Delta Baryon

One of the few real reviews among the spam: it was awful. I was unlucky enough to have to deal with the chicken jockey stunts at the theatre, but that's not the reason for the review. The target audience is not the Minecraft fanbase, let's establish that, but the soundtrack wasn't unique, frankly, the Warner Bros are making a complete and utter pain for C18 because of their theft and copyright claims. The movie is a cash cow; you watch it once our of morbid curiosity and that's it. It's a case of forced diversity, with the only black character existing purely for the stereotypical sass character. It's a case of white washing—does Jack Black have the energy for Steve? Yes. Should they whitewash Steve but keep Alex accurate to the game? No, you keep both accurate. They keep saying that they have creative liberties because its "a" Minecraft movie and not "the" Minecraft movie but it was absolutely milked to reference everything possible and now they're already planning a second to mine for the memes (pun intended). The acting was terrible, the plot felt like it was written by AI, and it's clearly set in Java (all the references to the actual game play reference to Java) but suddenly we're mixing in Dungeons and Storymode and games Warner Bros didn't have the rights to make movie about. Element Animation is Mojang's creator for Minecraft cinematic content. They should've made the movie. If they did, they would've been provided the funding they need to hire a larger team so they can actually work on their projects. But instead we're funding a greedy cooperation who doesn't even respect the game. I can tolerate Microsoft, we got capes, can't complain about that, but Warner Bros stealing C18's music and trying to copyright it. Warner Bros getting a director who's full of crap to gather a team of the worst scriptwriter in history. Warner Bros is actively disrespecting anyone over the age of ten who actually plays the game, to the point the movie exists purely for us to make memes out of it. It's just Wolverine all over again.

Was honestly an interesting movie with a lot of comedic aspects (relying on tropes) that incorporate some areas of science fiction and theory that aren't used nearly enough—in other words, megastructures. It manages to keep you entertained for two hours of your life and has pretty decent effects, however, its level of scientific inaccuracies...is insane. I get it, it's science fiction, but there's a certain level of accuracy you have to maintain to make it science fiction and not just fiction. For example, "the moon is entering an elliptical orbit"...that's the ENTIRELY wrong word for it. The moon's orbit is ALREADY elliptical, along with the Earth's and just about every other celestial object. This is ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCIENCE that they're getting wrong. Then there are points where they're just rambling about "scientific" things that make no sense whatsoever. The reason I hate this in science fiction is because it snaps you out of the world and downgrades the experience. They get most of the big details (gravity [sort of, they get some things wrong], mass, Newton's laws of motion, yadayadayada) right, just mess up...everything else. Well, enough about the science, here's some stuff about the movie: Centering things on the Kardashev scale was definitely interesting, along with tinkering with self-aware AI vs benevolent AI, but there are some plot holes I'd like to see tied up if they ever make a second movie. For example, how they didn't destroy ALL the evil AI... Tl;dr: A partially scientifically inaccurate movie with pretty effects and a cliche plot revolving around a divorced couple, "alien" AI, and a not-so-random guy who loves info dumping about megastructures. But all that (somewhat) doesn't matter because pretty pictures keep you entertained. /gen