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Good movie with one of the most chilling lines you’ll ever hear: “It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have to look at yourself in the mirror anymore”.
It might be predictable, but I have to say Kevin Bacon does do a good job playing the part of a complete douche. And the stuff they do with invisibility like thermal censors, appearing to be made of water afer a swim, etc. is pretty creative.
Another Fun Fact: Despite assumptions that Kevin Bacon would not be needed on set, except when his character Sebastian is visible, Paul Verhoeven and the crew realized after test footage was shot, that he would need to be present, to interact with the cast, as "the other actors were stranded in empty space, and the scenes looked stiff, inorganic, and unconvincing" without him.
And they stuck him in different color suits depending what the other effects & environments would need. Most times he was in a green mo-cap suit when with the cast except for times where he would wear blue, black or grey depending what they needed. Plus having him on speakers when he torments the team in the climax really helped
It’s interesting that this version of The Invisible Man is probably the closest to the book. The original character was a sexual deviant and a psychopath.
Yep, I also see it as a mediation on the Ring of Gyges, as many don’t accept that their morality would ebb away as readily/easily as characters like Sebastian or as played by Claude Rains. Heroes the 2007 show doesn’t do a lot well, but having an Invisible Man in Season 1 (also named Claude Rains) be a grounding force (both for his newfound powers and to tie him to reality) for Peter Petrelli was a nice change of pace for such a character and the tropes they usually embody?
Fun fact: If you were actually invisible, you *wouldn't be able to see anything* because things that process light cannot do their job if they're invisible.
This film is the third Paul Verhoeven directed film that was nominated for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The first two films are Total Recall and Starship Troopers. Total Recall is the only Verhoeven film that has won the award.
@@Shaki123 Actually is really funny because Doug really bash the visual effects in this critic, but in fact they were amazing, even now I amaze by some of them. So this is an ironic fact, which make it funny
To get the right reaction from the cast, Paul Verhoeven had speakers put in different places on the set, and had Kevin Bacon's voice come from different speakers so the cast would genuinely react to the invisible character moving around. For the scene with the invisible gorilla, Paul screamed to the microphone, imitating gorilla noises.
I feel like this movie would have been better if Kevin Bacon's character was kind of like a shy loser type but a nice person. And then when he turns invisible and realizes that he has the power to do what he wants consequence-free his true nature comes out. The idea being that sometimes a good person is really a bad person who doesn't have the ability to act on it.
It’s kinda the same issue Stephen King had with Jack Nicholson’s performance as Jack Torrance in “The Shining” - he’s just too sinister and scary when the character is meant to be his normal self, to the point where his turn into axe-crazy madness doesn’t really feel all that shocking.
Kevin Bacon said it was his most difficult role ever given the uncomfortable getups he wore that would allow the effects artists to erase him in post-production, including suits, colored lenses and make-up◊ that would at times cover his hair and teeth. And that's not counting the suffocating and smelly latex mask used to make his character 'visible' for others.
Paul Verhoeven has admitted that he doesn't really like the film, reportedly due to the idea behind it not being at all idiosyncratic. This contributed to the movie being his latest American production...in years. In 2013, Verhoeven said this to The Hollywood Reporter: "I decided after Hollow Man, this is a movie, the first movie that I made that I thought I should not have made. It made money and this and that, but it really is not me anymore. I think many other people could have done that. I don't think many people could have made RoboCop that way, or either Starship Troopers. But Hollow Man, I thought there might have been 20 directors in Hollywood who could have done that. I felt depressed with myself after 2002."
Last of his movies I heard of, thanks to a MovieBob review, was his take on "nunsploitation", with sadomasochistic lesbian nuns. In true Verhoeven fashion, I couldn't tell if he intended to arouse the audience, or shame them for thinking that looked hot.
Its pretty cookie cutter slasher type movie so yeah anyone could have directed it. Good thing about the movie is they made working 3d computer model of Kevin Bacon's entire body down to the last capillary and donated it to scientific researchers after the movie.
The mouse being mutilated at the beginning brought back a memory from deep in my mind when I saw that moment on TV as a little kid and being traumatized by it. I didn't even know which movie that was from until now.
Take off the Critic's attitude towards this movie and take his points instead. - The effects were meh - The writing was more generic than "Beer" beer - The plot wasn't that groundbreaking (even though it would have) - The tone and theme was "hollow" Bottom line. This movie just wanted to show off but what it was showing off wasn't all that worth showing off.
