“Hey you know this game where it’s basically just legos and survival and there’s no story whatsoever? What if we made a live-action movie with people who aren’t legos and wrote a story to it? The fans will obviously love it because it has the same name!”

[–] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tbf the LEGO movie was pretty good. I’m willing to give a minecraft movie a chance, won’t be happy if it’s shit though.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The lego movie was good because it wasn’t about the legos though. It used legos as a medium for telling a really heartfelt story about a father and son.

If they do that with Minecraft, fantastic. I’m just not expecting it in the slightest.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It also used nothing but lego pieces and had overall amazing animation, complete with the limited movement of lego figures accounted for.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

True, nothing but lego pieces*

*non-lego pieces that were real-world objects and real human people excluded

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also because a lot of us played with Legos as kids and the movie properly captured the nostalgic feeling of playing with Legos.

[–] tuoret@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

There are already people feeling nostalgic for Minecraft, more so by the time this movie comes out.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Sure, and yeah some people are nostalgic for Minecraft, but “The LEGO Movie except it’s Minecraft” is a lousy idea for a movie

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It could be cool if they make it like the old D&D cartoon, where a player gets sucked into the game.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

That sounds ridiculous. Next they’ll make a Lego movie!

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seems like an odd cast, but I'm down to watch Jack Black in basically anything.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jack Black is actually a good voice actor at least. Better than Chris Pratt again

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm completely over giving VA jobs to traditional actors.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think Jack Black can be considered a voice actor and a traditional actor, he has done a lot of good work for both

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Team him up with Mark Hamil!

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s probably fair.

[–] shadearg@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Give him one chance to rock your socks off.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There are very few voice actors who didn't come up through "traditional" acting.

Especially notable is Bojack which is considered the GOAT and to my knowledge doesn't feature anyone who hasn't done theatre, tv or film.

Mel Blanc did TV before he did cartoons

Dan Castellaneta did Second City and character comedy for years before the Simpsons

Tom Kenny was an actor for 10 years before SpongeBob

And so on

the only one I can think of that would meet this description is Seth MacFarlane.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even Mark Hamill?

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Mark hamil is a voice actor that moonlights as a movie actor.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I'm still waiting to hear him as Claptrap!!!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm still waiting for the Pong movie.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

He's on the left! No wait, he's on the right! OMG, he's going left again!