It has been a year; so I'm closing the original Films Worth Viewing. I will begin with "Men in Black."
"Men in Black"-Barry Sonnenfeld-1997
This film was a product of Amblin Entertainment the Spielberg company. The series is based on a comic created by Lowell Cunningham. The screenplay was written by Ed Solomon; I'm not sure why he didn't write the two sequels. The picture had a $ 90 million budget and had a world wide gross of $589 million.
If I had to explain the success; then I would start with the relationship between K (Tommie Lee Jones) and J (Will Smith). The pairing works wonderfully well. The sardonic Jones and rule breaking Smith. I assume that all 'Yarders are familiar with the franchise. The Men in Black are a super secret government agency which deals with aliens from other galaxies. It processes them through immigration and maintains a watchful eye on alien residents. The Big Apple is a favorite point for these immigrants. At the sharp end of the stick are the proud, the few, MIB who only have single letter code names. They have to deal with misbehaving aliens. In the first film that is an alien giant insect who takes over the body of Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio). His mission is to capture the super source known as "The Galaxy."
to be continued
"Men in Black"-Barry Sonnenfeld-1997
This film was a product of Amblin Entertainment the Spielberg company. The series is based on a comic created by Lowell Cunningham. The screenplay was written by Ed Solomon; I'm not sure why he didn't write the two sequels. The picture had a $ 90 million budget and had a world wide gross of $589 million.
If I had to explain the success; then I would start with the relationship between K (Tommie Lee Jones) and J (Will Smith). The pairing works wonderfully well. The sardonic Jones and rule breaking Smith. I assume that all 'Yarders are familiar with the franchise. The Men in Black are a super secret government agency which deals with aliens from other galaxies. It processes them through immigration and maintains a watchful eye on alien residents. The Big Apple is a favorite point for these immigrants. At the sharp end of the stick are the proud, the few, MIB who only have single letter code names. They have to deal with misbehaving aliens. In the first film that is an alien giant insect who takes over the body of Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio). His mission is to capture the super source known as "The Galaxy."
to be continued