@@AshParth560 it’s mostly ok when I first saw it. The plot feels more confusing than the first film and the third act becomes incredibly nonsensical bonkers with its twist surprise.
That's definitely a true fact because I watched Scary Movie 2 on VHS in the past and Hollow Man on HBO as well to know what they are because Hollow Man came out in 2000 before Scary Movie 2.
Even the scene where Cindy & the older brother from Malcolm in the Middle stuck in the freezer is taken from Hollow Man. Probably the most esoteric of film parodies, but CIndy figuring out how to make a tractor from things in the freezer is pretty funny after watching the original scene. i wish that level of humor carried over to the post Scary Movie 3 parodies.
@@briankaslewicz6130I think we all wished for that. But sadly the Waynes brothers were kick off their own movies , I think if I remember right its cause they really didn't want do too much of them as they would become less funny. I dont think they even wanted to do the sequel but were in a contract for it? Idk, kinda forgot about the reason. Just that they were removed from it. Studios are just money grubbing.
Kevin Bacon wanted the part so bad, because he really wanted to play the Invisible Man (and all the attendant moral complications) and be part of the cool effects for invisibility that the advent of CGI would allow.
@@virginiadare1587 he was actually everywhere. He was in No country for old men, Milk, In the valley of Elah, W. and American Gangster just between 2007 and 2009
One thing that always bugged me about this movie is that we see the gorilla become visible again from the inside out, and this makes sense (at least in terms of movie logic) because the drug they inject it with would interact with the the veins first, and spread through out the circulatory system and get into the bones and muscles, and then finally the skin and fur. But then when Sebastian gets injected to become invisible, his skin reacts first, then muscles, bones etc. I know it's done that way to show off the special effects, but it should be the other way around.
Maybe it depends on what part of your body is easier to erase. Skin has no bright colors, so it is easier to hide. While the other way, it is just easier to cure this effect on blood, which momentarily reacts to it.
@@cosmichome626 meh, possibly. The colours idea is a bit weak though. Also, would be weird that it coincidentally works the exact same order as the thing it contacts first.
Fun Fact: In Jojo's Bizarre Adventure the stand "Limp Bizkit" was inspired by Hollow Man's effects. Also, hi people who never watched or heard of Jojo confused by that statement.
Another Fun Fact: During filming, Kevin Bacon wore skin-tight costumes in green, blue, grey, or black, to assist with the adding of visual effects. Some of his cast mates said that the hardest part of the role was not laughing at someone painted in black, green, blue, or grey, pretending to be mean. Bacon admitted that he accepted the role partly under the false assumption that he wouldn't need to be on set for scenes of Sebastian invisible, and that it would be an easy performance. He claimed that to the contrary it ended up being the most physically demanding and difficult role of his career.
Hey, Jim Carrey had to deal with dressing up like a walking moldy green tampon during the entirety of the Grinch shooting. At least Kevin got to have scenes without the makeup and suit on.
One of my favorite Sci Fi Action Horror movies ever made! Before Kevin Bacon was picked to play Sebastian, Guy Pearce, Edward Norton, Johnny Depp, and Robert Downey Jr were considered, but the producers wanted someone to be both charming and dangerous as well as being charismatic before he turns psychotic. The entire film was shot in chronological order, with the lab being blown up at the end of the film was the last day of shooting. The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects but lost to Gladiator.
Ironic how Johnny Depp was considered for the role, and yet this wouldn't be the last time as he was supposed to star in the now scrapped reboot of The Invisible Man which was set to be part of Universal's ill fated Dark Universe, but we all know how that went. And Robert Downey Jr. in a horror movie where he is the villain. Now THAT would be wild.
I feel like Tremors has already reviewed plenty. Even Linkara beat Doug to Tremors, and I like his review of that movie, even though he normally reviews comic books.
Because he has a reputation has a genius, he's rich and he's the boss. Because if you can create values for the (metaphorical or literal) shareholders, nobody cares about your sociopathy.@@zacharybartolo5111
@@zacharybartolo5111because 1. They thought they had the necessary protection to keep Sebastian in check with the monitors and 2. You can’t always pick and chose people you work with. The person at the top of their field like Sebastian may not be nice, but you need his intelligence to unlock the formula.
