Topic: Men in Black III

[Eternally Learning]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IyaFEBI_L24

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This trailer makes it look like crap, but we'll see. 

[Neon Genesis]

What sequel or remake of a previous movie will we see next?  Independence Day II?

[Eternally Learning]

What sequel or remake of a previous movie will we see next?  Independence Day II?

I've heard they're trying to make a trilogy out of that.  No kidding.  Then there's the supposed plan to make a trilogy of Stargate movies which ignore the shows...

[Skeptress]

I don't know it looks kind of cool to me. I loved the first one, loved the dog in the second one and I like the idea that this one will take a different slant.  But then I'm a sucker for sexy men and men with sexy voices. 

[Eternally Learning]

I don't know it looks kind of cool to me. I loved the first one, loved the dog in the second one and I like the idea that this one will take a different slant.  But then I'm a sucker for sexy men and men with sexy voices. 

The problem I have with the trailer and the second film was the clownish way they handled the comedy.  The first movie was goofy too, but it flowed a lot better. 

[seamas]

I have recently noticed that Will Smith isn't transitioning well from his long held boyishness. He can't pull off that same brand of charm  as a middle aged guy.

[Neon Genesis]

I've heard they're trying to make a trilogy out of that.  No kidding.  Then there's the supposed plan to make a trilogy of Stargate movies which ignore the shows...

Will they play up the American expectationalism themes in the sequels too to score with the Tea Party audience?  I'm sure they would love more sci-fi jingoism.  But I actually quite like the idea of an AU Stargate trilogy myself.  Didn't the SG-I TV series not exactly sync up with the movie canon if I'm not mistaken?

[Eternally Learning]

I've heard they're trying to make a trilogy out of that.  No kidding.  Then there's the supposed plan to make a trilogy of Stargate movies which ignore the shows...

Will they play up the American expectationalism themes in the sequels too to score with the Tea Party audience?  I'm sure they would love more sci-fi jingoism.  But I actually quite like the idea of an AU Stargate trilogy myself.  Didn't the SG-I TV series not exactly sync up with the movie canon if I'm not mistaken?

"AU?" 

The only major detail that was different from the movie (IIRC) to the show was how the alien possessed the boy to become Ra.  The movie had him as a dying alien who looked bipedal while the show has him as one of many aliens who must have a host to survive and are more wormlike.

[Neon Genesis]

AU = alternate universe.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_%28film%29#Differences_from_the_series

SG-1 creators and executive producers Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner altered the canon by introducing several new concepts during production of the SG-1 and Atlantis series. Most notably, many characters were portrayed by different actors in the series, and names were spelled differently.[43] Daniel Jackson was played by James Spader in the movie and by Michael Shanks in the series. Kurt Russell's character Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil, a rather humorless Colonel, is played by Richard Dean Anderson as Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill (with two L's) in SG-1.[44][45] French Stewart's character was named Louis Ferretti, in SG-1, Brent Stait's character is named Louis Ferretti. The spelling of Daniel Jackson's wife changes from Sha'uri to Sha're, O'Neill's wife from Sarah to Sara, (similarly, the name of O'Neil's son changes from Tyler in the film to Charlie).[43]

The Stargate Command setting was transferred from the fictional military facility located in Creek Mountain, to the Cheyenne Mountain military complex.[43] The unnamed planet from the film was named Abydos in the series and the distance from Earth changed from millions of light-years away (in an entirely different galaxy, "the Kalium galaxy") to becoming the closest planet to Earth with a Stargate, residing in the same galaxy as Earth. Also in SG-1, Stargate travel is limited to the Stargate network in the Milky Way galaxy (unless a tremendous amount of power is used to lengthen the subspace wormhole of a Stargate to another galaxy's Stargate).[43] Ra was the last of an unnamed race in the film, being of a humanoid species with large black eyes and a lack of facial features. In SG-1 however, Ra is one of many "Goa'uld System Lords," who are a race of parasitic snake-like creatures.[44][46] There were also changes to the Stargate. The unique set of 39 Stargate symbols in the film were replaced with the concept of 38 symbols that are the same for each Stargate (Earth's symbols based on Earth's constellations), plus a single point of origin symbol that is unique to that individual gate.[46] While the kawoosh effect in the movie was created by filming the actual swirl of water in a glass tube, and looked like a vortex on the back of the Gate;[47] on the TV series this effect was completely created in CG by the Canadian visual effects company Rainmaker.[48] At the beginning of Season 9, the original movie wormhole sequence was substituted by a new sequence similar to the one already used on Stargate Atlantis, but being blue as it was in the movie and SG-1, whereas in Atlantis it's green.[49]

While the Stargate device in the feature film has a plain quartzite surface, the device in the television series has lights set in each of the chevrons, red, blue, and white in Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe respectively.

[Eternally Learning]

Ah, "Alternate Universe."  Never seen it abbreviated before.  But yeah, I guess I did forget about the planet being outside the galaxy in the movie.  Other than that and what I mentioned though, the movie didn't really go out of it's way to explain anything and for the most part the show was consistent with what it did talk about.