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Air Bud
1997 · Film · 98 min
Part of Air Bud Collection
Directed by Charles Martin Smith
A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.
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This is miraculous. I randomly flipped to Air Bud and it's just... playing the whole movie! How on Earth was it possible for one person to make this???
Ahahaha. I watched this movie 100 times as a kid. I cycled between Air Bud and Flubber.
# Air Bud
* Budget $3 million
* Box office $27,771,629
# Air Bud: Golden Receiver
* Budget $11 million
* Box office $10,224,116
Air Bud: World Pup, Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch and Air Bud: Spikes Back are direct-to-DVD movies, so we don't know about their box office performance, sadly.
And the "Air Bud" movies. And all those Puppies-that-talk cartoon movies. And puppy yoga. And all the "surprise puppy" youtube vids. Pretty much every media event involving puppies has encouraged people to buy dogs who shouldn't own them. Puppies are only puppies for a day or two before they aren't puppies anymore.
If I were king of Disney or Youtube I would ban all cute puppy footage.
I'd also discourage anyone who has never owned a dog from purchasing a particular breed. If you have no experience with dogs, get a mutt. If you want a larger dog, get a lab-Shepard cross. If smaller, any of the bichon-havanese crosses.
A couple movies.. off tpoic: I used to walk my dog at the same beach (west vancouver) as the air bud dogs. They were all over-bred show dogs. They lived short lives. I am not a fan of those movies.
Wasn’t air bud a movie about a basketball playing dog... .. checks the webb.... Yup
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0118570/
This "broad pattern of unaccountable decision making", also called permissionless innovation, is the reason why America has a culture of innovation. For those unaware, the United States runs on what I call "Air Bud rules", named for this scene from the children's movie.[0] To summarize, as long as there isn't a rule forbidding you from doing something, you can do it.
While I applaud his personal stance on refusing to work on a censored search engine, any solution that requires foregoing independent corporate decision making would be foolish. For those who have been tasked with building tools that support authoritarian regimes, grow a spine, make your voice heard, and quit if necessary. Don't give me any bullshit excuses for continuing, if you know it's wrong stop supporting it!
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvf0WWxrYRM