaker A: But Due to the: Speaker A:So maybe that's where they had the cameo because he couldn't do the full roll and he kind of put his voice in at the end.
Speaker A:And this is one for you gamers, I suppose.
Speaker A:A pig.
Speaker A:I knew nothing of this, but you might know a pig with a crown can be seen at a point during the movie.
Speaker A:This is a reference to technoblade, a beloved YouTuber who popularized the Minecraft combat and made primarily Minecraft centered videos on his channel.
Speaker A:Has any of you guys heard of Technoblade?
Speaker B:No, I was aware of this.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A: ed away due to bone cancer in: Speaker A:So the pig with a crown, do.
Speaker C:You know how old he was?
Speaker A:It doesn't say.
Speaker A:It doesn't say.
Speaker B:Quite young.
Speaker A:Quite young.
Speaker A:I can't imagine.
Speaker A:He was massively old.
Speaker A:If you see the pig with a crown now, you know there's a bit of a deeper meaning to it.
Speaker A:I've just seen another one which I feel like I do want to throw in, which is there's movie posters for the Goonies, which we talked about before Beetlejuice and National Lampoon's Vacation in Garrett's shop.
Speaker A:All these films were distributed by Warner Brothers.
Speaker C:Nice.
Speaker A:So there you go.
Speaker A:There's some facts of the day.
Speaker B:Thank you very much.
Speaker A:There's not masses of them, as you say, because it's a newer film.
Speaker B:Okay, the final part of part two is what do we think?
Speaker B:And we are going to go straight over to Darren Horn.
Speaker C:This is a huge pile of shit.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker A:It did so well.
Speaker A:I hold that until now, listeners.
Speaker C:This is an absolute tragedy.
Speaker B:I think it lasted four seconds there of a move.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:I was so angry walking out of this and that they dared to put this on screen.
Speaker C:And whoa.
Speaker C:And what I'm furious about is I don't think there's an ounce of love in this movie.
Speaker C:I don't think the filmmakers have any love for it whatsoever.
Speaker C:They have no love for what it.
Speaker B:Are you saying this is just a cash grab?
Speaker C:It's an absolute cash grab.
Speaker A:Without a doubt the critical drinker.
Speaker A:I listened to his review on this and he made probably the best point, which was for a film about creativity, this is the least amount of crazy.
Speaker C:Like I saw other reviews saying the creativity is below the bedrock.
Speaker C:You know, it's like you can't dig.
Speaker C:We were so kind in that first, like talking about what is it's about.
Speaker C:Because it's hidden.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's not obvious.
Speaker A:That's why I thought in the first bit we were like.
Speaker C:We were going to struggle.
Speaker A:Very kind.
Speaker C:Like, honestly, the importance of creativity.
Speaker C:Everyone go watch.
Speaker C:There's a TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson called Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Speaker C:Like, go watch that.
Speaker C:That would.
Speaker C:That will increase.
Speaker A:Have Lava chicken, though.
Speaker C:No, but it will increase your IQ points and to make up for the ones you've lost from watching this movie.
Speaker C:Like, it's like there's ways of doing stuff with love.
Speaker C:Like Barbie is done with love.
Speaker C:Like Margot Robbie clearly loved the toy range and she wanted to say something and it commented on the zeitgeist.
Speaker C:It was fantastic.
Speaker C:I think Pokemon is done with love.
Speaker C:I think that, you know, IP their intellectual properties is well crafted and everything goes back to the core message.
Speaker C:And every single thing that comes out feels like it's part of that family.
Speaker C:This is a cash grab.
Speaker C:And the creative differences would have been Sean Levy being like, I don't mean to cause Trouble.
Speaker C:But your script is a pile of shit.
Speaker A:Rubble have been the same.
Speaker C:Like, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker C:And you're right.
Speaker C:Sean Levy, Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker C:Stranger things.
Speaker C:Real Steel is a great freaking movie that does not get not a love.
