Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
#NotMySpaceJam
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
No. Absolutely not.
Jeremy Lin apparently too. he hasn't been relevant for years I thought.
Whoa, if they also get Vince Carter, this movie can be LinSanity AND Vince-Sanity all at once!Quoting Ezee E (view post)
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Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Ha. Directed by Justin Lin. OOPS.
Still half the player he was when he was on the Knicks. 11 PPG and 3 assists a game.
Linsanity is directing this??Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Edit: damn. You caught it.
A quick glance at Wikipedia shows him as back from a period of injuries and playing quite well now.
It's actually Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Ah. Makes sense.Quoting number8 (view post)
Only way to even attempt to compete with the original movie's soundtrack.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Space Jam:
Michael Jordan
PG - Mugsy Bogues
SG - Larry Bird
SF - Larry Johnson
PF - Charles Barkley
C - Shawn Bradley (HAHAHA)
Now:
LeBron James
PG - John Wall
SG - Stephan Curry
SF - Kevin Durant
PF - Anthony Davis
C - Kristaps Porzingis (for the HAHAHA)
God this was my childhood.
But they already made a sequel to Space Jam????
Ahaha goddammit. I just watched this again a couple of weeks ago. Still can't believe they got The King of Hoops!Quoting Winston* (view post)
I also like to think him being in the new Twin Peaks was a direct result of Lynch stumbling upon this online.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Im genuinely surprised MC cares at all about Spacejam. :/
A theoretical question no true cinephile has ever posed before this moment.Quoting Skitch (view post)
I started watching it on Netflix recently on a whim and I was stunned at just how much my memory had preserved it almost beat for beat. My mind was almost humming along to each line of dialogue, music cue and sound effect like it was one of those songs from childhood you're not sure why you know every word to (except it makes total sense and is way better because it's Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes playing basketball together in space). I was going to say it was ingrained in my brain and played "like a classic album" but it has one of those too.
I wasn't sure if I was still impressed that it played so perfectly because it actually objectively did or because it simply did so much to shape my view how the language of movies should look and rhythmically feel at a young age and simply remains etched there. (Maybe both?) Toy Story and Beauty & the Beast are exactly the same deal for me.
Last edited by Henry Gale; 05-03-2016 at 09:58 PM.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
No God please no.
But if it sucks, I'll always have the original.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
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Justin Lin has made a career of making slick, well-executed, crowd-pleasing nonsense. Space Jam is nonsense. Everyone was applauding LeBron's comic acting in Trainwreck. This makes perfect sense.
Note: I have no emotional attachment to the original. The most it ever engaged me was an afternoon a few years back where I listened to a bunch of silly theme song mixes on YouTube and the first time someone showed me the old Space Jam website was still up.
Okay, I thought it over and the last two Furious movies Lin directed are awesome, and Star Trek Beyond looks no different. Plus LeBron was one of the best parts of Trainwreck for me. I'll give this the benefit of the doubt even though my inner child wants to deny its existence.
That said, nothing beats the classic early 90s jock jams in the original. I fear for what may be on the soundtrack to this.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
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If this goes into principal photography this year, you can rest assured that "My House" by Flo Rida will appear, at the very least, in the trailer.
Anticipate a pseudo-ironic, kitschy cover/remix/spiritual sequel to the original's theme song by someone who is in the Billboard top 20 in the next 3 months.
This isn't about music, but I think we can safely assume we'll have yet another motherfucking Matrix freeze-rotation action joke during a basketball scene.
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden long ago removed any need I would have for this. Hell, the second chapter of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa is even (well, maybe) coming out this year!
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
Ryan Coogler To Produce ‘Space Jam 2’; Terence Nance To Direct LeBron
If you had said Ryan Coogler was directing, that would've been amazing.
If Coogler directed, the movie would still suck because the core concept is soulless.
I'm a little disappointed he's producing. He's too talented to waste time on this shit.
I wish there was another career model. The world doesn't need another Steven Spielberg / James Wan / Jason Blum wannabe. I wish more people---the quasi celebs and the pop auteurs --- would aspire to be something other than the best dressed whore in the penthouse.