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Chucktshoes said:
All this talk of folks rewatching Space Jam as adults and being horrified at how not-good it was reminds me of rewatching The Neverending Story as an adult. So, so, so terrible. It completely ruined all the love I thought I had for it.
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Yeah, I tried to do the same thing; When Disney+ launched I found quite a few nostalgic films I was wanting to rewatch as an adult. First was Willow which held up fine. Then I gave Neverending Story a go and... YIKES! I only made it 30 minutes in and decided shut it off. Now I am afraid to even attempt rewatching The Flight Of The Navigator which I absolutely loved as like an 8 year-old.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, I tried to do the same thing; When Disney+ launched I found quite a few nostalgic films I was wanting to rewatch as an adult. First was Willow which held up fine. Then I gave Neverending Story a go and... YIKES! I only made it 30 minutes in and decided shut it off. Now I am afraid to even attempt rewatching The Flight Of The Navigator which I absolutely loved as like an 8 year-old.
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I haven't seen TNS in some time, but I remember it being a darker watch as a kid. Does the acting just not hold up? Effects?
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, I tried to do the same thing; When Disney+ launched I found quite a few nostalgic films I was wanting to rewatch as an adult. First was Willow which held up fine. Then I gave Neverending Story a go and... YIKES! I only made it 30 minutes in and decided shut it off. Now I am afraid to even attempt rewatching The Flight Of The Navigator which I absolutely loved as like an 8 year-old.
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Flight of the Navigator doesn’t hold up, but it’s not terrible either. I too adored it as a child. It’s not high art, but it doesn’t ruin your childhood either.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
You’re being generous.

edit: a rewatch did inspire me to call my newborn baby ‘Daikini’ for several months though
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Look, in a world where LOTR and GOT exists Willow in s never gonna match up. That said, I still thought it was fine within the context that of what it was. As Ron Howard films go, it was better than How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
 
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Bull Shannon said:
I grew up with parents that cocked an eyebrow at anything remotely popular. Usually that just led me straight towards whatever the popular thing was, but even sixth-grade me (who should've been in the pocket for Space Jam) read Space Jam as a crash-grab licensing/branding coup.

As I've grown up, I've heard the "Space Jam is good actually" contingent get more and more vocal and...I just don't see it. It even further blows my mind that people see that messy-ass Space Jam 2 trailer and say "looks fun!" It looks like a roller coaster: most of us will puke and pass out halfway through.

It's going to make so much money and we're going to forget it so quickly.
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That’s exactly how I feel. Like especially with Space Jam 2, which only exists because the nostalgia for the original is so strong. It’s going to be one of the most forgettable cash grabs of the year. Unless it exceeds the “bad movie” label and whips around to being good because it is so bad.
 
I tried rewatching Space Jam recently and gave up like 10 minutes in.
Funny/sad story. One day after school, I was 10 and it was around the time the movie was in theaters, my mom picked my little brother and I up and said she had a present for us. When we got home, she revealed to us two matching Space Jam t-shirts. My brother got excited but I looked at the shirt and said "Is it OK if I don't wear it?" It was the first time I can remember asserting myself in a way that moved from "little kid" stuff that I normally loved and in a way that I could sense caused some embarrassment for my mom who wasn't expecting my reaction. My memory is hazy but I think I genuinely liked the movie but I just didn't like it so much I wanted to wear a cute kids shirt of it and I felt bad that I wasn't into it...but not so bad that I'd wear it. Lol.
 
swamp jazz box set said:
I tried rewatching Space Jam recently and gave up like 10 minutes in.
Funny/sad story. One day after school, I was 10 and it was around the time the movie was in theaters, my mom picked my little brother and I up and said she had a present for us. When we got home, she revealed to us two matching Space Jam t-shirts. My brother got excited but I looked at the shirt and said "Is it OK if I don't wear it?" It was the first time I can remember asserting myself in a way that moved from "little kid" stuff that I normally loved and in a way that I could sense caused some embarrassment for my mom who wasn't expecting my reaction. My memory is hazy but I think I genuinely liked the movie but I just didn't like it so much I wanted to wear a cute kids shirt of it and I felt bad that I wasn't into it...but not so bad that I'd wear it. Lol.
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I don't get millennial nostalgia for Space Jam. It's like most pop-punk or Harry Potter. I missed that boat as a kid. Difference is, as an adult, I see value in pop-punk (MCR is cool!) and Harry Potter. I don't get Space Jam.
 
I only saw Space Jam because it was one of the first DVDs that came out back when Warner Brothers was trying to sell people on this brand new technology with 5.1 surround sound and better than laserdisc quality video. It did sound really cool on the 5.1 system at the Bjorn's in San Antonio that I was visiting in 1996. That sounded really old man-ish. I swear I'm only 44.

The new one with Lebron looks like a mix of Looney Tunes and Ready Player One, complete with the Iron Giant. Man, I love that movie. Supermannnnnn (sniff).
 
If anything else, I can thank Space Jam for getting my attention towards Chuck Jones and all the work he did on Merry Melodies. 6-7 year old me watched practically every short that was on syndication on Cartoon Network. I can also directly tie that to how first fell in love with big band music when I was 10 or so.
 
David A. said:
If anything else, I can thank Space Jam for getting my attention towards Chuck Jones and all the work he did on Merry Melodies. 6-7 year old me watched practically every short that was on syndication on Cartoon Network. I can also directly tie that to how first fell in love with big band music when I was 10 or so.
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If the new one does this for even one kid, 100% worth it.
 
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