Re: It's quiet... and I know why

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote at 15:08 this Friday (GMT):

On 4/9/2025 8:29 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 
Everybody here is out watching "The Minecraft Movie"

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No.  My son does want to see it though.  Surprising and my son has
turned into Mikey and hates everything.  He used to like Minecraft.
He's been watching weird videos of AI Jack Black singing Flint and Steel
Chicken Jockey. *shrug*.

I prefer the sentence mixing videos.

He also showed me a 'reaction video' of teens in a theater going nuts at
the mention of Chicken Jockey, whatever that is.  He says it's in the
game, but I never ran into it.

CHICKEN JOCKEY

They are in the game, its a rare spawn varient of a zombie that is extra
painful to kill because of the small hitbox and high speed. I do think
it's funny, but it will probably be beaten into the ground.

Honestly, I thought this movie had already been released last year.
I'd have put money down on that belief, had I been in a gambling mood.
So learning that it was only released this weekend sort of blew my
mind.
 
Not as much as it becoming a block-buster hit though.
 
Although, I sort of get it. The movie is based on a popular
video-game. It's kid-friendly. It's got Jack Black in it. It's at
least worth a look, right? How bad can it be?
 
Pretty bad, as it turns out. Comparisons to the original 1993 "Super
Mario Bros." movie are apt.

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Aw, I enjoy that movie.  I was never a fan of Mario or Nintendo
particularly though.  Dr. Mario is the only Mario game I can think of I
liked, and I played that in the arcade.
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It's a completely awful piece. None of the characters are likable.
Jack Black is.... well, he's Jack Blacking constantly. The idea that
his humor works in short bursts seems to have escaped him. I actually
like him in a lot of films, but he's irksome and exhausting in this
one.

Its fun to laugh at, though.

Also, if you want an actually good retro mario movie, there's a japanese
mario movie thats older and pretty entertaining.

He's not main character material that's for sure, well the exception of
School of Rock, but he wasn't him as his character.  I think he 'jumped
the shark fairly recently too, the Mando appearance, Borderlands for
sure (though I still haven't seen it.)
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And the sad part is, he's the BEST bit of the movie. The rest of the
movie is either forgettable or stupid. Maybe pre-teens will get
something out of it, but if you've a fully-developed brain then it's
going to hurt to watch this.
 
I enjoyed "Borderlands" more than this claptrap. And "Borderlands" was
utter, utter shit.

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I saw what you did there.

cheers
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