Episode 215 Topics Include:
- Explosions, food, and unbearable heat: The 4th of July
- A bit of comics discussion
- What we've been watching
- Featured Review: The Amazing Spiderman
Running Time: 2 hours and 4 minutes
Episode Songs:
Best Friends - Krispy Kreme
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - Burt Bacharach
This Podcast May Include Some Explicit Language
...It Also Most Likely Contains Some Spoilers
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i thought the Evil Peter dancing stuff was the best part of Spider-Man 3! Martha Marcy May and Take Shelter were both pretty sweet, good stuff.
ReplyDeleteman, Rian, Hollow Man up there with Total Recall, Robocop and Starship Troopers??!? different strokes, but pardon me for saying you're out of your mind!! haha. i've seen Hollow Man 2 or 3 times and there's some super cool stuff in it but i always found it kinda boring, like they didn't push it far enough or they didn't give it enough of a thrust or something. and i never liked how Kevin Bacon seemed to gain superhuman strength when invisible. XD maybe i should check it out again.
I don't know how much of a difference this makes, but while I would absolutely put Hollow Man right up there with Total Recall, Robocop, and Starship Troopers, it's easily the least awesome of the bunch. Still, considering how many people seem to flat out dislike Hollow Man, I think it's worth WAY more praise than it gets.
DeleteThe only real way that I think the movie could have been bigger and (perhaps) better would be for the climactic action to take place out in the world, but locking everyone in the lab and making the ending take place there makes loads of sense (since Kevin Bacon just wants to kill the people who know about him and then disappear). It also turns the movie into a Tremors/The Thing/Alien-type of movie where it's about a small group of people trapped somewhere with something unusual that's picking them off one by one.
As for Kevin Bacon getting stronger when he's invisible? I don't really see it. He lifts the chubby guy up off the floor when he's hanging in the pipes, but does he do anything else that would require being super strong?
Hollow man is definitely different from those other films, but the fact that it's not really an action movie doesn't hurt it for me. It's more about building suspense and being kind of a horror/slasher movie, which might be why you think it's slow, but I was personally behind it the whole way through. I'm curious how you'd like to see the idea "pushed farther". I thought the rape and the climactic, inventive, bloody murders of the entire lab staff pushed the premise pretty far.
i'll have to rent it again, who knows, i've been having enough reconsiderations recently that maybe i'll love it this time.
ReplyDeletei can't remember that well, but isn't he hit with scalding steam and he seems fine, and then doesn't he get blasted by an explosion at the end and he keeps going? i remember thinking it seemed like he turned into Jason Voorhees somehow, like this unstoppable supertough guy.
i didn't think the movie was slow, i remember the pacing being fast but boring isn't slow. Alien is slow but it sure isn't boring, or something like Terminator Salvation or the Thing prequel i wouldn't consider slow but i found them boring.
i'm not sure what i would've liked to see to push Hollow Man farther, i don't know... i don't have any solutions, just the feeling that it didn't reach the level i would have liked. i'm putting it on my queue right now. :)
whoops, i meant that as a reply.
ReplyDeletei checked my Netflix history and the last time i rented Hollow Man was back in 2010, not that long ago. i gave it 2 stars. i'll report back when i watch it again!!
Hopefully you don't just hate it again...I'll feel bad if I talked you into re-watching something you just don't like.
DeleteKevin Bacon does get burned with a makeshift blowtorch during the climax, but he's really no different from any other slasher/horror villain who has a couple of false deaths or whatever.