Escape to the Movies: Men in Black 3
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Counterpoint: If you're not a movie critic and required by your job to sit through way too many bad movies, MiB3 is a perfectly serviceable mindless summer comedy. It won't blow your socks off with anything startlingly new and innovative. But if you like the first one, and the trailers for this one seem at all interesting, you'll probably enjoy it if you don't try to over-analyze what's wrong with it like a movie critic. Is it great? No. You'll probably forget most of it by next weekend. But you'll enjoy the ninety minutes or so you're in the theater. If you didn't like the original, and think the trailers for this look bad, it's not for you, so don't bother.
This is pretty much the truth. I'll admit, I'm in a minority... I kind of liked MIB 3. Good? Not really, but honestly I felt it was more tolerable than #2. Still nothing special though.Aiddon said:
Is it sad that the only thing I thought of after this was "Holy shit Tobey Maguire got work" and then started laughing?
I did want to reach for the neuralizer.... Back when I thought Splice was a pro science movie.... because Movie Bob said it was.... I got over that after Green Lantern sucked.
As for MIB3, yeah, it had the same formula as 1&2. I don't hate it for that. Maybe it could have had a better formula. But I'm not going to complain about that for the same reason why I didn't complain about Ghost Busters 2. Or even Iron Man 2.
But I'm certain if I pointed out how stale LoZ or Mario is for doing the same thing over & over.... Well.... He'd just call it nostalgia.... Although those have never gone away. Seriously Nintendo has rehashed the same 2 games a lot.
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As for Power Rangers, yeesh, there's a part of the 90s that should have stayed in the 90s. Every episode just rehashed what the previous episode did. And just as lame as watching Bill Goldberg "wrestle".
As for MIB3, yeah, it had the same formula as 1&2. I don't hate it for that. Maybe it could have had a better formula. But I'm not going to complain about that for the same reason why I didn't complain about Ghost Busters 2. Or even Iron Man 2.
But I'm certain if I pointed out how stale LoZ or Mario is for doing the same thing over & over.... Well.... He'd just call it nostalgia.... Although those have never gone away. Seriously Nintendo has rehashed the same 2 games a lot.
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As for Power Rangers, yeesh, there's a part of the 90s that should have stayed in the 90s. Every episode just rehashed what the previous episode did. And just as lame as watching Bill Goldberg "wrestle".
I hated the second movie. They tried to rely on Will Smith's comedy bits to carry it, and in all honesty he's never been hilariously funny. Not saying there aren't moments, but he's not enough to sell a popcorn flick. (His last few outings have proved that luckily.)
I also said way back when that this would fail because they wanted to swap out K for younger K. While Josh Brolin is a great actor in his own right... You just can't expect him to match TLJ. Jones was the only reason I had a desire to see the first two.
I also said way back when that this would fail because they wanted to swap out K for younger K. While Josh Brolin is a great actor in his own right... You just can't expect him to match TLJ. Jones was the only reason I had a desire to see the first two.
Sequels are a term made up by people in marketing. They do not, and cannot, exist. The only things you can have are segments of a really long movie that get released over what is usually a span of years (like LotR) or discrete movies with common features. The so-called 'Men in Black' movies are the latter. There have never been sequels.
That being said, 'Men in Black Three' is a good movie. It's fun, they hit the '60s beats really well, Will Smith and Josh Brolin play their parts convincingly and I actually had an emotional investment in the story by the end. It's not perfect: there are a couple head-scratching bits involving time travel and the big bad is little more than a gussied up MacGuffin, but there is no special reason to skip this one. It's good.
That being said, there's a non-special reason to skip it: because geek culture is often treated as a priesthood. One in which the only important way to prove your faith is knowing and being able to recite as much canon (catechism) on a pop culture topic as possible and the greatest bit of perfidy is to break canon. For those unfortunate souls, they can neither truly enjoy life nor this movie. I'd pray for them if that was a thing I did. If that doesn't sound like you then you might want to give this movie a try.
That being said, 'Men in Black Three' is a good movie. It's fun, they hit the '60s beats really well, Will Smith and Josh Brolin play their parts convincingly and I actually had an emotional investment in the story by the end. It's not perfect: there are a couple head-scratching bits involving time travel and the big bad is little more than a gussied up MacGuffin, but there is no special reason to skip this one. It's good.
