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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Just has no release date in China yet, but don't see why this wouldn't get play over there, none of the people involved has shat on China and from my understanding basketball is the biggest sport in China as well. It very much seems like a movie that will play very well for the Chinese market.

The only reason I see it not coming out in Chinese cinemas at some point is if China limits the number of western movies even more than they have been. Having a quick look seems only a few western titles have dates so far so this could be the case.
 
horrorfan89 said:
the walmarts and targets where i live are worse, and not just for space jam stuff but like merch in general. The shelves had been stripped BARE of everything the only thing left were a few skeletors, a couple star wars Mandalorian figures, a few roblox and minecraft figures and ONE Mattel jurassic world camp cretaceous t rex...on top of the shelf rack. Idk if it just the stores in my area knowing this stuff wont sell so they refuse to stock it or i just happen to live in a NEET/manchild capital where they line up at the targets and walmarts, tugboats in their greasy fat fingers ready to strip the walls bare like a swam of Consooomer locuts eating a cornfield in Nebraska
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Since lockdown began a lot of weird shits been scalped online and the pervading theory amongst people that notice this empty stores shit is that somewhere in the supply chain scalpers are just pilfering stock and putting it on ebay for ridiculously inflated prices. Same empty store kinda shit is happening over here but targets specifically just seem to have been filling the empty space with space jam new legacy shit. This weird "no stock yet plentiful scalpers" shit seems to affect more shit the longer it goes on but the toys seem to be the ground zero of the situation.
 
so...the streaming site I use has disabled comments on this movie and "The Forever Purge"...honestly ive never seen that before but both movies are getting slammed with bad star ratings..

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horrorfan89 said:
the walmarts and targets where i live are worse, and not just for space jam stuff but like merch in general. The shelves had been stripped BARE of everything the only thing left were a few skeletors, a couple star wars Mandalorian figures, a few roblox and minecraft figures and ONE Mattel jurassic world camp cretaceous t rex...on top of the shelf rack. Idk if it just the stores in my area knowing this stuff wont sell so they refuse to stock it or i just happen to live in a NEET/manchild capital where they line up at the targets and walmarts, tugboats in their greasy fat fingers ready to strip the walls bare like a swam of Consooomer locuts eating a cornfield in Nebraska
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The latter for sure. No kid will want to play with that crap. If the Pokémon card fad coming back recently taught me anything, there’s no shortage of adult autists spending their welfare checks on shit meant for children.
 
Autumnal Equinox said:
The latter for sure. No kid will want to play with that crap. If the Pokémon card fad coming back recently taught me anything, there’s no shortage of adult autists spending their welfare checks on shit meant for children.
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Many of them are scummy scalpers, I remember the Pokemon McDonald's meal being scalped Hard by those Autist just this year.
 
Autumnal Equinox said:
The latter for sure. No kid will want to play with that crap. If the Pokémon card fad coming back recently taught me anything, there’s no shortage of adult autists spending their welfare checks on shit meant for children.
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Hey isn't Kevin gibes boy Toy wedgie boy a shelf stocker? And doesn't Kevin have an unhealthy obsession with blowing tugboat on kids toys?.....and isn't the shortness of this stuff partly caused by scalpers hoarding the inventory from stores and then selling it for high prices online?
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I saw it.

Its bad, but it wasn't obnoxious.

Its WB wanking off to themselves by showing off all the cool stuff they own while also putting Lebron James on a pedestal. And it lacks pretty much any charm the original might have had (and I wasn't a huge fan of the original TBH).

HOWEVER, the Tunes did get a few chuckles out of me and their personalities were mostly right. They kept the movie from being a total waste of time.

So yeah, not good, but I wasn't miserable, which in this day and age, is worth a gold star.
 
I dont know if anyone said this already but here you go.

Looney Tunes back in Action >>>> Space Jam >>>>>>>>>>>> Space Jam A new Legacy

To this day I never got why people dislike Back in Action too much, its not perfect but it feels it was made by people that loved the shit of the Tunes instead of it being a glorified commercial ala Space Jam. It was that moment way back when that I realised that people only really enjoyed Space Jam because of nostalgia and not really because of actual quality. And Warner pretends Back in Action doesnt exist because they are morons.

A new Legacy literally feels like Warner showing off how many beloved IPs they own, its pure neo-capitalism and power moves.
 
Well ten days after its release, Space Jam 2 has accumulated a $51.4 million domestic total. If China will not allow the movie to be shown, then there is only one thing left to say.

 
The Nothingness said:
Well ten days after its release, Space Jam 2 has accumulated a $51.4 million domestic total. If China will not allow the movie to be shown, then there is only one thing left to say.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2i53wyX8uEo
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Hahahah, fucking awesome. Can anyone who knows a bit more about box office trends predict what its domestic ending total might be? Is 100mil a near certainly or a faraway hope?

On a budget of $150 million (aka $300 million to break even) that’s a MASSIVE fucking bomb.
 
