Space Jam A New Legacy - From Black Panther to Bugs Bunny

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Does the original Space Jam hold up?

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We already know this film is going to be chalk full of current year references and gags that are going to fall flat and cause it to age just as poorly as the original. So what's the point?
 
I don't care for the film itself. I care about it having a kick fucking ass soundtrack like the first one did. If it does that, I'm happy; since that's all that really holds up.
 
The weirdest thing about the first Space Jam is that the other basketball players besides Jordan (Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, Mugsy Bogues, etc.) are actually the funniest thing in the movie.

A movie that includes Wayne Knight, Bill Murray, and the goddamn Looney Tunes, and the funniest thing in it are the basketball players.

I'm not quite sure how to feel about that.
 
Hahaha, this was a fucking meme. And now its real. Meme magic exists.
 
Lunete said:
We already know this film is going to be chalk full of current year references and gags that are going to fall flat and cause it to age just as poorly as the original. So what's the point?
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I feel like, in a cosmic sense, some films exist purely to become dated. Nobody talked about Space Jam for decades until the kids who saw it in theaters became adults. It's a cultural time capsule of what it was like to be a kid in 1996.
 
Johnny Bravo said:
I feel like, in a cosmic sense, some films exist purely to become dated. Nobody talked about Space Jam for decades until the kids who saw it in theaters became adults. It's a cultural time capsule of what it was like to be a kid in 1996.
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I usually like watching old commercials, because those are the best indicators of pop culture for any time period.
 
Johnny Bravo said:
I feel like, in a cosmic sense, some films exist purely to become dated. Nobody talked about Space Jam for decades until the kids who saw it in theaters became adults. It's a cultural time capsule of what it was like to be a kid in 1996.
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I hate to admit it but I kind of enjoy watching Cool as Ice (1991) because it's such a time capsule movie. Every single thing about it absolutely screams early 90's. It helps that I enjoy the Rifftrax version that takes the piss out of it as well.
 
As everyone else already said, Space Jam is the kind of movie that only could have worked in 1996.

Yeah, I liked the movie when I was a little kid. But a sequel just won't work in this day and age.

Unlike Disney, Looney Tunes is pretty much culturally dead and irrelevant as an IP, at least among younger generations. Even most Millennials only really know Looney Tunes because of Space Jam and Tiny Toons.

Also, Basketball is not as popular (or as good) as it was in the 90's. Lebron James may be a great basketball player and is a legend in his own right but he is nowhere near the cultural icon and superstar that Michael Jordan was in the 90's.

Honestly, the time to do a Space Jam sequel would have been 1998 or 1999, maybe 2000 or 2001 at the absolute latest and even then that'd be pushing it. 2019 is way too late.

I'm calling it, Space Jam 2 will be a complete flop. Even the 90's nostalgia crowd probably won't go see it, and it's even too late to cash in on the meme.
 
Syaoran Li said:
As everyone else already said, Space Jam is the kind of movie that only could have worked in 1996.

Yeah, I liked the movie when I was a little kid. But a sequel just won't work in this day and age.
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Since when has that ever stopped anyone before? It's pretty much guaranteed to do well based purely on the nostalgia bucks. That is until they get to Space Jam 3 and the nostalgia gogglles will have weared off.
 
Warner Bros is banking a lot on guys thinking "I wanna fuck the girl bunny" for an entire 90 minutes.
 
Oh, god I just realized they're probably going to do a "Space Jam II" song with modern rappers
 
Sword Fighter Super said:
Actually caught this on TV the other night...I couldn't make it past 20 minutes.

No wonder my dad didn't want to watch this with us.
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A lot of things can turn off parents pretty quickly, I've seen that first hand myself. I was already an adult when this film came out and never saw it at all, but I'm sure I couldn't stand 20 minutes now.
 
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