Speaker A:I got that to watch at home.
Speaker C:Fighting robots and Hugh Jackman.
Speaker C:And weirdly, I was at the cinema when that showed and it was dead.
Speaker C:It was a hot summer, I think, and I went in to watch it, you know, actually, I think was the only one in the screen.
Speaker C:And I went downstairs to Andrew, who still works there, and I was like, dude, get upstairs and watch this.
Speaker C:Like, no one's coming to see it, but it's great.
Speaker C:And I'm sure he saw it and was just like, that's insane.
Speaker C:It's fighting robots.
Speaker C:What's not to like?
Speaker C:So go watch Real Steel.
Speaker C:Go watch Night of the Museum by Shawn Levy.
Speaker C:Shawn Levy's a good director.
Speaker C:Jared Hess, who they use, has done nothing.
Speaker C:And the writers of this appear to be mainly staff writers from the Napoleon Dynamite TV series, which I did not know existed.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:I didn't know that either.
Speaker C:Like, what?
Speaker C:And not to.
Speaker C:Lipa's a pile of crap.
Speaker C:Like, what are these people doing?
Speaker C:And they also.
Speaker B:Also Jack Black.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:It's like, stop.
Speaker C:And that's the other thing.
Speaker C:Jack Black and Jason Momo.
Speaker C:What have they got to do with Minecraft?
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:Like with Superman.
Speaker C:What's his name?
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:Henry Cavill.
Speaker C:Henry Cavill gets involved in stuff that he loves and his love seeps through.
Speaker A:He loves his warmer.
Speaker B:How do we know that those two don't love that game?
Speaker C:I've never.
Speaker C:Henry Cavill doesn't shut up about what he loves.
Speaker C:He's like Warhammer.
Speaker C:They're seeing him being interviewed and women being like, you know, what are you into?
Speaker C:He's.
Speaker C:I'm into Warhammer.
Speaker C:And they give this little smirk and it's like, smirk who you want.
Speaker C:You would love him to come home with you and play Warhammer in his little basement.
Speaker C:Whatever.
Speaker C:He's a geek.
Speaker C:He's going to get the Warhammer films or franchises.
Speaker A:He's working on that now, isn't he?
Speaker C:And he loves stupid Superman.
Speaker C:And he fought for Superman to have the.
Speaker C:Have a hairy chest because he is in, like.
Speaker C:He loves the source material and the Witcher.
Speaker A:That's why he left.
Speaker A:I think he got fed up with them twisting the story.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker B:I know Jason Momo is a massive metal fan.
Speaker B:Like, Metallica's his favorite band.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:That's what he.
Speaker B:Because he Always talks about it, but.
Speaker A:He has produced this as well.
Speaker A:I noticed at the start of the film there's a lot of that.
Speaker B:There's a lot of that these days.
Speaker C:He just wants money.
Speaker C:He wants back end money.
Speaker C:Basically he wants to get a percentage.
Speaker C:So he's going to get make money off this for the rest of his life.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And I bet he's going to be more.
Speaker C:There'll be more.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I love Jack Black films, but even.
Speaker C:In this I'm like, so listen to this.
Speaker C:So Minecraft creator, apparently Notch Pearson, is that his name?
Speaker C:After seeing the trailer expressed approval having no apparent involvement in the film.
Speaker C:He jokingly said, I probably would have even agreed to Ue bowl making it.
Speaker C:Now Mark, I'm sure you don't know who Yui Bol is.
Speaker C:Paul, do you know who he is?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker C:Yui bowl is one of the worst directors ever to exist.
Speaker C:Exist.
Speaker B:What a title.
Speaker C:If you go look at like say IMDb Internet movie databases, worst rated movies, like the worst 100 rated movies.
Speaker C:Yuri bowl will be there in abundance.
Speaker C:Yuri bowl has made movies like Far Cry and Alone.
Speaker C:Look, he does lots of game adaptations so far.
