• Men in Black
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[img]http://www.whatsalltheracquet.com/archives/images/men_in_black_3-thumb.jpg[/img] The Men in Black series is a media franchise based on The Men in Black comics created and written by Lowell Cunningham, which were based on the Men in Black myths surrounding UFOs. [b]Da setting:[/b] The MIB, a top-secret agency that polices, monitors and directs alien activity on Earth, has established the Earth as an apolitical "neutral zone" for alien refugees (as Agent K explains, like Casablanca with no Nazis). The MIB answer to no government; their funding comes from the patents they own on technology confiscated from aliens, such as velcro, microwave ovens, and liposuction. When a new agent joins the MIB, every public record of his/her existence is deleted and all identifying marks (including fingerprints) are physically removed from his/her body. Any memory of MIB activity upon "mustering out" of the MIB is erased and a new identity is created for the departing agent. Into this strange world is ushered the initially skeptical Det/Sgt James Edwards (Will Smith), an NYPD officer, as he becomes Agent J, one of the newest MIB personnel. Tommy Lee Jones plays K, a senior MIB agent who recruits and guides J as he learns the ropes. MIB agents wear black suits and neckties with white shirts, and appear at UFO landing sites, similar to paranormal reports of real-world Men in Black. Since the MIB are a secret organization, no evidence of their existence can be left. Instead of intimidating or threatening witnesses, the MIB use devices known as "Neuralyzers" to wipe witnesses' memories of what they have seen, and replace the memories with more mundane explanations, such as swamp gas or weather balloons. All agents carry a pair of black sunglasses, which they put on before activating a Neuralyzer to shield themselves from the effects. Neuralyzers are also used on agents who leave the organization for any reason or for agents that do not have the mental or emotional capacity to continue with the organization. K and J drive around in a seemingly inconspicuous black car, which J initially identifies as a Ford 'POS' (piece of shit), a 1987 Ford LTD Crown Victoria,[2] which, with the press of a red button on the gear stick transforms into a high-speed rocket-propelled car. [b]Characters:[/b] Agent J [img]http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/72/230x306/72826_will-smith-as-agent-j-in-men-in-black.jpg[/img] Agent J, Jay or just J, is a fictional character in the Men In Black movie, its sequel Men in Black II and cartoon series, played by Will Smith in the two movies and voiced by Keith Diamond in the animated cartoon on Kids WB! Info about him on wikiped: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_J#Biography[/url] Agent K [img]http://www.celebrity-sunglasses-finder.com/image-files/mib2_tommy.jpg[/img] Agent K (also known as K, Kay, and Kevin Brown) is a fictional Men in Black agent in the films Men in Black and Men in Black II and in the Men in Black animated series. Agent K is portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the two films and is voiced by Ed O'Ross (The Hidden), and later Gregg Berger in the animated series. Although formally known as Kevin Brown, the film's trading card series notes Agent K's name to be Kevin Cunningham, a nod to Lowell Cunningham, creator of the comic. More informatión! [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_K[/url] Frank the Pug [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Frank_(MiB2).jpg[/img] Frank the Pug is a fictional character from the Men in Black film, its sequel, and its animated series. Within the films, Frank has the appearance of a normal pug dog, but he is actually an extraterrestrial in disguise (a Remoolian). Frank is played in both movies by a trained pug named Mushu with Tim Blaney providing his voice. Jack Jeebs [img]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjA3OTM4MzI2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNzY1NzY2._V1._SX485_SY325_.jpg[/img] An alien, posing as a pawn shop owner, who deals in illegal weapons. He can regrow his head if it is damaged or blown off. He appears in both films, and he's played by Tony Shalhoub, aka Monk Chief Zed [img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:kUacplBQ9yarlM:http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDQ5Nzk0NTI3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNzk1NzY2._V1._SX485_SY387_.jpg&t=1[/img] The head of the MIB. Played by Rip Torn [b]Films/series[/b] Men in Black (Obviously): [img]http://portadas.videoclubmadison.com/peliculas/1401-men-in-black-i1997.jpg[/img] Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film was based on the Men in Black comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, originally published by Aircel Comics. It was followed by a 2002 sequel, Men in Black II, and an animated series titled, Men in Black: The Series. [quote=wiki]The main plot of the movie revolves around a "Bug" (code word for a member of an alien species that is similar in many ways to a very large cockroach) searching for a miniature galaxy which is also a vast energy source in 1997 New York. Upon landing on Earth, the Bug kills a farmer named Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio) and uses his skin as a disguise to aid in the hunt. A member of an alien royal family, masquerading as a diamond merchant, has concealed the galaxy on his cat's collar. When he is killed by the Bug, his government prepares to destroy the Earth rather than let the galaxy fall into the Bugs' hands. During their mission, J and K investigate a morgue where they meet Dr. Laurel Weaver (Linda Fiorentino), a cynical deputy medical examiner. Eventually, the agents kill the Bug (with Laurel's help) and recover the galaxy. K then has J erase his memory so he can retire, and Laurel joins the MIB and becomes Agent L, J's new partner. In the final scene of the film, the camera pulls back into the sky through space past our solar system, past millions of stars, ultimately revealing that our galaxy is contained within a spherical container resembling a marble. The container is then picked up by an alien hand which throws it, hitting another 'marble' which also contains a galaxy, in what resembles a game of marbles. Both marbles are then picked up by the hand and placed into a bag full of galaxy-containing marbles.[/quote] Trailer: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQ41frO-kI[/media] Men in Black 2 (MIIN): [img]http://www.blogodisea.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/men-in-black-2.jpg[/img] Men in Black II is a 2002 sci-fi action comedy starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson and Rip Torn. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film Men in Black, both of which are based on the Malibu comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. [quote=kawaikipedia]Five years after the events of the earlier film (2002), Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) has assumed civilian life as a small town's postmaster while Agent J (Will Smith) continues to work for the Men in Black, the self-funded New York City-based agency that secretly monitors and regulates extraterrestrials' activity on Earth. J is largely without a partner, his former partner Agent L having returned to her former life as a deputy medical examiner and her successors having been expelled from the agency by J himself due to their unsuitability. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, J uncovers a diabolical plot by Serleena, a shapeshifting Kylothian queen who disguises herself as a model (Lara Flynn Boyle), but resembles a plant-like hydra in her own form. To stop her, J must convince K— who has no memory of his time spent with the agency, but is the only person alive who knows what is needed to defeat Serleena— to reunite with the MIB before Earth is destroyed. A large part of the plot centers on Agent J's relationship with a woman called Laura Vasquez (Rosario Dawson), a waitress at a SoHo pizzeria who witnesses Serleena's killing of the pizzeria's owner. Rather than erase her memory according to MIB rules, J allows her to retain it. As Laura becomes increasingly involved in the battle between Serleena and the MIB, she comes to view Agent J as her protector, while he simultaneously falls in love with her. While J tries to deneuralyze K, Serleena breaks into MIB resulting in a lockdown; J and K escape after being flushed from the building. J then takes K to Jack Jeebs (Tony Shalhoub), who built an unofficial deneuralyzer. Although K eventually regains his memory, he reveals that he still has no recollection of the "Light of Zartha" but left himself a series of clues in case he needed to remember. Ultimately, Laura's true identity is revealed as an extraterrestrial princess and power-source styled the "Light of Zartha". This revelation requires her to return to Zartha, her ancestral homeworld. Serleena, who has been seeking all along to find and possess the Light of Zartha, is killed just as Laura is transported away. Agent K is implied to have had a romantic attachment to Laura's mother Lauranna, after whom she is named, who was killed by Serleena twenty-five years before the film's story began. It is left unknown whether K is Laura's father. When Laura has gone, K and Agent Zed (the head of MIB) attempt to console J for his loss, only to have him answer that he needs no consolation, having accepted her departure without much sorrow. Since people all over New York City have witnessed these events, an emergency neuralyzer built into the Statue of Liberty is used to erase everyone's memory. Two other plot threads relate the interaction of J with Frank the Pug (an extraterrestrial refugee posing as a pug dog, who becomes J's partner early in the film) and the revelation that K keeps a race of minuscule extraterrestrials inside a storage locker at Grand Central Terminal, the locker encasing their whole world. At the end of the film, K kicks open a forbidden door to reveal that a much larger locker located in an enormous alien version of Grand Central Terminal contains the human world.