The Viewing Room Ep 35- A Minecraft Movie - Review and Analysis - The Viewing Room

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For you know, like the first time I was like,
you know, recording and editing things. I remember trying to
figure out how to screen record Minecraft and I could
figure it out. So I took my camera and I
put it on a tripod and I physically recorded my
screen to try and make a Minecraft video or like
we're obnoxious, like like watermarks and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I have a funny video that we can play in
my first ever.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Mind, like with the bandicam watermark on top. Oh yeah, man,
they like circle around the mouse.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
And now time for the viewing room with Adam and Eton.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Welcome to the viewing room, where you talk about films
new and old, local and global. Today we're talking about
a Minecraft movie, which released April fourth, twenty five, with
the budget of one hundred and fifty million US dollars
minus some marketing costs. There any fun facts on this day? Yeah,
I mean Ovechkin ties Gretzky had one hundred and ninety

(01:14):
four career goals. That's cool. I don't know if he's
has he broken it now? Is that the thing?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Anyone over to these guys. Yeah, I'll introduce our guess. Sorry, Hi, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I got a little carried away.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Not allowed to talk until we until. I mean, I'm
not a surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Let's introduce our guests.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm sorry I got carried away. I've been sitting here
for an hour already, so I was like, it's slowly
like integrating thing. No, no, no, no, I'm very patient, and
that's why I'll introduce our guests slowly. Right beside me,
we can hit the wide I mean whatever, I didn't
think there's.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Ethan you really you really got to work on this. Yeah,
this was the episodes start we've ever had and should
have been the best. Fantastic Guests.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, well it was about as good as the Minecraft movies,
so arguably the same production value. We have some special
guests today and we're on the old set. As you notice,
we have read beside me, who was on our Ask
Oscars watch Party episode. Fantastic guy who we went to

(02:25):
film school together, great movie lover.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
I like movies.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
We have Dawson who runs like, what.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Talk about your Instagram?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You mentioned this with Oscars and I'm like, I've never
I don't even know what this is.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's called seen by Dawson and I don't know. I
kind of just sharing a little bit of my insight
to kind of connect with more, kind of just posting
about movies. Like my most recent post was kind of
my best first time watches in March. So it's just
a collection of films new I've seen in March. Just
post stuff like that, you know, my takes on movies,
my reviews, trying to get my reviews out there more. Yeah,

(02:59):
it's it's been nice.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Awesome, let's go give him a follow. We also have
an Instagram which at the viewing room Underscore. Thanks very much.
And obviously we have our great friend Adam. Yeah, and
he's got some awesome Vietnamese ice coffee.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, I know these things are great. Gone Gone Where
did you?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Where's it from?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Gone Gone? It's on eighth Street, right side Amazing stories.
Cool check them out.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well, it's gonna be Gone Gone in a couple of
minutes here when you chug it it is.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
That was good. I'm gonna add a little.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
But I'm you know, yes, thank you. I appreciate that.
To the Minecraft movie. As of today, eighteen minutes Ago
has grossed one hundred and fifty seven million US dollars,
but internationally it's grossed three hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
So in two days it's managed to double it. It's fun. Yeah,
I'm not saying honestly, Honestly, I'm not prized. I'm not
surprised because it's I mean, Minecraft is one of the
I think it's still is the world's best selling video game,
right I think, I believe Aunds and Fortnite, and yeah,
I think it's still number one. But that kind of

(04:15):
marketing right there. I mean there's like a whole generation
of people that grew up with Minecraft as their childhood.
I think we all played it as every single ever
someone one of us have played it a fair bit,
and I think there's a lot of people like us,
like it's one of those ones that for twenty years,
it's been a staple of people's childhood, like you know.
And and I think that right there is just marketing.

(04:37):
Everybody just wants to see it because it's something we
haven't seen before.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
You know, it was also wild. Is that? Like what
I've noticed is like this movie isn't being like advertised
as a video game adaptation, because it technically is, yeah,
but it's like it's just being advertised just as a
Minecraft movie, and it's like honestly, it's like come like
video game adaptations. It did it, it did it. It
didn't do anything wrong, Like it was more accurate, I

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guess the way with.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
An open like open world sandbox, you can't get it wrong.
D not really.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, we all have some interesting stories and and when
we get to like after we do the plot, I
think we should all share some of our stories because
it's a huge part of my life actually like this game,
and maybe it's not so much now, but but man,
like if I had.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Some one of the very first video games I ever played,
you know.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
And uh, we'll get into that cast. Jason Momoa, Jack Black,
Ma Myers, to name a few. How do we feel
about Jack Black, Steve.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Uh, Jack Black plays Jack Black in every movie that
Jack Black does.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
That is that is true?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Entered it.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
He just plays himself.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, I saw a meme the other day, I'll be
you put it on screen. It was like the Four
Horsemen if they played the same character in every movie
and it was like Ryan Reynolds and the Rock and
literally yeah, it's like, you know, he just is Jack Black, Right.
You see Jack Black on you know, anywhere, it's the
same as his Steve right, Like it's yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Like just some weird pronunciations of like just a lot
of words.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, and just like a lot of energy and like.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's what attitude the character of Steve is, just like
he pronounces words differently.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
Yeah, you're exactly yeah, No, I agree with Adam. It
was kind of just watching Jack Black be Jack Black
in the world of Minecraft.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I don't have anything against Jack Black. No, no, no, Jack Black.
And so if you're a Jack Black fan, I'm tired
of saying Jack Black, Oh my god, say Steve. If
you're a fan of him, Steve, say then yeah, I mean,
like you're not gonna hate it, right, But.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Also, like Steve as a character, like is such a
He's like he doesn't really have anything. He's just a
generic guy.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
But yet at the same time, everybody knows and loves him,
right right. It's like you can talk to anybody who
plays or even people who maybe necessarily haven't played Minecraft,
and they still know who Steve is. But there's no
law about him. But you still everybody knows who Steve is.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
And Alex, which we'll get to.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well yeah, but not quite as much because it's like
Steve is the og you know.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, but when you launch Minecraft, you have the two
options between Alex and.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, but you didn't originally that's true.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah and Alex. I mean, come on, when you have
Steve at your disposal, it's kind of like, let's go,
you just get your own skin. True. Yeah, that's also
a very viable option. Yeah, some of her characters, we
have Garrett, Steve, Natalie, Henry, and Don. I think this
movie could have done without Down in my opinion, I
think that's the character of Don, just like it seems

(07:38):
like weird comic side relief when we have Jason Momo.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
And Jack Black in a movie.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
She also she just doesn't have much to do, Like
her entire character is just like that. She likes animals basically,
and then she just ends up along this ride for
whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Basically, it's like they split the cast to make it
more of like a diverse, diverse different kind of like adventure.
But like, yeah, I definitely, I definitely feel like, if
we're gonna be separating Natalie and Henry, then why don't
you have Garrett and Henry go and Natalie and Steve
go or something do something? Because I don't know, like
I just feel like bit odd.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Even the splitting of the characters in general, it felt pointless,
like when they okay, there's a fireball in one street,
could go one street over. We all know the layout
of villages like you can.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, that didn't make sense.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
It didn't make sense, like just go around.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, Like.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, very interesting. I don't feel like that character needed
to be there, But like, no, we're being honest. I
don't think many of the characters here were really flushed
out in any way anyways. So it's like, I mean, whatever.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
And that's not the point of the movie. I think
either is like all these different characters whatever. The point
of the movie is the world.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, Like the way I described it to my dad
when I got home, it was like it basically just
felt like they wanted to make a series of references
and jokes about Minecraft that only people played Minecraft are
going to get. Yeah, and they had just had to
like come up with like the most basic possible story
to like hit it all together.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yes and no, I think they tried to be friendly
because I didn't need as a long time Minecraft player
as Jack Black telling me what a villager is and
what they do to garden and stuff like that, but
he did anyways, So I feel like it was kind
of like trying to make it to the parents new
but like also the eight year old kids. Yeah, oh
my god, they're villagers.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
There's a lot of them. These dudes.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
They love crushing loafs man.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Kind of going on top of that, do you think
this movie was kind of like made to invite new
fans in get new fans of Minecraft or do you
think mostly it was just for the fans. We know
what we're doing. You guys are playing Minecraft. The players
are gonna come to this movie, or do you think
it was kind of made in a way to get
new fans to enjoy this kind of.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Like it's definitely a little bit of both. I would
say it definitely more leans towards, like, you know, fans
of the game, because it's like the game's been out
for also like since the Dawn of Time basically, so
it's like.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Two thousand and eight enough. Yeah, you know whatever you do.
What I was getting, Yeah, that was.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think I think it was made for, like you say,
more more ends of the game, more people who played it.
But like you mentioned, they're definitely explaining some things and
there so the parents who are taking their kids to
the movie kind of know what's going on too.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think it's drawing in more fans.
If anything, I think it's drawing people who played before
or nostalgia value.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
That's very true. I think that's kind of waiting for
the server to launch. That's like, you know, them recreating
the world of the movie. You know, Guarantee.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Plays Garrett the garbage Man. Yeah, obviously directed by Jared
hess you you might know from pulling Dynamite, not your Libra,
not your libra rights to name a few, but there
you go. Interesting maybe choice of a director, maybe even
more interesting choice. The original director before leaving the project

(11:13):
due to maybe creative differences, was Sean Levy, you might
realize from Deadpool and Wolverine just from last summer and
so kind of see that very kind of choice.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Even in the format took, I can see some some
Deadpool Wolverine kind of we.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Would have got Ryan Reynolds as Steve. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Ryan Reynolds exactly right.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, So so maybe an interesting choice is like an
original director, I think, just like I mean, Sean Levy
is a pretty like stylized person, you know, with certain
like titles and stuff. So do we know why he
left the project? Creative differences the producers and like game
developers and Minecraft didn't really see the vision, didn't didn't
love it, didn't feel like it was tied in as well.

