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

[The Last Stand]

Honestly.

How can LeBron shill the CCP when they don't even plan to show his film in China?

Good question.

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

The sad thing is, I can't even call bullshit on this. I remember crying like a fag when watching The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in the theater when SpongeBob and Patrick got dried out.

Kids may be smarter than we think, but that doesn't mean they're not still retarded.

I mean at least there, there was slightly more of a chance that they'd try something like that given the movie was supposed to be the series finale. They were never logically gonna kill him off, and the series went on for over a decade afterwards, but as a kid in the 2000's watching that, you wouldn't think about logical story conclusions and narrative beats, you just saw the world's most popular sponge get temporarily merc'd on screen.

Space Jam 2's scene really doesn't hit because not only have the Looney Tunes been around for nearly a century, not only is he dead for pretty much a couple minutes, but they also already did this bit almost 80 years ago. and did it WAY better; somehow this death feels more like a gag than What's Opera, Doc? and that's saying something.

 

[Oats12345]

Honestly.

How can LeBron shill the CCP when they don't even plan to show his film in China?

He's retarded like all other leftie celebrities

 

[The Last Stand]

Space Jam 2's scene really doesn't hit because not only have the Looney Tunes been around for nearly a century, not only is he dead for pretty much a couple minutes, but they also already did this bit almost 80 years ago. and did it WAY better; somehow this death feels more like a gag than What's Opera, Doc? and that's saying something.

Since we're talking about "killing off" Bugs, one short, The Heckling Hare, attempted that stunt. Tex Avery left the fall between Bugs and Willoughy (the dog) ambiguous. WB did not like that, so the ending was redrawn for release.

Avery left to MGM after that.

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

Since we're talking about "killing off" Bugs, one short, The Heckling Hare, attempted that stunt. Tex Avery left the fall between Bugs and Willoughy (the dog) ambiguous. WB did not like that, so the ending was redrawn for release.

Avery left to MGM after that.

Speaking of Avery at MGM, he was behind literally the only permanent character death of the Golden Age: Screwy Squirrel getting cuddled to death at the end of Lonesome Lenny.

It's sad that a gag death from the 1940s is more convincing in its finality than Bugs' sacrifice in this abomination. Hell, Screwy even comes back to life long enough to break the fourth wall (this is a Tex Avery cartoon, after all).

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I think they faked killing Bugs in the new cartoon too.

 

[Thiletonomics]

The era of 200-300 million dollar blockbusters is over. Heaven forbid that Hollywood has to make smaller budgeted films where they can't money launder as easily.

In that case, would that mean that ultra-low budget filmmakers, i.e. The Asylum, various Bollywood studios, or African studios like the one that made Who Killed Captain Alex?, would rise in relevancy? Or will Hollywood need to implode completely for that to happen?

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Everything takes place in space. We are in space right now.

You know what? I can't argue with that.

Well played.

 

[Liquid Marlon]

Wait, so why is Bugs dying in a stupid movie about the Loony Tunes playing basketball with Lebrun James?

It's because Iron Man sacrificed himself and died inside of End Game.

But here Bugs doesn't even really die so the only point this scene serves is to pull at the heartstrings of easily emotional people and consoomers.

Now to be fair the Iron Man scene also served that purpose but there was more to it then that, they did it to get rid of a expensive actor and I don't think Jeff Bergman is that expensive.

 

[Quijibo69]

they did it to get rid of a expensive actor and I don't think Jeff Bergman is that expensive

The original bugs in Space Jam was played by Billy West. I think Jeff was a worse Bugs out of the two. They remind me of worng sounding Muppets

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The original bugs in Space Jam was played by Billy West. I think Jeff was a worse Bugs out of the two. They remind me of worng sounding Muppets

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4JFkHuIUwF0

Wocka wocka, who wants to hear a funny-ass joke?

 

[Dom Cruise]

I didn't hate it? I had zero expectations and just wanted something to kill time but while I was definitely bored for a good stretch of the movie I found it amusing enough, but I won't disagree with any criticisms.

The original was not great either but it still had more charm than this sequel.

This was a real missed opportunity though to do something actually really funny though.

My friends, there's far worse cameos:

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See the nun on the far right? I'll even tag @Frank D'arbo and @Nurse Ratchet that's fucking Vanessa Redgrave from motherfucking Ken Russel's The Devils.

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NB4 "Oh, that's just a random nun!" No! Warner Bros. owns the Devils. It is the same character.

This is a big deal because The Devils is one of the most controversial films ever made, condemned by the Catholic church, and Warner has been doing all they can to suppress the film for over 40 years. They refused to release it on DVD/Blu and they even refused other labels from putting it out like Criterion. I don't know how the streaming service Shudder was able to show it for a while.

This is the equivalent of Disney blatantly referencing Song of the South or the Donald Duck Nazi cartoon in one of their tentpole movies. Whoever put that nun right there got a good fucking laugh.

That's seriously what it was referencing? I thought was referencing The Nun spinoff from The Conjuring.

Speaking of which is it me or is one of the background characters a human woman dressed as Annabelle? It's some woman in an old timey dress and blond pigtails, who is she supposed to be?