[/quote] Trailer: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4NJHqoojOU[/media] Nostalgia show! Men in Black: The series [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Men_in_Black_The_Series.jpg[/img] Men in Black: The Series (informally MIB: The Series) is an American animated television series that aired during The WB's Kids' WB programming block for four seasons from 1997 through 2001. The show features characters from 1997's science fiction film Men in Black, which was based on the comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham, originally published by Aircel Comics. MIB: The Series was made by Adelaide Productions Inc. (a unit of Sony Pictures Television) as a half-hour series airing on Saturday mornings originally and then moving to weekdays. If you don't fucking nostalgia with this, you didn't have a childhood or what? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPIsIUjVanQ[/media] You think this fucking ended? [b]Men in Black 3 is on the works (old news but fuck you)[/b] [quote=SHOWEST SHOWEST MOTHERFUCKER]The Sony presentation at ShoWest this morning was largely filler, showing extended clips from movies we've already seen the trailers for, except for one line tossed off by Sony exec Rory Bruer. Talking about all the exciting projects coming up from his studio, Bruer mentioned Spider-Man 4 (of course), Ghostbusters (nice confirmation!) and.... another Men in Black. As far as I know, talk of a third Men in Black movie had been straight-up rumors up to this point. Bruer didn't say anything else about it, and unfortunately this wasn't the kind of event where you can shout questions like "Wait, for real?" I'm fairly certain this is not Bruer's April Fool's joke on us, though at this point, I don't even know any more. So should we be looking for an announcement of Men in Black III very soon? And have Bruer and his cohorts actually talked Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith into coming back? Smith totally seems plausible, but I thought Tommy Lee Jones had moved on even before they made the second movie. I guess big piles of money have the power to change minds.[/quote] [url]http://movies.ign.com/articles/969/969035p1.html[/url] [url]http://www.cinemablend.com/new/ShoWest-Men-In-Black-III-Announced-12592.html[/url] [url]http://movies.rightcelebrity.com/men-in-black-3-officially-announced/1738[/url] [url]http://lmgtfy.com/?q=men+in+black+III+announced[/url] [img]http://gadgetophilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/t10neuralizer.jpg[/img] Enough said!
MIB (1) is one of my favorite movies to watch fucking love that film.
I loved these movies, its a shame the animated series is never on TV anymore in the UK (Or it is but i can't find it). I used to watch it all the time.
Agent Zed is actually Agent Z, they just use British English pronunciation instead of American English. Anyways, first one was good. Second one was only ok, Too much worms.
I like it as a kid.
I think i heard they are making a new one, is it true?
I love the first movie, second was okay, and I love the series... even though I don't remember watching too much of it. Kind of like most of my 'Favorite Cartoon Series That Are Never On Anymore" [QUOTE=The Rifleman;23954347]I think i heard they are making a new one, is it true?[/QUOTE] In the OP.
[QUOTE=-Ben_Wolfe-;23954379]I love the first movie, second was okay, and I love the series... even though I don't remember watching too much of it. Kind of like most of my 'Favorite Cartoon Series That Are Never On Anymore" In the OP.[/QUOTE] Oh shit i missed that, my bad.
Fucking loved the pug.
I love the first movie, second movie is ok.
The first one is decent, but has some pretty hilarious scenes (When J explains why he shot the little girl is hilarious). The second one, not so much.
The first half of the OP or so looks like a special edition of the Badage Boys.
tommy lee jones fuck yeahhhhh
[QUOTE=The Red Scotti]Lowell Cunningham[/QUOTE] :3:
i bought the men in black game when i was a kid i regret it to this day
Love MIB, can't wait for MIB3 later this year.
Will Smith is great in this movie.
My absolute favorite film. I've seen this around thirty times. Also, because I go to NYC Mon-Fri to work, I've been tempted to ask an NYPD officer if NYPD really means that he'll "Knock Yo Punkass Down!"
Who let the dogs out
Lets put it on
[QUOTE=imaguy;23974387]Lets put it on[/QUOTE] Put what on?
The cockroach alien creature thing always had a place in my heart.
MIB2 was kinda shit tbh. Hope they do better on 3.
I love MIB but I hate MIB 2 I hope the third is better
I liked the first one. Can't say it has a special place in my hearth but Will and Tommy are great partners. The second one was okay until the end where everything seems to go too fast.
I totally forgot about watching the animated show those years back. That show was the shit.
I remember when I was a kid, I called this "Men [B]is[/B] Black"...
I love the way older movies look. This thread made me realize i've never seen men in black 2. Time to catch up.
The first is easily one of the gretest modern films, the second being too glossy and ignoring the formula of the first (a good example being how Tommy Lee Jones is playing it straight in the first, but playing it playing it for laughs in the second. It didn't work). Apparently Jemaine Clement is going to play the villain in the third film. Leaked teaser: [media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlsR0izlAds[/URL][/media]
One of my favourite films as a child, and still is.
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