Saw Men In Black: International
Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yvannairieMy spoiler-free opinion is that it was a very entertaining low-intensity comedy action flick with great lead chemistry and fun worldbuilding. I especially enjoy Chris Hemsworth's latest iteration of a Brainless Beauty trope (is this how cis straight men feel at the movies all the time? Because it feels awesome) and if he and Tessa Thompson just wanna keep making movies where they're funny and Hemsworth is constantly getting ogled by her and the camera, I'm game.
The slightly more spoilery opinion is that the plot holds together about as well as the plot of the first MIB -- it's pulp scifi with spy tropes, you know what to expect. I think the biggest problem it had was just... know it it was predictable, but not bothering to address it b/c Thompson and Hemsworth could easily carry the whole film. After I leaned to ask my friend "is (the villain) the bad guy?" in the first fifteen minutes, the rest was just... waiting the movie to get to the reveal which never properly came.
But what the hell, not every movie can be Galaxy Quest. Shallow as it was, and shallow as the whole series is, it is still fun -- although their attempts to create father-son subtext always lands far off into the land of homoeroticism so they should maybe work on that :D
The slightly more spoilery opinion is that the plot holds together about as well as the plot of the first MIB -- it's pulp scifi with spy tropes, you know what to expect. I think the biggest problem it had was just... know it it was predictable, but not bothering to address it b/c Thompson and Hemsworth could easily carry the whole film. After I leaned to ask my friend "is (the villain) the bad guy?" in the first fifteen minutes, the rest was just... waiting the movie to get to the reveal which never properly came.
But what the hell, not every movie can be Galaxy Quest. Shallow as it was, and shallow as the whole series is, it is still fun -- although their attempts to create father-son subtext always lands far off into the land of homoeroticism so they should maybe work on that :D
