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Kevin Bacon's Invisible Man Dos And Don't's

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:30:00 PST

Memo to David Goyer: When you finally make your long-awaited Invisible Man movie, you have to top 2000's Hollow Man in the inventive use of spattered blood to make the guy visible. Come on!

Another awesome making-the-invisible-man-visible trick: displaced water in a swimming pool. Rock on.

However, you can feel free to avoid having your invisible guy tell invisible Wonder Woman rape jokes. Really, it's fine.

Death Is A Lonely Hang-Glider

charliejane — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:30:00 PST

What lies beyond death? A really cheesy acid trip, according to 1990's Flatliners. In many ways, Flatliners is a percursor of much better films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (complete with the medical procedure, and the delving into the characters' pasts.) There are two reasons to watch Flatliners: to see the young (and hot) Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts injecting and gassing Kevin Bacon to death. (That has to be someone's fetish.) And secondly, to see the weird visual effects after Bacon dies, including the overexposed eye, the "life rewind" and the aerial filming. Movies have seldom been so trippy, either before or since.

Must See: Hollow Man

Annalee Newitz — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:22:27 PDT

Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by James Rocchi.

Title: Hollow Man
Date: 2000

Vitals: Paul Verhoeven (of Robocop, Starship Troopers and Basic Instinct) updates the classic Invisible Man story for the new millennium with computer-generated effects and a deeply unhinged Kevin Bacon as a scientist who discovers he's capable of almost anything when he's guaranteed no one's looking.

Famous Names: Paul Verhoeven (Director); Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shue, Josh Brolin.

Crunchy Goodness: 4

Sequel: Hollow Man II, starring Christian Slater.

Bang for Your Buck: Great 'invisible man' effects — including a scene where Bacon's killer is a void-space in a pool.

Most Painfully Dated Moment: Elizabeth Shue gets all McGyver and rigs an electro-magnet out of a defibrillator cart.

Full Transcript of composer Jerry Goldsmith's DVD Commentary