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Grim
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oh dear god Why must everything old be dug up, pissed on and reburied upside down these days?
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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This reminded me of a South Park Episode I saw a few days ago.
Bet they're gonna replace all the guns with Walkie-Talkies.
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newhook_1
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When will these damned companies learn that you can update characters for the 21st centuary without pissing on everything that they were before? They updated Popeye with 3d animation and did a bang up job of it. The animation is 3d, but it retans the style of the old cartoons. They just toned down his anger a little which is understandable because the film is made for children.
There's no reason they can't do something similar with Looney Toons. I don't mean 3d animation necessarily, but they just need to create a new TV series, with new shorts, without trying to make the characters cool, or speeding up the animation, or giving them cell phones, or any of that garbage. They tried to make Micky cool in House of Mouse, and that show is terrible. It's a mistake they should learn from. Update the animation, make new stories, but don't try to repackage the characters.
They also have to leave the jokes that go completly over children's heads in there, like in the old cartoons, so adults will actually enjoy watching them with their kids. That's another thing many of these updated versions of cartoons forget to leave in there.
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Nerd-o-rama
Urban Legend
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« Reply #14 on: 02-17-2005 14:37 »
« Last Edit on: 02-17-2005 14:37 »
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Originally posted by Nurdbot: This reminded me of a South Park Episode I saw a few days ago.
Bet they're gonna replace all the guns with Walkie-Talkies. Free hat! Free hat! Free hat! Free hat! Best episode ever.On to the actual topic: fuck. Warner Brothers just took Fox's place as my most hated television entity. (AOL Tome Warner as a whole had been last on my list, even after Newscorp, for a while...since the AOL merger, in fact.) Seriously, people should do something about this. Are there any WB/Looney Toons/Merry Melodies message boards where we can agitate? Maybe get everyone to mail carrots to WB headquarters? This epitomizes what's wrong with television and to some degree American culture as a whole. No respect for the past, altering rather than creating, <Hour long rant deleted>, etc.
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RavenStar
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Considering they haven't gone anywhere box-office-wise or ratings-wise with the last couple of TV incarnations and movies of these guys, this overhaul might actually be decent. I'm reserving judgement for the final product, though.
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Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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Those new characters look totally EXTREEEEEEEME 2 DA MAXXXXXX!!!!
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FishyJoe
Honorary German
Urban Legend
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« Reply #20 on: 02-17-2005 18:57 »
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Dude, that looks totally beast! ... Seriously, no. Why don't stupid big companies in charge of classic characters realize that the lack of profit isn't because the characters are out of date, but because their new material sucks? The live action/Looney Tune crap is terrible. Baby Looney Tunes is terrible. Make something that doesn't suck. Or leave them alone. Something.
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RavenStar
Professor
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« Reply #21 on: 02-17-2005 19:13 »
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here's an opinion article from toonzone which basically echoes my opinions: http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=1768 Seriously, though, can you imagine how much badass chaos Wile E. Coyote could put out upon villains with all his gadgets? Seriously, this show looks highly interesting to me. However, if they fucking live in a giant carrot tower...rargh.
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RavenStar
Professor
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where the hell does it say this is X-TREME? They've just redesigned the characters.
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Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by evan: Five bucks says one or all of the new characters like X-TREME! skateboarding or snowboarding in order to appear "cool" to the kids. I'll add on another ten bucks by saying that they'll link scenes up with lasers and bad metal guitar riffs.
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RavenStar
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Oh, for cryin' out loud, guys...give it a chance. Jeezus...
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Mmmm, no. A lot of us watched the classic stuff when we were kids.
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Well, since it's gonna be X-treme a Skater/Surfer Dude is bound to be among them.
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RavenStar
Professor
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It's NOT the original Looney Tunes in this show. It's their descendants. SAVE YOUR FUCKING JUDGEMENTS OF IT FOR WHEN THE SHOW ACTUALLY AIRS!
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RavenStar
Professor
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so? so what? Face it. Things change. The old looney tunes style doesn't work in this world anymore. I'm kinda glad there's gonna be a complete revamp. I'm sure Chuck Jones was rolling in his grave when that travesty of a movie "Back in Action" came out. I think he'd applaud a new direction.
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