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Minecraft and other movies from toy land
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Minecraft and other movies from toy land

Please stop the video game movies

Warner Brothers is making a live-action Minecraft movie starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black.

According to Deadline.com, about 300 million copies of various Minecraft games have been sold.

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And roughly 140 million people play it every week.

Unless you're me.

I've never come close to trying it.

But based on video captures of the game, I can't understand how this LEGO-ish world translates to film.

But who am I to say?

I had no faith in the LEGO or Barbie movies, and half the world went bonkers over all those.

An anonymous comment on the article explained my feelings better than I think I can.

The problem with the success of The Last of Us and the Super Mario Brothers movie is that Hollywood now thinks that every popular video game can be adapted into a big hit movie or TV show.

Just like the success of Barbie means we'll get a bunch of terrible based on best-selling toy movies. This means we're gonna get a bunch of terrible based on best-selling video game series movies and shows

All I can say is amen, I hope not and oy vey because that's likely exactly what's going to happen what do you think?

What video game or toy would make a great movie?

Tell me in the comments at jamesbrowntv.substack.com or email me at jamesbrowntv@gmail.com.

You can also leave me a message at 585-484-0339.

On that note, I'm James Brown, and as always, be well.

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