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'Men In Black 3:' The Reviews Are In!
25 May 2012 3:53 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Third film in the franchise sees Agents K and J time-traveling to 1969, but is it worth a trip to the theater?
By Kara Warner
Will Smith in "Men in Black 3"
Photo: Columbia Pictures
Can you believe it's already been 15 years since we first met Agents K (Tommy Lee Jones) and new-recruit-turned-agent J (Will Smith)? Time flies, even when the subject of fictional time travel is at play. "Men in Black" debuted to rave reviews back in 1997 and its filmmakers and stars are hoping for the same warm welcome at the box office this weekend when "Men in Black 3" rolls into theaters.
The film is currently sitting pretty at a 65 percent "Fresh" rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, complemented by an enthusiastic 95 percent of the audience rating it as a "Want to See It" movie this weekend. So without further ado, let's blast off through the "Men in Black 3" reviews! »
Why Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Deserves More Respect
25 April 2012 12:02 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier has always got a bad rep from most fans and critics alike. It’s usually voted the least liked, original crew feature film and current holds a not very hot, 21% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
But I think that is unfair. I believe the film has a lot more going for it than people give it credit. Once you look past the special effects and strange plot, there is probably the closest feature film that resembles the Original Series. Also, it’s a film that deserves a decent Directors Cut. Let me explain why…
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier followed on from a trilogy of Star Trek movies that were a hit with fans and a commercial success for Paramount while claiming critical acclaim. They also had a story arc that concluded with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which was the biggest grossing »
- Amarpal Biring
Top Ten Movies Based on TV Shows
19 March 2012 12:37 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten TV to Film Adaptations This weekend 21 Jump Street scored the top spot at the weekend box-office and Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall are busy preparing a sequel and after posting my review someone on Twitter told me one of the reasons they liked it was because it was a huge improvement compared to most TV-to-film adaptations. While I enjoyed it, I wasn't as excited over it as some people seem to be and I never even thought to compare it to other TV-to-film adaptations, especially considering a film needs to stand on its own, whether it's simply better than other films that tried to make the leap from the small screen to the silver screen is irrelevant. But it did get me to thinking... what are the best TV-to-film adaptations? So I started the process of compiling a list and while 21 Jump Street is a good flick, it »
- Brad Brevet
Ralph McQuarrie & The Canceled Star Trek Movie
8 March 2012 1:35 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
A lot has been written since the sad passing of Ralph McQuarrie on the 3rd of March this year. He’s the artist who is credited with coming up with the designs for Darth Vader, Chewbacca, C3PO & R2D2 to name a few. It has been said that without him, there would have been no Star Wars at all as it was his illustrations that convinced 20th Century Fox to give Star Wars the green light.
His designs for Star Wars are immediately recognizable if you are a fan of science fiction or not, and are now part of our societies pop culture. His images from Star Wars represent science fiction to the general masses and because of this, they are exploited to sell everything from cars to mobile phones. Rest assured that if the images of Vader or C3PO weren’t burnt into your conscience, no advertising company would consider using them. »
- Amarpal Biring
R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie
5 March 2012 3:15 AM, PST | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Saturday, Legendary concept artist and illustrator Ralph McQuarry passed away in his California home at the age of 82. McQuarry designed the look of the original Star Wars trilogy for George Lucas, creating the aesthetics of Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3Po, among numerous other locations, ships, creatures and droids.
It could easily be said that had McQuarry not done conceptual designs for George Lucas back in 1975, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope may have never gotten made, as McQuarry’s stunning artwork was what Lucas used to help secure funding from 20th Century Fox to produce the film in the first place.
George Lucas posted a touching memorial to McQuarrie on StarWars.com over the weekend, which read in-part:
“Ralph McQuarrie was the first person I hired to help me envision Star Wars. His genial contribution, in the form of unequaled production paintings, propelled and inspired »
- Jason Moore
In Memoriam: Ralph McQuarrie
4 March 2012 7:29 PM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
When writers create worlds that never existed along with unusual characters and monsters that inhabit these new universes, it’s up to the conceptual artists to translate those words into a picture for set and costume designers. One the best artists in the business was Ralph McQuarrie, who died March 3 in Berkeley California.
Back in 1975, George Lucas commissioned him to generate a visual design from his Star Wars script in hope of getting 20th Century Fox on board. McQuarrie created the sketch’s for the classic film characters, including Chewbacca, C-3Po, R2-D2 and Darth Vader, along many concept drawings of the sets. It was these blueprints that finally got Fox to behind Lucas’ creation and help the Star Wars franchise to begin.