I finally watched it with friends to rip on it. A lot of Bug’s actions and stuff really seemed more like a Daffy thing, to be honest. Actually, a lot of bits with the Tunes really seemed like other Tunes should be saying/doing the lines.

Also, they did even less with Lola than the original.

Oh, and the actual game had literally no stakes. The first shot counted for 62 points randomly, and it didn’t really matter anyway because the villain just changed the score just because and they had to blue screen the video game to win. Even though it’s Gould have beeen glitching Everton out, not just the villain team. And Labron’s kid is an idiot for taking that long to realize he was on the bad guys side.
 
The handsome tard said:
I dont know if anyone said this already but here you go.

Looney Tunes back in Action >>>> Space Jam >>>>>>>>>>>> Space Jam A new Legacy

To this day I never got why people dislike Back in Action too much, its not perfect but it feels it was made by people that loved the shit of the Tunes instead of it being a glorified commercial ala Space Jam. It was that moment way back when that I realised that people only really enjoyed Space Jam because of nostalgia and not really because of actual quality. And Warner pretends Back in Action doesnt exist because they are morons.

A new Legacy literally feels like Warner showing off how many beloved IPs they own, its pure neo-capitalism and power moves.
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Back in Action even more impressive when you learn about the hell Joe Dante went through making it.

 
The Tom and Jerry movie grossed $125 million worldwide, and that's opening weekend was less than half of Space Jam and came out when the box office was even worse, so Space Jam 2 without China should clear $150 million worldwide but will be less than $200 million by the end of the run unless it does as well as The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It overseas for WB. A Chinese release I could see pushing into break even or very small profit area.

So yeah the movie has bombed, and without China, that won't change. Even if it didn't come out on HBO Max doubt it would have pushed it into profitability, pretty much every movie is grossing less at cinemas than they would normally do.

As long as this did well on HBO Max, I doubt WB will cancel any Looney Tunes projects in the work, while it is a flop not sure it would have been if it came out in 2019. But do wonder what effect the reception will have on new Looney Tunes projects, but wasn't just critics that had issues but the general audience as well.
 
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Sister Jeanne from Ken Russel's "The Devils" makes an appearance, despite WB censoring the film and keeping it off home video for 50 years, and the film remains banned in several European countries.

It includes: Louis XII as a raging drag queen homosexual who dresses Huguenots as birds and fires crossbows at them for sport, a giant nun orgy within a cathedral in which a bishop watches and furiously masturbates, and the original ending was of a deformed nun masturbating with a charred femur.
 
Ingmar Aspergman said:
Sister Jeanne from Ken Russel's "The Devils" makes an appearance, despite WB censoring the film and keeping it off home video for 50 years, and the film remains banned in several European countries.

It includes: Louis XII as a raging drag queen homosexual who dresses Huguenots as birds and fires crossbows at them for sport, a giant nun orgy within a cathedral in which a bishop watches and furiously masturbates, and the original ending was of a deformed nun masturbating with a charred femur.
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But Pepe motivated toxic masculinity and rape culture, damn you!
 
Fat Tub of Lard said:
Back in Action even more impressive when you learn about the hell Joe Dante went through making it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1lRMc5dG5ZQ
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I'm less than a minute in and the creator immediately gets something wrong: Herzog did not pull a gun on Kinski on the set of Aguirre: the Wrath of God. He threatened him, certainly. But he did not pull out a gun to make him stay and the creator purposely ignores the context for this.

The context is: Klaus Kinski was genuinely fucking insane and was about to leave the set of Aguirre. Never mind that Klaus nearly killed several extras on set. So Herzog, having invested everything to make this movie, gives Klaus the ultimatum to stay and complete the film or he will shoot him and then himself.

So immediately a veil of doubt is cast upon the video because the guy can't get this very well documented trivia correct. This is not some obscure footnote, it's well documented during the director's commentary for Aguirre and at least two documentaries.
 
LOL, you know all this woke media is bombing when a random M. Night Shamalyan movie which most people haven't even heard of (and I'll admit I'm a little interested in the premise), wins the box office with $16M beating both Space Jam AND Black Widow AND the Snake Eyes opening weekend.
 
Salubrious said:
LOL, you know all this woke media is bombing when a random M. Night Shamalyan movie which most people haven't even heard of (and I'll admit I'm a little interested in the premise), wins the box office with $16M beating both Space Jam AND Black Widow AND the Snake Eyes opening weekend.
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The days of $100-$200 million movies are fucking done. Shamalamadingdong’s movie probably got it’s money back by now.
 
Salubrious said:
LOL, you know all this woke media is bombing when a random M. Night Shamalyan movie which most people haven't even heard of (and I'll admit I'm a little interested in the premise), wins the box office with $16M beating both Space Jam AND Black Widow AND the Snake Eyes opening weekend.
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I guess that was the real twist the whole time
 
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