Speaker C:Cry, Blood Rain three, the Bloodrike and we did the earlier Blood Rains.
Speaker C:But the fact he's doing Blood Rain three the Blood Alone in the dark, like.
Speaker C:So the creator of Minecraft just sold out.
Speaker C:Why did you need to sell out your.
Speaker C:Isn't he a billionaire?
Speaker A:Yeah, he's so rich.
Speaker C:You just shat on your own legacy.
Speaker A:Yeah, but we're saying this.
Speaker A:It's got like a six.
Speaker A:Six out of ten on.
Speaker A:This is what crushes your soul.
Speaker B:Well, this is a 6 out of.
Speaker A:10 on IMDb and it's making massive bank.
Speaker A:And I keep seeing people going, oh so good.
Speaker A:This is good.
Speaker B:This goes back to what we said at the beginning.
Speaker B:Kids are making their parents take them to see it.
Speaker B:Yeah, kids like anything Minecraft, even if it's shit.
Speaker B:Well to them it's just an extension of the game.
Speaker B:But also all the game references in it.
Speaker B:It's got everything they expect to see.
Speaker B:We're looking, we're looking at this as a piece of art.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker A:We're comparing it to sell out.
Speaker B:Like we're comparing it to Citizen Kane.
Speaker A:That's my line.
Speaker C:I do wonder about that.
Speaker C:I do wonder.
Speaker C:Like Scorsese speaks out in Tarantino sometimes.
Speaker A:Like, this is not cinema.
Speaker C:Is it the death of cinema?
Speaker C:Like is it change?
Speaker C:Or is it the death of.
Speaker C:But no, but Barbie was a great freaking movie.
Speaker C:Like you don't have to like it.
Speaker C:But it was.
Speaker C:And it was a great movie.
Speaker C:There's ways you can do this well.
Speaker C:There's ways you could do this well.
Speaker C:And they didn't.
Speaker C:And they chose not to.
Speaker B:Over to Paul.
Speaker B:I'll pause you there.
Speaker B:You might have more to say.
Speaker A:He will.
Speaker B:Over to Paul.
Speaker B:What did you think?
Speaker A:So I struggled with this film.
Speaker A:As you know.
Speaker A:I tend to take all films as positively as possible.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I agree with Darren.
Speaker A:So it's an absolute pile.
Speaker A:And I like some really shitty films.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And the only thing.
Speaker C:Go on, you go.
Speaker A:Okay, okay.
Speaker B:The only thing I hold Darren back.
Speaker A:The only thing I kept thinking is, is it just because I'm old and kind of bitter now and you haven't.
Speaker B:Played the game and I haven't played.
Speaker A:The game and it's not for me because I do think back and I confess this.
Speaker A:And this is where all the listeners lose complete respect for me anyway.
Speaker A:And my judgment.
Speaker A: In: Speaker A:Now I was like 10.
Speaker A:I guess I enjoyed them both equally.
Speaker A:So I'm watching the Minecraft movie and my brain feels like it's melting out of my ears.
Speaker A:I can feel Darren's even more so because he sat next to me and I'm thinking, is it because I'm not 10?
Speaker A:If I was 10, would I be enjoying this?
Speaker A:Like, I enjoyed the Bob Hoskins.
Speaker B:If you're a Minecraft enthusiast.
Speaker C:I freaking love Bluey.
Speaker C:Like, Bluey is an amazing.
Speaker C:Like, you can.
Speaker C:You can do TV for.
Speaker C:For youngsters.
Speaker C:That's good.
Speaker C:And you can do films for youngsters.
Speaker C:It's really good.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's like the Goonies.
Speaker A:We mentioned the Goonies before.
Speaker A:You know, that film as a kid.
Speaker A:We watch it now.
Speaker B:It's got that nostalgia or even Toy Story.
Speaker C:Toy story.
Speaker C:Toy Story 3 is a masterpiece.
Speaker A:Got actual stories in it.