(12:00):
But yeah, he kind of left.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
And what Notch thinks about this?

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah another thing? No not cameo?

Speaker 1 (12:06):
No, yeah, we definitely, we definitely should should get Not
on the show and interview him.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
See what you think? Yeah, not Not is the creator
of Minecraft who sold Minecraft to Microsoft for what a
couple of billions? A couple billion?

Speaker 5 (12:18):
I think maybe something like that.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
He's a very interesting story.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, he his name Alex Peterson. Is that what his
name is? Or he's a Swedish guy, right.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, he's Swedish. I don't know. But even just like
his like life story, like very.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Interesting, very interesting. I wonder what his his thoughts are. Yeah,
I'll open up my phone, I'll do the minecrafts.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Do do.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
You know?

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Maybe I'll ask my question while we wait for this.
What was everybody's favorite quote of the movie, excluding excluding
I'll say mine was the I wrote it down to.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Make sure I wasn't gonna forget here. I should know what.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think mine was the when they're flying Jack Black
and Jason Moore flying, He's like, i'd be with your
hell yeah, that one I just left.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
What did he say that I'm gonna grip you for
a second?

Speaker 4 (13:18):
That whole just.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
When he was when he was poking the gas, like,
how would you learn to do that?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Don't that's my favorite party?

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, I'd say that one probably.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Actually when uh, when they're on the date.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I think that was pretty funny how open he is
and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
He listened so well, Like what I had was like
close to the end, like before the battle when he
was like, first we mine, then we craft. Such a
it's such a stupid quote that like it just kind
of works and it's you know, they gotta say minecraft
and something like yeah that how he combines it mine craft.

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I just don't remember how he does it.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
I love how they included the word unlive. You guys
get included un alive?

Speaker 4 (14:08):
That was that was that was interesting.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Yeah, that was very interesting to see.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Are you gonna say, are they just not allowed to
say die or kill or like do they ever.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
In that movie?

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Like or is that just just supposed to be a joke?
Of just like I'm gonna un alive.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I feel like the Piglin at some point.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Like yeah, I think they did. They're going to kill them?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah they did.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah yeah, but maybe they're only odd to say a
limited number of time to get a certain writing. Who
knows I was gonna say.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Also, the Great Cash, the General, I think it's General Chungus.
I think that is his name or whatever.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
General.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
I remember seeing the credits that the person who voiced
him was the director whatever his name was, Jared Has.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Interesting, I found that because I don't know that voice
sounded familiar, but I also don't remember what Jared has
just sounds.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Looks like right, yeah, fair enough. I do have a
kind of like snops. This year, four misfits are old
into mysterious portal through.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
A Wow, let me start that over. I was not
even reading that.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Did you read it first?

Speaker 1 (15:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Let me start that one over.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into
a bizarre, pubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get
back home, they'll have to master this world. Well, I'm
barking on a quest with an unexpected expert rafter so
kind of come through. We meet Steve. Steve's a creative guy.
He's stuck in a nine to five. He decides that, hey,

(15:34):
maybe this really isn't for me because I'm a creative
dude who likes making things. So he yearns for the
minds if you will, because that's where everyone goes to
find an influx of creativity. I'm telling me.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's never been children alowed.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I usually launched Celtics and start writing, but I mean,
I guess whatever to.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Teach their own right.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
He finds his cube. He gets teleported into a portal,
and he summoned into the overworld, which is can we.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Just point on those that cube? It's called an orb
It's basically just the test direct.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah. I made that joke as soon as we saw
It's like that's a test direct.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, like they really needed it.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
But then there's like little writings on it. I'm just
like it's a Jedi holl.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Acrost the little ruins and stuff like the enchantment table
stuff like, yeah, that's pretty cool. So Steve's trapped into Minecraft.
He never wants to leave because Minecraft's kind of a
world where you can do build and create anything to
your heart's content, and that's not like the real world.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
You know, in the real world, he.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Kind of explains, like people are bullied, cassed away, and
maybe made fun of for being like super creative, so
it's kind of a safer place for him, despite being
monsters and creatures that come out at night. It's every
twenty minutes, every twenty minutes, it seems. It seems like
to him, that's kind of like the perfect thing.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Right, Yeah, no, it should be.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
If I'm wrong, I thought the day night cycle of
Minecraft was ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, it's it's five. Night is five minutes long, and
days ten minutes long, if I remember correct.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh, because if for me, I thought it was ten
and ten, I thought it was. I don't think ten
minutes a day, ten minutes the night, So so twenty
minutes overall, but not every twenty minutes night comes.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
I I don't remember, remember.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
See that's interesting to me.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Daytime lasts for ten minutes, Yeah, it would be ten,
it would be ten and ten yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Ten ten, right, So I guess overall that would be
a twenty minute cycle, but not every twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Night comes every.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Ten minutes, night come every ten minutes. Yeah, A bit
of an interesting thing there. I see you writing what's up?
Oh no, this later, okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
I will just add like, during like that moment of
like when he does first show up into the real
world or whatever, and he's like placing down the blocks
right away the first few blocks of places, he misses
a block and it's like I noticed that. I'm just like,
that's happened to basically everybody always when you're like, I
just love that little detail of just like you know,
just like as the player of like like how they

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gave home, they paid homeg this is my first houst,
this is my second hose Dirt yeah, right, dirt, and
then pink wool.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, we all have memories to play Minecraft for the
first time and you either hide in the cave for
the night.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Or yeah, dirt square Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
I think that was really really funny. We kind of
meet her characters. Let's not hide any exposition here. You know.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
We have Henry and and.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Natalie talking about how mom's dad and so now they're
kind of moving into uh a new city that has
one pretty much workspace, which is a potato chip factor.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
I want to know how old is she supposed to be.
She looks fifteen, yes, yeah, but is she supposed to
be like twenty five?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
I think she's supposed to be her in like twenty Like, yeah,
she's an old enough to be his guardian, but she
doesn't look like old enough.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
She looks like she should still be in high school.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
But then, like in every other movie, high schoolers look
like they should.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Be you know, also like twenty five.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
You know that is also true, and.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
This one's noticeable, Like I feel like they just look
a couple of years apart.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty brutal, Like in my opinion, like
how old is Henry?

Speaker 4 (19:09):
How is he supposed to because he's like, what middle school?

Speaker 1 (19:12):
He's middle school, but he seems a little older than
middle school.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Like they look the same age.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, really, Like if I was just to like see them,
both of them side by side, I'd say probably he
was like thirteen, fourteen, and then she was in high
sixteen seventeen, yeah, and then she's like sixteen.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
It felt very high school vibe, I mean yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, and like some of the people around them were
pretty big, Like I'd say maybe like junior high kind
of yeah, Like.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Because the States is different because yeah, you know, in
our elementary schools, we had one teacher that taught us everything. Yeah,
but maybe it's different in the States because you know
the one teachers like, yeah, I teach you.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's not even just teach or not even just in Canada.
It's different places in the world, Like I mean even
here it used to be like like middle school was
you go to different classes.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
So I'm comfortable saying I felt he was around thirteen.
I think, yeah, I guess, And she looked like she
would be sixteen ors yeah, probably, but she was behind
the wheel. I was like, bro, you're you're twelve years old?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
How are you dropping?

Speaker 4 (20:10):
And she's got her license in the lead.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
I know, me and you shared a look. We were
both kind of like huh, like that is not right.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, I was like, what do you mean mom died?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Like you should be living with grandma and grandpa. This
is crazy, Like yeah. So anyways, very interesting. Henry's a
bit of a different duck. He's very creative, kind of
like Steve. Maybe he's looking for a bit of a mentor,
which he finds in Garrett garbage Man. Is it Garrison?

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Yeah, Garrett the garbage Man. Garrison.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
I think yeah, yeah, yeah, the year nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Yeah, so I definitely don't think about that all the time.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Played by Jason Momoa, he's kind of like a weird
uh just older Gary. It really is.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Gary, like a lot of things he says. I was like,
you know, that's kind of Gary, Like we could put
Gary in there and he'd do just as good a job.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
And honestly, though Jayson moo is acting in this, he's
probably one of the better actors. Like his performances was
actually pretty good compared to the others.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
I I appreciated Jason Momoa's effort. Yeah, they didn't feel
like he phoned it in in my opinion, Yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
None of them did. IM just saying it was better
than the others.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Well, he just had the most character.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I liked this character as again, motivations, aside and stuff.
It's not a very long movie, I guess no, but
they definitely didn't focus on like, let's develop these characters, and.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Let's be honest, it could be about twenty five minutes
shorter than it was. Like there was a lot of
like the whole villager like you know, dating scene and
that he cutting back and forth, that was just time patting,
Like you take that out easily. I enjoyed it that
it was in there, but like, did it added in.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
The favorite parts of the movie.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Well, yeah, that's my point is that's why I don't
want to see it gone because it was funny, but
like really from a time perspective, you don't need it,
you know what.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Maybe again, I usually like shorter movies. I felt like
it could have had a bit more, like fifteen minutes
more of world building with like skeletons and stuff, and
in the nighttime.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I would have liked to have seen a little more like,
like you say, just building of like the journey, right,
because he just brushes over this is my first though,
this is my second. Like I would have liked to
have seen a little more like, you know, him doing
some like mining and like exploring, and like it just
kind of goes from like there to like being this
you know, Stampy's lovely world, like yeah, I don't.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Know, talks about yearning for the mind, yet we never
see a mine.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah until the very end a little bit.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Yeah, I'm getting some diamonds.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
I think that's maybe where it kind of provides the
point of like, hey, maybe This isn't for new people.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
This is for This is maybe more of.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
A love letter, yeah, than in terms of, like, you know,
we're gonna make an essay regarding the Minecraft world, right,
is that not what this is?

