Decades later, its easy to fall in love with these beautiful disasters.
A Minecraft Moviehas finally emerged from development hell, only to be greeted by a strangely familiar reaction.
Its a level of fan service rarely seen outside of an anime series beach episode.
They were born from a time when there was no concept of what a video game movie should be.
And for that alone, they are often delightful.
They are, at the very least, a cathartic antithesis to what such adaptations have become.
Even the common argument that these movies werent true to their source material often feels reductive in retrospect.
They allegedly even tried to insert morescenes involving strippersinto the film before those were wisely edited out.
Instead they used familiar names and big budgets as an excuse to stealthily pursue their own projects.
All these years later though, I find that trait strangely endearing.
Strangely, it feels like these movies were made for us right now.
Thirty-plus years later, theyve finally been proven right
