Interesting information about some obscure 70s film. Anyway the new Space Jam is a trashfire right? Basically a glorified commercial for WB properties with some story laid over the top? I can't say I'm surprised.
A story and production trashfire without a doubt, but it looks like enough sports fans are excited about this for it to be at least a moderate success or bigger. Like someone else in the thread says, sports fans were the original super consoomers, even being more devoted too considering all their history of violence and riots.
It actually starts out somewhat serious before descending into Michael Jordan meme hell. Despite being just a goofy movie about looney tunes characters playing basketball with Michael Jordan, if you look at it from any other angle than that it's slightly more. With the context of the time frame in Michael Jordan's life it was made during and the general overarching themes brought in from that as a basis for the plot kicking off it kinda could be talked about in a really interesting manner. All deeper meanings surrounding the films development aside it's still literally Space Jam. The new film doesn't even take place in space or involve Aliens. It's literally just ready player 1 but basketball. Marvin doesn't even seem to be in "Space Jam: A New Legacy". Bugs has his helmet but he's nowhere to be seen. The only thing even moderately close to "Aliens" we have is Lebron getting sucked into a UFO looking thing that sends him into the Twitter follower theif Ai guys uh lair I guess? Or is that for when he gets sucked into the looney tunes license world? Does it even fucking matter? The point is there's no jamming in space, it's Jamming in a simulation. if you can even call it Jamming.
A bit minor, but another weird thing I noticed is that the Planet X from that one Duck Dodgers short is featured as a landscape of that Looney Tunes world rather than as a smaller planet orbiting it or something. That along with Marvin's absence feels odd I guess.
I mean it's established that the people behind this movie clearly do not give a shit about anything beyond doing what the people who finance this movie want.
The overuse of Inception-style foghorn and booming effects for almost every scene in the trailer feels like a bad sign to me already in regards to the quality of the music.
“You can’t just say black mamba....”
They certainly wrote themselves into a corner here.
Why didn't they just make Taurasi a Minotaur? Its practically in the name like Nneka and Arachnneka. Also these villains aside from maybe Lillard/Chronos don't really inspire a lot of interest. Doesn't help that their faces look poorly designed.
Exactly.
The Marvin Funko doesn't look half-bad, gonna be honest. Wouldn't mind getting that one, love me some Marvin the Martian.
Probably because it's one of the few that didn't change too radically. The very Pops that didn't really change from their official design are the only decent ones. They're also the ones who already had similar proportions (or features) and that tends to help. I'd still recommend painting in proper eyes, though.
It's only because Marvin's body and head kind of work for the shitty plastic medium.