Summary
The first trailer for the live-actionMinecraftmovie only released a few days ago, but it’s already been hit with over one million dislikes onYouTube.
While it’s true that most of the movies and TV shows based on video gamesthat have released over the past few decades have been bad, things have started to look up a bit in recent years.HBO’s The Last of Us,The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and, I can’t believe I’m saying this,Sonic the Hedgehoghave all proven thatwith enough care and attention, a gaming adaptation can actually be decent.
It seems like that hot streak might already be coming to an end, though. Just a few weeks ago,the atrocious Borderlands movie absolutely bombed critically and commercially, proving that movies based on games that no one asked for are a bad idea. That looks like a lesson that Warner Bros. live-action Minecraft movie is going to have to learn all over again.
The First Minecraft Movie Trailer Already Has Over 1 Million Dislikes
Just a few days ago,Warner Bros. released the first teaser trailer for the long-in-development live-action Minecraft movie(no one is calling it A Minecraft Movie, come on),which gave us a first proper look at what appears to be another Isekai story. Although the attitude towards gaming movies has improved over the last few years, the reaction was instantly negative.
There are a lot of things that fans weren’t happy about, from Jack Black playing the same character he always does to the weird “hire this guy” visuals that weactually got a terrifying glimpse of thanks to a leak earlier in the year. Fans also took issue with the movie’s plot seemingly just being Jumanji but with a terrifyingly realistic Minecraft skin.
All of those problems and more have resulted in the first trailer for the Minecraft moviealready having more than one million dislikes on YouTube, which is pretty staggering in just three days. It’s a pretty clear ratio too, as the trailer only has 578,000 likes as of the time of writing, suggesting that most fans aren’t happy with it.
The first trailer for the Minecraft movie currently has 27 million views, so it’s at least drawing a lot of rolling eyes.
The comments section underneath the trailer is similarly brutal, with fans pointing out all of the things that they hate about the trailer and wondering if they can complain enough that Warner Bros. changes it like Paramount did with Sonic. Some fans are even taking the chance to apologise to Minecraft: Story Mode, which is something I never thought I’d see.
