Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
Looney Tunes Back In Action was entertaining.
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
But it was a severe box office failure that lost Warner Bros. millions, and most critics didn't even enjoy it.
Ironically, screwball live action characters still do well in comedies nowadays, at least sometimes.
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IIRC Critical reaction to LT:BIA was mixed, slightly leaning towards positive. It has a 57% on RT; and I do recall a handful of critics calling it a better movie than Space Jam (which may be damning it by faint praise more than anything, but yeah).
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BIA at least tried to capture some of the Looney Tunes feel IMO.
It still was bad though, just not as bad as Space Jam 
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edited 21st Jan '15 7:11:17 AM by MiscellaneousSoup
-meekly raises hand- I liked both of those movies. -is immediately killed-
Necro'd.
So...anything new?
Also, in an effort to restart conversations on this thread, is anyone worried that this movie may have some of the stuff that Illumination Entertainment likes to throw in such as...
- References to disco because disco existed.
- Badly casted celebrity voicework.
- Small creatures that are essentially Expies of the Minions.
- Pop culture references that don't really mesh well with the environment?
edited 16th Jul '15 6:26:37 PM by TargetmasterJoe
After looking on Bill's facebook page, he seems to still be working on this, but is working on other things on the side.
One 12 month necroing, please.
But before everyone groans, the Bill Kopp movie isn't dead, it's just going through a second draft.
On the live action/cg movie it isn't so much a groan, more like me handing you a shotgun with my mouth at the barrel and begging you to end it now. I ain't no pussy! I'm ready to face the hell coming to me than this hell!
On the other more animated one, I hope this second draft ties into the characters origin as a chaotic evil son of a bitch. For some reason I enjoy that Woody Woodpecker more than the chaotic good mascot character in the 90s during that New Woody Woodpecker cartoon (though I would settle for chaotic neutral Woody during the 50s/60s).
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That live-action CG thing is just....bleh. Given it's only being made for Brazil I have a feeling it's going be a very cheaply put-together product.
Glad to know that the fully-animated project is still in the works, and the idea of having a three stories interwoven into a film (a la Winnie the Pooh) is a fine angle to do it in my book. I do wonder on which interpretation they're going with. I do hope it's not the softer version of the character in later years and the 90s revival, though Bill's claim that "Universal wants him to put the 'Woody' back in the Woodpecker" is promising. Though pulling that off might be something of a tough nut to crack.
edited 20th Jul '16 10:17:09 AM by Yeow95
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People think the screwball character isn't working in today's movies, but that's more because someone has yet to make a Looney Tunes theatrical feature that is actually good! I hope someone proves them wrong someday.