@@lightningmanmatthew1. He can destroy or steal them 2. You’re telling me no one else more responsible would do it and would it make more sense if he was doing the operation. That’s like if the man that invented guns was working on the prototype and he used himself as a test subject.
@@dante_0962 How many people are willing to die for it though. Also Originally he seemed like domineering ass, but not exactly a criminal. Not using r* word due to possible censorship.
13:33 there was a deleted scene when one of the ladies discovered the body of the same dog Sabastian killed (thankfully the body wasn't shown). Gruesome, but I certainly remembered that.
*Some banned commercials you should take a look at. They're actually pretty hilarious:* -"GM Super Bowl XLI 'Sad Robot' Ad" -"Holiday Inn Bob Johnson Super Bowl Ad -"Pot Noodle 'The Horn' Commercial" (UK) -"Felicia the Goat Mountain Dew Commercial" -"Doritos Park Bench Commercial"
I do believe that the Original Invisible Man did the Original Concept of this Movie Better but I Love Hollow Man as a Story of giving the Wrong Person Powers, 8 out of 10, although I will admit, they’re blind to not see how dangerous this Man Was.
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You really have to pity Caine's poor unnamed neighbour, who was sexually assaulted by him while he was invisible, and she likely has no Idea what even happened. The poor woman desperately needs TONS of hugs. 😢💔
One of the disappointing things that the sequel didn't follow up on. Since she experience this top secret government project who raped her and, taking into account that he wasn't wearing any protection, probably might had gotten her pregnant with some mutated baby. Really is the big elephant in the room that the movie itself doesn't follow up on.
"Oh we invented a technology, what we should use it for?" " Harassing women without consequences?" " YOUR DOING THIS FOR YEARS SEBASTIAN, EVERYBODY KNOWS!"
Dear nostalgia critic, I love your videos and have been watching them since I was nine. You’re super funny and informative about the movie. Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your videos and you.
The effects on Kane without skin still hold up. Though I have to ask how the hell he survived getting burned AND electrocuted. Especially that second one. He was literally covered with water.
I might be remembering incorrectly but didn't he throw people around as well? A normal person cannot launch people around the room, they can make them stumble or fall but not launch them.
What's interesting is that Kevin Bacon plays a psychopath named Sebastian in this movie and a few years later would play a different psychopath named Sebastian in X-Men: First Class.
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Kevin Bacon might be thinking about right now is “The only time having a cult following is a great thing is when you are actually in a cult.”
My parents have a funny story about this movie. They saw this movie opening weekend and I was an infant (for some reason they brought me with them). During the scene when Sebastian fondles his coworker when she sleeps, I shouted "Boobie!!!" very loudly in the theatre. The whole auditorium roared with laughter.
That sexual assault scene with Sebastian assaulting the woman was actually longer in the original cut of the movie and made Sebastian even more unsympathetic in which Verhoeven felt extremely uncomfortable filming. You can see the extended scene in the Extended Cut of the film
Just recently finished MAXXXINE and.............honestly, "Evil" Kevin Bacon can give some of the best laughs I've ever had. He has a ridiculous Southern accent in that film (which literally sounds like Ernest P. Worrell when he screams). I had stomachaches all the next day because I laughed wayyyy too hard.
You can't pull a "there's nothing to see down there" joke on Kevin Bacon though. Anyone who watched Wild Things could shatter that illusion pretty quickly.
Could you please do these as part of FanScription • What if Disney’s Cinderella was engaged to marry a horrible, ugly and infamous Baron by her evil stepfamily (Disney’s Cinderella 1950movie) • What if Bambi lost the fight with Ronno (Disney’s Bambi) • What if Disney’s Alice returned to Wonderland (Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 2) • Wolverine vs The Predator • What if Nemo Got Older/Grew up (Finding Nemo 2) • What if Gaston survived Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 2) • What if Elsa married Hans in Disney’s Frozen • Batman vs Sandman • Spider-man vs Catwoman • What if Madam Mim (from Disney’s The Sword in the Stone 1963movie) had won? • What if we fixed Daredevil (2003movie)
I'm still waiting for the upcoming What If Richard Donner directed Superman 3, with Brainiac/Bizarro instead of Richard Pryor? Also, I'd love to see them do a Fanscription sequel for Megamind. That Doom Syndicate is not a real sequel; it was a theatrical pilot episode for the Megamind Rules tv series, similar to The Inhumans series.
