Good Wilt Hunting Movie Discussion 11/23/06

[swarlock]

Originally Posted by Fomalhaut

Okay I might be stupid, but how is Wilt so cheerful after having lived with all that guilt for 30 years?

Because he never gives up hope or on life either.

It doesn't take that much to be mean or nasty in this life. But hope is there when you really want it.

[McGee's Jabberwock]

Aw, geez, what can I say that hasn't been said earlier in this topic? It was a good film, great character development for Wilt, allowing us to see more sides of him we don't see in the show. The relationship between Eduardo and Nina was cute, and Douglas and Adam were humourous. But, for some reason, it wasn't as poignant as I had hoped. Don't know why.

BTW, wasn't Looney Tunes Back in Acton called 'The Anti-Space Jam?'

[Invader Bloo]

No, it wasn't. It was just called "Back in Action".
Space Jam was a LT movie released in the mid-90's.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

"Back in action" was designed as a sort of "insult" to Space Jam. For some reason which to this day I cannot for the life of me understand, Space Jam was slammed by Looney fans because they said it did a crappy job representing the Toon characters and made them act differently and out of character.

Back in action was more hardlined into improving on Space Jam's mistakes by making the actors more interactive with the toons, which Michael Jordan did very LITTLE of. The problem was Back in action was similar to a fart in the wind in theaters, it came and went with very few people noticing it sadly.

I actually enjoyed both films equally. I don't really know how Space Jam worked into this movie aside from the whole basketball fight finish thing, even tho Space Jam did do it alot better. But again I loved this movie, the only thing that bothered me was how quick Fowl Larry just turned good and was all "sorry".

Holding a grudge for 30 years and waiting his whole life for a rematch with Wilt seems like a villainious thing to do, not something you brush off your shoulder and act like everything peachy keen again. I also agree with Pitbull, I find the fact that Wilt's eye was so fragile to be kind of cheap and tacky.

Unless that basketball was loaded with bricks, his eye shouldn't have been totally crushed and squeezed out like that for the rest of his life.

[Jabberwocky]

I was thinking about the eye thing too. Eyes aren't that strong though, and Wilt's have no skull for protection. They're just squishy balls of eye on stalks. Basketballs can be pretty hard, and I bet if Larry through one at your face you'd get some whiplash. At a bare eye? It's not so crazy.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Eyes on a human and an imaginary friend can be very different. And besides, doesn't this mean that in the show at anytime someone hits or lets something fall on Wilt's head could also crush and permanently blind Wilt's other eye?

He bashed his head through the roof in "Blooooo", had the door slammed on his face in "Where there's a wilt there's a way", and had his head repeatively slammed into the ground by Goo in "Neighbor Pains". All could have crushed his eye.

If his eyes are that sensitive, then everyone had better watch what lands on Wilt's head or he'll go blind.

[Jabberwocky]

Well they do sort of look like snail eyes. Mind you my idea of a snail is Gary from Spongebob.

Maybe the other eye is... stronger? I'll think of something. XD They couldn't make it too gross though. Chances are if his eye had like, gotton squished by Larry too, there would be eye all over the basketball court.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by Jabberwocky

I was thinking about the eye thing too. Eyes aren't that strong though, and Wilt's have no skull for protection. They're just squishy balls of eye on stalks. Basketballs can be pretty hard, and I bet if Larry through one at your face you'd get some whiplash. At a bare eye? It's not so crazy.

It's not the matter or whether or not a basketball COULD have caused SOME sort of injurty to Wilt's eye, but after being hit, it was like the eye just suddenly shrank down to half the size it was, and became hard and plastic-like, with the pupil rolling around inside like those little plastic "googly" eyes on dolls. A pupil is a HOLE, not a solid object that can rattle around and make noise. Immediately after an eye is subjected to injury, from either a puncture or a blunt-force blow(as would be the case of being hit with a basketball), the eye swell, not shrinks. If left untreated, eventually the swelling can actually cause the eyeball to rupture, due to pressure from secondary glaucoma(non-disease-related, non-genetic). After the pressure is released, if normal blood flow is not restored, the fluids in the eye will dry up and the eye will atrophy, or shrink, and of course be totally blind. It WON'T rattle or turn to plastic, though. I still think that this is just the way that the creative team decided to handle that situation, knowing that there really was no other way to show an eye injury that wouldn't put people off their lunches for the next couple of days, and sort of say to the smarter ones in the audience, "OK, we know that the eye injury would have looked a LOT worse, so you can just figure that part out-meanwhile, we have to think of the little kids and try not to give them nightmares."

I have some problems buying into Larry's sudden transformation, too, unless he and HIS creator were just as close as Wilt and Jordan. Apparently, Larry has long since been abandoned, himself, and seeing the reunion between Wilt and Jordan sparked enough fond memories of the good old days when he was still with his creator to open his heart. I kinda do like that, because people can and do change-it just seems to me like that should have taken longer. It's even more odd, though, that everyone else seems to have forgiven Foul Larry just as quickly as he changed from evil to good. I know, as bad as it is, that I, along with most of us, are not that forgiving, and it takes time to come to terms with someone who's done you a great wrong, or hurt someone you really care for. I was a bit bothered by Frankie being so nonchalant with Larry there at the end, KNOWING that he had severely injured Wilt, someone she should care about as a good friend at least, and she SAW him try to crush Wilt against the wall herself. I know I'd have trouble being civilized to someone I'd just seen try to hurt, let alone KILL, someone I cared about, no matter how they were acting towards me.

And, one more question about Larry...if Larry has long-since been abandoned, and more or less living on the streets, as it appeared, HOW did Wilt manage to call him on the phone before leaving? Wouldn't Larry have to at least have a cell phone, and if so, how would he pay for the thing, and how would Wilt have known the number, since cell phone numbers aren't public information. For Wilt to know the number, would imply that Larry still lived at the same address, and had the same phone number, that he had thirty years ago-and that Wilt has even more awesome memory of number sequences than Cheese does!


pitbulllady

[Jabberwocky]

Ohh, I see. Well, it's cute. I wouldn't want them to do it any other way, his rattling crazy eye is awesome. Imaginary anatomy can be different from regular anatomy anyway. It's silly to try and analyze his injuries with normal logic; the iris could've turned into a potato chip and it'd be okay cause he's imaginary.

I agree about the Larry thing though. That was just weird.

[some guy you dont know]

ok, well i thought it was pretty good, had enough funny scenes in it, both sides got equal air time, and they let wilt keep character while trying to find his opponet.

what i didnt like, though, was not only that they didnt show who created coco, but that they had her "discovered" by some nerds. and what i dont get is, if they are studying her, why is she in fosters and not with them at the lab or whatever? maybe she ran away or something.

i also dont like the ending much, because i dont like seeing someone thats been evil for somewhere around 30 years just turning good in 5 minuites. and now that they are there, id better see more of larry and stats and those other basketball guys. thats what im looking forward to.

btw, i wanted to comment on one of my favorite sceenes, the part at the bus stop. i thought it had some great parts to it, along with a few quotes that stick to my head. "everything wants to belong to something, right?"

i like how coco was like the mother to those nerds. probably my favorite thing in the movie. i gave it an A