I re-watched Hollow Man last night, the 2000 shocker starring grown-up brat packer Kevin Bacon as the man himself.
Despite fantastic special effects I now feel Verhoeven could have done a lot more with this story. OK, the process sent the invisible man mad but did that have to mean simply copping a feel from the female cast wherever he could. Is that all that invisibility is for for men?
My Missus actually got up and walked out.
For true lab madness I'll stick to Darkman with Liam Neeson.
My next reventure back into the brat pack is going to be Flatliners. Remember that?
Invisible Men films are a tough bunch to like. It's a hard concept to get across, apparently. I didn't even like the original film with Claude Rains, which I thought was ruined by making it a horror comedy. And films like Memoirs of an Invisible Man are just awful. SFZ
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ReplyDeleteI do remember Flatliners. Like Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland was trying to shed his Brat Pack image. I got to work with him on Dark City, where he was playing a Peter Lorre type character rather than a young romantic.
BTW, at the risk of seeming too self-serving, I recently had a doco about the miniature work I did on Dark City released...
https://youtu.be/522jx5PWn-s?si=sPAzrKp8v0dHGzos
Stunning work Looey! I shall sit down with a coffee once the Grandkids have gone back home and watch your documentary!
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