"Space Jam: A New Legacy" is the Greatest Movie of All Time

When I saw Al Pacino completely transform into Michael Corleone in the first two Godfather movies, I never thought I would see a greater acting performance. Al Pacino's Michael Corleone started off as a mild-mannered man who didn't want to take any part in his family's illegal mafia activities. However, after his father is attacked by a rival gang, Michael Corleone reluctantly takes it upon himself to avenge him. He kills both Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, who initiated the attack, and the corrupt police captain Mark McCluskey in a fine Italian restaurant (I wonder if that place is still in business) -- I heard the veal was the best in town. 

Michael Corleone initially flees to Sicily to escape the authorities, but when his older bother Sonny Corleone is killed as retribution for his actions, Michael Corleone comes back and takes over as the Don of the family. His father, Vito Corleone, dies of a sudden heart attack -- but not before giving him final instructions on how to deal with his rivals. Michael tricks the heads of the other New York mafia families that he wants to make peace and form an alliance with them. He then brutally murders them! 

In Godfather Part 2, Michael Corleone is now a ruthless man who will do whatever is necessary to preserve himself. He even kills Fredo Corleone, his incompetent brother, when he learns that Fredo orchestrated an attempt on his life!

Al Pacino played the role to absolute perfection. You can see all the stages of Michael Corleone's transformation -- from a good, law abiding citizen to an evil crime boss. I never thought I would witness a better performance. 

Well, I finally have seen something that tops it...

                                                                               

Lebron James is the greatest Basketball player who ever lived! He's much better than Michael Jordan! Let's face it -- Jordan played in a weak, watered-down era that included multiple expansion teams and players who were generally a lot less athletic than they are today. 

Remember how Jordan looked like a fool when he got his ankle broken by Allen Iverson's crossover? Well, Jordan is lucky that only a few players could do a decent crossover in the 90s. If Jordan was playing today he would be a complete liability on defense. Most modern guards can do a crossover, and there's no way that Jordan would be able to keep up with them. 

The athleticism in today's game would make Jordan look like a chump. Jordan would have a very difficult time scoring, and he probably wouldn't be able to play many minutes. He'd be completely gassed before halftime. Jordan would be lucky if he could average 5 points per game in today's NBA. 

Jordan's championship credentials are greatly overrated. Yeah, he won six titles, but his NBA Finals opponents were mostly mediocre. He beat an aging Lakers team in the 1991 Finals. The 1991 Lakers were no longer the full powerhouse that they were throughout the 80s. Kareem retired two years earlier, and his replacement, Vlade Divac, was a chump. Magic Johnson and James Worthy were no longer in their primes, and the bench was full of nobodies. In 1992, 1993 and 1996, Jordan faced three of the weakest Finals opponents of all time -- and it still took him six games each time to defeat them.

In 1994, Jordan knew he would have to face Hakeem Olajuwon's Houston Rockets. Jordan was shitting in his pants because he knew that Hakeem would absolutely dominate him! So before that season even started, Jordan ran away and quit. 

A year and a half later, when the Houston Rockets were having a mediocre regular season (they had a great playoff run and ended up as NBA champions for the second consecutive year), Jordan came back to the Bulls -- after not being able to hit a minor league Baseball curveball -- and played the remainder of the season. 

Jordan believed that he wouldn't have to face Hakeem, and he was right! The Bulls didn't even make it to the NBA Finals. Jordan was completely destroyed by Shaq, Penny Hardaway, his old friend Horace Grant and the rest of the Orlando Magic in the second round of the playoffs. Jordan played like pure caca in that series! 

The only reason why Jordan and the Bulls got back to the promised land in 1996 was because the greatest GM of all time, Jerry Krause, brought in Dennis Rodman. Rodman and his fabulous hair carried the team for the next three years.  

Jordan finally faced a good opponent, the Utah Jazz, spearheaded by Karl Malone and John Stockton, in 1997 and 1998, but he was very lucky to win those two series. In 1997, Karl Malone missed two free-throws late in game 1, which opened the door for Jordan to win the contest with a jump-shot; and in game 6, Scottie Pippen cheated by committing goal-tending late in the 4th quarter -- which the referees conveniently missed. In 1998, Jordan clearly pushed off Byron Russell at the end of game 6. That bucket should never have counted. The series should've gone to a seventh game. 

Not only does Lebron James play in a much more athletic and skilled era than Jordan, but his Finals opponents were much tougher. He defeated a Oklahoma City Thunder team in 2012 that included Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden -- three future MVPs who will go down in NBA history as three of the greatest scorers of all time. The next year he defeated a San Antonio Spurs team that was absolutely loaded with talent and had Gregg Popovich, the greatest coach ever, guiding them. In 2016 he beat the greatest regular season team in NBA history, the 73-9 Golden State Warriors. Lebron was down 3-1 in that series, but he came all the way back and delivered Cleveland their first major sports championship since 1964.

I will grant that Lebron faced the weakest Finals opponent ever in the 2020 finals -- that Miami Heat team was a bunch of chumps -- but he had to go through the entire 2020 playoffs confined in a bubble and away from his family. It was definitely the toughest overall playoff run that any team had to go through in all of history. 

Lebron has clearly shown that he is the greatest Basketball player of all time, but his superiority on the hardwood hasn't satisfied him. He's also an astute business man, and has made millions of dollars with his business ventures. Everything that Lebron James does he performs at the highest level. 

So, when he decided to take up acting it should be no surprise that he was an instant success. Lebron James was chosen to be the star of the second Space Jam movie. Michael Jordan was the star of the first Space Jam in 1996. It was okay -- I always love seeing the Looney Tunes, but Jordan's acting was absolute shit! 

In this new Space Jam film, Lebron James has demonstrated that he has much more emotional range than Jordan had. Lebron has no formal acting training, but he was still able to get me completely invested in his character and the plot of the film.

He goes from a hard-nosed dad who inadvertently pushes his son away from him, to a loving and caring father who listens to his son and helps nurture his interests. 

At first Lebron's character thinks his son loves Basketball and he's trying to teach him how to become a better player. His training is very strict and he takes all the fun out of the game. But the biggest error that Lebron's character makes is that he doesn't realize that his son doesn't love Basketball as much as he thinks he does. His son's true passion is computer programming and creating video games. His son has even fully designed his own video game -- a very arcadey version of Basketball. But instead of giving his son praise, Lebron's character berates him for the video game not being a direct simulation of real Basketball. 

The movie includes a bunch of crazily entertaining stuff, but to make a long story short the main conflict of the plot happens when an evil artificial intelligence puts Lebron and his son into a virtual reality world and forces them to play Basketball against each other. Lebron recruits the Looney Tunes to be on his team. Even though the Looney Tunes are hilarious, they are terrible teammates -- not even worthy of being classified as "journeymen" -- who Lebron has to carry. At the end of the game, Lebron apologizes to his son, and convinces him to switch sides and join his team. 

That scene made me cry. I was wailing in the movie theatre and got tears all over my popcorn. This scene proved that Lebron James has supreme acting ability! 

In the end Lebron and his son triumph over the evil artificial intelligence -- no thanks to Michael Jordan -- and Lebron's character learns how to become a better father. This movie had everything a good movie should have: drama, suspense, emotion, sports, competition, high stakes, humor and wild antics.

This Space Jam film has garnered universal acclaim and high praise from film critics and audiences alike. Nobody has a bad word to say about it.  

Space Jam: A New Legacy is the greatest movie of all time, and Lebron James is the best actor in the world.