Speaker A:I'm watching this.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker C:And also, just the thing about a bad film, I will forgive.
Speaker C:I've made bad films, like, with low budget.
Speaker C:And you work with what you've got.
Speaker C:I'll forgive Sharknado.
Speaker C:You know, I'll go watch Piranha 3D.
Speaker C:Like, I' movies that, you know, there's just plucky filmmakers trying and they're.
Speaker C:They're playing.
Speaker B:I always feel those ones.
Speaker B:Or they're deliberate, trying to make it as bad as possible.
Speaker B:Because if you made it really bad, it's good.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It can be Almost.
Speaker C:It could be like tongue in cheek.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:There's so many.
Speaker C:This has got like an infinite budget.
Speaker C:Basically, it's Minecraft.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Like you could have hired the best writers, not just, you know, staff writer writers from some TV show.
Speaker C:It's annoying.
Speaker C:I also went back and booted up Minecraft because I'm.
Speaker C:My daughter heard I was going to go see it.
Speaker C:She said, I played Minecraft.
Speaker C:I said, you play Minecraft like you fight the skeletons.
Speaker C:She's like, no, there's no skeletons in Minecraft.
Speaker C:I said, oh, you must play on like creator mode or whatever.
Speaker C:I said, well, I'll download it because we can fight skeletons and build houses and stuff.
Speaker C:And then.
Speaker C:So I downloaded it and it was weird.
Speaker C:I downloaded my old game and I was like, I have no memory of this place.
Speaker A:What is this place?
Speaker C:But then I was.
Speaker C:It felt different and I said, why is it that's different here?
Speaker C:And there was.
Speaker B:Well, you played this after you'd seen the film.
Speaker C:Yeah, I played it this morning.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:And then there was this whole.
Speaker C:And I wanted to change what my character looked like.
Speaker C:And it's all monetized way more than I've ever seen before.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And then you hit Marketplace and It's just like 33% discount.
Speaker C:Batman skin this skin this skin.
Speaker C:Get this skin overwhelming itself.
Speaker C:But the way it.
Speaker C: episode and it looked like a: Speaker C:And I was just like, this is making me feel icky and this is overstimulation for most kids.
Speaker C:Like, that's too many bright colors flashing spend money.
Speaker C:And it's not, you know, obviously it's real money, but it's like Minecraft coins.
Speaker C: Pay: Speaker A:Makes me think of Ready Player One.
Speaker A:Have you seen Ready Player One?
Speaker C:That's a great film.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'll probably recommend it at some point when it gets to me and.
Speaker A:But there is a bit where there's the spoiler alert, but there's a sleazy guy in it.
Speaker A:Basically he was trying to make everything into what Darren just described.
Speaker A:So there's this free Oasis virtual world and it's just what you said, isn't it?
Speaker A:All of a sudden he's like, oh, we'll have different bandings.
Speaker A:We'll have silver, gold and bronze and we'll have everything for sale.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And the guy who runs this VR world says, no, no, it's not about that.
Speaker A:And it feels like that's exactly what Minecraft's gone down there.
Speaker C:The Oasis was again, it's about love and creativity and having adventures and friendship and all the good things.
Speaker A:And now you're seeing all these, buy this, buy that, buy that.
Speaker A:30% off.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's not done with love.
Speaker C:Like, sometimes I think you can monetize it.
Speaker C:You can do it with kindness and love and you don't have to shove it down people's throats.
Speaker C:But this is.
Speaker C:I actually feel kind of icky about Minecraft now.
Speaker A:Well, this film, again, there's Element.
Speaker A:I like Jack Black.
Speaker A:Hell, I'll take Nacho Libra over this one any day.
Speaker C:Also creepiness.
Speaker C:Jason Momoa's relationship with that kid.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:What was that?
Speaker C:Leave that boy alone.
Speaker A:It was like they put the kid in, though, to be like, oh, this is for kids.
Speaker A:So we need a kid in there.