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Fair enough? So Don Don Natalie starts working at this
potato chip factory. She's going to do the social media
managing stuff because she's like hipping cool. Henry kind of
starts making friends at the school he's at. He ends
up blowing up the potato chip on the potato chip
back to you like their mascot, and so he gets

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like he's being threatened to be expelled or whatever because
he's trying to prove for the kids how cool he is.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
But they kind of just see him like a loser
because he wants.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
To create and and craft if you will, sorry.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
And and yeah, so Don's also there.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
She like has like a portable zoo thing and and
she's got a.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Real estate gig and yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
So long story short, Natalie, Henry, Don, and Garrett all
get sucked into the Minecraft world based on this thing
that Henry puts together, the orb to lead them to riches.
Because they're all broke, they're all a little bit of
outcasts and and yeah, we're gonna go to Minecraft.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
So they run into the world of Minecraft.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
This is gonna be really hard to explain to people
who've never seen Minecraft or played Minecraft. Oh yeah, yeah,
so we've explained the world a little bit. Monsters come
out at night, skeletons, zombies, all that stuff, and in
the daytime it's a nice, peaceful world with nice school
animals and it's basically your adventure to do what you

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will with your world, basically. And so they meet Steve
who's currently kind of on the run from the Piglands
and he needs to get or back to basically use
his leverage because his dog, Dennis, best character of the movie,
is being held hostaged by the Piglands, or so we think.

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So he's gonna use the testa rackt as a little
bit of leverage to get Dennis back. But you know,
he's not really one hundred percent sure if Dennis is actually.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
With the Piglins or not.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Just Tennis is.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Just around, I mean, Dennis.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Just doing Dennis things.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, So basically, the Steves village gets attacked by Piglins.
He saves saves the day a bit with the other people,
and they kind of learned how to fight. I'm brushing over.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
They find another portal, right, they he.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Finds another portal that leads the Piglins and stuff, and anyways,
upon the piglands, realizing that, like the testactors back in
the world, they're going to go find it and yes
and and grab it, and so they attack the village.
They fail. General what's the general's name?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Chungus?

Speaker 3 (25:33):
No, General Chungus. And who's like the female pigling.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Oh, it's it's a weird name. Yeah, it's like Magnolia.
I don't know, yeah, something weird. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying
to remember the game system that they had. It was
like an Atari sum something. Yeah, And I want to
know if it's a real one. I think it was
like a spin off Ontario twenty six hundred. But I'm
trying to remember if what the name of it was

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was Google, I couldn't se it.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Why would it be a fake because yes, I got
the magpart.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Right, I guess.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Anyways, she starts killing her general because she's like, yeah,
you failed me. Whatever. More exposition we learn about tools
and armor and ender pearls and you know, than never
put in steel.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Can we just point out we went to McDonald's after
to get the Minecraft meal and they were out of
the nether Flame sauce or whatever. It was very disappointing.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I wanted to try it, but yeah, we wrote three
complaints a strongly worded email.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
And but we did get toys, and of course read
forgotten it. But I forgot mine.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
It was like I got the Grimace yes, and I
don't know what it's supposed to be exactly, Like.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
I know, is this supposed to be the dragon Egg?
Maybe like a Grimace version of the Dragon Egg?

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Like I thought, yeah, but it's not square and it
kind of it goes up like a little.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, that's why I wonder if it's supposed to be
the dragon egg, but like Grimace maybem.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Egg either that or was it just remis minecraftified?

Speaker 4 (27:09):
H oh dang it. And they have the cool cards.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah there's a card. I got the card in here.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, you know, I said cards and ten years will
be with nine cents, yeah, right, hold on.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Hey, my mom has like a McDonald's French fry phone
from like a long time ago because the same thing.
Someone told her, Oh yeah, it's gonna be worth a
lot of money, and then it wasn't, but she still hasn't. Yeah,
we got the trading card too.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, shiny shiny foil ones.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
You can probably sell it out for like twenty bucks.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
I'm sure just.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Gonna wait, wait wait. Scanned to unlocker exclusive in game
item in Minecraft Bedrock.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
You get you get a skin.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I don't have Bedrock, I'm not game, so.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
You can plays like garbage bed Rock at least free.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I know that Rock is like the Xbox and the
Microsoft version.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, yeah, otherwise it would be Java edition. Yeah, gotcha.
So yeah, basically, they have to go to the Woodland
Mansion to find a piece of the test track broke,
basically to help the crystal to go back home, right,
the little socket for it, So they have to go
to the Woodland Mansion to find it, and then basically

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they're gonna be good to go home. So they go
on a journey to the Woodland Mansion. They sneak in,
they have a little bit of a fight, a brawl
with the chicken jockey Jackie, which had a crazy audience reaction.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Everyone's cheering, clapping.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, we'll throw a video in here of that.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, okay, I'm gonna say something. I maybe pulled up
my phone and did this a bit for the Chicken
Jockey Park because I knew the audience is gonna go crazy.
Because I am strongly against filming, I do not condone
the use of it in movie theaters. I do. I
do not condone going on your phone in movie theaters.
I think it's lame and stupid. But for me last night,

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I had to show people. None of us going in
would have ever expected there'd be lapping at the.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
So the audience reaction in this movie was unbelievable, end
game level.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
So more than that, arguably, honestly, I.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Felt the need to go like this to prove to
the world that people were clapping in the Minecraft movie,
because you would never I would have bet my entire
bank account, which granted not a lot of risk, but
I would have I would have bet my bank account
that there would not be clapping it last night, and
I would have been solidly wrong. And there was other
people recording and doing ship and jumping up and yapping,

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and I was.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Like, what there was There was one guy in particular
in our theater, in like the back corner who was
yelling out all the time things.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
But it was so fun.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
It was so fun. Voice cracks and it's in this,
in this that video with that we chicken jokes.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Anyway, some of the worst memories I have in theaters
comes from people being on their phone next to me.
Like when I went to Alien ramin was this guy
had his brightness up and he's scrolling Instagram, and I
was like, that really took me out of the movie,
like and it really sucked, and like that's the only
time I've ever thought about being confrontational.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Really, But like, also, when you spend that much money
on a movie, like, are you like really like.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Exactly, it's the same. It's stupid, like don't just throw
your and it ruins. It ruins it for other people.
But last night, man insane reaction of people clapping and sharing.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
I would have never ever thought of it.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
So I I pulled, I pulled a little bit of
a this and I tucked it here and I I
cut off half the screen. But it's it's fine, right,
And I don't think anyone was upset because it was
it was insane.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
I don't think they're also on the end as well,
so there wasn't anybody.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Else true, Yeah, yeah, Anyways, don't condone it. Don't do it.
It's stupid, but I felt the need to do it
for the Minecraft movie because I would have Maybe it's
a dumb excuse, but.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
I just want to add into also that like when
I because that was the first one there, when we
got to the theater and I was like seeing like
how packed it was, and I honestly that guy just
brought a smile to my face because that was just like,
I mean this, this just kind of proves that, like,
you know, movie theaters aren't dead. You know, they're still
there still a reason to go out to the movie theater.
And you know with a with a movie like you
can't do this with every movie, like you know, cheering

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and clapping and stuff. But it's like for a movie
like this, I would say, really enhances it.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
It helps make a bad movie a bit better.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah, no, exactly.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
No, it was like it was awesome to seal packed
it was, and it was just it was cool to
see like a bunch of twenty year olds that grabbed
beer on the way in and eight year old grabbing
popcorn all like come together and clap and cheer during
this movie. Y.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yeah, it's a timeless video game, right exactly. Everybody from
you know, my ten year old cousin who's so passionate
about Minecraft to me, you know, like it just spans generation.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
It was just cool to be able to connect over
something that we're all passionate about. Like you really felt
that community in that theater.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
We took a video of how packed it was, which
is it was insane how busy it was. But it's nice.
You hear kids behind us being like, oh, man, that
has to be in the game. You're like, man, I
remember when I was in grade five and like we
would talk about hero O'Brien and stuff like that, and
it's like it's like, man, it is really nice to
know that that's that's still around. And it's like, yeah,
it's something that you can share in. And like I said,

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maybe this wasn't the best movie, but that definitely makes
like that hits you in the fields a little bit
because you're like, wow, yeah, like such a huge part
of my life. That's kind of maybe being passed down
to other people who who need something, right, So.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
I mean, they're never gonna know the og Minecraft game
has changed a lot, right, but maybe argue, but it's
still the same.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
They're going to look back in ten years and that's
going to be there.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Right, So it's always changing, always developing, and it has
a special place in our hearts. But you know, maybe
we've got to make some room for other people to
have it in their hearts.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Right.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
So, very cool thing, Very happy to see it packed again.
We posted that video on our Instagram at the underscore
and uh and maybe we'll put that clip up on
the screen. At some point they get to the Woodland
mansioned they sneak in, they have a little fights with
an Enderman. Henry destroys an Edmerman, which kind of shows
how powerful they are. Not to look them in the

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eyes and stuff.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
I really like the way they did that, Yeah, like
where it was like you look in his eyes and
all of a sudden, like you see like all that
it was them like you know, you're you're worth this
or nothing. I like that. At the same time, though,
it felt backwards because like what when you so in
the game you look at an Enderman in the eyes,
they get angry and start attacking you. But with this,
it almost felt like it was trying to make him angry,

