Showing posts with label thinking back thursday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thinking back thursday. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Thinking Back Thursday #3

I was just about to leave for the morning when I remembered I should do this. I guess that's what happens when you have final projects to shoot and film in a short amount of time. Well, let's get right into it.

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Do you remember Space Jam? I remember Space Jam. How could you not? Michael Jordan. The Looney Tunes. Some... other people. I didn't care about any of them. I just cared about MJ and Bugs Bunny mostly. Michael was a good sport for being in a movie like that and it did feature a lot of cameos from NBA stars. I just like it when athletes can come together on a project like that.

In case you didn't see it, I'll give a brief plot summary from what I remember. So Bugs and the guys are all in Looney Tune land when these aliens come down and want to use the Looney Tunes as entertainers in their galactic theme parks or something. So Bugs is just toying with the shrimps and tells them sure, if they beat them in basketball. So the aliens steal the talent from NBA players in the real world and grow all huge to become the Mon-Stars. Meanwhile MJ is retired and is just failing at baseball. Bugs lures him to Tune world and convinces him to join the team. They play and win (because you know, Michael Jordan retired is still better than 5 NBA all stars put together), the players get their talent back and all is restored.

What might you ask was the best part of the movie? The soundtrack of course! My mom bought me the cassette and I listened to it all the time. It had some cool sporty type songs to get you pumped, some softer, inspirational types (I Believe I Can Fly). Oh yeah, it also had one of the best rap collaborations OF ALL TIME.

B Real (from Cypress Hill aka the "Insane in the Membrane" guys), Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J, and Method Man joined forces from Hit Em High (The Monstars Anthem) which to this day is still one of the tightest songs period. The best part, they made a video for it! Be sure to check out if anybody's verse, check out LL. He murders this one. Busta Rhymes is an animal as usual.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Thinking Back Thursday #2

I've been waiting to do this one since I thought of it before last weekend. I'm glad I'll finally get to share it.

I don't know about you guys, but I love pizza. LOVE IT. To me, it's like it's own food group. You have your big places like Pizza Hut (my personal favorite), but then you also have the local spots that each have their unique style.

Growing up, I never went to Little Caesars. Still haven't. I don't know of one around me. What I do remember, oh man I remember, were the commercials. More specifically, the little guy at the end who always goes, "Pizza Pizza". I remember being a little kid and always trying to time it so I said it right when he did. It seems like now, commercials are all pretty similar. None of them really leave much of an impression on me anymore. The actors are mostly just forgettable and they just don't seem as wild as they did in the 90s.

This commercial on the other hand, I can only describe as magical. I remember seeing it and just being in awe and being able to find it on YouTube and dying of laughter from it is great. I can't give this commercial an adequate introduction, so I'm not even going to try. Just watch this Little Caesars commercial about a man and his really great day.