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First Cool Picture from Verhoeven's THE HOLLOW MAN
Hey folks, Harry here with an image from THE HOLLOW MAN, the hopefully most excellent film coming out of Paul Verhoeven... Everybody's favorite Dutch cool film director.
Harry,
Don't know if you've seen this, but in the new SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
SWIMSUIT ISSUE is a Sony promo for THE PATRIOT, HOLLOW MAN and VERTICAL
LIMIT. Here's a scan of the Hollow Man picture. This makes me really
wanna see it. I looked around and couldn't find this picture anywhere
online yet.
El Gordo
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and first.
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Now give me more!!
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This film sounded like a proper hack job from Mr Pornohoeven but by God that poster looks good. It's a real throwback to how they used to do 'em. Surreal, shocking.
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man, I hope this is a good movie. It has promise...
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I'm melting too. And second ( as if anyone gives a fuck)! Anywayz...the pic if phat. I'm loving it. Everytime I hear something aboutt his pic, it makes me more excited to see it. Hope it lives up to MY expectations.
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I guess this is cool... but I thought, by the descriptions in the script, that we would be seeing different layers of the human anatomy as Bacon becomes invisible. That was my understanding... I just thought it was really interesting that he needs to wear sunglasses since his eyelids are invisible and he's still able to 'see' if he closes his eyes. That thought just never occured to me.
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You have to love a site where the image from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue we're drooling over is an advert for a horror flick...
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Is she the villan?
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I like the simple style here- an arresting photograph from the film, a tagline in the corner, and the title itself written in a not-too-flashy way at the top. I also admire how they didn't try to take up the entire bottom of the page with a credits paragraph, but instead simply put the studio symbol in the bottom right corner, nicely tucked away. Very provocative!
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i'm off to bed - see you tommorrow - good poster, almost better than Harrison Ford...
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Feb 28, 2000 2:33:44 PM CST
That's no movie poster! That's my HMO's promotional key art!
by lightstormer
See? That's me on the gurney... Nurse Shue on my right, and some guy I think might be Matt Dillon just staring blankly at me while I "enjoy my stay" at Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest. But seriously, folks. . . cool pic. Let's hope Verhoeven actually read the friggin' script before signing to direct this time. Paul, come on. Ho-girls? Starship Stupors? Base 'n Stink? He hasn't made a good flick since Total Recall, and even that's beginning to fade now ten years later. His RoboCop days, it seems, are long passed.
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Maybe you should have gone to Sharp.
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Have you heard some of the horror stories about Sharp?
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looks in this picture to be on the verge of coolly commenting, "Good God Alimighty! Someone has robbed this man of his genitals!"
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Anyone else out there in Talkbackland read this book besides me? It's one of the ultimates in pulp science fiction, quite different from the 70's movie, and quite the ass-kicker. When you consider that Verhoeven's really the only guy doing pulp sci-fi these days, the logical conclusion you *must* reach is that his next project should be a faithful adaptation of the book! Am I right? I said am I right?!
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Glad to see that Ebert chose LEAVING LAS VEGAS as one of the 10 best films of the nineties. Shue is amazing as the prostitute in that film (as is Cage as the alcoholic). Even in the disappointing film PALMETTO she was very good as a woman out to murder her husband. The other roles she's played where she wasn't portraying the seamier side of life are forgettable mostly (case in point THE SAINT).
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SR here. Thank God KB is the invisible man in this movie. I am keeping my eyes closed until he goes invisible, and closing them again when he becomes visible at the end of the movie. Why? Because there's a chance that KB, rat bastard that he is, might show off his dick again a la Wild Things. I do not relish the thought of getting another glimpse of Kevin Bacon's Jimmy Dean. MY eyelids aren't invisible and you can bet your ass that I'm going to be seeing a lot of them at the beginning of this film. If you disagree with me, I will destroy you with my psychic Mindfire.
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Can't wait to see this. His first movie since the best movie of '97, Starship Troopers. Yes!
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That is the Keri Greene-shagging goonie Josh Brolin. By the way, he's boinkin' Elizabeth Shue in this film...
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Lara Croft.. er, I mean Rhona Mitra. Sick & twisted individual I am, I'm waiting to see that rape scene. I just keep visualizing that old joke about Superman seeing Wonder Woman laying naked on a rooftop, flying down for a high speed fling and the Invisible Man asking 'what was that up my ass just now?'