If I had a nickel for every time Kevin Bacon played a villain named Sebastian I'd have two nickels right now. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
@@AlexHarrison-zv4jjI just binged N0S4A2 and, yeah, you could tell me that was a Stephen King show and I would have believed you. Psychic teen? Check. Psychic vampire as a villain? Check. Alcoholism? Check. New England? Check. Abusive small town? Check. Evil Christian fundamentalist? Briefly, but check.
Time to be THAT guy.... Back in the early 2000's, I bought the Director's Cut DVD of HOLLOW MAN after seeing online reviews hinting at cut sequences. You can guess which cut scene made me by the DVD.....😂😜❤
Weird point to make that they "should have gone further" on the mol*station and r*pe scenes. And no this is not a meme comment, this is an actual response to what's in this video.
The studio didn’t “take away” this movie from Verhoeven. He was coming off 2 financial disappointments, including the most mocked and ridiculed bomb of the 90s (that also killed any prospect of studios seriously backing NC-17 films). He was never going to get creative control on this one.
Just leaves the Stephen King Review. My money is on Salem's Lot because it's relevant sort of again, but I'd personally hope for Silver Bullet since hey, it's Gary Busey vs a Werewolf.
@@christermyrberg3661 Actually no, it was Everett McGill from Twin Peaks and Dune, who would go on to be the crazy nut in People Under the Stairs with his fellow Twin Peaks Co-star, Wendie Robie.
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When I saw on Twitter you were gonna do a Kevin Bacon movie for Nostalgia-Ween and I was hoping it to be Tremors but I was wrong but anyway only one week left till Halloween!
I'm hoping for Doug to review X-Men: First Class. Kevin Bacon is playing a villain named Sebastian again, I'm only hoping for a joke between this and Hollow Man.
4:50 How, and I mean HOW are you supposed to figure out how to make visible an invisible creature if you DON'T HAVE an invisible creature to test on???
Not a bad film, but not a good one either. It had a lot of good things for it like the performances, score, and special effects, but the story and characters were the problem
I remember seeing it at the time. At the time the special effects had left me on my arse. It was impressive. I admit it's got old. But it's true that it was only the special effects that I remembered. Neither the other actors, nor a punch line, not a single performance stuck in my memory. A bit sad for the film in the end. With Kevin Bacon, I'd recommend more Stir of Echoes. That was great.
Outside of the 2020 Invisible Man movie and Memoirs of an Invisible Man, You have to check out the original Claude Rains Invisible Man movie for it's groundbreaking effects and how it adapts, albeit with some liberties, one of the most influential science fiction novels ever written. Or better yet, it's sequel which not only ups the effects but it features a man, played masterfully by Vincent Price, trying to retain his sanity while invisible and on the run.
NC has turned into untitled review show energy with a custom thumbnail + the outfit, sigh I understand why, the algorithm spits you out, thus budget goes down, thus all the cool skits and weird fun energy goes away but still feels heartbreaking when the creator you grew up with falls out of the limelight at the whim of an analytics model 😞
@@yoshifrazzled7628 I'd disagree some somewhat, Stephen King Drinking Game, The Room, Nicholas Cage Month, Matrix, old school nostalgiaween outperform current videos not just in views but likes to dislikes. There are plenty of channels out there that do this current style. Old style NC, AVGN and so on had their own style. I'm not saying it in a negative way, I guess I'm just struggling to find the right way to communicate my thoughts. I don't remotely dislike NC, I still love the videos, I just miss some elements.
A more interesting script would be The Invisible Man is actually fighting with his inner demons manifesting as "scientists" who reflect his insecurities. Turning invisible causes his own latent fear of being completely forgotten to come to the surface, resulting in a Freudian psychotic break. Basically akin to "The Cell" where he doesn't even know what the hell is reality is anymore. And because no one can see the guy, he's forced to fight for his own sanity. Basically the damn fool did the experiment on his own, so no one knows the invisible man is real....but him. No one dares believe in such a thing, for fear they're just going insane. A horrific existential nightmare for The Invisible Man, as the demonic "scientists" torment him and reality collapses slowly but surely.
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My first ever ,,Invisible man" movie!
Rewatchable
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Good movie with one of the most chilling lines you’ll ever hear:
“It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have to look at yourself in the mirror anymore”.
Forgot how creepy that line is.
That line is very disturbing.