That being said, there's a non-special reason to skip it: because geek culture is often treated as a priesthood. One in which the only important way to prove your faith is knowing and being able to recite as much canon (catechism) on a pop culture topic as possible and the greatest bit of perfidy is to break canon. For those unfortunate souls, they can neither truly enjoy life nor this movie. I'd pray for them if that was a thing I did. If that doesn't sound like you then you might want to give this movie a try.
According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_in_Black_(comics) MiB was based off a series of comics currently owned by marvel. So what I want to know is this:
Where's the movie about Tommy Lee Jones arresting Thor?
Where's the movie about Tommy Lee Jones arresting Thor?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that part of what MB doesn't mention about why MiB II failed while MiB succeeded was that MiB was sort of...
Realistic isn't the right word. But it had a kind of internal logic permeating it that made the audience okay with going along with its world. There was plenty of funny stuff, but one rarely got the impression that the funny stuff existed solely for the sake of being used as a gag; rather, the strange, off-kilter and amusing things were just our reactions to a world that happened to work this way, contrary to (and sometimes parallel to in equally surprising ways) our own.
Around the point MiB II had Rip Torn kicking the bad guy in the face in mid-air fifty times in a row, I said, "Oh, hell. This isn't going to work at all, is it?"
So, I'm sorry (though admittedly not surprised) to hear that MiB III couldn't get its head out of its posterior. I think it would be possible to make another good MiB movie, but the series banks too much on Will Smith's charisma to make a reboot plausible, so... Sorry, MiB, been nice knowin' ya.
Realistic isn't the right word. But it had a kind of internal logic permeating it that made the audience okay with going along with its world. There was plenty of funny stuff, but one rarely got the impression that the funny stuff existed solely for the sake of being used as a gag; rather, the strange, off-kilter and amusing things were just our reactions to a world that happened to work this way, contrary to (and sometimes parallel to in equally surprising ways) our own.
Around the point MiB II had Rip Torn kicking the bad guy in the face in mid-air fifty times in a row, I said, "Oh, hell. This isn't going to work at all, is it?"
So, I'm sorry (though admittedly not surprised) to hear that MiB III couldn't get its head out of its posterior. I think it would be possible to make another good MiB movie, but the series banks too much on Will Smith's charisma to make a reboot plausible, so... Sorry, MiB, been nice knowin' ya.
I think comparing Men In Black 3 to Men In Black 2 is doing this movie a ridiculous injustice, since Men In Black 2 was probably the lowest point a Men In Black movie could reach. It seems for a while that you've been harping on about the prospect of a MiB sequel merely because it never needed one, but considering the sheer cynicism I'm surprised it was even possible for you to walk away from the theaters without at least some sense of satisfaction. The script was better, it has a time travel concept that for once doesn't fall flat, the plot actually makes sense, the finale is actually satisfying and the movie has a really memorable villain.
Honestly, the movie is a rather big improvement. I realize that's not saying much but it really is. It's actually competent, and dare I say it, it has it's share of funny. Exploring the character dynamic by actually having J interact with K's younger counterpart was well manifested. If there's one thing I agree on, it's MiB struggling for relevancy, but considering what it was intended on doing, it's a rather enjoyable film.
Honestly, the movie is a rather big improvement. I realize that's not saying much but it really is. It's actually competent, and dare I say it, it has it's share of funny. Exploring the character dynamic by actually having J interact with K's younger counterpart was well manifested. If there's one thing I agree on, it's MiB struggling for relevancy, but considering what it was intended on doing, it's a rather enjoyable film.
Gatsby? as in The Great Gatsby?
uhmm......they already made a great gatsby movie that had that guy from law and order.
anywho.....POWER RANGERS!!!!
uhmm......they already made a great gatsby movie that had that guy from law and order.
anywho.....POWER RANGERS!!!!
Yeah but even you gotta admit, it was pretty ridiculous when Bob pined for more movies to be like Scott Pilgrim ("Imagine if every movie character had an extra life, because that's how video games work!").Flamezdudes said:
Come to think of it, Bob really wants movies to be something other than movies. First he wished they were more like video games (Scott Pilgrim), now he wishes they were more like comics (Avengers) with cross-overs, shared universes, no one ever really dies, etc.
