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Topic	Gauntlet Crew Ranks Sci Fi Films I-2
scarletspeed7 11/23/18 6:28:03 PM #18:	"There's this secret government organization that deals with illegal alien activity (the flying saucer kind, not the hola amigo kind), and this wacky NYPD cop joins the ranks and much hijinks were had. There is a quite a bit of good banter between the two leads, but it feels wasted on a plot that seems conceived by an 8-year-old and a lame antagonist who does little but lurch about haplessly with contorted facial expressions, struggling to form basic sentences like he has a severe mental disability or is a devout Donald Trump supporter. You can have a comedy without straying so far out of the realm of believability that plot angles that come off as a monkey throwing its feces at a canvas to see what sticks, or as nothing more than an excuse to show off more of the movie's critter effects. It honestly brings to mind all too many of the biggest problems about that era of filmmaking." ~Karo "Occassionally funny, Men in Black makes the most of the chemistry between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and a decent concept." ~Snake "Here's one that I imagine a lot of people my age probably have nostalgia for, where I have none whatsoever. The third movie would actually have fared better for me. I do love Vincent D'Onofrio's performance as the villain in this a hilarious physical performance that conceptually feels like one of the cards from the Whose Line game Party Quirks (a cockroach alien trying to pass himself off as a farmer feels like one Ryan Stiles would have ended up acting out). I will say the more explicitly roach-y scenes were hard for me to watch. The main strike against this movie, for me, is the same problem I have with a lot of Barry Sonnenfield's movies: a lot of random bits of the humor just hit me as really juvenile. Every time a joke would hit, there would be another joke that would miss, and some that would miss obnoxiously enough that I would be actively annoyed. And yet, the cast does have good chemistry, and even if a lot of the movie is overbearingly nineties (definitely not my favorite nostalgia decade, aesthetically speaking), a lot of it does work and is a lot of fun. I imagine if I had seen the MIB movies when they came out, and not all in 2018 for the first time, I probably would have a lot more residual fondness for this one." ~KBM --- "It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful <cite>scarletspeed7 posted [p:912918844] in Gauntlet C... [t:77231113]...</cite> <quote>"There's this secret government organization that deals with illegal alien activity (the flying saucer kind, not the hola amigo kind), and this wacky NYPD cop joins the ranks and much hijinks were had. There is a quite a bit of good banter between the two leads, but it feels wasted on a plot that seems conceived by an 8-year-old and a lame antagonist who does little but lurch about haplessly with contorted facial expressions, struggling to form basic sentences like he has a severe mental disability or is a devout Donald Trump supporter. You can have a comedy without straying so far out of the realm of believability that plot angles that come off as a monkey throwing its feces at a canvas to see what sticks, or as nothing more than an excuse to show off more of the movie's critter effects. It honestly brings to mind all too many of the biggest problems about that era of filmmaking." ~Karo "Occassionally funny, Men in Black makes the most of the chemistry between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and a decent concept." ~Snake "Here's one that I imagine a lot of people my age probably have nostalgia for, where I have none whatsoever. The third movie would actually have fared better for me. I do love Vincent D'Onofrio's performance as the villain in this a hilarious physical performance that conceptually feels like one of the cards from the Whose Line game Party Quirks (a cockroach alien trying to pass himself off as a farmer feels like one Ryan Stiles would have ended up acting out). I will say the more explicitly roach-y scenes were hard for me to watch. The main strike against this movie, for me, is the same problem I have with a lot of Barry Sonnenfield's movies: a lot of random bits of the humor just hit me as really juvenile. Every time a joke would hit, there would be another joke that would miss, and some that would miss obnoxiously enough that I would be actively annoyed. And yet, the cast does have good chemistry, and even if a lot of the movie is overbearingly nineties (definitely not my favorite nostalgia decade, aesthetically speaking), a lot of it does work and is a lot of fun. I imagine if I had seen the MIB movies when they came out, and not all in 2018 for the first time, I probably would have a lot more residual fondness for this one." ~KBM --- "It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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