Where were you when the first trailer for A Minecraft Movie dropped online? As we find ourselves just a couple of days from the latest of video game adaptations hitting theaters, Jack Black has reflected on the negative reaction the movie was greeted with when its first look was revealed.

One reason the majority of movies based on video games have failed is because their filmmakers didn’t understand how to translate the appeal of the game to the relatively-limited storytelling ability of film.

Movie" was pure mutating eyeball-tickling fun - a fantastic video-game movie that was also a nicely rounded kids' fairy tale. It demonstrated that animation was probably always going to be the key to bringing video games to life onscreen.