Men In Black Commercial Appeal

The film’s success internationally and “vast commercial appeal may be attributed to factors outside the film’s mix of broad physical comedy, exciting action sequences, and understated banter. More than anything else, the producers managed to capitalize on Smith’s popularity not only as a TV personality, but especially as a maintain hip-hop star” (Schneider 358). Smith not only starred in the hit film, he also sung the hit Men In Black theme song, and greatly increased his status as a major film star thereafter.

Men In Black is directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, a producer and former cinematographer turned director, and native New Yorker, “he graduated from New York University of Film School in 1978. He started work as director of photography on the Oscar-nominated In Our Water (1982). Then Joel Coen and Ethan Coen hired him for Blood Simple. (1984). This film began his collaboration with the Coen Bros., who used him for their next two pictures, Raising Arizona (1987) and Miller's Crossing (1990)”(IMDb). His first film as director was the highly successful The Addams Family (1991), he later received critical acclaim for Get Shorty (1995), and the commercial success (and franchise) of Men in Black (1997), Men
Is that it does not take itself too seriously, it is funny, has action, cool looking tech, good actors, and good FX. I really enjoyed the “odd couple” relationship between Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as displayed onscreen. Some of my favorite scenes were the use of the memory-wiper, a cool device to have to make people forget something, and the epic, exploding flying saucer scene at end of the film was awesome to watch. Moreover, of course, the very ending of the film showing our own Milky Way galaxy is merely a prized marble used on a board game by huge pan-denominational beings outside our own reality of the universe. This film is great on all accounts and much more appreciated then the films that came later in the