Speaker A:Let's throw.
Speaker A:I don't know, it feels like I said before, it's all been botched together.
Speaker C:They felt two dimensional.
Speaker C:Those kids had no personality.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:But none of the characters seem to have personality personality.
Speaker A:So I didn't feel anything.
Speaker A:And I think that's a lot of these modern films now.
Speaker C:And also I said earlier, it spends 10 to 15 minutes setting up some backstory.
Speaker C:So you're telling you're exploring the wrong part of the story like that you shouldn't have to talk for 10 minutes to set up.
Speaker A:If you try and nutshell it as well, though, it's like, oh, there's a crystal that goes in another crystal which opens a portal to a world.
Speaker A:But that's not the only world because there's a baddie world.
Speaker A:The baddie world want the crystal to shut down the good.
Speaker A:Like, it also sounds like.
Speaker C:Like we know, we know they're going to go to Minecraft because it's called Minecraft.
Speaker C:So start in the ordinary world.
Speaker C:Start with the mum in freaking hospital.
Speaker A:That's why we love Tron and stuff like that.
Speaker C:Yeah, let us care about these kids.
Speaker C:Let's see the mom's funeral.
Speaker C:Let this kid be heartbroken.
Speaker C:His big sister be like, no, it's okay.
Speaker C:Like, we're gonna go, we're gonna go.
Speaker C:And then you lead them into the Minecraft world.
Speaker C:You don't start with it.
Speaker A:Well, I thought this would be like the Jumanji.
Speaker A:I was hoping it'd be close to the Jumanji.
Speaker A:Welcome to the jungle with Jet Black.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Really enjoyed them films because I was very skeptical when they came out because I love the original with Robin Williams and I thought, no, they've got characters.
Speaker A:They made it all, they did all the switching the personalities and it was really fun and I enjoyed watching it.
Speaker A:This I did not enjoy watching.
Speaker A:Mark, what do you think?
Speaker A:Before me and Darren rant into oblivion.
Speaker B:I didn't hate it as much as you guys, but I thought, I thought it was poor and I thought they've missed a trick.
Speaker B:It could have been so much better.
Speaker C:Do you think this is the poorest film we've looked at?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah, okay.
Speaker B:Yes, I do.
Speaker B:I didn't think it was going to be.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker B:I had some hope of like.
Speaker B:Yeah, I might not get it.
Speaker B:It might not have been for me, but I thought there might be enough aspects in it and things in it that like hooked me enough to take me through it to enjoy it overall.
Speaker C:But I thought, I thought I'm not going to be the target ones for this but I think I'm going to appreciate it.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's exactly what I thought.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It was a bit higgledy piggledy, wasn't it?
Speaker B:It didn't really.
Speaker B:It wasn't coherent.
Speaker B:It didn't follow.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker B:Like, like in the, in the experience of the game, you start basic, you build this, you build, then this happens and then you accumulate this and then this happens.
Speaker A:Whereas this was all.
Speaker C:They got to be good creative builders within about five minutes.
Speaker C:Yeah, this is my first one.
Speaker C:Oh, now I've got the hang of it.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker B:Yeah, it's like a stylish house with all these furnishings.
Speaker B:You're like what?
Speaker A:I love a montage.
Speaker A:But even the montage felt a bit like.
Speaker C:And the songs were bad.
Speaker C:Yeah, but, yeah, like the importance of creativity.
Speaker C:But then it's male loneliness.
Speaker C:The guy who's got a business that's going out of business.
Speaker C:It's a divorce nonsense with Jennifer.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker B:No, I thought, yeah, like the part with that.
Speaker B:That not that non speaking character who went into the real world.
Speaker B:That could have been that.
Speaker B:I did enjoy that part where you just.
Speaker B:He didn't say anything but I thought they could have used that so much better.
Speaker A:But it felt like they somehow got Jennifer Coolidge and were like, oh, how can we throw her in this movie?