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you know what I mean? Like by like what it
was what he was seeing when when he looked.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Into the past. Some exposition on that here, he says,
they like get into your mind and like basically like
like melt your brain. Yeah, so I I don't necessarily
see that that. I feel like it was trying to
like pacify him to the point where it could just
like basically that's true.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
That's a good point.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah, but I really liked what they did with that.
It kind of like got a little bit psychological.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, I gave it some depth, and the depth and
the sound design it's pretty cool. I think a lot
of I'm a little disappointed because the creeper didn't sound
like Ceper felt really upset.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
And I wanted to see them use like the creeper explosion,
like you know, the pixelated gray and white expression. I
so wanted to see them use.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
That, But it was just an actual explosion elosion.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
But the endermen, the villagers, the the animals, the zombies
taking damage whatever, whatever, absolutely perfect, Like they did such
a great job with that. So it's a little bit
disappointing that like the creeper sounds weren't like.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Like well, that's the thing is, they did such a
good job of blending the sounds from the game, but
like if you just did it with only the game sounds,
it would be kind of bad.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Playing pigs that made me really happy, that's my favorite.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Would more like some of like just the basic ambiance
that you hear in the game anyway, Like I would
have liked to have heard some of that too. We're hurt,
but just figuring that out.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, general, what's the female sorcerer? Her background is basically
like she was on Nether's Got Talent and everyone made
fun of her because she was bad at dancing, and
so now she denounces.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Creat not just the foose.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, so I mean Minecraft whatever.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Anyways, they run away from more generals and stuff basically
with Garrett dies trying to sacrifice his life, which was
kind of a pointless sacrifice. He dies, which again he
could have completely ran away and been fine, but instead
he was like.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Also, just like the explosion happen and stuff, like he
was right in the middle of it, so it's like, realistically,
you should just be dead. Yeah, but like it's played
off as like you know, oh, he's not actually dead
or whatever, but it's just like the way he was
all done. It was just like, no, he's just dead
and there's.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
No sad music, even Jack Black and Henry's like, I
mean Steve looks at him Ry and he's like, yeah,
I'm sorry kid. I know he meant a lot to you.
He was like, Okay, this thirteen year old kid, I
was just waiting for them to start dying and just
re spawning. Yeah, that could have been cool.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, like just like, oh my god, he died and
then just behind them, Hi, guys, I'm back.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
You know, they have a little reference where they wake
up in beds, which is kind of cool. That's that's interesting. Basically,
at whatever point General Magosha gets the or Sorcerers gets
the cube and starts or whatever.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
It's the cube shaped or starts.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Turning the overworld into the nether Yes, denouncing creativity. But
we have like a Battle of the Five Armies and
game moment kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Where we had five armies, Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah yeah, I know, but we have like the we
have like the wolves, we have the pigs, you know,
all the kind of things. You know, it's Dennis Lee's
an army of wolves. They make a bunch of iron golms,
which is kind of cool. Everyone's cheering and clapping, going crazy.
We have the Pigling armies right and gas and stuff.
So again the kind of battle basically using his powers

(36:59):
of creative Steve and Henry kind of like get the
orb and destroy it. Steve kind of like kills General Malgosha, uh,
not really.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Kills but she doesn't actually die.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
I think she dies at the end because she falls
over right in the dirt and then like twitching.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
We're not really sure. That's kind of them setting up
for the sequel. She's not actually dead, but.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
It's like why is she also just not burning alongside
everybody else? Though?

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Is that why?

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Baby?

Speaker 2 (37:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
It's a good point though, Like that's not really yeah,
And like the two little like babies that like she
has like with them or whatever.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Little inaccuracy here.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
The pigling babies are completely passive in the game. If
you hit them or do something to anger them, they
are they don't do anything. But in this they're like
super angry and aggressive. There's nothing you can do to
a baby Piglin in the game to make it angry
at You are passive. If you hit them, they attack you.
But that's not the case for the babies, right.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
It's also with with the zombie pig man. They don't burn,
do they? If I remember correctly, zombie pigment don't burn.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Pigman don't burn. But if you bring a piglin into
the overworld, it does kind of turn.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Into but they say you bring the piglan and it
turns into a zombie pigland.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
I think they don't in the context of this movie
because it cleanup you know what, you know what I mean,
I think it kind of it kind of makes sense
to me. It makes sense, right, like because like the
normal piglands do catch on fire. It kind of makes
a little bit of sense there, right, Like the zombies
do burn anyways, so maybe it makes a little bit
of sense. But you are correct, zombie pigment do not burn.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, and kind of we're like into the game here.
There's a few different things like that. But I take
back what I said. Minecraft movie is not more accurate anyah.
Some things that they definitely that there could have been
so many more things like they could have done exploding
beds in the other like that could have been such
a hot scene, right, like, oh, we gotta know, we

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gotta rest Okay, well, I'm gonna put down a bed
and then boom, you know, things like that.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Like, yeah, I kind of like how they made Ennerman
kind of scary because it helps establish at the end
is the end of the game necessarily, even though there's
no end to Minecraft. You know, they're throwing like, oh,
the Enneman are scary, which maybe sets up a sequel
where they have to go defeat the Ender Dragon. Interesting enough, definitely,

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whatever creativity is restored to the world. But Steve decides
to leave with Dennis to go back to the real
world because maybe maybe although creative people and stuff are
shunned a little bit in the real world, that hey,
maybe if there's enough of them doing cool things like
we can bring some more light to the world. So
Steve goes back with the gang, Dennis comes with them.
They have like a cool little rockout montage, and and uh, yeah,

(39:45):
there we go. That's kind of like the Minecraft moviet
We have an end credit scene where we find out
that Steve goes to his old house and meets a
girl named Alex whoa Yeah, people were funny over the
standing ovation at the end. Crazy. I do have to

(40:06):
say there's a technobally a tribute.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yes, very very kind of personal for me.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I I have two stories that if you if you
don't mind, I'd like to share.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Technico Bla, I don't.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
This okay, so little lore. Technical Blade was a Minecraft YouTuber.
He was diagnosed a couple of years ago with sarcoma.
He passed away, very sad moment in my life. He
was my favorite YouTuber and he was a big inspiration
for me. This guy actually was a huge push for
me to kind of start creating Minecraft videos and YouTube
videos as a whole, which sparked a huge passion in

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editing and creating and making movies, which largely led to
me going to film school and and being here right
now with my own podcast doing stuff like this with
my best friends. So like, yeah, that was a huge
part of my life. Very sad to see him go
and and I was really like sad. And I still

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watch his videos this day and and and boom now
like we're here right and he has a tribute and
and that was very special to me. Another cool thing
is actually on the first day of film school at
media school, I had like a Techno Blade youtubes ordered
and uh it came for like a plus year or whatever,
and and it came the last day of Media school,

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which I thought was pretty cool. I ordered the first
day and it came the last day. Just a cool,
little interesting story, favorite YouTuber. Nice to see him have
a tribute and rest in peace, Alex. But yeah, super
cool guy. Would have loved to meet him. He was
a huge inspiration for me. And uh and yeah, there
we go.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
A legend, super cool legend and other little references like that.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
I didn't even notice that. I just heard somebody's scream.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Is that Dan td I feel like they could have
done more with a sparkles we did.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
That's what I love that.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Maybe throw in a bit like of other stuff.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
But I feel like I.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Said, stamp the Minecraft one. I used to love watching
Stampy as a kid like he was.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
But Dan TDM and Techno Blade are two very solid
references that I think they did a good job incorporating.
And maybe if they did a sequel, they they would
show like things like splee for stuff like that, and
servers and creative and random stuff like that. But yeah,
but for a generalization of Minecraft, I think they did
a decent job. Dawson, you had a question for us

(42:27):
to post, and I feel like maybe it's time to
open the floor to you.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
Time for that. So obviously we watched this Minecraft movie
last night. It didn't really have too too much of
like a plot story necessarily, that wasn't why I was made.
So I was kind of thinking in my head, like, well,
what would I kind of like to see as a
Minecraft movie? You know, what, what was Dawson like to see?
So I was kind of doing doing some thinking, kind
of wrote down a couple ideas of what I would
like to see as a Minecraft movie. And then I

(42:51):
also thought i'd pose that to you guys, So you
kind of got in a little bit late. But I
told that to Ethan and Reads. I don't know if
they came up with something or little thoughts they had.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
I wrote, I wrote a little something and like I
can go first.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
If you want to, Yeah, you could go for ya.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
I'm glad you posed this question because this is actually
something I was gonna ask too.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Oh so this is a very good question, perfect So.

Speaker 5 (43:08):
I can explain each one. But I kind of wrote
a little synopsis, if you say, for each of them.
So the first one, I have a man finally leaves
the only home and family he's ever known, yearning to
find the perfect place to build his own sanctuary. You
must face, You must face the unknown lands, faces of
breath taking beauty, yet home to the most dangerous creatures

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known to man. But along his journey, he encounters the
most terrifying discovery of all another human just like him.
So my thought with this is like, obviously, if you
make a Minecraft world, it's yours, right, your solo. It's
a solo world. Maybe you have some friends in there.
So I thought about this movie was like, what if
you were kind of playing your Minecraft for when you
found another person on there, maybe kind of like here

(43:51):
O'Brien in a way.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that could be cool.

Speaker 5 (43:56):
So that was kind of mine. Like I said, I
don't know if they're dumb. I kind of got home
last night I was thinking, that's the sequel. What can
we make for a Minecraft movie?

Speaker 3 (44:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
I kind of like having story. So that's kind of
what I came up with. That was that was mine
any thoughts about.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
And well, I see that that actually plays perfectly into
what I was going to say, is because I felt
like with this movie that it was too like too
grand almost like I just wanted to see more of
like like you said, like just you know, more like
as if you were just playing the game, like kind
of more humble beginnings and like a little bit smaller scale,

(44:30):
like almost like over dramatize like you know, the first time,
you know, like like you know, let's say you know,
you're just you know, the first time you have a
pillager attack, you know, the village that you built your
base nearby or something, and like that could be like
a really like over dramatized battle or something like. I
just I wanted to see it a little bit smaller
scale before you go like saving the world and you know,
going to the nether and all that kind of stuff,

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like just kind of just kind of a little smaller scale.
I feel like that exactly, like you know, plays into that.

