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Review: Men In Black II
The story line is almost irrelevant. Will Smith (Agent Jay) has to neuralize one dumb partner after another, and ends up with a smart-mouthed, sometimes hilarious pug for a partner. He pines for his former sidekick Tommy Lee Jones (Agent Kay), now neuralized and working for the institution with the greatest number of aliens, the U.S. Post Office. (The movie, like the first, gets off some great double entendres and inside jokes).
The movie opens with a campy Peter Graves spoof on the Ed Woods' style sci-fi movies of the 50's and 60's. Simply, Lara Flynn Boyle plays Serleena, the powerful alien queen ravaging earth to get her hands on a distant planet's light source. If she isn't stopped, the world will be destroyed, of course. Her prescence forces the MIB agency (headed by Sid, played by Rip Torn) to go and de-neuralize Kay, who comes back to re-join his buddy and save the world.
This is all beside the point, of course. The whole film is a device for Sonnenfeld's loopy rags on Martha Stewart (not perhaps as funny as it would have been a month ago) and Michael Jackson. There are hilarious locker room and worm aliens, and blessedly, the movie never takes itself seriously for a single second. Like the better parts of the Scream series, the movie ends up spoofing itself and the people who loved it.
If you go see it, all you need to know is that the surprise originality of the first is missing, mostly because we know what to expect, but the loopy and inventive spirit of MIB is very much alive.
CmdrTaco my 2 bits is that this movie was bland. It probably is my least favorite of the last half dozen movies I've seen. I loved the original, but this just doesn't have the punch of the first. Its got its moments, but the whole ride is weak. Watch Lilo & Stich instead ;)
Your .sig says something about you. It's a statement that you want associated with EVERYTHING you say on this site. To me that makes it a fairly strong sentiment. And when someone is using that sentiment to devalue someone who they supposedly love enough to spend the rest of their life with makes me upset. Your children aren't inherently special just because they are yours. They could end up being anything, serial killers, rapists, idiots, bullies, geniuses, doctors, lawyers, programmers, anything. Your spouse should be cherished, loved, and respected. If all your spouse is to you is some guy/girl you met in a bar then I think your life must be a pretty sad spectacle. I love my wife dearly, I knew her for years before we got married. We don't want children and one of the reasons is because children would detract from our personal relationship.
I just can't fathom the idea that a child, someone who doesn't even have a fully formed personality yet, could be held up as more valuable or interesting than an adult whom you are supposedly in love with. It's just wrong.
Kintanon
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While I do agree with you, I still think referring to US citizens as american is still somewhat correct. After all, we're the United States of America. As you pointed out, United States-men-and-women just doesn't sound right. Canadian, Mexican, Costa Rican all sound "right". So I guess calling us Americans is in a way right, but to say that someone else from a (North/Latin/South) American country isn't American is wrong. I don't think when someone from the US calls themselves american, they're trying to be arrogant or offensive, it's just that that's what we're used to.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
I'm not saying he can't live his life that way, just that I can't understand it. If he's seperated from his wife, fine I can understand why he would value her less than the children. But if they are together, then I think it's fairly disturbing to value the children above her.
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Which of you idiots gave this post a "5" rating? This post deserved a two at most.
Hehe. The site was created in approx 20 minutes a couple of months ago. If you check the root site, kyrina.org You'll see that it's my wife's site. I am married quite happily, thank you. One of the things I do for amusement is RP. I also play video games, am a hardcore martial artist and amateur gymnast. I don't plan on having children for many reasons, one of which is that it would take away from my relationship with my wife, another is that I spent many years helping to raise my cousins and I've seen how stressful and time consuming children are. I am also a firm believer in Zero Population Growth, and since so many people are having litters of children I think it would be irresponsible for me to introduce any more children into the world. I also dislike people who value children higher than adults. People are people. They are all worth exactly the same amount until they do something to distinguish themselves otherwise.
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Agree.
I hate to see people ruin their lives by having kids at 16 or even 19 or 20. They don't realize that once you have a child you will spend most of the rest of your life caring for it.
Agree.
The odds of you performing any truly valuable service for humanity just dropped to near 0.
Disagree. The most valuable service you or I can do for humanity is to perpetuate the species with quality humans. The effect will be exponential over time.
If your parents or mine decided NOT to have children, then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Having kids isn't for everyone. Some people can have kids and a career and do both well, most people can't. I just want people to think about it before they have children.
Well put.
Chris
I'm sorry, but I need to do this, and I'm not being sarcastic:
No, you're being ignorant.
When living in Japan I was always asked "Are you American?" or "What part of America are you from?" (usually by Americans) To which my universal reply was "I'm Canadian."
"Amerika-jin" means someone from the United States
"Kanada-jin" means someone from Canada.
And that's how the rest of the world sees it.
Why do you think we complain obout the obnoxious "American" tourists visiting Canada?
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
That's geographic ignorance. The continents are pretty well distinguished from each other, more than with others. Also, Central America is just part of another continent. It is not a continent by itself.
It's not ignorance, trust me, it's just a different way to distinguish world regions, the same way there are different measurement units. Fifty years ago in most schools (in my region), it was generally accepted that Eurasia was one big continent, but due to economic and political differences, it was "decided" to separate them into two different continents. The way it's taught here is fairly simple: a Continent is a large, self contained landmass seprated by oceans, but larger than an island, with the new twist that Europe and Asia are two separate continents. BTW, that's the dictionary definition (Real Academia de la Lengua Española). So now it's generally accepted in Latin America that the continents are America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceanía (which includes Australia but also includes New Zeland and other nearby islands).
The bottom line is, just becuase they teach you in the US that the continents are the ones you've heard, doesn't mean it's a universally accepted truth. It's not. It's the same with the point I was trying to make: It's generally considered ofensive from Mexico to Argentina that you guys consider yourselves the only Americans there are. Most Americans that live in the US don't know that, unfortunately. Wether you wanna hear it or not, it's the truth. Even if you don't agree. So you can either disregard it and sound like a jerk if you ever travel down here, or learn from it and keep it in mind. Or you can do the third option which is to mod me down and shut me up like someone did with my previous post...How un-american (the continent, not the country).
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
The AC is an idiot. I clicked on the link to your website, hmm, not bad looking
at all. But quite honestly, Japanesse women don't cut it for me.
I stayed at Osaka doing data-minning for an import/export company, and had the pleasure
to have a good night life. I have probably slept with a woman from every continent, and
I had the pleasure to know them very well and become great friends with them.
Except for the J-girls. No matter how intersting you are as a person, and no matter how
much you have working for you, they will never consider you romantically, if you are not
japanesse. I really couldn't figure out why.
I really don't know if it was a language barrier or something else.