Speaker B:It was like a token.
Speaker B:They couldn't think of a better way to do it.
Speaker B:No, I think it suffered from them trying to stuff too many references and making sure it had this and this and this and without thinking how.
Speaker B:Yeah, I don't think it was all necessary.
Speaker A:Let's make a Minecraft movie and make a Lot of money.
Speaker B:Like we said, a proper good hero's.
Speaker A:Journey or that's what it's missing.
Speaker B:Or a problem that needs to be solved.
Speaker B:But doing it in the right way, like love.
Speaker B:There's no real.
Speaker B:You weren't really behind any of these characters.
Speaker C:It was just.
Speaker B:There was too much you over here now you're over here.
Speaker B:Now this is happening.
Speaker A:And I like films with loads of cg.
Speaker A:Sometimes, yeah, and sometimes I come out thinking it's just a bit too CGI heavy.
Speaker A:But this one just felt like my brain was falling out by the end of it because it was just.
Speaker A:You could tell they were on a green screen half the time.
Speaker A:And I'm like.
Speaker C:And I walked out and I forgot it all immediately.
Speaker C:Weird.
Speaker C:So, like thinking back and so, okay, so the girl, I don't like that voiceover.
Speaker C:Almost like post credit scene.
Speaker C:Oh, so in the future then, she now runs a self defense class using.
Speaker C:With the confidence she got from fighting Piglins, whatever the.
Speaker C:Does the retro socks, retro shock then become really successful for no reason at all?
Speaker B:Yes, I think so.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:He's like, oh, now and then they're doing a concert.
Speaker C:Is that what was happening?
Speaker A:That felt like the end of School the Rock.
Speaker A:Let's put the End of School the Rock on there.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was like, why are you just shoving on these endings?
Speaker C:Did you just do like a test screening and just put what everyone thought?
Speaker C:How are we going to end this?
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:We'll just do this voiceover and just say they were successful now, as long.
Speaker A:As the audience got the blah, blah, blah, everyone after.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah.
Speaker A:Yeah, everyone's fine until the sequel.
Speaker C:And at least if the Piglins had invaded the real world, that's.
Speaker B:That would have been good.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And they would have to use some creativity to get back.
Speaker A:Yes, yes, yes, I agree with that.
Speaker B:So, okay, so we're going into part three.
Speaker B:Part three is the Listen lounge.
Speaker B:So we have question corner and then we have next week's movie.
Speaker B:So actually today, what's the best movie that came from a game or the best game that came from a movie?
Speaker B:Have you guys got any?
Speaker C:I like Resident Evil.
Speaker B:That's a good one.
Speaker C:The only weakness with that is it ends with a CGI creation.
Speaker C:Whereas the Red Queen was freaking terrifying.
Speaker C:Like a, like this child hologram.
Speaker C:Like, I've done a very bad thing.
Speaker C:Jesus.
Speaker C:Now with like the advent of AI like Chat GPT being like, I've done a very bad thing.
Speaker C:What have you done?
Speaker C:Chat GPT.
Speaker C:What have you Done.
Speaker C:I've switched off the oxygen.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker C:Yeah, I've released Godzilla.
Speaker A:Godzilla.
Speaker C:I quite like the Doom movie.
Speaker A:I haven't seen the Doom or the Rock.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's trash.
Speaker B:I liked it as a standalone, as a movie, but not how it didn't.
Speaker B:It didn't tie into the game as much for me.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker B:Because I grew up with that game.
Speaker B:I have that game inside now.
Speaker C:I like the fact you went first.
Speaker B:Person at the very end.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay, so I've already made my confession about the original Super Mario.
Speaker B:You're not a gamer anyway, so I'm.
Speaker A:Not a gamer, but go away.
Speaker A:Yeah, there was some dumb stuff in that film, but I still enjoy it as a guilty pleasure.
Speaker A:I also enjoy the Resident Evils.