Speaker 5 (44:58):
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought, Like you said,
it kind of bee to seat them like full on
aspects of playing the game, like trying to find a
place to build, you know, exploring on the way maybe, yeah,
getting lost in some caves.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Maybe showcase more of the biomes, like you know, like
every every time you spun it, you gotta find you know,
where you're gonna build your base and most of the
time you gotta go thousands of blocks and you know,
different directions, right, you know, you go through you know,
a terra cotta biome, you go through the ice biomes,
some polar bears, you know.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Paid Yeah, you know bad lands.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
All those different all those different biomes and like kind
of showcase that you go through the jungle, get a parrot,
you know, like that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Very interesting point too, because they go flying and do stuff,
but we see planes, biomes, build top biomes, maybe some
snowy mountains, uh like obviously caves and stuff and like
dark oak forest, but like we don't see any deserts,
so you don't see jungles. We don't see an ocean
or anything exactly. So very very interesting point.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
Isn't there jungle when they're with the pandas and stuff?

Speaker 3 (45:58):
But don't they not members.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I don't think they're in the jungle. It's just like
he brought them to his like basic thame in.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
The water bucket scene because that's when we first saw them. Yeah,
I didn't notice much jungle scenery.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Boo and stuff behind them, but they were definitely eating it. Yeah,
So I don't I kind of just remember them.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
I didn't see anything like distinctually that just screams jungle,
you know. It was just I kind of figured that
there's Pandas there in the jungle.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah that's true.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Yeah, why don't you go next?

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Okay, So I didn't have like an actual like you know,
a new story per Sae or whatever, but I just
kind of added something of like what I think would
make the movie just better, honestly. Yeah, and basically just
so when they're in the real world and when they
go into the overworld or whatever, they actually turn into

(46:45):
like blocked versions of themselves instead of just them like
live action or whatever, because it does have that problem
of like mixing you know, live action and CG and
all the stuff that they're all the green screen and stuff,
and it just looks looks weird lot of times. And
so it's like I feel like that would probably just
also solve their problem. Yeah, but that's and then and
then be and vice versa. So like when the Villager

(47:07):
goes into the real world, he turns into a real person, Yeah,
that could be basically, So it's like, yeah, that's the
only thing I kind of that's the only thing I
tossed in there of just like something that I would
do to like just make the movie just better. Basically.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
No, I think that would have added a lot. Honestly,
that would be enough.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Probably would have safe production costs too, when you don't
have to do all that mixic if it's just pure CG.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
Right, like exactly. Yeah, and at that point you're basically
just making like an animated movie with some live action stuff.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Basically there's a fine line between like, oh, we we
remaking Minecraft story mode, right and other things like that
where it's like, how do we incorporate live action and
how do we you know what I mean? It's very interesting. Yeah,
for me, I wouldn't incorporate I r L if I
was doing this neither. To me, it makes it feel

(48:00):
like a Jumanji knockoff when they remade Jumanji, like like
remade Jumanji and they had it where they get sex
into a game, which I actually really liked that movie.
I think Jack Black in that movie does fantastic as
Bethany actually hilarious movie. I don't have you guys seen
that one? Yes, yeah, so good. In my opinion, I
really enjoyed that one. I mean maybe it's not perfect,
but like I think. I think Kevin Hart does a

(48:22):
great job. I think The Rock, I mean The Rocks
the Rock. But I do feel like it's interesting seeing
them as as different characters. And and Jack Black, I mean,
he does a great job in that one. That's I
think that's pre Jack Black being Jack Black in my opinion,
because he does a good job, in my opinion, being
a female teenager.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Girl being a fan of Tenacious D. That's always just
kind of been Jack. He's just kind of that over
the top craziness. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Yeah, but I think he does a good job like
talking like a girl, Yeah, like a teen girl.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
With like a the first thing is where's my phone?
Like when he comes.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I thought that was really good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Anyways, definitely does have a lot of parallels to the
Jumanji remain.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't throw in that idea. Instead,
I would focus on the basic journey of Minecraft. When
you go into Minecraft, what do you do you? What
do you like? What's the general end end of Minecraft?

Speaker 1 (49:14):
For most people, it's what.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
What do you start your world with the goal of
doing eating the ener Dragon. That's what has always been
for me is whether it's like like no matter what
I'm doing. It's like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna trade
maybe get full another, right, do whatever, but I'm going
to kill the enner Dragon. Yeah, and and yeah, I
would focus on that. I would focus on like going

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through the motions and getting to the end and defeeding
the ener Dragon. Maybe like more of like a Lord
of the Rings style thing where it's like going on
the quest and uh and yeah I would. I would.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
It's interesting though they take this movie and much more
of like an ode to creativity direction, right, Like it's
less about the like you say, the game and playing
the game and more about the creativity options. Like really
it's a no to creative mode, not like you know,
survival mode, you know. And I mean that's fine, it's good.
But I think like we've all just kind of said,
we really just want more of the Minecraft journey, right sure.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yes, And I think that's maybe where the waters get muddy. Obviously.
It's like I said, before we start recording, I think
the reason why we haven't had a Minecraft movie sooner
is because it's kind of hard to incorporate some of
those things because Minecraft is a very kind of strange
game when you think about it and try to explain
it to someone, right, Like, there's no block physics. Everything

(50:31):
else is gravity but like the world itself, right, Like
you cut down a tree, the tree floats. Yeah, very
interesting idea to kind of incorporate. The blocks get small
and shrink when you break them with your.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Fists, but some blocks do have gravity, like gravel and sand, right, right,
very so weird.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Yeah, So I think that's kind of a reason why
maybe that it hasn't been a thing for quite a while.
And I think they did a decent job trying to
incorporate those things.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
But it's tough, and I would just definitely focus.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
On on killing the Enner Dragon and and kind of
getting to that world, and you.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Do it in like two movies, like you know, kill
the weather first, you know, maybe make that because then
you can have an evil villain who's like you, you
make like you know, you know, if you want to
have like that evil villains sead of just you know,
PvE kind of, then you have somebody who spawns the weather,
and you got to beat the weather first.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Maybe it's different for me, but I have never killed
the weather before I killed the Inner Dragon ever in
my time.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
I did once or twice, but it's definitely not as common.
But I'm just trying to.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Think of build it.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
You have to build it.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Yeah, soul sand in the same pattern as the iron
colum and then it's yeah, like.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
A chance of dropping from weather skeletons, skeletons No, yeah,
so I would focus on that element where it's like,
actually feels like you're like beating.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
The game.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
And and maybe playing more onto those elements of loneliness
were like obviously Steve gets a little lonely, but then
he finds Dennis and it's like, oh cool. Yeah, I
focus on on that kind of bit where it's like, hey,
like maybe you feel a little isolated despite having the
whole world at your disposal, but like the one.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Thing they have, like because when like Dennis leads them
to him, but wouldn't Dennis just teleport to him? I mean,
that's the way the dogs will work, that pets work
in the game, is he would just teleport.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
To And that is a very good point that I
never really thought of. But yeah, but he is able
to find him no matter what.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, it's just interesting, like you know, not
quite accurate.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Just has an ever lasting scent on him My Dennis.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
You know that the music in this movie, it's like
they couldn't make up their mind whether they're a musical
or a movie, because there's like three songs. There's the
Lava Chicken one, there's the Dennis one, and then there's
the end song with like the rock end song once
they're back in the overworld or the real world. And
it's like those are fine, Like, if you're gonna do that,

(52:54):
let's do more of them. Let's make something to make
Let's make this a musical. But I don't think that
would have worked.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
But like it's just feels out of place. Yeah, exactly, random,
yeah exactly, just starts saying it's like, oh, we're doing
a musical.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Yeah, like that one.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
That one just really I thought someone spiked my drink
when all of a sudden he was like, chicken jeeves
a chicken, it's coming to you. But I can't even
hate because I listened to that three.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Times a week my number one stop singing.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
The songs aren't even like that like good.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
They're not good, but they're not like terrible, like.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
I don't know, And maybe that's the point. Maybe the
point is that they're not supposed to be good, but
it's like, I don't know, it's hard to tell. I
guess because it's Jack Black, and Jack Black is an
actual like say actual, he is an actual singer. So
it's like, and that's definitely why there's just random musical
numbers in here, is just because Jack Black.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
Yeah, it's kind of just like the Super Mario Bros.
Movie with Peaches, Like you get Jack Black, you get
a song or two, I think.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
And that's just a perfect example of like taking an
open world game and trying to turn it into a
movie is kind of hard, Like it's really hard to
do it, and I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Yeah, I'll maybe go through some of my likes and
dislikes and then we can open the floor. You know,
we'll talk about it. I didn't like the characters Real Bad,
Half Baked, I mean, Jason Momo thumbs up to him
for giving it a try, and don kind of sucks
in my opinion. She has some funny comedic relief, but like,
out of all the characters, I feel like she's the

(54:20):
least developed.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
She's also poor.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Like and has side hustles in which she couldn't work
as hard, but like beyond that right, Like he's just
kind of there.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
But doesn't she have like every job in that town.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Yeah. I thought the sound design was really good, although
I know you guys didn't feel the same way. But
I felt like it was a little quiet in the theater.
I wish maybe I felt like it could have been louder.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
I don't know. No, I felt it was fine.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
I love seeing the kids go crazy for the movie.
It helps put things into perspective of wood the movies
are made for and kids saying like, Wow, that was
such a great movie. I can't wait to see that
again and again. We talked about this a little bit
with like Muana and target audience and stuff, and I
feel like, hey, you know, we're allowed to dislike things
and have opinions, and of course we want things and
stories to be great. You know, just because it's a

(55:06):
kid movie doesn't mean it has to be bad. Yeah,
but it is really nice to see kids also, just
like who are completely looking at it just from like
not even nostalgia purposes and trying to break down the story,
but just looking at it as like, oh, I'm going
to go home tonight and play Minecraft after this, just
like it's really cool. Seeing them like, actually, dig it.
It was funny. It was funnier than I thought it
was going to be, especially with the villagers. Having the

