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Men In Black III Review

POSTED BY: WISHIMAY
UPDATED: Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:57
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Friday, May 25, 2012 4:09 PM

WISHIMAY


Well, if you don't like grotesque, you might wanna be getting your popcorn for the first five minutes. Pretty darn graffic. Take the kids to the bathroom! In fact, a couple families with young kids got up and left. Most of the rest of the movie was negatable on that front. The rest of it was just OK. Decent acting, decent story, decent jokes- but Avengers was still miles better. They did get wierdly preachy about the history of black people in America, and if you have any idea of the actual history, you know they used a magical racial shoehorn to make the timeline AND storyline fit. It still ended ona warm fuzzy, but disappointingly there were no bonus scenes after the credits. I kinda took that to mean THE END. Really, this time. Probably for the best. My family gives it a B/B+

Oh, and Tommy... quit buffing the face dude, the craggy wrinkles are part of your character.


EDITED TO ADD: Troops were officially integrated on July 26, 1948, to save y'all the time lookin' it up. I'm still not buying the storyline, for several reasons...

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Saturday, May 26, 2012 2:07 AM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by Wishimay:
EDITED TO ADD: Troops were officially integrated on July 26, 1948, to save y'all the time lookin' it up. I'm still not buying the storyline, for several reasons...

There are many reasons why the movie had problems blending actual history with the movie's storyline:
www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/how-will-smith-s-men-in-blac
k-3-almost-became-a-disaster-movie.html
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Men in Black 3 stands as one of the most difficult movie productions in recent Hollywood history, a massively expensive exercise in inefficiency and infighting that compelled the heads of Sony Pictures, the studio releasing the film, to consider taking a huge loss rather than continuing to throw good money after bad.

The star vehicle with a budget north of $215 million—Smith’s first film in four years—was hustled into production by Sony to nab the actor before he signed on to a competing blockbuster (and to take advantage of a $38 million New York state tax incentive that was expected to expire). So anxious was Sony to get the cameras rolling that MIB3 began shooting without a completed script—the Hollywood equivalent of erecting a skyscraper without a finished blueprint.

Director Barry Sonnenfeld shepherded all the Men in Black movies to completion and acknowledges the third film’s unorthodox production process while standing up for the studio’s shoot-first-ask-questions-later methodology. “Starting the movie without an absolutely finished script is not normally the right way to do movies,” the director says. “But I feel the decision Sony made was the right decision. On this one, we might still be waiting for the script. Sometimes, if you just dip your toe in, you’ll never dive in because it’s too stupidly cold."

To accomplish this crazy feat, the producers built a hiatus into the schedule so that an elite tag team of screenwriters could help draft the movie’s second and third acts.

Living up to the time-traveling standards set by Back to the Future and The TerminatorMIB3’s cinematic lodestars—posed certain conundrums of continuity that required a revolving door of writers to fix.

“The joke on the movie became that it would probably be easier to build an actual time machine and go to the future to see what the script ended up being, because it was so complicated,” says Etan Cohen, one of six screenwriters who worked on the film, and the only one to receive a credit.



The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, May 26, 2012 2:08 AM

WHOZIT


The flick will make about $75 million this weekend making it #1, but it's a hollow victory because "The Avengers" couldn't stay #1 forever. $75 million is a 1/3 what "The Avengers" made it's 1st weekend.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012 2:31 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by whozit:
The flick will make about $75 million this weekend making it #1, but it's a hollow victory because "The Avengers" couldn't stay #1 forever. $75 million is a 1/3 what "The Avengers" made it's 1st weekend.

And Avenger's advantage is that its script was cohesive, while Men in Black 3's chaotic script was thrown together while it was filming. www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/how-will-smith-s-men-in-blac
k-3-almost-became-a-disaster-movie.html


The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:07 AM

JO753

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I liked it!

Story seemed fine to me. Excellent bad guy, weird supporting character, totally rad time travel method. I grade it on level with the frst 2. I think it may seem subdued bekuz syfy action moviez hav bekum so over the top theze dayz. Its simply not in the same league az most uv the Marvel moviez. Avenjrz makes it seem like a lite romantic comedy.

