ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Back in 2002 the critics said, "How can Hollywood make a good sequel to Men in Black?"

Oh ye of little faith! It's EASY! Just get the same great director and the same great writers, and tell 'em to make it, dang it!

Then in 2012 all the critics said, "How can Hollywood make another sequel as good as the first one? The stars are ten years older!"

Oh, good grief. Somebody wasn't paying attention . . .

And did the third movie simply trot out the same cast and make them recreate their roles again, despite the fact that they were a decade older?

Well, they did bring back Will Smith, who still looked great, but they gave Tommy Lee Jones a break because — quite frankly — he breezed paste "spring chicken" status several decades ago.

So, the writers gave us a time-travel story so that Tommy didn't have get too physical. Will Smith goes back in time to meet a young K, who didn't know J from alphabet soup!

The movie has a ball with it's 1960s period setting, with lots of references to sixties culture, NASA, and even 1950s sci-fi movies! IMDB has this item.
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Many of the aliens in the 1969 MiB headquarters were intentionally made to look like aliens from old black and white alien movies from around the same time.
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Yeah, I know. The B&W sci-fi movies were in the 1950s — not 1969! It's like all those miniskirts they put in X-Man: First Class, which was set in the early sixties, even though miniskirts weren't popular until ten years later!

Trust me. I was there . . . and I was very observant.

But this movie has it's heart in the right place, and it entertains modern audiences — most of whom never saw a 1950s sci-fi movie or a miniskirt in their life!

Enjoy the trailer, folks.

___________________ Men In Black 3 - trailer


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[WadeVC]