Minecraft Movie (Spoilers ahead)

How do I even begin talking about it?

I think I'll shortly clarify my opinion on it before going into detail. It wasn't bad, it entertained me, my friends, and the 50 other Gen Z people in that room.

The movie was such an overstimulation because it was so much and so little at the same time. It felt short but that's probably just because of everything in that movie. No 5 minutes passed without any of us whispering to our friends about it or laugh or be shocked.

It was so obviously made for Gen Z fans, you cannot tell me they didn't know. The lore was nothing crazy, you definitely can't compare it to a Sonic 3, hell no. But I feel like that wasn't really the intention of the movie. It was a "sandbox" movie to say it stupidly. It had so many references to our gameplay, how we play. The water clutching, armies of iron golems, redstone railway throughout huge caves, the dirt house being the first house and then increasingly make more crazier and absurd builds.

The movie had a lot of accurate stuff but also inaccurate.

Accurate: it had actual correct crafting recipes (like sword), loot drop, mining blocks, mob behaviour and much more.

Inaccurate: the odds of rare stuff like skeletons on spiders, skeletons with enchanted bows, throwing eggs spawning a baby chicken and probably more. Some crafting recipes and builds and some things that are movie specific like the ghasts having platforms hanging of them.

While some inaccuracies were slightly painful, I feel like some could intentionally show the creativity of the community. The modding community is very prominent for minecraft. This is why these non existent crafting recipes were also nice because you could mod these into existence. Minecraft is a game about creativity and doing anything you could imagine, mods or no mods. This movie was about a boy struggling with being creative in the real world and the over world being a great place to live out that creativity.

The jokes were often childish because it's still trying to be a kids movie, but the fair amount of adult comedy (cough cough the entire Jennifer Coolidge side plot cough cough) were also nice to have.

And don't get me started on Steve and Garret. HELLO?! THE ELYTRA SCENE?? THE ENDING?? THE ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP THEY BUILT UP OVER THE MOVIE?? They are gay your honor. My tiktok is flooded with #brokenpickaxe.

Overall the movie was good for what it was trying to be. A stupid kids movie about minecraft for Gen Z that grew up on this game. And all the references prove that it was made for us. (The small things like the little Herobrine reference made the movie much more likeable).

I'm lowkey a bit sentimental about it because Minecraft, among other media, has been such a prominent part of my life and seeing it up on a big screen made me realize yet again how old I feel. "I'm just 20" and yet I feel like I'm out of time every single day. I had a blast watching it with some of my closest friends and to that, be in a midnight streaming when all the other Gen Z folks were watching. It was a room filled with strangers that all collectively came to watch the same childhood and it was so nice. 

If I didn't go in to see the movie, I definitely would've missed out on an experience.