Men In Black III
Okay, it is well known that although I like men wearing black, I do NOT like Blockbuster, Family-friendly BS. And what do I dislike even more?!? SEQUELS to crappy films such as has been stated.
I remember seeing the first film in my late teens and my friends and I making fun of it with glee and absolute abandon. I was even around Xim at the time and I remember him making fun of the "MIB" phenomenon and if you have never seen an artsy, hip, blue-haired friend in his socks mocking the whole 'getting jiggy with it' thing, you haven't lived!! I can see Xim in my mind, clear as day saying "HE EVEN HAD ALIENS DOING SOME HIP HOP DANCE WITH HIM LIKE THIS.." and demonstrating how stupid it was. It was a moment in time, I tell ya.
The second film I was forced to see by my boyfriend at the time. I cannot recall his (or was it a her?) name, but I recall HATING it and I don't even recall most of it...not in the least. Just that my ex picked it and I must have blocked it out to save my brain from more gobbley gook.
In this installment, "J" (Will Smith's agent name) has to go back in time to save "K" (Tommy Lee Jones) because without ruining plot, a mishap in which 'K' lived through was changed by (you guessed it, an evil alien force) and killed him. Now, nobody in the 'Men In Black Unit' remembers who 'K' is except the main woman in charge, the talented and classy Emma Thompson (Playing 'O'). All of a sudden a race that SHOULD be extinct is about to take over earth and she tell's "J" to save his "K", the "K" he knows. To do this, he must go back in time to that day and make sure 'K' isn't killed. Easy enough, right? No. J didn't even know they had a way to "time jump". Few did. So he has to jump off the Chrysler building with a device and stop literally two feet from the ground to hit the middle of 1969.
Of course there are problems at the beginning, key one being that "Young K" (played with unbelievable and comic precision by Josh Brolin...I mean, really, KUDOS Josh.) who doesn't believe 'J' at first. Once he does, off they go on their mysterious adventure, including one of my personal favourites, a stop over at the original "Factory", Andy Warhol's place and space of art, oddities, bizarre and everything that was happening at the time.
The last thing I will tell you (don't wanna give TOO much away) is that it was at "The Factory" where 'J' meets one of the most original, fascinating, and beautiful aliens in the whole franchise. Griffin.
This Alien sees all that is, was, will be, could be, and all at the same time. I believe they mention that he lives in five dimensions but he sees all as they are happening, have happened, and all the possibilities of how things might happen. For example, someone drops a coin and from that Griffin can deduce that -this- is the version of reality where someone will be shot, but if it's tails up, it won't be fatal. It's hard to describe this character as anything other that 'deity-like', but even he knows (and lives within) every version of his own destinies. It goes beyond parallel dimensions. I guess they realized that all the kids that grew up loving "Men In Black" are grown up's now so they up-ed the thought provoking ante and let a few naughty words fly that I don't think the other two had. I guess the powers that be have agreed, we have grown up. (Same reason why all the music we grew up loving are now being used to try to sell us Ice Cream or Detergent. ::rolls eyes::)
Here is Griffin showing J and young K the game he is watching that hasn't happened yet in a stadium that appears empty to them until Griffin touches them.
Anyway, I admit when I am wrong, and though I wouldn't want to sit through the first two again, this is only the third time in which I thought the third installment was the best (The other two being Indiana Jones and Paranormal Activity). As for second installments being better than the first, we could spend hours on 'The Godfather', 'The Empire Strikes Back' and many many more.... LOL. Maybe on another day. =)
Love and Peace,
Zuzu
I remember seeing the first film in my late teens and my friends and I making fun of it with glee and absolute abandon. I was even around Xim at the time and I remember him making fun of the "MIB" phenomenon and if you have never seen an artsy, hip, blue-haired friend in his socks mocking the whole 'getting jiggy with it' thing, you haven't lived!! I can see Xim in my mind, clear as day saying "HE EVEN HAD ALIENS DOING SOME HIP HOP DANCE WITH HIM LIKE THIS.." and demonstrating how stupid it was. It was a moment in time, I tell ya.
The second film I was forced to see by my boyfriend at the time. I cannot recall his (or was it a her?) name, but I recall HATING it and I don't even recall most of it...not in the least. Just that my ex picked it and I must have blocked it out to save my brain from more gobbley gook.
In this installment, "J" (Will Smith's agent name) has to go back in time to save "K" (Tommy Lee Jones) because without ruining plot, a mishap in which 'K' lived through was changed by (you guessed it, an evil alien force) and killed him. Now, nobody in the 'Men In Black Unit' remembers who 'K' is except the main woman in charge, the talented and classy Emma Thompson (Playing 'O'). All of a sudden a race that SHOULD be extinct is about to take over earth and she tell's "J" to save his "K", the "K" he knows. To do this, he must go back in time to that day and make sure 'K' isn't killed. Easy enough, right? No. J didn't even know they had a way to "time jump". Few did. So he has to jump off the Chrysler building with a device and stop literally two feet from the ground to hit the middle of 1969.
Of course there are problems at the beginning, key one being that "Young K" (played with unbelievable and comic precision by Josh Brolin...I mean, really, KUDOS Josh.) who doesn't believe 'J' at first. Once he does, off they go on their mysterious adventure, including one of my personal favourites, a stop over at the original "Factory", Andy Warhol's place and space of art, oddities, bizarre and everything that was happening at the time.
The last thing I will tell you (don't wanna give TOO much away) is that it was at "The Factory" where 'J' meets one of the most original, fascinating, and beautiful aliens in the whole franchise. Griffin.
This Alien sees all that is, was, will be, could be, and all at the same time. I believe they mention that he lives in five dimensions but he sees all as they are happening, have happened, and all the possibilities of how things might happen. For example, someone drops a coin and from that Griffin can deduce that -this- is the version of reality where someone will be shot, but if it's tails up, it won't be fatal. It's hard to describe this character as anything other that 'deity-like', but even he knows (and lives within) every version of his own destinies. It goes beyond parallel dimensions. I guess they realized that all the kids that grew up loving "Men In Black" are grown up's now so they up-ed the thought provoking ante and let a few naughty words fly that I don't think the other two had. I guess the powers that be have agreed, we have grown up. (Same reason why all the music we grew up loving are now being used to try to sell us Ice Cream or Detergent. ::rolls eyes::)
Here is Griffin showing J and young K the game he is watching that hasn't happened yet in a stadium that appears empty to them until Griffin touches them.
Anyway, I admit when I am wrong, and though I wouldn't want to sit through the first two again, this is only the third time in which I thought the third installment was the best (The other two being Indiana Jones and Paranormal Activity). As for second installments being better than the first, we could spend hours on 'The Godfather', 'The Empire Strikes Back' and many many more.... LOL. Maybe on another day. =)
Love and Peace,
Zuzu