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Photo furnished BACK IN A FLASH Tommy Lee Jones shows Will Smith how the mind neutralizer works by using it on someone who witnessed an alien encounter. |
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Aaron Sanderford
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AS: Men in Black shattered my perception of time. I didn't want the movie to end.
BD: But it did, and before I knew it, I'd forgotten what I'd seen. You know how most of the really good movies cause stirring conversations on the way home. This one didn't. But that's exactly what I wanted - a headtrip.AS: Yeah, Tommy Lee Jones' character, agent "K," must have used his memory eraser on us. Because I left the movie pissed. It's a government conspiracy.
BD: Shut up, Mulder. I wasn't pissed, but I was surprised at how quickly the movie ended. It sure didn't seem like 90-plus minutes. But, like you said, it just messed with our perception of time because the movie literally had me rocking in my seat with laughter and excitement the whole time.
AS: I was only upset until I saw the clock and realized alien goo had been flying for more than an hour and a half. I love flicks that keep you on your toes, and this was a great summer movie. I want to see it again.
BD: And again. I loved it. Will Smith, as agent "J," sprinkles the magic and the laughs as he did in Independence Day, and the aliens-well, let's just say this about the aliens-they gave us Stallone, Rodman and Newt.
AS: The plot is basically about a secret government organization that polices and monitors alien activity on Earth. Smith and Jones are the immigration police to the stars, I mean of the stars.
BD: Yeah, and they run into trouble when a "bug" (I'll never kill an insect again) invades Earth searching for the all-powerful galaxy, which a soon-to-be-bug-lunch Arquillian prince possesses.
AS: And the whole thing speeds up from there. Of course, no summer movie would be worth seeing without special effects, and MIB does not disappoint.
BD: Alien goo, babies and weaponry are just a few of the new toys introduced by Director Barry Sonnenfeld. Beware of the crickett gun!
AS: Yeah, a resounding theme of the movie is that size doesn't matter.
BD: Indeed, the aliens as well as everything else came in different shapes and sizes. Also, it was cool that a movie of this magnitude and genre tried to deliver a moral that we Earthlings might be nothing more than cosmic dust in the great expanse.
AS: Is there anything out there? Who knows. But if there is, we have the MIB to protect us from reality. Roswell has nothing on this.
BD: Definitely. Roswell doesn't have the memory zapper. Just look here at the flashing red light . . .
AS: Did we just see a movie?
BD: We didn't.
AS: Oh, okay.