I love the line "Ghosts are dead. I'm very much alive."
To quote Homelander-
"I can do *whatever* I want."
@@sebastianemond5313 💯
It might be predictable, but I have to say Kevin Bacon does do a good job playing the part of a complete douche. And the stuff they do with invisibility like thermal censors, appearing to be made of water afer a swim, etc. is pretty creative.
A douche is putting it mildly. His character is a monster, & that’s before becoming invisible. 😮
Hahaha I scanned this at first as you saying that appearing to be made of water was a part of his good performance.
Agreed, you can tell they did as much as they could with the budget and it paid off well in a lot of parts
Well, too bad everyone is unlikable in this movie
@@dragonempress8367 I wouldn't say everyone, but yeah it was hard to feel bad for the characters when they got killed
Another Fun Fact: Despite assumptions that Kevin Bacon would not be needed on set, except when his character Sebastian is visible, Paul Verhoeven and the crew realized after test footage was shot, that he would need to be present, to interact with the cast, as "the other actors were stranded in empty space, and the scenes looked stiff, inorganic, and unconvincing" without him.
And they stuck him in different color suits depending what the other effects & environments would need. Most times he was in a green mo-cap suit when with the cast except for times where he would wear blue, black or grey depending what they needed. Plus having him on speakers when he torments the team in the climax really helped
That is interesting to me so thank you both for the information
Guys he said this in the video
@@qxillanote9952 😂
Yet the actors in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" managed just fine.
It’s interesting that this version of The Invisible Man is probably the closest to the book. The original character was a sexual deviant and a psychopath.
Yep, I also see it as a mediation on the Ring of Gyges, as many don’t accept that their morality would ebb away as readily/easily as characters like Sebastian or as played by Claude Rains.
Heroes the 2007 show doesn’t do a lot well, but having an Invisible Man in Season 1 (also named Claude Rains) be a grounding force (both for his newfound powers and to tie him to reality) for Peter Petrelli was a nice change of pace for such a character and the tropes they usually embody?
"The concept of Sebastian, is much more appealing than Sebastian himself"
God damn, you didn't have to do me like that.
or me either
I love the process of Kevin Bacon gradually disappearing one layer of skin at a time.
@@wstine79 It's the perfect mix of cool and unsettling.
Fun fact: If you were actually invisible, you *wouldn't be able to see anything* because things that process light cannot do their job if they're invisible.
Make the blind guy invisible!
Fun Fact: This movie was nominated for the Oscar for best visual effects, but lost to "Gladiator".
I love Gladiator but I kinda wish it won, not gonna lie.
This film is the third Paul Verhoeven directed film that was nominated for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The first two films are Total Recall and Starship Troopers. Total Recall is the only Verhoeven film that has won the award.
@@koneheadcokehead4981 Starship Troopers somehow still holds up, graphics wise. It's nuts.
That's not a fun fact at all. By the way, we can all read IMDb.
@@Shaki123 Actually is really funny because Doug really bash the visual effects in this critic, but in fact they were amazing, even now I amaze by some of them. So this is an ironic fact, which make it funny
To get the right reaction from the cast, Paul Verhoeven had speakers put in different places on the set, and had Kevin Bacon's voice come from different speakers so the cast would genuinely react to the invisible character moving around. For the scene with the invisible gorilla, Paul screamed to the microphone, imitating gorilla noises.
That is very interesting, it adds a nice touch of Bacon being on the set with the other actors, and makes their panic seem more genuine.
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I feel like this movie would have been better if Kevin Bacon's character was kind of like a shy loser type but a nice person. And then when he turns invisible and realizes that he has the power to do what he wants consequence-free his true nature comes out.
The idea being that sometimes a good person is really a bad person who doesn't have the ability to act on it.
@@NRB10ful that would've been an interesting take on the character. And for an actor like Kevin, it would've worked very well.
Yes yes😅
Too cliche
@@IcaroRamosDM Maybe so but it can be done well. It’s not hard.
It’s kinda the same issue Stephen King had with Jack Nicholson’s performance as Jack Torrance in “The Shining” - he’s just too sinister and scary when the character is meant to be his normal self, to the point where his turn into axe-crazy madness doesn’t really feel all that shocking.