(55:29):
theater go crazy was awesome. Jack Black riding Jason Momoa
was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
The ratitude we.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Hair thing that that was funny. Yeah. I love the
world and the world design. There's so many options for
failure there. But I do think they made the animals
look good and the zombies look good, and I think
they did a good job with some of the sets
making it look good for live action. Like I said,
they could do the tell Tale Minecraft story mode animation,

(55:59):
but I don't think it would have been the same
as this, And I feel like you can tell there's
maybe a bit more craft in that.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
Right, I like it.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
I like that so subtle.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
The plot's mad, but like I said, the audience reaction
cheering definitely made it a bit better, Like whenever they
say something and someone else chicken jockey like, yeah, it's
it's great, right and like I said, super connected to me. Right,
I was playing Minecraft when I found out my grandpa
died with my brother. We were sitting down at my computer.
A little bit of a dark story, but it's not

(56:29):
a fun memory, but we were building a house out
of gold blocks and creative mode gold blocks, lava and glass.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Remember the first few years you're playing Minecraft, you're building
like bedrock mansions that are just perfect squares. Yeah, and
you know, diamond floors and everything.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Yeah, like yeah, and I just like, yeah, that's how
I found out my grandpa died, which is just a
random memory, but like, like it's just like a thing,
Like it's been a lot that's been there for a
lot of pivotal moments of my life, right, Like the
content of it, like watching Minecraft YouTubers and doing it
myself really helped to bring a level of editing and
stuff and production value to my life where I realized

(57:03):
I wanted to create things, right, and tons of memories
with friends and stuff. And yeah, it's just been a
thing that's super connected to me my whole life, and
it's known as a huge part of my life now.
But but I can't deny that, like, wow, like I
kind of started doing what I want to do for
the rest of my life as a result of a
video game. And as maybe dumb as that sounds, I

(57:28):
don't feel like it's dumb at all because it's like,
holy crap. I I kind of based what I wanted
to do around my whole career off of what I
was seeing when I was twelve. Yeah, and and like
it opened up this huge world of creativity to me.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
And I never like you know what I mean, same
thing for me. I mean, like for you know, like
the first time I was like, you know, recording and
editing things. I remember trying to figure out how to
screen record Minecraft and I could figure it out. So
I took my camera and I put it on a
tripod and I physically recorded my screen to try and
make a Minecraft video or super obnoxious.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Like uh like watermarks and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
I have a funny video that we can play with
my first ever mind like.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
With them, uh oh yeah, like circle around the mouse.
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Yeah. It's it's one of those things right where it's
just you know, you learn and you grow and and
it's it's a big part of your life somehow, and
it's it's a tough thing, like to explain something like
that to someone who maybe is older or hasn't had
that connection. It's like you would never you would never
believe something like that. But like it's only it's a
very personal connection to something that affects a lot of

(58:41):
people that is hard to understand. But at the same time,
the people who are in on it, it's super easy
to understand. Right, So yeah, that's kind of like my
likes and dislikes for me for this movie, and how
maybe it's connected to me and influences my review in
a way. You want to go down the line and
maybe your I wrote down here.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
That yeah I will. I will just say off the bat.
It's like, I think if I went to this movie
probably a week or two from now, I would have had.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Not as fun of the time as I did the audience.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
So yeah, I know exactly. And the last time I
probably had that fun of a movie experience at a
theater was probably Endgame, and like the last time it
was a pact theater was like Deadpool and Wolverine, and
like it got reactions and stuff for sure, but it's
like not to not to that.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Level, not to that extent, which is crazy, And.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
That's the thing. It's like, so probably the closest beforehand
would have been like Endgame, and it's just like at
the end of the day, you know, you go to
the movies for the sake of entertainment, honestly. And it's like,
as much as I could have just sat there and
just critiqued the movie, I just decided, you know what,
let's just enjoy it for what it is.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Honestly, you might as well join in right right exactly
fun with everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Yeah, exactly. Otherwise you're just gonna be the one guy,
you know, sitting there just watching the movie and not
having a good time. Every time I looked over when
anyone was freaking out, I just looked at Adam, and
Adam was.

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
Just like never clapped.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
It's just not just not having it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Uh. Yeah. Techno Blade tribute. We talked about that already
a bit, but that was that was nice, short and sweet.
The yeah, the whole Jack Black writing Jason Momoa sequence
was just funny, weird, and I think I think we

(01:00:39):
we talked about that or whatever, and it was just
like it was so not necessary for them to like
get super tight and like close to each other that
the way that they did, just because like the space
that they needed was like they're not that big people.
Like they're big people, but it's like, you know, you
don't need to like you could spread a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
It was a sizable Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Uh, maybe a pace tribute to a classic Minecraft mini
game Hole in the Wall. I mean maybe it's not
a Minecraft game, but it's famous. Yeah, like through gaps
like that. Interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
I was also gonna say, like, because so during the
the Enderman sequence when he's like seeing like everybody with
like glowing guys and stuff, was it just me or
was when it was Steve, was his eyes pink or white?

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
They were like white?

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Does she blue?

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
Yeah? Was that not like a reference then to like
like Harrold Brian or whatever, Because isn't his eyes like white,
Like he's basically the same Steve, but just white eyes.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
That could have been interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I I definitely miss that, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
I didn't in the moment, but you're right, it could
have been a subtle reference to her.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
Yeah, So that's why I just noticed that, and it
was just like, oh, that's that's interesting. And so it's
like that'd be nice to see if they, I say,
if they do a sequel, because you were supposed.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
To be a hero Brian, Steve's brother, We'll.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Bring in Monty Python Brian.

Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
And like the whole like Villager and like Jennifer Coolidge
just it's it's funny, it's weird. It was kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Stupid, unnecessary composy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
I'm kind of glad I got it, and like it
was I didn't. I didn't. I didn't ending not the ending,
the post mid credit scene, the mid credits scene of
them of them too, like at the school or whatever.
Then the Villager just starts talking and then like talking
old gibberish and stuff, and I'm just like going on, what.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
What I didn't?

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
I didn't get it, Like I didn't know if we
were like then in the perspective of like the villager
and like we're actually hearing what he says, and then
what you know he hears in like his perspective of
like what she sounds like.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
I love the scene where she hits him and she goes,
oh no, not again, when I hit you withero? Really
really funny, man, that was That was funny very Wayne's
world asked, where they're like how could anyone do something
so shameless or whatever?

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
But also like you can just imagine her, like like
you know, when she keeps mentioning her jeep grand chery,
that sounds like something if you had like a lambo,
you'd mentioned that I can't I hit you with my lambeau,
you know, Yeah, but when is your jeep grand cherokey.
It's just kind of funny.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
Another note that I had here is just it's almost
what this movie did was almost the correct way of
doing like a perfect video game adaptation. And it's literally
as simple as just getting the world right. Because when
you think back on a lot of like video game adaptations,
like the reason why they probably suck is because the
world just isn't the world yeah, you know, And it's

(01:03:32):
like the first thing that just came to mind was
just like Assassin's Creed and like Tune Raider, where it's like,
I mean, granted, Tune Raider, Yeah, sure she's on an
island or whatever, but it's like that movie was just bad,
but like Assassin's Creed. I also, I haven't even watch
Assassin's Ccreed, so maybe my.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
Fact is just not accurate because I haven't seen the movies.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Well, it's an important point. Like when it's a story
like Minecraft or any open world game like that, you
make your own story, and so like the story is,
like you say, less important because every story is different, right,
every within every world you created, it's different, within every
person you know who plays the game, it's different.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
So right, right, the a lot of it's we're kind
of respecting the love the fans have for a lot
of it because that's kind of who you're making it
for a lot of the time. I mean, maybe you're
making it for money, but but right the most disrespectful
part of the fans is getting the world wrong. Yeah,
and like facts like that. The most disrespectful parts to
to paying audiences is a story. But if you have the.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Way you're paying audience fans, you know, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Sometimes it goes a little bit of a circle where
you kind of pass the critic aspects because people are
so happy and excited where a lot of people may
be having a bad time in the theater, were a
little over drowned by twelve year old's.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
Going yeah, I was gonna say it's like that too.
The critic audience score right now is like forty forty something.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
Yeah, basically yeah to eighty seven or something like yeah,
pretty crazy, which I'm kind of the audience the well,
the thing is that's the verified audience score.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
The verified audience is slightly different from then unverified. You
can't get the unverified on your phone, but you can
get it on computer.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
We'll look very interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
The Austin's point to show us like the letterbox thing,
where there was yes, four thousand and five star reviews.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Yes, every other review.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Was like bro, there was like thirty thousand five stars.
Like I'll double check that to make sure.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
I'm not But see that's the that's the thing, and
we always try and do this on the vier room.
Is is is enjoyment versus critic, right, because what is
a critic doing. They're looking at a movie from a
movie making perspective. Well, this had a shitty story, acting
was terrible, you know all this stuff, Right, they're gonna
look at okay, those things that means it's a bad movie.
But you know the audience is like, you know, like

(01:05:37):
you said, twelve year olds in the theater freaking out.
I had a good time. Okay, it's a good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Movie, right, and that's who it's made for at the
end of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
Right, Yeah, sorry, I just checked the letterbox ratio again.
Forty eight thousand five stars. You can, yeah, it is
very divided.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
Take a screenshot of that and we'll throw it on
the on the screen so people can see.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Wow, that's incredible.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
So I thought like five thousand was a lot when
I said five thousands.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
I heard yesterday I swear it was like thirty and
it's at forty eight now, like I saw it was
like thirty something yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
So that, yeah, it's crazy. I think this movie has
been out for three days and it's already doubled its budget,
and it already has over fifty thousand reviews on letter
box and stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
Like, Yeah, we're not just getting a sequel, We're getting
a franchise.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean they knew, I mean, I had
no doubts going into it was going to get a sequel. Yeah,
because it's the thing is, it's all the sequels are
all based on money, right, Yes, And we all knew
going into it that this was movie was gonna have
huge draw because Minecraft is one of the biggest, if
not the biggest game of all time, and so everybody

