I like black. he’s a good actor.
Unlike the barrage of hate below, I actually don’t dislike Black — but I’m still glad this didn’t work out because Jason Lee has a perfect voice/delivery for animation. Surprised he hasn’t done more of it.
Wow. I’ve seen that movie 300+ times and never realized that was Lee.
I was OBSESSED with Kevin Smith movies around that time and loved that “our guy” was getting such a huge opportunity.
I still liked him up until the point he suspended Tenacious D over Gass’ birthday wish. They’re a rock band, of course they’re supposed to say and do controversial shit! Black backed out of it just to save his Hollywood prospects and I find that cold and calculating of him.
Otherwise known as the day Jack Black killed the metal
I can’t blame you there. I kind of forgot about that but it was shitty.
The amount of pathetic virtue signalling from people who almost certainly liked x person before they fell out of grace is really gross.
I liked him enough, right up until he freaked out over KG’s “Next time, don’t miss” comment. After that, he can go fuck himself.
The reason he said that was because MAGAs are lunatics with guns and don’t want his shows to to be shot up.
He was protecting his fans.
Why was he angry at Kilograms?
He’s an Imperialist.
Kyle Gass, his band member on Tenacious D. He made that comment after the assassination attempt on Trump.
Why did he get mad about that? That’s relatively tame considering the source.
Probably because he got more popular than kg and forgot who he is.
Oh yeaaaahhh, I remember hearing about that.
I just avoid Jack Black stuff usually, but there’s a good reason to actually avoid him in case he does a new movie that’s actually good.
Yeah, I’ve always felt he was mid but likable until that moment.
‘Why Was I Being So Difficult?
Because you’re an arrogant fuck who thinks he’s more important than he is, I’m sick of Jack Black and his single note acting style. He phoned it in in the Minecraft movie, he’s pretty much just the same annoying fuck in everything he does, it was funny 20 years ago, not so much now.
It blows my mind that you would waste time seeing that Minecraft movie. The ads were torture…
I pirated it lol.
The time investment doesn’t change just because you didn’t pay for it.
I watched a movie… Wtf is with the interrogation.
How dare you watch a movie that didn’t have the internet decency consensus!
Off to the deep web with you to sell your kidneys.
I think the person you were responding to was more confused as to why you’d want to see it in the first place, not that you’d have paid to watch it.
I like Minecraft and wanted to see if it was gonna be shit or not.
The unfinished VFX version made a great drinking game… not sure what the game was but we enjoyed it thoroughly, 10/10 would drink to more jason mamoa
The CGI in that movie is just awful. It would have probably genuinely been better if they had just stuck to practical effects and just lend into the cheesiness.
Does a scene where one of the characters picks up a sword for the first time and honestly I’ve seen better quality Minecraft props on Etsy.
Thoughts on the movie aside, the CGI was done really well. I’m curious what you think was so awful about it. It’s more likely you just don’t like the style, which is fine, but that doesn’t speak to the quality of the work. There’s some great breakdowns from Corridor Digital going over a lot of the behind the scenes/how it’s made.
the scenes where its just the people in cardboard villager outfits fucking killed me.
He is cast for that and his name. Like most big hollywood actors/actresses, they are all type cast.
is casted
is cast
I think you mean cost. Easy mistake.
No, that is how much you pay for something. I think you ment crash.
No, that’s what happens when vehicles collide. I think you meant cash.
No, that’s what happens when you film a biopic with Joaquin Phoenix. I think you meant kush.
Damn, maybe I should get a grammarly ai subscription to miss these costly typos! Weird how I only fucked that one up and not the last one lmao.
They also get a song they can profit off with him… There’s always a shitty song with him.
I almost always hate his films because he plays Jack Black. But I actually really, really liked his performance in Bernie. It’s a great film based on actual events and absolutely worth going in blind. He plays a different role to his usual fare and made me wonder if he would go on to do more interesting stuff, but then nobody watched it and he went back to the same shit he always does.
Be kind rewind was also good.
Isn’t it a similar thing for Adam Sandler? He’ll do an uncut gems every decade, but his go to movies are just to make money and hang out with his friends.
just to make money and hang out with his friends.
Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life.
Love money to never life a day in your work.
I remember going to see Punch Drunk Love, and the utter confusion on the faces of people coming out of the earlier showing. They had clearly gone to see an Adam Sandler movie, not a PT Anderson movie.
Sometimes a role needs Jack Black, he is perfect in High Fidelity.
There’s a lot of actors now who bring the exact same energy to every role no matter if it calls for it or not, and I really don’t get how they remain actors when that is the one thing you really don’t want out of actors. I dunno.
To be fair, though, the Minecraft movie is better because Jack Black sucks in it
He phoned it in in the Minecraft movie
… that’s your metric?
No, it was a complaint.
… that’s your metric for complaints?