Speaker A:I quite like a lot of them.
Speaker A:And the one that I always confess to as a guilty pleasure, which is Dead or Alive doa, which is Holly Valland's Fighting on a beach in a bikini.
Speaker A:In a bikini.
Speaker A:Yeah, I know.
Speaker A:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:Shoot me down.
Speaker B:So Kieran, still, he commented and he said for the video game to movie, I'd have to say either the recent Mortal Kombat or Silent Hill.
Speaker C:Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker C:I haven't checked the new Mortal Kombat.
Speaker C:That's interesting.
Speaker B:Okay, back you up.
Speaker B:Matt Adamson has messaged.
Speaker B:He said, super Mario Brothers in bracket.
Speaker B:The new one.
Speaker A:Okay, yeah, the new one.
Speaker C:Chris Pratt in the new Chris Pratt.
Speaker A:Does the voice and everyone's like, oh, Chris Pratt's voice and everything.
Speaker A:But he.
Speaker A:Yeah, he does a good job.
Speaker B:Matt Adamson has messaged in again and he said, stranglehold video game sequel to the film Hard Boiled.
Speaker C:Weird.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker C:Hard Boats.
Speaker C:Isn't that.
Speaker C:I wouldn't say.
Speaker C:That's an Asian kind of gangster movie, isn't it?
Speaker C:Hard Boy not seen.
Speaker B:That's what he says.
Speaker B:Ethan Kirby has messaged in and said Tron purely for the Daft Punk soundtrack.
Speaker A:Or Tron Legacy, he means.
Speaker A:Then, yeah, yeah, that's a damn good soundtrack.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:I wasn't sure the first time I watched that movie.
Speaker B:It's a good game, but.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Second.
Speaker A:Well, I've watched it many times since and yeah, quality soundtrack and underrated, possibly.
Speaker C:Oh, the new RoboCop game looks amazing, apparently.
Speaker B:Yes, I've seen that.
Speaker B:Yeah, that looks good.
Speaker B:Okay, there we go.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:So this is going the other way.
Speaker A:This is games based on.
Speaker B:But the question was either what's the based on a video game based on a movie or the movie based on a game.
Speaker A:So I have two.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Because my Friends.
Speaker A:As I've told you both before, other.
Speaker C:Friends, non podcast friends, non podcast friends.
Speaker A:I say friends.
Speaker A:My mate Gaz, probably, he used to take the piss and still does, in the fact that every video game that I have is normally based off a movie or a TV show, because I'm not a big gamer.
Speaker A:So I'm going to go in with the Ghostbusters game.
Speaker C:That's cold.
Speaker A:I don't think I ever passed the first level, but, my God, it was fun running around with the Bronze and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the game on the old Xbox I've never played.
Speaker C:I don't know why that's not on my radar.
Speaker A:It's good for me.
Speaker B:It was Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on the Mega Drive.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:I played that.
Speaker B:That was a good game.
Speaker B:You could turn into a car.
Speaker B:Oh, drive as a car.
Speaker A:I feel like Aladdin on Mega Drive.
Speaker B:That was good.
Speaker A:Okay, should we stop now?
Speaker C:No, I'm just wondering if we should look up Moonwalker at some point.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker B:Oh, the Michael Jackson movie.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:That could be one of those nostalgic ones where you thought it was great.
Speaker B:Back in the day, I used to.
Speaker A:Just watch the smooth criminal part of it over and over again.
Speaker B:Had all those videos in it, and they were epic.
Speaker C:It might be that.
Speaker B:Anyway, it's awful.
Speaker B:We'll move on to next week's movie.
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Speaker B:Okay, next week's movie.
Speaker B:As this is a random month that has five Tuesdays, so we have five episodes.
Speaker B:It's gonna be the listen choice.
Speaker B:It would have.
Speaker B:We've done this one.
Speaker B:We've swapped it round.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Because we went to the cinema, obviously, the other day, so we've recorded straight away and got it out.
