Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection
Blame Chicken Jockey. About two-thirds of the way through A Minecraft Movie, the $150 million live-action adaptation of Mojang Studios’ epochal video game, Jack Black and Jason Momoa’s gamers-in-a-strange-land characters find themselves in a boxing ring in a purported fight to the death. At first, they’re facing down a chicken rendered in the game’s signature cubic blocks. Then a mysterious box descends from the ceiling to deposit a tiny zombie rider onto the clucking bird’s back: a real, if exceedingly rare, in-game occurrence. Inside movie theaters when this scene — in which Black dementedly bellows, “Chicken Jockey!” — has been shown, the effect has been undisguised pandemonium: tween…
