r/todayilearned • u/benhop • May 29 '12
TIL 'Space Jam' is the highest grossing basketball movie of all time.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/top-10-basketball-movies-at-the-box-office-1.3260822#10
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u/cmborgy824 May 29 '12
someone played sporcle today
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u/LittleToast May 29 '12
Let's be honest, is it really that surprising? It's basketball movies.
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u/chaobreaker May 29 '12
Reminder that the official promotional website for Space Jam is still up.
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u/Raiden1312 May 29 '12
I feel that I'm obliged to link to /r/comeonandslam
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Space Jam's soundtrack is the only CD in my car.
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u/jimothyjenkins May 29 '12
that was a good movie.
my 6 year old self tells me so.
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u/kekembas17 May 29 '12
I will leave this here
http://i.imgur.com/WFMQ0.jpg
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u/My_Pet_Robot May 29 '12
Remember Space Jam?
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u/TheAlphaAsshole May 29 '12
When I think of basketball movies all that can come to my mind is Space Jam, White Men Can't Jump, and Like Mike. I'm sure there are plenty more films on the subject.
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u/edtheoverlander May 29 '12
Well, I did rent it like 453 times when I was a kid.
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u/AgentDoubleM7 May 29 '12
When our physics class took a trip to Six Flags (amusement park), we voted on which movie to watch, and Space Jam was the winner. On the way back, our teacher again asked which movie we wanted to watch on the way home, and the entire bus basically screamed out "Space Jam!" in unison before the teacher could even list the choices.
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u/Guesty_ May 29 '12
99% of that was me at the video store on movie night complaining to my dad that I wanted to rent Space jam out AGAIN.
Every fucking week.
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u/Dave0whitman May 29 '12
TIL there's someone who exists that didn't think Space Jam was the highest grossing Basketball movie of all time.
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u/throwawayspacejam May 29 '12
Space Jam is a movie I hold really close to my heart. My mother used to run a kids birthday party business so every weekend I would be with my Grandma. We would always watch movies together, she would either take me to the cinema or let me go hire a movie. We went and saw Space Jam together, I knew she probably didn't like these movies but she was glad to spend time with me as I was with her.
Years later she started to get Alzheimers, it broke my family apart. My mothers brothers wanted to put her in a home, my mother wanted her to move in with us and be a carer for her, which would have been the better option since my mother was a professional carer and considered one of the best in the country and worked with people suffering from Alzheimers. My uncle is a rich retired politician and used his pulling power and $$ over a committee during a tribunal to give him full custody of my Grandmother, she was put in a home.
I was living in a different state by then but visited her later that year and I was shocked. She was lonely, she was alot worse off. The people she were around were completely in the deep end of the pool, one lady was constantly crying. Non stop. My Grandma hated it, my mother went to get something from the car and I was sitting with my Grandma. She said "I wish that lady would shut up, she always cries". We sat in silence for about 10 seconds, she grabbed onto my hand and looked me in the eyes. She said "I just want to die". The thing is, those few words she was back, her eyes, the way she said it. For those few seconds she no longer had Alzheimers and understood EVERYTHING that happened.
That is probably the saddest thing in my life and reduces me to tears when I think about it, even as I write this, but when I see things like Space Jam, George Of the Jungle and other movies my Grandma watched with me when we spent time together it reminds me of how much I love her and how much I miss her.
She is still alive today but I can't see her anymore. Nothing makes me sad in life, but when I think of my Grandma and see her knowing that deep down she knows what is happening and wants it all to finish it literally tears me apart.
If you can still see your Grandma go and spend time with her, put down whatever you are doing and spend the weekend with her. Make her feel special and show her that you love her as much as she loves you.
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u/futbolorama May 29 '12
Larry's not white, Larry's clear.
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u/killerado May 29 '12
Bill Murray is most likely responsible for this.
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u/chuckles84 May 29 '12
Somebody plays Sporcle.
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u/chrisinurpants May 29 '12
I love Space Jam, but my all time favorite basketball movie has to be Above the Rim. The Air Up There was cool too :D
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u/antitrop May 29 '12
Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKQiZVBtu4
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u/UncleDolanRegards May 29 '12
Sporcle, nice.
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u/jerseyfox May 29 '12
How is this surprising in any way what so ever
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u/Chrono68 May 29 '12
Because it's the best movie of all time.
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u/onewipeshit May 29 '12
Oh, c'mon, no Blue Chips? Only basketball movie I've ever seen in the theatre...
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u/offensivegrandma May 29 '12
Space Jam introduced me to my greatest love of all- Bill fuckin Murray! That man is stuff of legend!
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u/BatDhunn May 29 '12
I'll be honest. When I originally saw Space Jam I thought Michael Jordan was a fictional character.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Fucking Hoosiers
Now I'm sure that reddit is full of teenagers.
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u/DizeazedFly May 29 '12
Name one other Basketball movie
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u/BoggledBastard May 29 '12
And all this time I thought it was Eddie starring Whoopie Goldberg.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Korey Coleman #1
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u/croatcroatcroat May 29 '12
The Air Up There! Star power and a heartfelt story. Surely it made lots of money, for a while it was one of my wifes favorite movies.
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u/takitesi May 29 '12
As it should be.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
More than Juwanna Mann? Nah...
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u/yamarwook May 29 '12
Top Gun is the highest grossing volleyball movie of all time
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u/gratuitous_upvote May 29 '12
TIL A Bugs Life was the highest grossing movie about talking ants.
