How do you feel about men in black suits? Black shoes? Narrow (but not too narrow) black ties? Call me strange, but I've always had a weakness for that look, ever since Jake and Elwood Blues of "The Blues Brothers" perfected the mode in 1980. Always trust the guy in the suit, as my granny used to say.
Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones came on the cinema scene wearing the same slim suits, polished black shoes, the funeral ties that were somehow cooler than Bulgari. And like the Blues Brothers, they topped off this outfit with black Ray-Ban shades.
This was the outrageously fun "Men in Black," in which the Smith-Jones duo play agents working for a clandestine Manhattan-based organization combatting "the scum of the universe": dastardly beings from outer space. Unlike the Blues Brothers, R&B wasn't the duo's thing (though of course, Smith could be relied upon for some class rap). But they did have some nifty high-tech artillery to zap aliens into a splattering mass of goo and green mucus. None of it ever messed up their suits, a sartorial detail that deserved more attention than it got. Anyway, need I tell you these guys were it? Need I tell you I swooned?