What ifGod of Warwas directed by Wes Anderson with a screenplay by Diablo Cody and a soundtrack by that band you don’t know, but you pretend to know because it’s clear all the cool kids know them or are at least pretending to know them too? The answer to that question is thetrailer above, which reinterprets Kratos’s epic story into a the far less epic life of a prep-school teenager.

The French, or whomever is naming film genres these days, really need to get on naming this style of film. Indie doesn’t really cover it since Indie can be any independent film. There’s definitely a genre here and to the best of my knowledge no one has slapped a name on it yet. Naming things is important! Why hasn’t anyone jumped on it?

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Well, let us fix that, good readers of Destructoid. What should this style of film be called, and willGod of Warbecome its masterpiece.

Superman, Elio, and Glordon all looking up

Three characters walking through red water with a massive dinosaur looming over them in jurassic world rebirth next to a boy riding a black dragon in how to train your dragon

Steve, Garrett, and Henry standing on a bridge in front of a Woodland Mansion in A Minecraft Movie.

Five A Minecraft Movie characters standing in a blocky Minecraft forest with a dog.

A Minecraft Movie cast standing together in Minecraft

The Fantastic Four standing in front of a large blue four in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps film.

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The Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts teams from Marvel