Kevin Bacon said it was his most difficult role ever given the uncomfortable getups he wore that would allow the effects artists to erase him in post-production, including suits, colored lenses and make-up◊ that would at times cover his hair and teeth. And that's not counting the suffocating and smelly latex mask used to make his character 'visible' for others.
You really have to suffer for your art, and it seems that Bacon certainly did, both mentally and physically.
@@trinaq💯💯. He’s a good actor.
He's doing nothing but f**k in this movie, how is it difficult?
He did get something back for it though. At his own request, so the story goes, they made the whole world think he has a giant... 5:26.
Paul Verhoeven has admitted that he doesn't really like the film, reportedly due to the idea behind it not being at all idiosyncratic. This contributed to the movie being his latest American production...in years. In 2013, Verhoeven said this to The Hollywood Reporter:
"I decided after Hollow Man, this is a movie, the first movie that I made that I thought I should not have made. It made money and this and that, but it really is not me anymore. I think many other people could have done that. I don't think many people could have made RoboCop that way, or either Starship Troopers. But Hollow Man, I thought there might have been 20 directors in Hollywood who could have done that. I felt depressed with myself after 2002."
Last of his movies I heard of, thanks to a MovieBob review, was his take on "nunsploitation", with sadomasochistic lesbian nuns. In true Verhoeven fashion, I couldn't tell if he intended to arouse the audience, or shame them for thinking that looked hot.
probably both which I respect@@louisduarte8763
The movie was Benedetta and it like the last couple of films was filmed over in Europe. I want to say it is a French film.
@@louisduarte8763 well to be fair I think that's what he wanted and mad respect
Its pretty cookie cutter slasher type movie so yeah anyone could have directed it. Good thing about the movie is they made working 3d computer model of Kevin Bacon's entire body down to the last capillary and donated it to scientific researchers after the movie.
The mouse being mutilated at the beginning brought back a memory from deep in my mind when I saw that moment on TV as a little kid and being traumatized by it. I didn't even know which movie that was from until now.
This fucking movie traumatized me as well.
_"It's Pinky and the Brai--_
_It's Brain, just the Brain..."_
@@ryansalter2325 that’s why kids shouldn’t watch restricted movies.
“Hollow Man is bad”
Respectfully disagree.
“The CGI is bad”
YOU WATCH YOUR MOUTH
Dude,
This is Nostalgia Critic.
Good or Bad,
He's gotta be judging everything on whatever movie and/or TV show he reviews.
That's what he does.
@@jeuryrabassa4724 nah, really?
@@liamslibrary5084 Yes, really.
@@jeuryrabassa4724you have the iq of a walnut
Take off the Critic's attitude towards this movie and take his points instead.
- The effects were meh
- The writing was more generic than "Beer" beer
- The plot wasn't that groundbreaking (even though it would have)
- The tone and theme was "hollow"
Bottom line. This movie just wanted to show off but what it was showing off wasn't all that worth showing off.
Believe it or not, a sequel was made 6 years later with Christian Slater as the Hollow Man.
And that was a direct-to-DVD sequel, too.
Because apparently someone demanded it, probably the same someone who decided RIPD should also have a straight-to-DVD sequel
And it used the original script for the first Hollow Man movie before being re written multiple times in production
@@freddymarquez7455 really?
I never saw the second, oddly.
@@AshParth560 it’s mostly ok when I first saw it. The plot feels more confusing than the first film and the third act becomes incredibly nonsensical bonkers with its twist surprise.
Fun Fact: The prop tranquilizer guns and heat vision goggles were later reused in Scary Movie 2.
That's definitely a true fact because I watched Scary Movie 2 on VHS in the past and Hollow Man on HBO as well to know what they are because Hollow Man came out in 2000 before Scary Movie 2.
Even the scene where Cindy & the older brother from Malcolm in the Middle stuck in the freezer is taken from Hollow Man. Probably the most esoteric of film parodies, but CIndy figuring out how to make a tractor from things in the freezer is pretty funny after watching the original scene. i wish that level of humor carried over to the post Scary Movie 3 parodies.
@@briankaslewicz6130 Of Course.
...along with a tractor))
@@briankaslewicz6130I think we all wished for that. But sadly the Waynes brothers were kick off their own movies , I think if I remember right its cause they really didn't want do too much of them as they would become less funny. I dont think they even wanted to do the sequel but were in a contract for it? Idk, kinda forgot about the reason. Just that they were removed from it. Studios are just money grubbing.