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Wow! It is Josh Brolin. Good call. I was just trying to... dilute... di-- de... deluge myself.
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I caught a few episodes of the CGI series after getting hyped by the images Harry posted way back when, and...was very disappointed. The notion of bridging Verhoeven's gung-ho, semi-satirical actioneer with elements of Heinlein's source materiel sounded good to me; unfortunately, the execution was horrible. As far as I can tell, every episode was pretty much an extended battle scene with no strong storyline or emotional hook. Nice CGI, but the "coldness" of that format does little to humanize the characters, nor does the omnipresent techno music. I guess I might've liked it when I was a kid, though I don't think it has even the melodramatic appeal of Starblazers, which mesmerized me when I first saw it. On a purely technical note, the Starship Troopers sound effects are quite weak too. The only real compliment I have is for the designers - great bugs, great armor, great ships. Guess there's no chance of Verhoeven working up a legit sequel to 97's "guilty pleasure" movie of the year, eh? After LOGAN'S RUN, of course.
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This is the most ANNOYING FLAW in every Invisible Man movie... Okay, in a normal (read: visible) human being light passes through the cornea and is focused on the retina, the optic nerve. In an invisible man, light 1) cannot be refracted by an INVISIBLE cornea and 2) even if it could, cannot focus on an INVISIBLE OPTIC NERVE. If the cornea somehow DID refract light, it would simply pass through the optic nerve, therefore making said Invisible Man BLIND. Okay, granted, an Invisible Man that keeps bumping into stuff wouldn't be as exciting, but while we're talking about Invisible Men, why not bring it up?
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OK the fact that this man is invisible does not seem strange to you????? Sheesh who cares about how he sees just try to enhoy the movie
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Oh no, someone's getting technical on us! Try telling Claude Rains he couldn't see and watch what happens - he'll tie you up in the back seat of a car and push your sorry ass off a cliff. Just kidding, pal! Actually, cooking up techno-babble to explain pulp sci-fi can be fun, as long as we don't take it too seriously. Now, as for the original Invisible Man flick - my god, that is one damned cool movie. Great story, memorable characters, brilliant effects, and one of the most iconic "monsters" in movie history. Rains' maniacal portrayal of the Invisible Man surely influenced generations of over-the-top villains to come. Lemme tell ya, Doctor Doom ain't got nothin' on this guy. Now, where's the freakin' DVD of it?!
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I'd respond to your post, but I'm too busy being tied up in the back seat of a car and pushed off a cliff.
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There were like two brothers working on this eternally youthful formula or something, and one of them finds out he has some disease and takes too much, and the effect of the formula has like this "Flowers for Algernon" effect, temporary advantages but then he starts disintegrating into nothing? Er, it went something like that. Anyway at the end, he looks like that picture up there.....ok, thats enough rambling.
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Cormorant -- I couldn't disagree with you more on your thoughts of the Starship Troopers CGI animated series. The designs are brilliant and the CGI work is smooth, to the point of making me forget that it's animated at all. While the plot is being moved by the action, obviously, there's serious story there, and I think the way that it's handled is top-notch for a TV cartoon. It harkens back to the days of Macross for me. For example, have you seen the arc where the crew's been stranded on an ice asteroid? It's not just non-stop battles and all that -- there's moments of Aliens-like suspense and terror. My problem with the show is that, to get the full effect of the story, you need to watch the episodes in order. And for some boneheaded reason, the syndicators are sending out the episodes in a random pattern -- meaning that an episode you see on Monday may not be continued directly until a week or two later. I'm hoping someone puts it onto DVD to collect and watch at one's own leisure. Anyway, I've said too much already. Must slip back into the shadows now. [NS]
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The invisibale man, now, looks partly entertaining.. after i read the script review, i thought it may be good.. then i remembered how much i hate KB, him being invisible just wouldn't compensate.. but i'm still coming around. The only way for this to work is if it had a talking pie. The talking pie could go back in time for some reason.. maybee to get invisiable himself, and then rape elizabeth shue, while all the while kevin bacon is still strapped to that table through the whole movie with a table cloth over him. The talking pie can still see though.. even though he's invisible, beacuse the laws of physics dictate that an invisible talking pie, can still see. Its elementary.
