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Jeff Biss's avatar

I have to ask why aren't good sci-fi books turned into movies? Minecraft is already a movie that changes all the time. Could it be money? This is like making Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons to sell merch or reworking Star Wars to add aliens to make more collector dolls. One big loop back to the buck. Sad.

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Jake's avatar

The high school kid next door is a huge Minecraft fan and as my kids (9 and 7) have become Minecraft fans he has given them a bunch of old guides and what not.

Anyway, the HS kid got a bunch of people together to see the Minecraft movie and invited my kids.

They all had a blast and I had a blast watching them. The only line that was crossed is when took out their phone. I chastised them afterwards.

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Chas's avatar

If one wants to root for a studio suit, read F. Scott Fitzgerald's hilarious and still pertinent Pat Hobby Stories. In them, an exec with a bit of decency repeatedly attempts to drag the pathological Hobby through ridiculous situations towards simulations of humane.

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