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"Men In Black 3"

By May 24, 2012No Comments

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  • Aden Jordan says:

    Only the estim­able Glenn Kenny could men­tion Borges in a ‘MIB III’ review. The movie looks weak to me, but I’m temp­ted to see it based upon your assess­ment of Brolin’s Jones impression.

  • Paul McNeill says:

    Just read your review on MIB3. Enjoyed it but – who is your audi­ence? Dumb it down a little so its less about you and more of an invit­a­tion to we ped­es­tri­ans to under­stand your con­sid­er­able accu­men and wit. Cook up some com­fort food. First time vis­it­ing your blog. I will be back. Really was moved by the entry “Mass Cards” from Patterson. So spot on. I have kept sev­er­al from over the years and often am struck buy the absurdity of life going all around out­side the win­dows of a funer­al procession.

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  • NotLexAtAll says:

    White pussy.

  • Glenn Kenny says:

    Duly noted.
    I have an acquaint­ance in California who appar­ently knows the “real” Lex, and a couple of years ago, by way of try­ing to be reas­sur­ing, he told me the indi­vidu­al in ques­tion was “a sol­id guy who I’d let drive my kids to school.” I did­n’t see it then, and I don’t see it now.

  • Petey says:

    I have an acquaint­ance in California who appar­ently knows the “real” Lex, and a couple of years ago, by way of try­ing to be reas­sur­ing, he told me the indi­vidu­al in ques­tion was “a sol­id guy who I’d let drive my kids to school.”
    Don’t you have to be at least 16 years old to drive in California? That would seem to dis­qual­i­fy the per­son in question.

  • Oliver_C says:

    (NB: Needless to say I do not con­done either the troll’s or the pussy’s egre­gious attention-whoring.)

  • Oliver_C says:

    PPS: Who needs *movies* about freak­ishly strange, obnox­ious beings res­id­ent on Earth when we have, right here and *for real*, LexG and Crusader Cat (even if his cos­tume does fall short of Rick Baker standards)?
    Anyone out there read­ing this and want­ing to shoot the next ‘Crumb’ / ‘Fast, Cheap and Out of Control’ / ‘Winnebago Man’-style cult doc­u­ment­ary, just go track these two down!

  • Glad I AM NOT Mr. Kenny says:

    I could care less if this is posted.
    Mr. Kenny, here is a tip: William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style”. Buy it, read it, learn it.
    You may be right about the movie, but GOOD GAWD, your writ­ing sucks!
    You get paid for this kind of garbage?
    You sir, are a con-man of the highest order, I don’t care how much you’ve pub­lished. That was a load-o-writing-crap!

  • What is it about block­busters, where even a rel­at­ively pos­it­ive review brings out the freaks?

  • Petey says:

    What is it about block­busters, where even a rel­at­ively pos­it­ive review brings out the freaks?”
    As Roger Ebert wrote:
    “They seem to have been assembled for vic­tims of Attention Deficit Syndrome, who are a large vot­ing block at the box office these days.”

  • jbryant says:

    Should we feed the troll by point­ing out it should be “could­n’t care less,” and that he used a comma where a semi-colon should be, etc.?
    Nah.

  • I.B. says:

    But per­haps he means that he really can care less if this is pos­ted! It is a pos­sib­il­ity that remains to be seen. Maybe he cares the same as before, or who knows, maybe even a little more. The heart is a strange… a strange whatever, in such humong­ous creature as one named Glad I AM NOT Mr. Kenny.
    Glad I AM NOT Mr. Kenny
    Glad, I AM NOT Mr. Kenny (how many times do I have to tell you, Glad?)
    Glad I AM, NOT Mr. Kenny (YES, MY FATHER CHRISTENED ME GLAD AND SCREWED MY WEE YEARS)
    Glad I AM NOT, Mr. Kenny (like your review I didn’t)
    Gee, lad, I am HOT, me Lenny (Carl = black)
    I know exactly how much I care about how much he cares.

  • Pinko Punko says:

    Hilarious Strunk and White troll. That “Shrunken White Thing” as we punned in high school is not the thing to make any­one a good writer.
    I.B., I doff my HAT, to you, SIR. I, DOFF MY HAT, to you sir. Etc.

  • Joel Gordon says:

    I.B.: You nev­er did the Kenosha Kid.

  • I.B. says:

    Cheerio! I’m just a kom­ic­al kami­kaze. Trying to, anyways.

  • Petey says:

    I find the word­ing, (likely not Glenn’s word­ing), of “Comments are mod­er­ated, and will not appear until the author has approved them” to be incred­ibly odd.
    Glenn is the author of the blog, but I’m the author of my com­ment, so should­n’t that imply that I get to approve my own comment?
    Silly word­ing, (and silly com­ment on my part.)

  • Jonah says:

    One of the unex­pec­ted pleas­ures of this film is that it actu­ally man­ages to con­vey, vis­cer­ally, the excite­ment and expect­a­tion that sur­roun­ded the launch of Apollo 11. For someone who was­n’t around at the time, that was some­thing I appreciated.
    The premise of this fran­chise (which owes some­thing to Green Lantern, I guess) is so good that I can ima­gine it sus­tain­ing a longer series. But my sense is that this was designed as a one-off, rather than a “reboot” as they say nowadays

  • Oliver_C says:

    Hasn’t DC Comics just ‘outed’ the Green Lantern? At least that means no more of his girl­friends get­ting put in refrigerators.

  • Chuck says:

    An excerpt from your story on Prometheus.
    “As you know doubt have heard by now,”
    Are you a sixth grader who does­n’t KNOW the dif­fer­ence between “KNOW” and “NO”. I say “No doubt”!
    People are get­ting more stu­pid every day. The worst part is, most people won’t even under­stand what I’m talk­ing about. We’re a coun­try of retards!

  • Glenn Kenny says:

    So Chuck, what’s your favor­ite band?

  • Chuck says:

    My favor­ite band.… Probably over all is Rush. By the way, your email – you’re right and I apo­lo­gize – it’s no big deal. And I did mean it in a “tongue in cheek” kind of way. Didn’t really intend to be mali­cious. Sorry about that. Really.

  • Chuck says:

    And was­n’t MIB 3 really very good for a 3rd in a series? I say, “Yes, it was.…”

  • Glenn Kenny says:

    I agree, Chuck. Also, the band I was hop­ing for was “No Doubt,” get it?
    Anyway, be well. Thanks.