Speaker B:So it was the listening choice we had.
Speaker B:Should I read them out or should I just tell what.
Speaker A:What it is you're adding?
Speaker C:No, no, that's.
Speaker C:Let's read some of them out here, because some of them really.
Speaker C:Some of the audience choices, I think, are really good.
Speaker C:And we've got A really nice, diverse fan base.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So Jess Beck commented where she requested.
Speaker B:Saw the original one.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I hate.
Speaker C:That's a genre of movies with, like, torture porn or Gorno and I hate them.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:I'm not a fan at all.
Speaker C:I would have watched them.
Speaker C:Watched one of them.
Speaker C:Just because Jess asked us to.
Speaker B:I would.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:To.
Speaker B:That's on Netflix and Prime.
Speaker B:So we could have.
Speaker B:Beck Schultz commented and suggested Fried Green Tomatoes.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:Is it Gina Davis.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Julia Robbins.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:I don't think I've seen it.
Speaker A:Some bits of it.
Speaker B:Andy Minette requested Secret Window.
Speaker B:I think he's done that multiple times.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:He's desperate for us to watch that.
Speaker B:He recommends it every single time, so.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:But one of these days, we get.
Speaker B:We get enough now where we just have to put it in a random generator.
Speaker B:Adrian Willin requested gone in 60 seconds.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's.
Speaker C:That kind of builds on the Con Air episode.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm sure that'll come up at some point.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I've got brothers.
Speaker B:So Danny Roberts requested Dog Day Afternoon.
Speaker C:That's Pacino.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:And I don't.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:Maybe I watched that at uni, but.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'd love to watch that again with these.
Speaker B:With these.
Speaker B:It's better if it's available for us to watch that.
Speaker B:Currently, Dog Day Afternoon isn't available in any subscription.
Speaker B:Like, included in your subscription.
Speaker B:You'd have to pay, like, a tenor or whatever it is to watch it.
Speaker B:So if we can.
Speaker B:We'd prefer your choices to be something that is available.
Speaker B:Ben Nicholl requested the Crow, the original one.
Speaker C:That would have been fun.
Speaker A:I haven't seen that in a long.
Speaker C:Time, particularly because there's a remake which I really did not like.
Speaker A:Oh, have you seen the remake?
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker A:Not good.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Oh, I'll be interested what you thought of it, though, because it's more of a metal.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker C:At the Crow.
Speaker B:I've not seen it.
Speaker B:Not seen it?
Speaker B:Oh, I've not seen any of them.
Speaker C:Oh, the originals.
Speaker A:I've seen the original.
Speaker B:Hence why I have this podcast.
Speaker B:That's my.
Speaker B:I've referred to that.
Speaker B:Danny Roberts is back, and he also requested Drive.
Speaker B:Is that.
Speaker A:Oh, I want to see that.
Speaker A:Goslin.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Some of that.
Speaker B:I don't think I've seen all of that.
Speaker C:Denny's Dennis.
Speaker C:Is that how you pronounce his name?
Speaker A:Oh, is it Deniz, I think.
Speaker A:Is that Blade runner?
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:2049.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Rhea Johnston has requested Shrek the third.
Speaker A:The third one?
Speaker C:Really?
Speaker B:Not one or two and Kieran still recommended with Nail and I.
Speaker B:And we put it in the random generate selection and it picked out with Nail and I.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker B:So next week's movie is with Nail and I.
Speaker B:It's currently available as of, say, mid to late March.
Speaker B:It's currently available on the ITV player in the uk Even though the country's.
Speaker B:Just try and get it.
Speaker B:Do your best.
Speaker A:It'll be someone.
Speaker B:So that will be next week's movie.
Speaker B:Okay, this episode is officially over.
Speaker B:Thanks for listening, guys.
Speaker B:This is Mark saying goodbye.
Speaker C:This is Darren saying goodbye as well.
Speaker A:I am Steve.