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Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:14 AM

WHOZIT


www.deadline.com has ajusted down the take for "MIB3" to around $70 million, they thought it would be $75 million. I'll wait for this thing to come to TV, I hope "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer" with Alan Tyduk gets great reviews

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Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:39 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


Lost my appetite for seeing MIB after No. 2, which was wretched bad, so I don't plan on seeing it anytime soon. I would imagine that the insertion of the Black history in MIB3 was due to it's co-star Will Smith, but adds to the strangeness of the script.

I believe it was a one-shot deal, one-trick pony that has seen it's last. The cartoon series was much better than anything in MIB2. Generally, I like Will Smith and TLJ but this franchise shot it's load in the original MIB.


SGG

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Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:47 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


Ok, it's time for me to eat some crow. A friend dragged me to see the movie last week because she's a big fan and I must say - I LIKED IT!

I went in thinking it would be as bad as MIB2 and it wasn't. I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me (lol).
It had decent jokes - I could have done without the big fish scene - but otherwise it reminded me a bit about the original MIB.

BTW who was that Fox that played the young Agent O. RRRrrrrrwow! I know this is gonna sound rather dated and politically incorrect but - What a dish!

End credits revealed that this movie was written by Etan Cohen who wrote Tropic Thunder, which I liked immensely.


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Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:32 PM

ZZETTA13


Saw MIB3 last weekend and actually liked it. Had some decent jokes (agent J talking about agent K, “…….smiles like this.” J makes frowny face.)…..that had me laughing. I was actually emotionally moved to discover how the young agent K, and young J as a child came together.

Overall, guess I’d rate it an A-, and it took me a little while to realize that the bad/a$$ alien sharp teethed guy was the same actor that played the artist guy in “Dinner for Schmucks”.

I did think that it was fairly entertaining.

Z

PS: saw Prometheus today, but I’ll hold comments until a fellow browncoat posts a thread, or I think it’s been around long enough. I’d like to know what others think first.

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Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:57 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Did the script include FBI director J Edgar Hoover being black and wore a dress, and assassinated all civil rights leaders?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/was-j-edgar-hoover-
black/2011/11/20/gIQAZcu3kN_blog.html


Or that white europeans were the first slaves sold in USA, and white slaves were "liberated" from plantations after the Civil War?

Or that the Civil War made ALL US citizens slaves of the genocidal fascist federal government, beginning with Lincoln rounding up 100,000s of white slaves at gunpoint in the Northern states to die in the war?

Oh silly me, of course MIB3 included those facts of history.

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New York tabloids had a field day covering the “starship-sized” trailer Smith occupied during filming in New York’s SoHo. Reportedly nicknamed “the Heat,” the 53-foot behemoth boasted such amenities as a screening room, offices for assistants, and an all-granite bathroom. Neighbors grumbled about the enormous vehicle’s gaseous fumes.



The trailer was a $9,000-a-month, 53-foot behemoth -- longer than a city bus -- that the New York Post derided as “starship-sized.”

"Will's trailer costs almost as much per month as my collge roommate Al Gore's jet costs on one flight to a Green Con," quipped MIB star Tommy Lee Jones. "One time Will let me inside to use the potty -- it was amazing," added Jones.

The Post wrote that “the monstrosity was choking business revenues and filling the streets with exhaust fumes. … Now the ‘I Am Legend’ actor will have to trek to the trailer to get his makeup done, confer with his personal writers and lounge in his marble-floored, 100-inch-screen film room – or walk less than a mile to his own $25,000-a-month Bond Street apartment.”


City officials insisted that the trailer fiasco is no laughing matter.

"To balance the interests of the production and the neighborhood, we have instructed 'Men in Black 3' to relocate the trailer to a private lot," read a statement from Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting.

And two City Council members have already proposed legislation regulating the size of film-production vehicles. Currently, there are no limits.

"Hardworking New Yorkers have a right to wake up in the morning and not find a cruise ship parked out in front of their house," said Public Safety Committee Chair Peter Vallone Jr. "This is New York, not Hollywood. We don't roll that way."

Margaret Chin, the councilwoman representing SoHo, also blasted Smith: "This is ridiculous. This is abuse. If we don't do something, the next one will be even bigger."


Will Smith requires ground crew to go to loo inside his Starship Trailer

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/men-black-3-will-smiths-ego-trip
ping-blockbuster-sequel-28490


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/will_arious_last_laugh_to
w_smith_6IPr2tuaWFlUdCJf4eYWyM




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