While Lucas wrote the script, it was McQuarrie’s designs that made the film series so memorable. He would go on to design the original Battlestar Galactica »
- The doorQdotCom Staff (of Might And Power)
Ralph McQuarrie, legendary 'Star Wars' concept artist, dies at 82: A tribute to the man who designed that Galaxy Far, Far Away
4 March 2012 4:04 PM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Ralph McQuarrie, the legendary, Oscar-winning Star Wars concept artist who’s largely responsible for creating the look of that Galaxy Far, Far Away, died this Saturday in Berkeley, Calif. after a long struggle with Parkinson’s. He was 82.
During the course of his brief but highly influential Hollywood career McQuarrie also contributed to the designs of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, *batteries not included, Nightbreed, and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in »
- Christian Blauvelt
Ralph McQuarrie, designer of 'Star Wars', dead at 82
4 March 2012 8:16 AM, PST | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
The man who brought George Lucas's vision to life for the Star Wars franchise, Ralph McQuarrie, has passed away at the age of 82. McQuarrie was one of Hollywood's premier futurists and concept artists, ranking alongside the like of Ron Cobb, Syd Mead and H.R. Giger in terms of his contribution to screen fantasy over the last thirty-odd years.
In a statement to Shadowlocked, Roger Christian (whose set decoration techniques on A New Hope were to influence decades of Sf movie-making, alongside his work on Alien (1979) and subsequent Oscar-winning work as a director) said:
"Ralph McQuarrie was the true inspiration for much of my creative work on Star Wars [A New Hope]. George [Lucas] brought 12 of his paintings over to London with him, and there was Star Wars: the creatures, R2D2, C3P0, Storm-troopers, Darth Vader, Tatooine. Luke's Land-Speeder, Chewbacca...it was all there. George could show us instantly what he wanted, »
R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie (1929 - 2012)
4 March 2012 6:43 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The acclaimed illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie passed away on Saturday at his home in Berkeley, California, aged 82. A name that will be instantly familiar to Star Wars fans, McQuarrie was one of the most influential figures in science fiction and fantasy art and his visionary illustrations were key to defining the look of George Lucas' galaxy far, far away.
Born in Gary, Indiana in 1929, McQuarrie moved to California during the 1960s where he gained work as a technical illustrator for Boeing before shifting into the field of film and TV, designing movie posters and working on the animation for CBS News' Apollo space program coverage before coming to the attention of George Lucas, who then commissioned McQuarrie for design work on his space opera, Star Wars. McQuarrie's designs were instrumental in securing financing for the film and he went on to continue his role »
- flickeringmyth
Star Wars Concept Artist Ralph McQuarrie Dies at Age 82
3 March 2012 9:00 PM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Ralph McQuarrie, the concept artist who brought the Star Wars ideas of George Lucas to visual life, had died at the age of 82.
McQuarrie began his career in design at Boeing in the 1960s and eventually moved on to the entertainment industry with CBS News, specifically the Apollo space program. He was eventually offered the opportunity to work on concept art for a film project and took the leap into another world.
It was on this job that George Lucas first saw McQuarrie's work and took notice. Lucas had already hatched the idea for Star Wars and was in need of a man to give that idea a look and feel based on verbal and textual descriptions. McQuarrie was hired, and his concept art not only helped forge the first Star Wars film, it helped Lucas sell the risky and expensive idea to Twentieth Century Fox.
McQuarrie went on to »
Star Wars Designer Ralph McQuarrie Dies
3 March 2012 7:22 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Art designer Ralph McQuarrie, who worked on the designs for George Lucas Star Wars and its sequels, died today at the age of 82. The Indiana-born McQuarrie began his career as a designer after moving to California in the 1960s. In the mid-'70s, he was hired by Lucas to design Chewbacca and Darth Vader, in addition to other visual elements found in what would become one of the biggest box-office hits in history. "I just did my best to depict what I thought the film should look like, I really liked the idea,” McQuarrie would later tell the San Diego Union-Tribune. “I didn't think the film would ever get made. My impression was it was too expensive. There wouldn't be enough of an audience. It's just too complicated. But George knew a lot of things that I didn't know." McQuarrie also worked on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. »
- Andre Soares
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