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TPToA Podcast 401 – Film Frenzy! A Minecraft Movie, A Working Man and More

TPToA Podcast 401 – Film Frenzy! A Minecraft Movie, A Working Man and More

Update: 2025-04-10
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A Minecraft Movie, A Working Man and A More!


16 years ago in 2009 a game developer called Markus “Notch” Persson started seeing blocks in a game called Infiniminer… this sparked his imagination and he began to create blocks everywhere… everything in blocky shapes. simple colours and perfectly cuboid construction pieces. In 2011 his cave based game came fully to fruition and the world was introduced to Minecraft. 14 years later that game has had millions of players, and it’s now a major feature film with Jack Black and Jason Momoa. Is the Movie as creatively free and experimental as the game its based on? You’ll find out soon.


We also checked out A Working Man, the new Jason Statham Movie that’s not based on a video game but a comic book written by Chuck Dixon, directed by David Ayer, adapted by none other than Sylvester Stallone.


Dion, Jill and Quinny are you hard working miners digging deep into this episode to find the valuable ore of exciting film-making and to sift through the slurry of tedious cinematic drek. Buckle up folks!!


Synopsis: A Minecraft Movie:


A mysterious portal pulls four misfits into the Overworld, a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master the terrain while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected crafter named Steve.


Synopsis: A Working Man:


Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life of working construction. However, when human traffickers kidnap his boss’s daughter, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.


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Transcript 


Dion 


Hello and welcome to the periodic table. It was a Minecraft name is Dion. And tonight I’m joined by Jill and Quinny villager Quinny, as I like to call him. Oh, it’s a film frenzy. That’s what we’re doing, right? Isn’t it? Film frenzy. 


Quinny 


Yeah, we’re coming at you with films every which way. Yeah. All the shapes. We’re making colors. It’s gone. 


Speaker 


Wow. 


Dion 


Off we’re we’re coming at you. We’re coming with a with a blue collar film spectacular tonight, which was mainly because one’s about working in the mines and one’s about. Being a working man and another film that I accidentally said in the original schedule which wasn’t out yet, but that’s why I got and more and whatever else we decided to talk about. Yeah, we’re doing a Minecraft movie and a working man, and anything else with a in the title. OK. OK, we’ll we’ll just do anora. There you go. How’s that? Yeah, yeah. Wonderful. 


Quinny 


It better go looking. Just throwing it out. 


Jill 


There seen. It. 


Quinny 


Just you’re you’re making it up as you go. I’m excited by this. 


Speaker 2 


Oh yeah. 


Dion 


No, we we well, look, I mean to be completely honest, I didn’t really have much engagement with a Minecraft movie having never played Minecraft, but now I. Understand a little bit more. 


Speaker 


And. 


Jill 


Where am I? 


Dion 


And I don’t really have much engagement with Jason Statham movies because I can’t call them anything but him. Anything with Jason Stratham, it’s now built into my lexicon. I can’t call him Statham. 


Quinny 


Was going to say do do you intentionally call him Stratham every time? 


Dion 


No, not not anymore. Now I just say stuff. It’s like, oh, yeah, I went saw that new Jason Statham film and people like who you mean Statham? And I’m like, yeah, Stratham. 


Jill 


Yeah, because it just sounds like you’re being wrong. Yeah. Yeah, and not on purpose. Yeah. 


Quinny 


It’s no longer a. 


Dion 


Joke I’ve said it so many times as a joke that now it’s not a joke. Right. Yeah. Yeah, it was ironic and funny, and now it’s just like, no, I just call him Jason Stratham. 


Jill 


Yeah. Anyway, ironic and funny only for you. I think. 


Quinny 


Yeah. Anyway, scraping left to right all over the. 


Dion 


Speak speaking, Speaking of an ironic, uh, not very funny a working. 


Quinny 


Man. Oh, OK. We’re going to the working man first. 


Dion 


I know well. We just watched the Minecraft trailer. So you. Know we can talk. Which one? 


Speaker 2 


Yeah. 


Dion 


You’re talking. It doesn’t matter what order. We do the bin. Does it really? No. 


Jill 


No, it doesn’t. No. Well, we did. Just watch the Minecraft trailer so it kind of makes sense. 


Quinny 


Sure. We should dig on into Minecraft. Let’s. 


Jill 


To talk about that. 


Speaker 


Yeah. 


Dion 


Let’s talk about the movie that almost broke up the Tenacious D band. 


Jill 


I mean. 


Quinny 


Was it really the Minecraft? 


Dion 


Yeah. It was it it. Well, I mean, but that was what it was. The main problem, like, oh, my God, I have to remain that because I had this whole movie coming out that he was shooting in New Zealand. What? When he was in tour in Australia doing the band he was like, Ohh, because it was shot in New Zealand and he came over to do concerts and then h

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TPToA Podcast 401 – Film Frenzy! A Minecraft Movie, A Working Man and More

TPToA Podcast 401 – Film Frenzy! A Minecraft Movie, A Working Man and More

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