Just how huge was this shitter back in the late 90’s?
>>221074857Woll Smoth was in his prime. Jones was also a big name back then thanks to the Fugitive.
>>221074857Just like any summer blockbuster>endless commercials>a soundtrack>fast food tie ins>probably some discussion on ancient /tv/ type boards>an official website on the world wide webIt was a formula back then
The holographic VHS cover was cool as fuck.
>>221074857It was great, part of humanity's golden age (the 90's)
>>221075102We lost this technolgy
>>221074985I miss it so bad, like a song would come out tied to the movie and the music video has clips from the movie, FUCKING KINO!
>>221074857It was really big at the time but they kinda failed to turn it into a long-lasting franchise, which in retrospective isn't a bad thing but I feel like the producers fumbled really hard. It was after all the 9th best grossing film of the decade. Perhaps the sequel took too long to come out. Five years felt like an eternity back then.
>>221074857Fucking blockbuster. It was a great movie. Good mix of action and comedy. That mix, naturally, got all fucked up in the sequels.
>>221074857was impossible to confirm a copy of this at the rental store when it first dropped
>>221074857Huge, it was great.
>>221074985you forgot the rushed video game tie in
>>221074985there was a cartoon as well.
>>221074857One of my absolute favorites, I always look back on this flick fondly.
>>221074857It's crazy how fucking bad and derivative MIB2 is compared to MIB1. like it literally adds fucking nothing. The cartoon is a better sequel to MIB than MIB2 Same thing with the mummy. Mummy 2 is literally just mummy 1 but with an annoying kid. Like they just made the same movie again but worse
>>221074857Ayys were BIG in the sweltering hot summer of 1997 because of the Mars Pathfinder landing and the 50th anniversary of Roswell. This spot from the Sci-Fi Chanel is like a time capsule.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70nRUaTtII
What a racist movie. Only Right Wing Chuds would enjoy this.
>>221074985Let's also not forget the shooting gallery dark ride at Universal Studios Florida.
>>221075196The first MIB was clever.The second MIB had ball chin aliens. Funny, yes, but I can get that type of humor anywhere.
GIVE MESUGARin wata
How did a school bus sized cockroach stuff himself into an Egger suit anyway?
>>221074857along with Rush Hour it ended racism
>>221076692nutty professor as well
It was pretty huge. It even had Michael in it.
>>221075491Really? I thought you could call in a reservation at the Block Buster?
>>221076666You ask this in the same move that stuffed an entire galaxy into a pendant?
>>221074857Sonnenfeld kino was held in high regard. Men in black was one of those culturally big movies that you couldn't possibly avoid it was literally everywhere
>>221075656And it was one of the better cartoon adaptions
>>221075656I hated the cartoon because of how ugly the people were. It reminds me of stomach cramps before going to school, and watching this before there was nothing else on. Made me long for the days of Sailor Moon before school.
One of the few cartoons that were better than the movie.
>>221074985You forgot a will smith single.https://youtu.be/fiBLgEx6svA?is=nUvD-_QXOJQhywUv
>HERE COME THE MEN IN BLACKI just recently realized this anthem was note-for-note ripped from a 70s disco hit song.
>>221076105The X-Files made ayylmaos and youeffohhs popular again in the late 90s after it died out in the 80s. Then the zombie fad took over by 2010s. Funny thing is UFO cultists were hippies and left wing nut jobs back then. Today, they're incel chud grifters and right wing nut jobs.
>>221075102Holy kino
>>221074985I don't know how widespread it was, but it was so big that at least in the Los Angeles area, there were school assemblies held where people would go and teach the kids to do the dance from the Men in Black music video. Why? No fucking clue. I don't think it was even like those yo-yo assemblies where they were trying to sell something But it happened for a couple years.
>>221074857I'm surprised this isn't a generational touchstone in the same way that Ghostbusters is, might even be a better movie
>>221076105Ezri and Iria in the same commercial? Truly the 90s were a magical time.
>>221074857I was a DJ at a bar 12 years ago and everybody hit the dance floor and went apeshit when I played the Men In Black song and when I say “everybody” I mean black people.
>>221076857sailor moon followed by pokémon for me.
>>221076966are you unfamiliar with sampling?
Bad Boys > ID4 > Men In Black is a ridiculously strong three picture run. He was on-top of the world when MIB came out, there’s absolutely no doubt about that. Late 90’s was peak civilization. We need to go back.
I miss watching this movie with my Dad...
>>221074857Unc here who saw this in theatres in the 1990s. It was the 1990s Ghost Busters. Everyone loved it everyone loved Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and it was a well regarded sci fi comedy feel good movie. Lotta toy tie ins and promotionshttps://youtu.be/p0pjxkO7sU8?is=PucKb1FQ9vc5NDhT
>>221074857Late 90s blockbusters actually signaled the beginning of the end. There was some real dogshit in 1997 like Batman and Robin and The Lost World. I think Hollywood got spooked by all the losses and that's when they got obsessed with doing franchise films in the 2000s especially after Harry Potter came out.
>>221075656Fuck i dont remember these eps being so high concept3 3 "The Irritable Bow-Wow Syndrome[3]" Frank Paur Mark Amato October 25, 1997 03When a Charnock lands on Earth and aggressively attempts to take a Void Density Core from Jeebs's shop, K and J quickly discover that Frank had been there and accidentally swallowed it. Now the pair find themselves seeking to protect him, whilst trying to get it out and deactivate it before it can start sucking everything into itself, including New York City.4 4 "The Alpha Syndrome[4]" Michael Goguen Alexx Van Dyne November 1, 1997 04K discovers that the theft of a Sintillian heart was the work of Alpha, his former mentor and MIB agent, who stole a Cosmic Integrator to make himself stronger. While K is eager to go it alone, J refuse to let his partner do so, and so is in a race against time to find out where he and Alpha are.5 5 "The Undercover Syndrome" Dennis Woodyard Steve Roberts November 8, 1997 05When Dirndl, a Tarkan Trade Minister from Tarka, arrives on Earth for an alien conference, J accidentally incapacitates his Tarkan bodyguard. Z quickly assign him to work undercover as his replacement during the conference, in order to route out an assassin seeking to eliminate him, but with so many aliens attending, it's a tall order for the MIB agent.6 6 "The Neuralyzer Syndrome" Dennis Woodyard Mark Amato November 15, 1997 06J has always wanted to know more about K, and gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally neuralyzes him back to when K was sixteen years old. While J finds himself trying to get K to return to MIB HQ, matters are complicated when a group of Chop-Shoppers, black market starship thieves, kidnap him, leading J to call for help from L.Note: This episode was taken off the television airwaves after 2001 due to a scene that resembled the events of 9/11.
>>221076435Got fucking sick on that thing.
>>221078884Sort of related, I caught an episode of the old Ghostbusters cartoon once and they were talking about Cherenkov radiation with a pretty good explanation of how it worked. That's some high level stuff for a kid's cartoon made to sell toys.
Genuinely great movie. Fun concept, the jokes still hold up, good special effects, and Linda Fiorentino is insanely fucking hot
>>221074857Zoomer fuck off the world you lived in sucked. This was peak kino during the 90s