Has Looney Tunes even been particularly relevant since the 90s? It's not like there have been any particular decent spinoffs, revivals, anniversaries, or even cameos since then that I'm aware of. So besides, lacking creativity and furthering the destruction of past properties, what even was the point of this movie?

The Looney Tunes were weirdly huge in the 90s and I don't even really know why exactly, but the popularity dropped off hard as soon as we got into the 2000s and it's never recovered since.

We have to understand also that Black Widow's box office dropped 80% this weekend. I also have no idea how China is going to make of this film. Even after Cena backpedaled on his "Taiwan is a country" comments, F9 still plummeted over 80%.

China Box Office: ‘F9’ Falls 85 Percent Amid Weak Reviews, John Cena Controversy

The Universal tentpole is projected to finish its China run with $211 million — a big number but just a little more than half as much as 'The Fate of the Furious' earned in China in 2017.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Could this be it for modern Hollywood? If even that new Fast and The Furious movie is bombing, wow.

People are out of the habit with going to the theater and the rough fucking year everyone has had has made stupid bullshit like that a lot less charming.

There's multiple factors: COVID, fuck China and all that, but frankly the genie is out of the bottle and the general public wants to watch movies at home now. People typically want to stay home, avoid other people, avoid paying through the nose for tickets and popcorn and soda. They want the convenience of seeing a movie at home.

The writing was on the wall and it was very slowly happening with the window of movies being released on video ever-decreasing (I remember back in the day that it was typically a year before the movie was finally on video but now pre-COVID it was 2-3 months). Hollywood just got caught with its pants down with COVID and are trying to make whatever profits they can.

The era of 200-300 million dollar blockbusters is over. Heaven forbid that Hollywood has to make smaller budgeted films where they can't money launder as easily.

I don't know if I can work up the desire to go back to the theater to be honest, maybe for Ghostbusters, but it's simply a pain in the ass to have to go to the theater.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

I think they faked killing Bugs in the new cartoon too.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9E1zUYSOcGk

It feels like you can take John K out of cartooning, but you can't take John K out of cartoonists.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

This is the only funny gag in the entire film:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=szqXhvp4tAE

The awful music and lame-looking villain ruin it.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

This is the only funny gag in the entire film:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=szqXhvp4tAE

Mostly because we're rooting for the bad guys.

 

[BrunoMattei]

That's seriously what it was referencing? I thought was referencing The Nun spinoff from The Conjuring.

The Looney Tunes were weirdly huge in the 90s and I don't even really know why exactly, but the popularity dropped off hard as soon as we got into the 2000s and it's never recovered since.

Nope. Entirely different costume on the Conjuring Nun.

The Looney Tunes declined in popularity in the 00's due to Warner taking back the distribution rights and they stopped being played on every channel.

 

[Product Placement]

My friends, there's far worse cameos:

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See the nun on the far right? I'll even tag @Frank D'arbo and @Nurse Ratchet that's fucking Vanessa Redgrave from motherfucking Ken Russel's The Devils.

View attachment 2355757

NB4 "Oh, that's just a random nun!" No! Warner Bros. owns the Devils. It is the same character.

This is a big deal because The Devils is one of the most controversial films ever made, condemned by the Catholic church, and Warner has been doing all they can to suppress the film for over 40 years. They refused to release it on DVD/Blu and they even refused other labels from putting it out like Criterion. I don't know how the streaming service Shudder was able to show it for a while.

This is the equivalent of Disney blatantly referencing Song of the South or the Donald Duck Nazi cartoon in one of their tentpole movies. Whoever put that nun right there got a good fucking laugh.

Well, the Devils has some fans of note like Guillermo del Toro, who has been outspoken about WB not giving it a blu ray, so not like Song of the South in that way. But someone must have been able to sneak it past WB in the first place, and it just being too unknown of a movie and costly to edit her out of the movie for it to be worth doing anything.

Guillermo del Toro Slams Warner Bros. for Censoring Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’

The director said the studio has blocked the DVD and Blu-ray release in North America

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Adamska]

Well, the Devils has some fans of note like Guillermo del Toro, who has been outspoken about WB not giving it a blu ray, so not like Song of the South in that way. But someone must have been able to sneak it past WB in the first place, and it just being too unknown of a movie and costly to edit her out of the movie for it to be worth doing anything.

Guillermo del Toro Slams Warner Bros. for Censoring Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’

The director said the studio has blocked the DVD and Blu-ray release in North America

www.hollywoodreporter.com

I mean Whoopi Goldberg wants Song of the South to get released too, so honestly it's about the same. Only Disney's more retarded since that film is more the product of its age and did not intentionally make itself out to be edgy on purpose.

 

[Product Placement]

I mean Whoopi Goldberg wants Song of the South to get released too, so honestly it's about the same. Only Disney's more retarded since that film is more the product of its age and did not intentionally make itself out to be edgy on purpose.

Seems like everyone that wants Song of the South on Disney+ is more about hiding and pretending the racism and shit from that era never happened or seeing it out of morbid curiosity. With The Devils, people legit are fans and just want to see what Ken Russell originally made, kind of closer to the release the snyder cut people but far smaller.