Kulturkampf

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The greatest to ever do it.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/a-minecraft-movie-fights-cultural-inertia-with-joy/

Whether those boisterous kids realize it or not, A Minecraft Movie connects them to what used to be an industrialized nation’s cultural heritage — and may still be even if outsourced manufacturing has removed actual places of industry.

A Minecraft Movie attacks the cultural inertia that has deadened contemporary Hollywood/America.

Hess’s fondness for American eccentrics (also displayed in Don Verdean and Masterminds) bewilders film-culture gatekeepers, but it finds unlikely devotees among youth unconcerned with the pseudo-sophistication of virtue-signaling films (whether Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse or Love, Simon) that attempt to teach social justice messages.