Why People Are Clapping and Talking During Minecraft
A Minecraft Movie is now playing in thousands of theaters around the country. If you watch it one of those theaters, you may experience a strange phenomenon: Kids reciting the lines along with the movieand bursting into spontaneous applause even thoughMinecraft has only been out for a day or two andnone of these kids hasseen the movie before.Thats exactly what happened at my Minecraftscreening earlier todayat a multiplex in Brooklyn. Jack Black said the phrase Chicken jockey! and half the audience said it with him, then erupted into cheers and whoops. It was likethe real Jack Black had just walked into the room or something. They were elated; the rest of us were very confused.The reason behind the curious phenomenon, like so many things these days: TikTok. Severalcompilationsof kidsyelling along with Minecrafthave gone viral on the social media app. Like this one, for example, which already has nearly half a million likes. It ranks the best 10 moments in the theater, most of which are the same lines youll hear repeated in the theater.READ MORE: The 10 Worst Movies of the Last 10 YearsIm sorry, how is I ... am Steve! not number one on this list? Thats clearly the best line delivery in Minecraft, unless you count one of the five times Jason Momoa screams YEAYUHH! which somehow didnt make this supercut at all! Who made this ranking?!?My theater was rowdy at times (especially whenBlack said I ... am Steve!), but I was lucky; at onescreening that popped up onTikTok the police were apparently called after the crowd participation got too rowdy.It makes you wonder: What would TikTok have done withThe Rocky Horror Picture Show?That movie may never have flopped in the first place; thanks in part to teensobsessionwith the films quirky dialogue, A Minecraft Movie is looking at an opening weekend box office in the neighborhood of $130 million in the U.S. alone. At this rate there will be TikTok videos of kids freaking out about the dialogue inA Minecraft Movie 2 before you know it.A Minecraft Movie is in theaters now. If you see it in a theater, you better be ready to hear some kids screaming CHICKEN JOCKEY! and applauding like lunatics. Also, please dont film the movie with your phone when youre in the movie theater.Especiallywhen youre sitting right in front of me.Warner Bros.Warner Bros.loading...20 Sequels That Were Drastically Different From the OriginalThese movies are all sequels, but they dont look much like the films that inspired them.Filed Under: A Minecraft Movie, Jack Black, MinecraftCategories: Longform, Movie News