{"id":12334,"date":"2012-05-25T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=12334"},"modified":"2012-05-27T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T09:01:24","slug":"retro-alien-stars-of-men-in-black-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/retro-alien-stars-of-men-in-black-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Alien Stars of Men in Black III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited second sequel to <em>Men in Black<\/em> &#8212; creatively titled <em>Men in Black III <\/em>(US-2012; dir. Barry Sonnenfeld) &#8212; opens this coming weekend. Check out this cool picture of some of the aliens from the film, wonderfully designed to suggest the SF creature features of the &#8217;60s, which is where the film is set. Sitting up front, without make-up, is great make-up FX artist, Rick Baker, who designed the aliens (as always) and is in the film himself as the &#8220;Brain Alien&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to make it bigger and view the critters in all their detailed glory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MIB3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12335 aligncenter\" title=\"MIB3\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MIB3-1024x651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MIB3-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MIB3-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MIB3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many of the creatures can you &#8220;identify&#8221; from old movies? Suggested by the monster hunters on the Monster Fighters International Headquarters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/58198980959\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> are Robot Monster, Saucermen, the Man from Planet X, [<em>the Mutant from<\/em>] Metaluna from <em>This Island Earth<\/em>, and assorted pseudo <em>Outer Limits<\/em> critters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1409024\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDb<\/a>; Photo by Wilson Webb &#8212; \u00a9 2012 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. via Stan Hyde.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addendum<\/strong>: A featurette on Rick Baker and the Aliens of MIB3:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"viddler-5b7dffef\" src=\"\/\/www.viddler.com\/embed\/5b7dffef\/?f=1&amp;offset=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;secret=63672549&amp;disablebranding=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"545\" height=\"329\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited second sequel to Men in Black &#8212; creatively titled Men in Black III (US-2012; dir. Barry Sonnenfeld) &#8212; opens this coming weekend. Check out this cool picture of some of the aliens from the film, wonderfully designed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/retro-alien-stars-of-men-in-black-iii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[995,103,104,67,93],"tags":[125,1053,1055,1054],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12334"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12337,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334\/revisions\/12337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}