Saw Men in Black III. Also a lot of fun. People were actually laughing out loud in the
theater and I was one of them.
Oddly enough this is the second movie that I have seen
recently where Danny Elfman did the music and both of them included period
music and from the same period. Also,
the mention of ‘happenings’. I’m not
sure if there is any significance to that, but it makes you go ‘hmmm’.
I did not see this is 3D so I can’t say if it was any good
that way but I can say that it doesn’t need to be in 3D to be good. I don’t think you can ever get back to the
level of the first movie, but this was a good entry in the series.
Now this is not a deep, philosophical movie. It’s a summer SF action movie and you know
what to expect from the franchise. Although
there is some introspection and consideration of how people become who they
are.
Again – as in Dark
Shadows – we have a man out of time, though that isn’t the focus. Agent J time jumps back to 1969 and there’s
some commentary on racism, with some humor thrown in, and the attitudes and
fashion and music are from then, but it’s atmosphere. The major mention is really just the
differences in technology used by the agents.
And of course the younger Agent K.
Personally, I think that Josh Brolin nailed the
performance. He is a young Agent K. He is
thoroughly enjoyable in this movie and a reason in himself to see it. It was a lot of fun watching him. I didn’t think there was anything
distracting, either. You just end up
watching a younger version of the character.
If they want to replace Tommy Lee Jones, either because they think he’s
too old or because he doesn’t want to do it anymore, they can just bring Josh
Brolin’s version of the character to the future and take it from there.
I also really like the character of Griffin – a
multidensional being who exists in pretty much all realities and potential
realities of time at once with a thorough understanding of how and why they
work the way they do. He’s a bit odd at
first, but funny and sympathetic and he brings some pathos to parts of the
movie. Don’t worry about how all that
works, just see the movie, it’ll make sense.
Speaking of making sense, movies don’t always, especially if
you take the time to think about them after you see them. You think about the inconsistencies or where
the storyline goes off from where they’ve been before. But what matters most for me is whether or
not you get pulled out of the movie by that while you’re watching it. I didn’t.
Internally it all plays well and the movie holds together.
I say go see it.
And Frank, the pug, is sort of in this one, too.
1 comment:
Saw it. Loved it.
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