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Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return for "Men In Black 3D"

JacksonArcher

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The Men In Black are returning, and this time in 3D! Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, as well as series director Barry Sonnenfeld, are returning for the third installment in the comic-book franchise, entitled Men In Black 3D, coming to theaters summer 2011.

http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9125%3Amen-in-black-3-coming-summer-2011&catid=41%3Anews&Itemid=71

There had been some indecision whether or not Smith would return, debating between staring in this and another project, but apparently he has chosen MiB3.

Thoughts? I loved the first movie, but the second movie was pretty mediocre and lost some of the appeal and chemistry between Smith and Jones. I would hope a third movie could regain some of that appeal and chemistry, but I'm not holding my breath. Either way, I do have an affinity for the series as a whole so of course I'm looking forward to this.
 
JacksonArcher said:
The Men In Black are returning, and this time in 3D! Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, as well as series director Barry Sonnenfeld, are returning for the third installment in the comic-book franchise, entitled Men In Black 3D, coming to theaters summer 2011.

http://iesb.net/index.php?option=co...-3-coming-summer-2011&catid=41:news&Itemid=71

There had been some indecision whether or not Smith would return, debating between staring in this and another project, but apparently he has chosen MiB3.

Thoughts? I loved the first movie, but the second movie was pretty mediocre and lost some of the appeal and chemistry between Smith and Jones. I would hope a third movie could regain some of that appeal and chemistry, but I'm not holding my breath. Either way, I do have an affinity for the series as a whole so of course I'm looking forward to this.
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Meh. The first was great, but the second was very disappointing. And now, we're big into this 3D craze :rolleyes:

Right now, pass.
 
"mediocre" is too generous; the second film was abosolutely terrible. ONly good thing was Danny Elfman's standard-fair score.
 
Neither film was especially great. The second one's choice of villains probably drug it down. Johnny Knoxville was popular that week...so let's cast him and that waif from some legal show.
 
No, the bad writing, crummy plotting, fan-wanking, and unoriginality is mainly what was bad. The first film is the pinicle of what a good sci-fi comedy can be.
 
Great... more blockbuster fiction glorifying those who mind-assault Muggles who don't deserve to be let into the cool, magical kids' club. Because American audiences' egos aren't big enough already. :rolleyes:
 
Yay, franchise necromancy. 2011 would be nine years after MIB 2. But these days, sequels twenty or so years after the last installment are pretty normal. Necromancy is getting as common as remakes.

Oh and once more we're pimping 3-D. Yawn.
 
I, honestly, think the "MIB" thing needs to be "rebooted" but with the darker tone, mood, and purposes the "real" MIB are supposed to have.
 
Gaith said:
Great... more blockbuster fiction glorifying those who mind-assault Muggles who don't deserve to be let into the cool, magical kids' club. Because American audiences' egos aren't big enough already. :rolleyes:
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Uh...what?
 
You all are being too kind to the 2nd movie and not joyous enough about the first.

The first Men in Black was the 90's version of Ghostbusters and deserves every bit as much praise as that film gets. It is, in a word, perfect.

The second MiB can die in a pit.

So where does that leave us? I really think the 2nd movie was taken over by committee and we all know what happens then. I don't know what happened to Barry, but he clearly just gave up.

IF he can grow a spine and say "my way or I walk" then yeah, this 3rd movie could be the actual sequel we've been waiting for. But if he's not gonna do that then this is probably a big waste of time.

I'm optimistic that Star Trek and Batman Begins have shown Hollywood that it really can work to take a genius director and just let him do his thing without putting your greasy little paws all over everything.

We'll just have to wait and see.
 
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