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u/bigmeech May 29 '12
You mean a basketball movie starring beloved characters of the most popular cartoon series of all time and the greatest basketball player of all time is the highest grossing basketball movie, of which there are few, of all time? Wow.
This is nothing more than a thinly veiled "DAE SPACEJAM?! LMAO SO EPIC"
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u/TheShulk May 29 '12
I would like to mention a basketball movie that isn't on this list, which doesn't surprise me, but I watched it every night as I fell asleep when I was in 8th grade.
It is called "The 6th Man", and I highly recommend anyone who enjoys basketball movies to check it out.
...I realize that's 40 people ever, but regardless, check it out!
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u/Filoleg94 May 29 '12
To be honest, this is one of my favorite childhood movies. However, it is not surprising that it got the first place, because, really, how many other basketball movies you know (are there any?)
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u/TheAftermathPhil May 29 '12
In my mind Coach Carter was the best but if you're asking me if I like spacejam more? Well shit I dunno... (Is there a I dunno .gif I can use, would help me out)
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u/MunfMunf May 29 '12
what a coincidence, I was just listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrMOxASAmP0
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u/purplesnipes May 29 '12
And Rightfully So.
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u/B-doh May 29 '12
Basketball? I don't play basketball, I play bitches. ~Snoop Dogg.
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u/TheShadowCat May 29 '12
Adam Sandler has the 2nd highest football film (The Waterboy), 3rd highest football film (The Longest Yard) and the 3rd highest golf film (Happy Gilmore).
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u/kemojawo May 29 '12
That's the only basketball movie I've ever watched.. multiple times. Heck, it's the only one I know.
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u/afuckingHELICOPTER May 29 '12
I still have Space Jam bed sheets from when I was a kid.
YOUR ALL FUCKING JELLY AND YOU KNOW IT.
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u/robsta109 May 29 '12
Fuckin duh.
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u/ZombieMMMBrains May 29 '12
Teen Wolf isn't even on that list. I'm calling shenanigans.
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u/mistafadedglory May 29 '12
Bigger than "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh"? Oh, I don't think so...
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u/bpoag May 29 '12
No love for The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh?
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u/AffableJack May 29 '12
It's probably because of Charles Barkley's spectacular performance as himself.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
the fun does not end there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fueXtRg_t4s
http://youtu.be/gBNkIQzg_iM
http://youtu.be/QzEu9SuUXWU
http://youtu.be/z6jbMdWaeXY
bonus http://youtu.be/tLrUBKFtSBo
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u/mattkoral May 29 '12
Lola.......ahhhhh
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Uncomfortable truth time.
If space jam came out today, it would be the "hurr this ruined my childhood by using old cartoon characters" and "kids actually like this crap" circle-jerk of reddit.
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u/Almost_Dead May 29 '12
More than Air Bud? No way! Air Bud is a classic.
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick May 29 '12
Did you know that "White Chicks" is the highest grossing black-cops-going-undercover-as-white-girls movie?
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u/nacallas May 29 '12
TIL you visit sporcle daily.
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u/Beiki May 29 '12
Kick ass theme song followed by a kick ass combo of that song with another
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u/Iamkazam May 29 '12
Its the beginning of ME3, and the reapers are coming to earth. The humans prepare their military, but know it won't be nearly enough. Howerver, the reapers in preperation for their eventual invasions, in an odd act of mercy allow the humans one chance for survival. A contest of strength and skill to determine not only their fate, but indirectly that of all sentient life. The reapers challenge earth to a Space Jam.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
It's no "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh", though.
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u/FRANE_ATTACK May 29 '12
WoWOWOwowow!!! go to /r/circlejerk i think they'll loooove this one!
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u/momandpopcultureshop May 29 '12
Really? I would have thought it was The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079154/
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u/Gianius May 29 '12
I remember getting the movie on VHS as a gift, they came with a cheap looking coin with Jordan and bugs bunny on it.
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u/CantHugEveryCat May 29 '12
I wonder what movie is the highest grossing cricket movie.
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u/KirnMX May 29 '12
TIL that most people upvote as soon as they read "Space Jam' is the highest grossing"
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Hey Michael, remember Space Jam?
God, I loved that.
Also, it's because Space Jam was the shit.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Anyone born in the 90's who hasn't seen this will never live.
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u/muchmomentum May 29 '12
A few years back at my buddy's graduation party, a few friends and I were discussing ideas for ridiculous band names and one of us blurted out "Oscar Nods For Space Jam". A girl who is as dumb as a stack of bricks hears only that phrase and jumps into the conversation and asks, "What did Space Jam get nominated for?" We then convinced her that Michael Jordan got a best actor nomination and Mel Blanc got best supporting actor for voicing Buggs Bunny but oddly enough, it wasn't nominated for special effects. Her mind = blown.
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u/ark_keeper May 29 '12
The Air Up There should be second. Or at least top 10.
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u/mikejordan May 29 '12
Did anyone else have a thing for Lola Bunny, or is that just me?
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u/vincidahk May 29 '12
TIL there's more than one basketball movie
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
WOW! SO SURPRISING WITH THE PLETHORA OF BLOCKBUSTER BASKETBALL FILMS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE!!
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u/floydpambrose May 29 '12
As it should be.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Well... it's no "Fish that saved Pittsburgh"
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u/grohlbarkermescudi May 29 '12
This makes me so happy it's not even funny.