Well the first Space Jam has a pretty good and impossible to miss if you’re an adult reference to Pulp Fiction.
Still, I’ll take Jules Winfield and Vincent Vega over the fucking Droogs.
Space Jam: A New Legacy
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Still, I’ll take Jules Winfield and Vincent Vega over the fucking Droogs.
I’ve never seen the first Space Jam in its entirety, and was still teenager when it first came out. Would rather just watched Jordan play real basketball games, or watch the Looney Tunes do their own thing. Remember thinking it was cashing in on 90’s Jordan hype with Who Framed Roger Rabbit styling, but I’m glad other people liked it.
This sequel just feels like it will be the Lebron edition but with politically correct garnishes, as if anyone’s ever cared about garnishes in the first place.
This sequel just feels like it will be the Lebron edition but with politically correct garnishes, as if anyone’s ever cared about garnishes in the first place.
If you want to huge Roger rabbit knock off, look no further than Cool World. The director's vision for that film got super butchered by the Hollywood hype machine.
people do care about garnishes, they just have different ways of expressing it. Aesthetics have their own appeal and people do care. Not everything has to have a political correct garnish, but but it's not exactly wrong for doing so. It just depends on how you do it and use it properly. From what I'm seeing so far, it's not a politically correct checklist. Other than a Pepe Le Pew thing, but it comes off as hypocritical concerning all the cameos that are appearing in the audience.
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Watched the original because i liked Tiny Toons and most Loony Toons. Didn't even know who Michawl Jordon was and din't care. Found it passible but not memorable.
Won't watch the new one. I have many more entertainment opportunities and less time now.
Won't watch the new one. I have many more entertainment opportunities and less time now.
As someone who's sole exposure to Michael J. Fox had been Back to the Future and an episode or two of Spin City, coming across that movie on late night TV was fucking mind blowing and horrifying because Jesus H. Christ that plot.
Maybe it's because I'm not the target demographic anymore, but how big is the Looney Tunes footprint in modern pop culture?
They were pretty prevalent back in the 90s when children's programming was severely limited, but I don't see them around as much anymore.
They were pretty prevalent back in the 90s when children's programming was severely limited, but I don't see them around as much anymore.
Yeah, even Platoon had some excitement sprinkled in amongst the depressing war setting. Casualties of War was just 100% soul crushing agony. Made the whole drill insctructor part from Full Metal Jacket look like a trip to McDonalds.
You serious? More depressing than Platoon or FMJ? Is it more depressing than Deer Hunter, or more about the same?
I haven't seen Deer Hunter in its entirety, so I couldn't say. I think it depends on how much the concept of each movie hits you. I don't think there was one moment in Casualties of War that eased off a bit and let me not feel this nausea in the pit of my stomach. It's also weird, because this is the movie that introduced me to John C. Reilly, and for the longest time I couldn't not see him as "one of the guys" from Casualties of War.
I hope so.
Parents should always expose their children to good literature and cinema.
Platoon and Full Metal Jacket have directorial flourishes and are at times exciting or funny in a bleak, original M*A*S*H sort of way.
Casualties of War is just......miserable. Like the whole plot is about a group of US soldiers in Vietnam who kidnap and gang rape a local woman, or even girl, with the sole exception being Fox who just sort of lets it happen either out of shock or pragmatic realisation they’ll murder him if he squeals on them. There’s one scene I remember with clarity of the poor girl they violated - and I don’t remember if she was named or not - trying to escape them on a train track with a gut wound and just the agony on her face and in her voice.....
Sorry I rambled there.
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I looked up the director...it's Brian DePalma.....
That explains so much. What you described is based on something that actually happened Vietnam. The reason why I know is because we discussed it in history class in high school. This and certain other reasons is why I don't bother war, prison, or gangster films much any more.
I’ve heard that Platoon at least, not sure on FMJ, was pretty heavily based off of Stone’s actual time in Vietnam as well.
Her Sexy seems to have been toned down for the show she appeared in later.
Now she's just a yandere. Which is probably worse.
On second thought, the more I think about it, the less invested I'm in this. Y'all can do whatever you want at this point, but I'm not watching. I'll try to video game adaption, if it ever comes out on other consoles aside from Xbox. I heard the video games actually pretty good. A decent beat em up.
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It's not just that, there's some other factors as well.
- The misuse of black and hip Hop culture for the shallowest of reasons. This is once again another case of trying too hard to be hip and only having black people in the background. In this case, mostly music.
- It it could have worked as a parody and it could have possibly funny, but they're obviously playing it straight. Everything about it just sucks.
- I realize that I'm not invested in this as I thought. Even without the rap, I kind of came to that conclusion early on before seeing that scene.
- I have little respect for LeBron James. He's nothing more than a glorified mouthpiece for the NBA.
- I got better movies and shows to watch this month anyway.