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who's ever played it is going to want to go
see it, and they're gonna drag their parents and their
friends and whoever else to go see it as well.
Yeah right, yeah, And I mean I think I think
to me, there was no doubt in my mind, it
was gonna just absolutely bomb the box like bomb in
a good way the box office and get to see
and then we'll see if it gets a trilogy.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
And you know, and because because it is also a
video game adaptation, and because of how well it's doing,
it's just it's just screams for more video game adaptations.
And I and unfortunately, I think the biggest one is
gonna be Fortnite. Fortnite is probably.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
That's been talking about that in the works.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
It's like eighteen man.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Yes, I guess that's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
So it's like, but I feel like this just boosts
its potential. I guess, yeah, I'm probably getting it just
because it it's just gonna bring in so much money.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Who knows, maybe it'll blow people away.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
Yeah, because Fortnite is basically the same audience for Minecraft.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Yeah, really very very similar at this point. Yeah, a
lot of people started with Minecraft and then ended up
in Fortnite.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
And I would say that is kind of reflective of
my friend group in a way, Like I don't really
like Fortnite, but I find that when we're playing Fortnite,
I feel like when we when we play like it's
like my buddy's want to play Fortnite, and I hate
playing Fortnite on my own. I would rather play Minecraft.
But it's like kind of like maybe you go where

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like the players are right, and I feel like, you know,
in COVID, Minecraft had a huge spike and like huge
YouTube scene kind of went on when you're talking about
like smps becoming a crazy thing and all those random things.
But then like you know, like maybe now it's kind
of shifted and less people are playing video games now
because there's no global lockdown, right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
That's also true.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
I want a Rocket League movie.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
It's not like.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Tron I just have one last point and then we
can move on to Dawson. I was just gonna talk about.
The pacing was actually surprisingly pretty good, like for the
most part, like I did, I never felt like it dragged,
except for the only part that the pacing was just

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off to me was it was after the title sequence
montage and when they kind of stayed in the real
world for a bit and like specifically kind of when
like Henry or whatever was in school and stuff at
that point. I was just like that was the only
time where I'm like, ky can we like move on
in this and like get back to like the Minecraft world,
which is what the movie's about.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
It's it's a good point.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I never felt the need to check my phone at all.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Yeah, no, never, Yeah, And.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
I'm gonna throw the one more thing quickly before the dustin.
You were talking about the title sequence and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Yes, I really like how.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
They started the world with the Minecraft world generating sound
like that, and the and the and the map.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Yeah, very cool, very much like that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
Yeah, that was great.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
That's right. I just want to throw that one in. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
Yeah, And just the story overall was just.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Not there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
It was just yeah, it was meth so meth.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
My thoughts. So we kind of already discussed it if
we go dislikes first, like the characters, you know, characters
not flitched out. Wasn't much for story. But hey, that's
not kind of why we were going to this. I
think we all knew this was kind of a movie
to have fun with, you know, turn your brain off,
have a good time. But at the end of the day,
I do really like the message that this film had
kind of or creatives and creativity, you know, I feel
like it's very no and I can definitely attest to

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this for creatives in this world to kind of feel
not safe, you know, sharing their thoughts, you know, getting
out there, and it kind of shed a lot, you know,
shed a lot to that. So it was nice to
see and it kind of showed, you know, the world
in that world was kind of very uncreative and they
kind of limited that or didn't really want that much,
but this movie really pushed for that, which I really enjoyed.
That was it was a hell of a message.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
It takes bravery to kind of let your thoughts and
ideas out to the world exactly. Yeah, and it's it's
it's a very vulnerable moment. We kind of see that
when we went to a film fundraiser last week and
you know, you kind of you see some of that stuff, right.
It takes a lot of guts to tell the world
how you feel and what you want to make, and
it's it's very very admirable when people do that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
Yeah, it was just really nice to see them shed
light on that. Also really liked how true it was
to the game. You know, like the odd thing obviously
wasn't very accurate, but the railcard system out, the water
bucket smelting iron they showed that one thing when they
were making the tools, they actually put it in the
furnace then put it on the drafting table, which I
thought was pretty neat. Yeah, I know, at the end

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of the day, I think everyone could find something to enjoy,
which was nice. You know, kind of mentioned it earlier,
but it was just very cool to see twenty thirty
year olds kind of relate in kind of connect with
eight year olds during the movie, because that's kind of
why we come to the theater, you know, to entertainment,
you know, to connect with others, and that was just
a perfect example that we got to see that lots. Yeah, honestly,

(01:11:25):
other than what we kind of talked about, I think
that's really my thoughts for the most part. You know,
you can start at him if you'd.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Like, Okay, I feel like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
This man has been ready no.

Speaker 5 (01:11:42):
No buckle No.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
So there's a there's a reviewer I like to watch online.
His name is Critical Drinker, and he like reviews movies
and one of his favorite lines when he's describing the
plot of a movie is you know, and then this
happens because it has to and then like and it's
basically like because the plot dictates it like, you know,
something happens because they need to move the plot forward,

(01:12:06):
and I feel like that's a lot of this movie
is like, and that partially plays into the characters not
being very fleshed out, and like just overall the story
being kind of weak. It feels like a lot of
times things happen just because they need to move the
plot forward and there's no like logical reason why it happens.
So that's one of my problems with it. And again

(01:12:26):
I'll echo everything you guys said, bad acting, The story
is kind of not there whatever, We don't need to
keep rehashing that. But another problem is the spud launcher.
Like to me, that was just a pointless thing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
They were so good about only using things that are
in the game, right, and then all of a sudden,
you have the spud launcher, and I guess, I don't know,
maybe that's the thing now. I haven't played the game
in a couple versions, right, Like, so maybe that's the
thing now. It wouldn't surprise me, But it just that
was one that I'm like, why, Like what was what
what did you gain from that? Really?

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Like they were trying to showcase like putting a real
world stuff into.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
Minecraft, which I just don't like because it's supposed to
be a Minecraft movie.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
Well, I think it's also showing just how creative I
guess like henriees or whatever. Yes, I get, which we've
already you know, gathered.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Yeah, he built a jet packed right like yeah, you know.
And I mean even with the double bucket thing that
Jason Momoa belt. I mean, at least that seemed more
feasible than the spud launcher.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
But and funny because he didn't do it on purpose.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Yeah, he didn't do it on purpose either, right, which
which I mean we've all done that, We've accidentally crafted
something we didn't mean to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
Yeah, yeah, So that that's kind of my big my
big problems with this overall. I like I said, it
just felt like it was just made as a movie
to just have a bunch of fun references. And so
it was. It was funny, but like I just felt
like they could have done it better. They could have
kept all the funniness and had a stronger storyline and
that would have just made it that much stronger overall.

(01:13:56):
And I think just it just needed did a stronger
story and better acting For me, for it to really land.
Like overall, I just felt like it didn't land. Like
you said, I wasn't like I found certain things funny,
but I wasn't you know, it was not clapworthy to
me at all, right, And yeah, I don't know, that's
kind of my thoughts.

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
Yeah, some more Stretcher's story would have been nice rather
than just kind of here slop.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
There was a lot of sloppiness in that movie.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mom died.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
New school.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Good luck.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
That there's just nothing new about it, and I know
most like you know, there's only seven basic stories. Yeah, yeah,
but still like just just give us something, you know,
like something that isn't just so like stock.

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
I was gonna say. Also though, like I feel like
if there was more story to it, yeah, it would
have been. It would have just probably felt like less
of a Minecraft movie. Though, is the like if they
would have more story means more time with the characters,
more development that off the get go, we already just
don't care for true.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
And that's where you need to have that better acting
than too, Yes, but also like you didn't give them
much to work with too. How bad the acting is bad?

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
I don't think as a whole they were given, yet
I don't think their characters were given anything to work with.
And it's so awkward to take some of those elements
to throwing good acting. When your character punches something that's
like six feet away and all of a sudden it
appears in your hands, you know what I mean. It's
a very awkward game concept. It's very hard to put

(01:15:30):
in live action, which is why again I think that's
why it hasn't been done for such a long time.
And like, yeah, so I don't necessarily think anything of
it's bad, but like when you throw in some of
that writing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
There's a few of those the line deliveries that are
just really off.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
Like yeah, and they supposed to be funny and it
just wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Or just it's supposed to be serious and they just
the there's a couple like that, uh what's his face
Henry delivers that. I'm like, oh, that's that wasn't good.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
I don't know. Yeah, like the whole of them being
upset at each other because as they think like, oh
that maybe Henry would do better in a world like this,
which brother, I know, it's like whatever, maybe it's rude
to say he doesn't belong in the real world, but
like he proves a hundred times that he actually literally
is the flourishing in this world. So it's like, why
are you taking offense when people are like, yeah, you're
doing a great job, buddy, Maybe like you should make

(01:16:19):
a home here, like like they don't do a good
job of him, like maybe not thinking he belongs there
when it's like like he actually is kind of flourishing guys,
maybe like maybe this is like a good place to
teach him some things. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
I just did not care for just the overall story
or whatever. So anytime there was any conflict between the characters,
I just didn't care where. I was just like, why
are we doing this?

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
No substance, no chemistry?

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Yeah right, and you're.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Like, the only you could argue the only chemistry would
probably be between like Jason Moa and Jack.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Yeah, and there's a little bit of chemistry between him
and Henry. But they make the funny joke of him
being friends with like a twelve year old.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Right friends my age.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
That's just a weird joke though, No, I actually think.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
That's kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Though of funny, but like at the same time, it's like, okay, yeah, yeah, maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
I don't know. Yeah, it's just it's just I didn't
really care when Henry was mad at Garrett, and then
Garrett dies and it's like, oh man, I actually really
liked him.

