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Just to ruin my moment with Frink on the Hobbit thread, I, like Mick Lasalle, prefer MIIB to MIB. (Haven't seen ³):


It should be admitted that no one made "Men in Black II" because they deeply needed to say something. There's no question that the movie is a product, but at least it doesn't give the impression that its makers felt cynical about it. On the contrary, it seems to have been made with good- natured wit. At one point, we see aliens entering the country. They're told not to go out at night, and "if you must go out at night, go only to the East Village."

The movie's complete lack of seriousness is, if anything, an advantage, serving to soften whatever resistance we might have to the idea of a rogue agency operating outside the Constitution, flouting rights and playing with people's minds. The last movie, though a comedy, took its heroes just seriously enough for them to be unsettling. But in "Men in Black II," everything's played for laughs, and that's a good thing.
 

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I don't even remember II. But I and III were good...
 

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I do remember II, I wish I didn't :(
 

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TGWTG's MikeJ just posted a pretty good video takedown of JPIII. And boy, does it bring back the memories... the terrible, terrible memories... :p
 

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I like it.
 

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Either that, or the Genie could, y'know, see into the future just a bit. :wink:
 

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Michael Haneke blows goats. I have proof.
 

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Good grief, someone has actually made The Lonely Island's Motherlover into a movie, with Naomi Watts and Robin "Buttercup" Wright.

It looks pretty horrible. :oops:
 

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Pretty sweet little video from the On The Waterfront Criterion Collection DVD/BD about aspect ratios.

 

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Well I like Fast and the Furious and Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, should I give the other ones a try?
 

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I missed the first four, but Fast Five was pretty darn rad.
 

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Inexplicably, the films are actually getting better.
 

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I like the first for some strange reason. Didn't see 2 or 3. Four was a lot more fun than I expected. Five was actually pretty awesome. Definitely going to see the sixth this year.
 

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Thanks Gaith/hymie/dominiccobb, Ill give the others a chance then, though I admit I'm not fond of anything Id seen so far of 2 (what with the "Hey, im a rap video movie with stupid frame rates" and the "hey, bite me, I'm a sequel" and that "short film" that takes place between the first two: LETS BURN THIS MOTHERF#CKER DOWN!!!
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) but Ill try it out and at the very least it'll probably have some random shot that'll be useful down the road. There better be some babes with skimpy armour and flaming tripple bladed swords with built in time machines, monster trucks that double as sex-crazed alien ninja headphones and an X-Men/terminator crossover scene with a Bubbles cameo and Randy as the Terminator or its gonna suck.

End pointless rant No. 4,338.
 

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i was on board with Fast Five's mindless entertainment up until the very end when someone decided to start wiping boogers inside their physics text book and hoping the audience wouldn't notice.
i thought it was pretty odd too that they completely glazed over the street race to acquire the cars.
not complaining. i'm a bigger fan of heist movies than street racing movies anyway.
 

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I'm still waiting for a Simpsons Hit & Run theatrical movie.
 
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