{"id":8711,"date":"2016-08-30T20:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2016-08-30T20:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:38:23","slug":"men-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/men-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Men in Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen sugar do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men in Black<\/strong>, released in 1997<\/p>\n<p>James is a NYPD officer who chases down a crook who turns out to be an alien from another planet. He&#8217;s then recruited by K into a secret organization that monitors and polices aliens on Earth. From now on he will be known as J. When some aliens show up demanding that they &#8220;deliver the galaxy&#8221; or Earth will be destroyed, J and K have to figure out what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is very funny. I particularly like the scene where J is being tested along with a bunch of other potential recruits. And the scene where the spaceship hits the farmer&#8217;s truck &#8212; the alien takes his skin and comes back and asks the farmer&#8217;s wife for sugar water.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent D&#8217;Onofrio is brilliant as the alien antagonist. As for Will Smith, I think his acting has improved a bit since this movie.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, and Rip Torn. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/men-in-black-3\/\"><strong>Men in Black 3<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Danny Elfman is iconic and highly enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 3rd or 4th time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen sugar do that.&#8221; Men in Black, released in 1997 James is a NYPD officer who chases down a crook who turns out to be an alien from another planet. He&#8217;s then recruited by K into a secret organization that monitors and polices aliens on Earth. From now on he will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}