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
It's like, really, death's his his fake death wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
Well, we all knew he wasn't actually dead. Yeah, somebody
tell me you weren't surprised.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
But the only reason why I would have somewhat believed
that he would have been dead is just because just
the way the explosion happened and where he was, realistically
he should be dead.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
And also because they've like I guess, kill other things
before in that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
But like so I do like the deaths where like
it's accurate, like they just disappear and there's like whatever
whatever drops in their place, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:17:43):
Love on the Chicken. That was funny and dark and awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
All right, that's all I have.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Guys, Yeah, that's all I got.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
So let's let's go starting from Adam. Let's go rating
out of ten.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Ah, okay, out of ten. Uh kind of like a
back and forth, right, like just as soon as you
think something's good, it's like there's another thing that brings
it down.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
A lot of it cancels each other.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Yeah right, yeah, So I'm gonna give it like going
between it's a shitty movie, but it's fun. Right, those
are the two big things. Right, Like, when you look
at it from like purely a movie making perspective, it's
pretty bad. But like when you look at it from
an enjoyment perspective, it's fun. So I'm gonna give it

(01:18:32):
a six point eight.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
That's way more than I thought.

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
Yeah, that is a wow.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
I'm giving your reaction.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
From the guy who didn't clap a single time, that's insane.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Maybe I'm gonna be a little bit too harsh.

Speaker 4 (01:18:47):
I might be too generous. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
Yeah, yeah, you know, Adam brought up good points that,
you know, bad movie, but it's very nice. You know,
it got people to the theater. It was very nice
to see how many people it got to the theater,
the clapping, the cheering. Like I said, it had a
great message attached to it. It was a good night.
But for me at a ten, I would honestly say
like three out of ten.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
Oh that's a little harsh, that's harsh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
Wow. Yeah, Okay, all right, wow, Gary, don't clap. Okay, well,
I haven't even seen the movie.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
I was gonna say. I did mine a little differently
because I found it really difficult to separate the overall
experience that I had and the movie itself because they
are too different for me. So with the audience that
we had and the overall experience of the movie was
a nine point three. The movie itself I gave a

(01:19:50):
six point nine, mostly because Jason Mowa Jack Black funny.
So I averaged the two and which gave it at
eight point one is what I gave them.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
Okay, So that's that's too high though, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Okay, Yeah, maybe I should split it up like that
because we did have a great theater. Yeah, we did
really have a great theater, and I think.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
It would be different, It would definitely be different if
we didn't have that.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
That can make or break a movie. And I've said
it a hundred times or the reason why I've wanted
to make movies, it's for people doing stuff like that,
like obviously within reason, being respectful. I don't condone throwing shit.
I've seen videos on Instagram orn like get a holder yourself,
like it's so ridiculous, but but like the audience reaction

(01:20:35):
and and people enjoying things like that you make or
even if they're not even necessarily good, but like that
kind of like like connection that makes me want to
make stuff, right, So yeah, man, Like I want to say,
maybe like a five or six. I'm kind of in
that range, like as in like an average, like in
terms of theater experience and leaving with a smile on

(01:20:57):
my face and enjoyment like that was probably like a
nine out of ten for me. But like looking at
a story perspective, if I was a home alone watching
this in my basement, rough man, like that would be.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Like are watchability on this? Like if you don't see
it in the theater, like it's not gonna be fun and.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
I have no interest in watching it again truthfully, no, no,
I don't really have an interest in watching a sequel either.
Well I see sequel if it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
Comes up, yes, yeah, we'll go watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
And that's that's again. We gotta stop doing this because
like that's how these guys are making so much money
making slop, but it works every time somehow. Curiosity that's
a great way of putting it. So yeah, overall, Minecraft movie.
I'm gonna be giving a six six out of ten,
one of the lower ones we've rated on the viewing room.
But it's very I don't feel like I was just

(01:21:42):
like had a disservice done to me as a fan
of the of Minecraft. I definitely feel happy that I went.
I'm actually very happy I spent the money.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
You didn't spend the money I sent you money you transferred,
You don't spending the money.

Speaker 4 (01:21:56):
I guess that's that's spending the money transfer you, that's
spending the money English.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
But I uh, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
I just yeah, I guess I gave it the highest then,
oh yeah by far.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
Well even if even if you just take the movie
itself ratings, Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
You know, if I was just writing the movie, yeah,
i'd be with you, like a three, but I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:22:18):
I really thought I was blown away by your rating.
That really blew me away.

Speaker 4 (01:22:22):
Knowing well your ratings blew me away.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Well, I just I just think it's important for for
a ratings to combine, like how much enjoyment you have,
you know watching that, right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
I'm very much in the middle.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Like I said, I told some stories of how big
of a part this has in my life and how
I very much felt like it did justice to the game.
But but yeah, like doing justice to the game is
not the same as making ship. And I feel like, yeah,
we we can't keep going doing this dance where like
we make ship, but it's excused by nostalgia.

Speaker 5 (01:22:50):
Yeah, of what it came down to to me.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
Yeah, and and uh and yeah, I mean there it is.

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
That's all I really have to I just add in, like,
is just like with the way that I just review
stuff or whatever, or if I give something a rating,
it like will always just come down to how entertained
I was by the end of it. Like I get
sat there and critique a movie forever and like just
and nitpicic and everything like that, and it's just like,
but it's like, at the end of the day, did

(01:23:19):
I enjoy Did I enjoy the experience I had? And
I will say yes.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
I agree, I had a very enjoyable experience for a
really bad movie.

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
Yes, And and you know what, just to compare it,
it will be what experience I had recently was when
they were playing The Room. I think back in like December,
November or whatever at the Roxy or whatever. The Room
notoriously known as just one of the worst or best
worst movies of all time or whatever, and you go
there and with the audience that was there literally made

(01:23:48):
the movie so entertaining because people are talking and making
jokes the entire movie, and it's like it felt like
we were actually there in the movie itself. So it's
like and that, like I don't know what I would
have given it as like a rating over all that,
but it's just like just to compare the two, it's
it's like at the end of the day, for me,
it's like, how how entertained was I by the end

(01:24:11):
of it? Really and I and I was entertained regardless
even if I think the movie is not great, because
it is not, Yeah, I had a fun time.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Nonetheless, we've talked about this.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
Some of the best memories in theaters for US No
Way Home, Infinity War, Endgame, some of those big Marvel
movies were you are clapping and ensuring it it makes good.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
The wipes are a lot of transitions the.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
We need to teach carry to use them taste for yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
We're back. I can't tell it's a slideshow or what.
But anyways, just some of the best moments are happened
as a result of those things, and so yeah, like
it does it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Probably should have that you can use the little handle
to manually do the transition. Make sure you gotta have
the same one in one in preview.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
That it's right, I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Is that is that it?

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
That's it?

Speaker 4 (01:25:14):
I think that's yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
I think so, ladies.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
This movie like a dead horse. Wow, like the dead
Horse from the Godfather. We're gonna put that in Gary's
bed tomorrow morning. The Godfather, you guys, I don't know
what you're talking about, right, Yes, I did slash carry's tires.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Well. Thank you all for watching this episode of View
and it was very special having some great friends on
the episode.

Speaker 1 (01:25:44):
Thank you guys so much. This is a fun episode.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
Because it seems by Dawson and check them out. We'll
have them say, yeah, this is a very fun experience.
So thank you guys so much for being a part
of it. This is gonna be very memorable. Like I said,
I would have never thought we'd be clapping out the
Minecraft movie.

Speaker 5 (01:26:04):
Me neither. But it was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
We weren't.

Speaker 5 (01:26:06):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
It was very much fun. If you're gonna go, if
you're if you're not a fan, of Minecraft, You're probably
not gonna have the best time, but if you are
a long term player or have nostalgic feelings with it,
you're gonna have a fun time in the theater. And
and that's not anyone's discredited to say.

Speaker 4 (01:26:20):
It almost might just be too late now because like
the like the movie is still gonna make money and
stuff throughout, but it's gonna be less and less. So
it's like even like next weekend, you know, it's like,
is the is that movie gonna hit the same as
it did?

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
Maybe not next weekend, but given the fact that the
ten thirty showing was already still yac Yeah, it was
not even that full for No Way Home. Like I'm
being genuine here that the film.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
What four theaters playing this simultaneously.

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
Like I have hopes that by still by Tuesday and Wednesday,
there's still gonna be some pretty quechy reactions. Yeah, And
and I remember going to like like a Monday showing
of No Way Home and there was no clap and stuff.
But give me the fact that the late night showings
were packed and having insane lineups. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:27:05):
Almost no one goes like a ten thirty showing yeah,
especially Berry.

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Seldom is it packed like that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:10):
Yeah, exactly, You're not out till like midnight at least
for the most part.

Speaker 3 (01:27:14):
Yeah. Once. The general first wave though, with people who
are fans seen at this, Yeah, kind of like crazy
opening week because they want to see it. I feel
like it's gonna die Hard though, Yeah, Like I feel
like it's gonna it's gonna Plateau die Hard. It's gonna Plateau.
It's gonna Plateau, Yeah for sure. Yeah, no exactly, but
that's it awesome. Thank you guys so much for coming.
Any final thoughts, words, statements.

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
It was fun again John, glad, glad you guys had me.
Glad you guys had me and read on again. It's
always fun coming down here.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
And you know, I don't know how I feel about
was besides the oscars that this is the first episode
that I'm on and it's a Minecraft movie. I don't
know how I feel. I don't know how I feel
about that. Nonetheless, I am honest, I'm Nonetheless, I am
happy to be here.

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
I was honored to get asked to talk about the
Minecraft movie.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
So well, you got are welcome anytime, and we're very
grateful that very special episode for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
Yeah, and we got a special episode coming next week too.

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
Yeah, look out for that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
We're that on the Instagram at the Junior Monitor score.
So yeah, thank you guys so much. It's it's been
an honor. It's been a blast. And be kind, be safe,
average every week guys. Later release

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