tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post5850470102323120031..comments2024-02-18T08:45:16.295-08:00Comments on The Film Connoisseur: Men In Black III (2012)Franco Macabrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-51229041673877501742012-06-05T18:10:55.027-07:002012-06-05T18:10:55.027-07:00Wow, you saw Prometheus? Or MIB 3? Either way, you...Wow, you saw Prometheus? Or MIB 3? Either way, you can expect a review for Prometheus as soon as I see it, which should be on opening night, June 14. Thanks for your kind words Vladimir, and you can comment whenever you like, in fact, I urge you too, I love reading my readers comments.Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-26546802129296273762012-06-05T08:04:56.535-07:002012-06-05T08:04:56.535-07:00I have been following your blog for some time I ca...I have been following your blog for some time I can't tell. Becuase of the obvious reasons I'm not able to leave comments a lot. Your effort here, is excellent. Having seen the film last weekend, I can't wait to read your review on Prometheus, I must say.Vladimirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04194499922055415291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-8764770829238168492012-05-30T05:30:27.652-07:002012-05-30T05:30:27.652-07:00Fritz: That's the big risk studios take with e...Fritz: That's the big risk studios take with expensive blockbusters, if they dont make their money back fast, they loose fast too. MIB III has another couple of weeks before the other big Summer films pop up: Batman and Spidey. Let's see what happens, but I have a feeling that Darknight Rises is going to suck the life out of all the movies that are in theaters during it's release.<br /><br />I havent seen MIB II in eons, I think I'll give it the old re-watch, I do remember being a bit dissapointed by it, but I did like that giant worm monster in the end, thats about all I can remember! <br /><br />Don't know about you dude, but a villain going back in time to kill somebody that pesters them reminded me a lot of The Terminator. Having to reach a certain speed to time travel, going back to the future, these elements all reminded me of Back to the Future. I know Back to the Future and The Terminator didn't event time travel, but MIB had something in common with these two particular time travel films.<br /><br />I saw MIB III in 3-D and it was worth it, I love the depth created by the 3-D effect, especially in fx heavy films like this one. The 3D worked so well with those things that Boris shoots from his hands. <br /><br />Oh yeah, those scenes on the MIB headquarters were sweet, especially when they put J in that giant machine...all those colorful lightbulgs...candy to the eyes! <br /><br />I wouldnt mind seein another MIB III in the future, these movies have so many possibilities, I'd love for the Men in Black to go to another planet or something, that would be cool. <br /><br />Thanks for commenting Fritz!Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-35107237000422532492012-05-29T21:44:22.143-07:002012-05-29T21:44:22.143-07:00I think waiting ten years to make MIB 3 was a mist...I think waiting ten years to make MIB 3 was a mistake, but the nearly $70 million it raked in domestically in its opening weekend proved that there is still life in the MIB franchise. I’m worried about a fourth film though, because if it did truly cost $375 million dollars to make (I’ve read that figure includes marketing as well) then MIB 3 will have to pull in close to $500 million domestically for it to be considered a financial success. Given the large number of special effects driven fantasy and sci-fi movies coming to theaters in the next five or six weeks, that figure seems unlikely. Still, if this is the last MIB film, it’s a great one to go out on.<br /><br />I can tell you why I didn’t like MIB 2 as much as MIB or MIB 3: Its running time was only 88 minutes, which is ten minutes shorter than MIB and fifteen minutes shorter than MIB 3. It just went by too fast and told too small a story. Worst of all was that K wasn’t and active agent for the first third of the film and J is stuck with the dull Agent T as his straight man. Even with these faults I still enjoy it: I particularly like scene where the “coffee aliens” are hiding J’s girlfriend in their apartment.<br /><br />I don’t think the time travel element in MIB 3 felt redundant, because they really didn’t emphasize the paradox element too much. In fact, J spills all the details of the “future” to young-K pretty quickly and this also is one of the funnier K straight-face reactions in the movie. Back to the Future and The Terminator didn’t invent time travel in the movies. George Pal’s 1960 film adaptation H. G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” covers some of the same paradox ideas of time travel as well – although without the humor of BttF or MIB.<br /><br />I enjoy Barry’s camerawork as well. Although I saw MIB 3 in 2-D, I was still swept up in how well Sonnenfeld used the camera to create extra depth of field to scenes, as well as intensify the movement of the car chases and such. The camera didn’t seem to linger on the details of the MIB headquarters in this film as much as past films and I’m sure I missed all kinds of cool visual jokes because of it. Rick Baker and his make-up magicians outdid themselves in this film! He reportedly created 100 different aliens for this film (there is part of the $300 million right there), but they really helped give the feeling of true alienation to the film.<br /><br />I too thought Josh Brolin’s young Agent K was “dead on channeling Tommy Lee Jones’s character” and this really made the past sequences work. If his Agent K was not as good as it was, the whole character aspect of the plot would have fallen flat. I also liked Emma Thompson as Chief Agent O, who had the unenviable task of replacing Zed from the first two MIB films. I’m assuming Rip Torn’s legal issues are what prohibited his returning as Zed in MIB 3, so at least they made Agent O’s character important to the plot in both timelines.<br /><br />Here’s to hoping MIB 3 makes another $50 million or so next weekend, because I for one think there is still plenty of life left in this franchise!Fritz "Doc" Freakensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209589620766485745noreply@blogger.com