Is there a requirement for showing what metric I use to rate actors likeability? Don’t remember seeing that in the sidebar.
Isn’t this the guy who was in Tenacious D with Rage Kage?
I heard Kyle quit the band.
Dude, I totally miss you
I really fucking miss you
I’m all alone
All the time, all the time
young nasty man
He was also an original cast member on Mr. Show.
Dunno why he’s getting so much hate here
Because he’s a bootlicker who can’t take a joke
thank fuck he wasn’t in it. he’s only gotten more insufferable over time as it is, I’d have probably liked it less if it was his voice coming out. the character was great in high fidelity, too bad he can’t turn that bullshit off and do ANYthing else.
At least we’ll always have School of Rock.
He was good, and creepy, in BOB ROBERTS too.
I’m just glad for every movie he’s not in
Brad Bird doesn’t need rewrites.
Because he conflates being easy to cast with being talented and important.
Jason Lee always does a great job. I haven’t liked Jack Black since his role in The Jackal.
Was he De Gaulle or the Jackal?
Right, let’s just put this guy in every movie ever, would that be enough?
I feel like I don’t “get” this movie. I saw it as a kid and I remember it being a pretty standard family friendly take on superheroes, but without any of the superheroes that I actually liked. Do people really think it’s “one of the best movies ever made,” or is that just Jack Black?
Not a horrible take.
It was well regarded being a mashup of being endearing, having cutting edge (at the time) CGI and pulling back the 4th wall on super heroes struggles and covering government suppression of the heroes.
It’s certainly not the best ever made, not even the best animated.
IMO Its appeal is that its a solid 8 out of 10 across the board.
The story is deep enough for adults but structured well enough for kids. It doesnt pander to boys or girls. No cheesy soundtrack or “scrappy do” bullshit. No terrible voice acting choices (Jack Black probably would have done a great job as Syndrome.) Dad kicks ass, Mom kicks ass. Its somehow almost a parody of a superhero movie while being better than most of them at being one. Somehow theres way less cinematic cringe bullshit than any Marvel movie. Its not just good as a kids movie or as an animated movie. Its a straight up GOOD MOVIE that you can put on for a room with 4 generations in it and its unlikely anyone will hate it.
Its no best movie ever made but I have a 6yo and when I hear “Can we watch The Incredibles?” It’s an automatic yes.
This right here. It wasn’t groundbreaking but rather simply extremely high in quality.
There’s this one meme video that people always talk about where someone dubbed over one scene with Sonic as both voices, yet people still forget the joke and get sucked into the plot regardless because it’s just that good.
It resonates really strongly with queer and neurodiverse white people because the Incredibles are a minority nuclear family. That’s common in immigrant and black stories, but not in queer or ND stories. So people can see themselves in the characters and explore those issues, without the movie telling them they have to be isolated from their nuclear family.
“What if Dad was like me”
Your comment made me realize why I like that movie so much, I’m both gay and a tylenol american.
a tylenol american
A what?
it’s a joke referencing the recent claim that tylenol causes autism. It’s stupid, but I enjoy making fun of the idiots that made that claim.
Syndrome is rich people appropriating queer culture. He’s JK Rowling. He killed off real heroes so he could pretend to be one
Yes, I think it is actually a superb movie for when it came out and still a pretty great one to this day.
Ifyou look at the character development throughout the movie for the main character and the story building, I think you’ll find it’s pretty robust for a family animated film. The animation style is relatively unique, noir inspired, great supporting characters, and the characters are mostly clever.
As a superhero movie I still think they use their powers together than anything shown in the MCU or DC counter parts. There is a lot of interplay of their abilities near the end of the movie.
But ya know it’s all up to preferences
Pixar was on a roll when the movie was released. It was the follow up to finding Nemo and when Pixar was doing the Toy Story movies, pretty much anything Pixar got so much attention.
I agree with you, I found it to be pretty standard animated family freindly stuff.
As far as best move ever made… It made 600 mill so I suspect Jack Black is regretting not getting that pay check.
The monicker of “best movie ever made” is incredibly subjective and thrown around a lot. But it is a solid movie and certainly one of my favourites from Pixar. My absolute favourite? I dunno, but top 5 definitely. Maybe in my top 3.
It was the first CGI that had believable human characters. If you go back and look at the first toy story, the humans looked like creepy puppets.
So it was a big hit at the time because it was the fist time a movie had bridged the uncanny valley
That’s not the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is when you’re approaching photo-realism but you’re still not quite there, to the point you can tell something’s wrong but may have a hard time pointing out exactly what. Maybe skin too smooth or light and shadows aren’t playing quite correct, it’s usually pretty subtle but just overall makes it feel wrong. Polar express sits right at the edge of it for me.
I don’t think that is true. I mean, look at the main characters:
They didn’t bridge the uncanny valley; they just made no attempt to cross it.
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