MIB II was nowhere near as good as MIB

[Johnny_L.A]

The direction was…directionless

Well, let’s look at what Sonnenfeld has directed…

The Addams Family. I liked it, even though the Gomez character was completely mis-directed. Nothing like the “real” Gomez.

For the Love of Money. Didn’t see it. Never heard of it.

Addams Family Values. See The Addams Family.

Get Shorty. Saw it once because it was free with my DVD player. I can see how some people liked it, but I think it’s rather tedious and overblown.

Men in Black. I liked it. I have it on DVD. But it was lacking “something”.

Maximum Bob. That was a teevee series? Never heard of it.

Wild Wild West. Looked dreadful in the trailers. Avoided it.

The Tick. Yeah, that one was successful.

Big Trouble. Didn’t see it.

Men in Black 2. See comments from my first post.

I like the concept of MiB. I like the characters. But Sonnenfeld shouldn’t have directed either one of them. He’s just not a very good director.

BTW: Spielberg also exec-produced the original MiB film.

[JohnT]

*Originally posted by zuma *
**

Jesus Christ! Where in the hell do you live where you can see a movie for 6.50? About 15 years ago I remember grousing about 7 dollar movie prices.

I haven’t seen a sub-9.00 movie in YEARS.

Men in Black II is obviously crap, but 6.50? This is the real mystery. There is a second-run theater where you can get in for 3 bucks. but six fifty for first run? I don’t get it. **

Knoxville, TN, baby. Mrs. JohnT and I paid a total of $11.00 for the two of us to get in to see AOTC, or $5.50 a ticket. The ticket agent kinda apologized, saying that they had to charge “full price” for AOTC, because the usual matinee price is $4.50.

[Shadowfyre]

I enjoyed the movie. It wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t the worst either.

I liked the short film before the actual movie. Everytime that little guy just threw a string of letters out to spell respect made me tear up from laughing so hard.

Anyway, I searched this thread out to ask a particular question, who is the girl in the video store working with David Cross? She looks so familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it.

[raz]

It costs $5.50 to go to the movies here, but I get matinee showings for free because my best friend works there.

But about the movie, I didn’t think it was half bad. Seemed incredibly short, though. The “All is Lost!” part was pretty funny.

[Kamino_Neko]

I enjoyed it. Frank and the Worms were myt favourite characters in the cartoon, so I was happy to see them getting some major screen time. And they’re properly in character, too, which is good.

My minor complaints:

1. If K knew something bad would happen to the Light at Midnight of that day…why, why WHY did he neurolise himself concerning it?

2. Zed’s little martial arts bit with Serleena - funny, but completely out of the blue.

3. Ballchinian? -_-;

Oh, and the little short before the movie was worth the price of admission alone.

[Gozu_Tashoya]

*Originally posted by airdisc *
**I liked it too. I could hear the audience groaning when WLTDO started playing while Frank was waiting in the car.

Though it was too short. **

Yeah, I thought that scene should have been longer too.

And, Johnny, Big Trouble was a very bland movie in terms of direction. Quite funny (based on a book by Dave Barry, after all), but still quite bland.

Oh, and the little short before the movie was worth the price of admission alone.

There was a short before the movie?

[friedo]

*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. *

Well, let’s look at what Sonnenfeld has directed…
…
Maximum Bob. That was a teevee series? Never heard of it.

Heheh. I remember Maximum Bob - that was a dumb show about the redneck state judge from Florida, Bob, who always gave out the maximum possible sentence.

[Kamino_Neko]

*Originally posted by KKBattousai *
**There was a short before the movie? **

Yeah. Little animated thing with aliens. Funny as hell.

[mobo85]

*Originally posted by Tengu *
**Yeah. Little animated thing with aliens. Funny as hell. **

The ChubbChubbs are Coming!, Sony Pictures’ secret weapon. Well, it’s not much a weapon as it is an animated short, but a weapon in the sense as a showpiece to tell people that Sony has a competent computer animation division. And can you believe it was originally not planned to be released?

[robertliguori]

All who predicted that the lil’ fuzzballs would become EVIL, say aye. Aye.
And all martial arts combat in MIB suffers from Jones’ Law: Whenever a person with mad Hand-2-Hand skillz meets a Big Honking Ass Gun(TM, appearing in Doom3), the gun always wins.
In short, using kung-fu when ranged weapons are available is inherently foolish.
Hijack:
Oh dear lord. The trailer for Matrix Reloaded looked vaguely like a Chinese wire-fu movie. The Agents wear suits. People in suits look uncommonly silly wileding falchions and tridents.

[Blalron]

MIB II is the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning. That’s all I have to say about that.

[fallapart]

when i saw it, there wasent a short!! whats the deal??

any-who, i just went for the cameo by david cross, now That was worth the price of addmission. (5.75)

[Gozu_Tashoya]

*Originally posted by fallapart *
when i saw it, there wasent a short!! whats the deal??

Nice to see it wasn’t just me.

[medstar]

Hey, I don’t remember a short film before the main picture either! It was probably better.