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Jack Black Hangs Out In Legitimate, Real Minecraft Movie Trailer
Look, I enjoyed the Minecraft game as much as the next person. Maybe not as much as kids, but as an adult man, I had a blast playing Minecraft when I got into it a couple of years ago. I only played in survival mode and spent my time building some really interesting things! Like a giant pyramid, a skyscraper complete with floors, windows and stairs that went all the way up to the world ceiling cap, underwater trams and buildings, the Eye of Sauron, a castle and then I finally got bored trying to build a gigantic, color-coded Rubix cube.
Anyway, when people love a thing, Hollywood makes a cheap movie out of it. I’m sure I heard of this existing at some point in the past, well now we have a teaser trailer. Be prepared.
They didn’t even make Jack Black shave his current, real-life beard for this one. He had the same beard in The Mandalorian, right? So that’s gotta be in his contract. If you want Jack Black in your thing, he doesn’t have to change anything about himself. Rock on.
The visuals of the world look neat, but everything else about this movie looks to be as paint-by-the-numbers as a thing can be. Oh boy. But maybe kids will love it? I guess we’ll find out when A Minecraft Movie comes to theaters on April 4.
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The Sonic Movies Are Gonna Get Shadowy
We’ve got the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 out today, and it’s a really dark and sinister affair! Shadow the Hedgehog was after my time with the franchise, which ended with Sonic & Knuckles, so I’m not at all connected to the new critter on the crew. But the movie sure does feed into a probably very healthy Shadow fandom.
I mean…it looks cool, eh? I’ve never been the biggest fan of these Sonic movies. But the geek in me can definitely appreciate how they’ve gone whole hog into the lore and the characters after the first film. I can dig that. But yeah, I don’t care about Shadow, so this movie isn’t poking at my personal fandom interest. So hopefully Shadow fans are happy.
And at least Knuckles, my favorite character, still seems fun. His TV show was…something else. But at least we got a real, live-ish action Knuckles the Echidna TV show in my lifetime. That was neat in and of itself!
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 comes to theaters on Dec. 20.
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Lord of the Rings: The Anime
There’s a new Lord of the Rings movie coming out this year called The War of the Rohirrim. I don’t know much about LOTR lore, but I’m pretty sure the Rohirrim are those horseriders from Rohan. And I didn’t know much about this movie, only that it existed and was coming out.
Well, this first trailer sets everything up nicely: War of the Rohirrim looks to be a badass anime!
Looks awesome. I’m not the biggest fan of picking apart the original Lord of the Rings movie trilogy for any scraps that can be turned into a new story — even if I do enjoy The Rings of Power — but if they’re going to make good stuff, I’m down for that. I always like good stuff, and this looks pretty darn cool.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim comes to theaters in December.
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How I Would Write Incredibles 3
One of the movies announced at D23 this year was an Incredibles threequel, which I think is a fine idea. The original The Incredibles from 2004 is a masterpiece of both animation and superhero storytelling. It’s the best Fantastic Four movie ever made, and it’s one of the best superhero movies ever made. It’s great. The Incredibles 2 came out in 2018 and it’s good, but it’s not the original. The sequel felt like everybody got together 14 years later and decided to make another Incredibles movie, so they did. It’s really just another entry in the series.
So the threequel should be something of the same. I wouldn’t be trying to recreate the glory days of Pixar, I’d just be trying to make another Incredibles movie with a good story and solid, relatable themes.
Apologies in advance, I’m probably going to write this thing like a stream of consciousness and just ramble my ideas onto this post. Or maybe I’ll clean it up later and it’ll be nicely presented. But I’ll mostly just riff. I’ve got ideas and I want to get them down on digital paper!
So join me after the jump for how I would write and plot The Incredibles 3. And feel free to share your own ideas in the comments below.
Read the rest of this entryWhen a New Kraven Trailer Comes Around
At random this morning, we got a new trailer for the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie, and it’s something special. Never have you heard Johnny Cash like this before. Brace yourself.
They’re really leaning into the new R rating they have received, pushing the violence in the hopes that it makes for a fun movie. Will it work? I don’t know. I still don’t know if I’m going to see this one in theaters. I never saw Madame Webb, and I’m pretty sure I only watched Morbius in theaters because I was doing movie reviews at the time for work. But Kraven the Hunter? This Kraven the Hunter? Fighting a CGI Rhino? Dude, I just don’t know…I mean, I have zero faith in this universe and wish they’d just stop. But at least they’re putting the movie out instead of voiding it completely for the tax write off…
Kraven the Hunter comes to theaters on Dec. 13.
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