Saw A MINECRAFT MOVIE at a late show over the weekend (when the Chicken Jockey reaction was still in its joyously raucous stage) and really enjoyed it. Bizarre and surreal and weirdly endearing. I read a great review that looked at the phenomena of modern movie going and how kids absorb media (spoiler: sometimes through a second-hand experience, where you perceive your own viewing not as its own thing, but as part of a shared meme). It made me realize that as much as I enjoyed the movie as a whole and the ridiculously over-the-top elytra flight scene in particular, I wasn’t so present that I didn’t pull out my phone to take a picture of said scene.
Anyway, that picture gives me a good background for this quote from the ending of the movie, which I found relevant in these artist versus AI days.
“It’s harder to create than to destroy, that’s why cowards usually pick the deuce.” Jack Black, A MINECRAFT MOVIE