Troopers is a classic, i smile and shout out "woohoo" every time is see those decapitations.. and that beautiful, beautiful CGI work. It is spectacularly brilliant. Thats what makes me like the movie.. it just looks so good.. call me shallow if i don't need well defined charchters and a twisting intellectual sub-plot. The CG is mouth wateringly beautiful. Still some of the finest work ever done. It would have been topped of if the talking pie had caught the brain bug instead of Zim, but "porhnoven" isn't perfect.
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I mean, I wasn't going to see this. I'm not the world's biggest Verhoeven fan. But damn if this don't look cool. And yes, they ARE staring at his schlong. Okay, I'm there. Damn you, Harry! I was ready to blow this year off, moviewise.
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It was in a special movie preview article for 2000 in their Sunday paper back in December. Yeah, it's still a cool picture, but it ain't no scoop.
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You mean there's no sound in space?
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When I first heard about this movie all i could think about was that cheeseola Chevy Chase flop that stunk up the theatre.Now after reading the latest issue of Cinescape i am startinf to get excited about this flick.Verhoven always pushes the boundaries in his movies whether it is blood(Robocop)or nudity(Basic Instinct).Even though Showgirls was laughably bad, that in my mind is his only truly bad movie.The fact that Bacon stalks his co-workers,rapes someone and becomes down right mean sounds like an interesting premise.We know Verhoven can pull off the effects,lets just hope he can tell the story as well.
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I can't believe I'm going to do this... here goes: STOP BASHING DEAN CAIN. He can't help it if the writing was lousy - the villains were extremely wimpy and the action scenes were essentially non-existant. It's true that noone will be mistaking him for (insert any thespian here), however, I think that your biggest gripe is with the show, not the actor. "Lois and Clark" was an anti-fanboy vision of Superman... get over it. geez. You're all just jealous cuz he got "up close and personal" with Teri Hatcher. Well at least in character, anyway.
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I saw the first few episodes of this show ,and though the animation was great {almost photo real}It was very cold and uninvolving, not to mention repetitive{ episode one..they fight bugs...episode two ..its bugs again and so on..}I gave up watching.I caught some of it the other day ..and it does seem to have improved a lot.Those skinny {skinnies} alien guys from the book have turned up , and the action scenes were amazing!.That said , the shows biggest problem is that it all seems a bit tame ,after the Live action version.The bugs are rarely allowed, to so much as get near a soldier! It all looks too one sided.You just see wave upon wave of insects being gunned downand I ended up feeling sorry for them!I think if you hadnt seen the film , you wouldn't realize that the bugs were a threat even.The earlier post that mentioned that the sound is very weak on the show was spot on.I got a strange feeling that , the machine gun noises etc..had been turned right down , to make the whole thing seem less violent still.
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Light doesn't really touch the optic nerve. The optic nerve is the link from the ganglion cells to the neurons in the vision processing area in the brain.Once the 3 levels of cells have organized the info, it is sent via electric bursts along the optic nerve. And as the cornea is transparent, and does indeed refract most of the light, if the person were invisible...the question would be, what kind of invisibility? There seem to be a number of different forms invisibilty takes in fiction. In reality, I believe only two are feasible...those would be transparency(as deep ocean creatures are-and with transparent figures, outlines are still seen as are adulterations)... and light refraction from an exterior source(as in Predator) with this one, you would see a blurry form, pending the proper refraction in the proper angle...although if the cells were themselves somehow given a unified sheen that refracted light in relative directions around them, then would invisibilty like the Predator be achieved. But this is a movie, and supposedly they have "phase shifted the cells out of quantum synch with the visible universe"!!! I think that speaks for itself..
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Well, I'm happy to see SOMEONE's paying attention out there. Everybody listen carefully, there's going to be a test... Invisible Men can't see, but Invisible Pies can. And there's sound in space.... Oh forget it...
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"phase shifted the cells out of quantum synch with the visible universe" ???!!! What a bunch of phoney baloney, half- witted, 'Star Trek' physics! I'll 'phase shift' my foot up Andrew Marlowe's ass!
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This picture looks VERY COOL. Although I love Verhoven and I
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Granted I'm not a huge Paul Verhoven (or however you spell it) fan, But Damn that is a pretty cool picture. Me Want To Go SeE NOw, HaRRy!
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...a big bag of pee hanging over Bacon's open mouth. Damn, if I'm not jealous. Heard a rumor that this was filmed on location in one of Moriarty's auxiliary labs.
Any truth to that, I wonder? In any case, good night to you, my fellow geeks. As old Dad used to say, "Piss on you all!" And I say that with respect. No, really.
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