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News & ArtsWednesday, July 21, 2010
TV It Looks Like a Road Runner Cartoon...
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:17 AM
...if you were to suck all the vitality and comedy out of a Road Runner cartoon:
Why does the snow bank just explode like that? It makes no goddamned sense. And despite what people think, Warner Brothers cartoons always made a certain amount of sense—they had their own rules of physics.
Believe me: I am all for the revival of Looney Tunes characters. I think that's an infinite well of comedy. But sometimes you have to stick to hand-drawn cartoons.
1
It doesn't explode. It's just a delayed gravity (a standard in the Looney Tunes world) of the snow falling off to the side. You are projecting your own desires for the old (which is better) on to your expectations for the new (which may or may not suck)
2
I am not for the revival of Looney Tunes characters. They were created by specific people for a specific purpose, and that magic will never happen again. We should be happy with the glories that have been passed down to us without defiling them by putting them into the hands of lesser artists than Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng and Bob McKimson. Come on, now, really: who can replace Mel Blanc?
3
the voice of daffy isn't working for me. just keep playing the hundreds of hours of the original stuff.
4
Exactly what @2 said. The integrity of the old LT shorts cannot and will not be replicated or revived, not on 2010 Saturday morning TV, because (to say nothing of the great talents no longer involved) Mom is too up in arms about violence and adult-oriented humor.
Leave it alone, WB!
Leave it alone, WB!
5
Yes, let the classic Loony Tunes characters rest in their graves, where they went when Mel Blanc died.
6
I've always loved the old Looney Tunes cartoons and hope most of them get aired for a very long time, but some will never be shown again on TV. There was some REALLY non-PC stuff in some of those old cartoons.
The new ones - blah...
The new ones - blah...
7
The first mistake is assuming "Looney Tunes" were even intended for children. The cartoons by those WB animation studio geniuses from the 1930's through the 1950's were always aimed primarily at adults, who constituted the overwhelming majority of the film-going audience during that period. It really wasn't until they were repackaged for Saturday morning TV in the 1960's that they were seen by a mass underage audience, albeit with some of the more egregious violence (along with sexual double-entendres) edited out.
Warner Bros. is simply trying to revive a long-dormant franchise, but they've tried this several times in the past 30 years or so, with marginal success ("Animaniacs" and perhaps "Freakazoid" IMO being the only truly decent animated fare to have been produced by the studio during that time - and neither of those featured "Looney Tunes" characters). Still, if the suits think there's even a possibility of squeezing a few more $$ out of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and Co., of course they'll keep trying.
Warner Bros. is simply trying to revive a long-dormant franchise, but they've tried this several times in the past 30 years or so, with marginal success ("Animaniacs" and perhaps "Freakazoid" IMO being the only truly decent animated fare to have been produced by the studio during that time - and neither of those featured "Looney Tunes" characters). Still, if the suits think there's even a possibility of squeezing a few more $$ out of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and Co., of course they'll keep trying.
8
Requiescat in pace, Mr. Blanc. 1908-1989
You will always be remembered w/ fondness & respect. :`-}
You will always be remembered w/ fondness & respect. :`-}
9
Don't worry, any time a company tries to make a 3d cartoon in a serialized format (with the single exception of Reboot), it fails within a season or two.*
As to that clip: blech. The timing is about on for those old WB cartoons, but all the feel of the animation isn't even close.
*Yes, you can make nearly all the necessary assets before the first show is even animated, and reuse them for every episode, so theoretically that should cut out a lot of work, but it still doesn't seem to cut it for some reason.
As to that clip: blech. The timing is about on for those old WB cartoons, but all the feel of the animation isn't even close.
*Yes, you can make nearly all the necessary assets before the first show is even animated, and reuse them for every episode, so theoretically that should cut out a lot of work, but it still doesn't seem to cut it for some reason.
10
I thought it was funny and so will lots of other people. Of course it will never be the same as those old looney tunes you remember. Of course, some of you are probably so young you've only seen censored versions of them anyway...
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