Nebula: YOU CAN’T OUTRUN ME, BACON!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Karen Gillian nailed that line.
Maybe the next movie with Kevin Bacon that the Nostalgia Critic should review should be RIPD, AKA the Rest in Peace Department.
I honestly thought it was going to be that when he teased a Bacon film lol
@@EarthwormShandy Same here.
God, that film was way worse than Hollowman.
Tremors.
I haven’t thought about that movie in forever.
Kevin Bacon wanted the part so bad, because he really wanted to play the Invisible Man (and all the attendant moral complications) and be part of the cool effects for invisibility that the advent of CGI would allow.
@@johnnysparkle That’s copied right from the TV Tropes entry
We did not sufficiently appreciate Josh Brolin at the turn of the Millennium.
Well, after The Goonies, the most notable media Josh had were The Young Riders and Mimic before he was in Hollowman.
@@virginiadare1587 he was actually everywhere. He was in No country for old men, Milk, In the valley of Elah, W. and American Gangster just between 2007 and 2009
These effects actually look pretty good for their time.
They almost look good now imo.
It's not quite photorealistic but it's damn near close enough and complex enough that it blows my mind.
3:14 is that Lust?
Pretty sure
@@shadowmoon6935 Is that the characters name?
Yea it is full metal alchemist mentioned also hate how I had to dig for this comment
@@Chaotic-hexYep, the character is called Lust from an anime called Full Metal Alchemist.
You know. The 30th is a Wednesday. And it’s still October. Anyone SORTA looking forward to the possibility of a Stephen king movie review coming soon?
Same here
It's tradition.
Hollow is usually a bad thing for a movie to be. So who thought this one had a chance in 2000?
IKR!
The people who saw Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow the year prior?
@@jp3813 Sleepy Hollow Man would be a funny double feature. Wait... I actually watched both of these movies in early March. Same weekend if I recall
One thing that always bugged me about this movie is that we see the gorilla become visible again from the inside out, and this makes sense (at least in terms of movie logic) because the drug they inject it with would interact with the the veins first, and spread through out the circulatory system and get into the bones and muscles, and then finally the skin and fur.
But then when Sebastian gets injected to become invisible, his skin reacts first, then muscles, bones etc.
I know it's done that way to show off the special effects, but it should be the other way around.
Maybe it depends on what part of your body is easier to erase. Skin has no bright colors, so it is easier to hide. While the other way, it is just easier to cure this effect on blood, which momentarily reacts to it.
But, yeah, why the bones did not disappear first then? Hard to say.
@@cosmichome626 meh, possibly. The colours idea is a bit weak though.
Also, would be weird that it coincidentally works the exact same order as the thing it contacts first.
Fun Fact: In Jojo's Bizarre Adventure the stand "Limp Bizkit" was inspired by Hollow Man's effects. Also, hi people who never watched or heard of Jojo confused by that statement.
I knew it was familiar plus make sense araki is a horror movie fan
Hey how's it going, also what?
@@walrusArmageddonan anime that had invisible zombies was inspired by this movie
Strangely enough, this is not the first JoJo Reference mentioned in a Nostalgia Critic video.
i cringed
Another Fun Fact: During filming, Kevin Bacon wore skin-tight costumes in green, blue, grey, or black, to assist with the adding of visual effects. Some of his cast mates said that the hardest part of the role was not laughing at someone painted in black, green, blue, or grey, pretending to be mean.
Bacon admitted that he accepted the role partly under the false assumption that he wouldn't need to be on set for scenes of Sebastian invisible, and that it would be an easy performance. He claimed that to the contrary it ended up being the most physically demanding and difficult role of his career.
GTFO of here with your fun fact plagarism you autistic weirdo
Hey, Jim Carrey had to deal with dressing up like a walking moldy green tampon during the entirety of the Grinch shooting. At least Kevin got to have scenes without the makeup and suit on.
Paul Verhoeven, himself, even disliked the film
@@Omar-wq9dz he literally says that in the video....
@@Omar-wq9dz Essentially like Stephen King saying,
"I ain't taking the wrap for this. It's not my fault!"
One of my favorite Sci Fi Action Horror movies ever made!
Before Kevin Bacon was picked to play Sebastian, Guy Pearce, Edward Norton, Johnny Depp, and Robert Downey Jr were considered, but the producers wanted someone to be both charming and dangerous as well as being charismatic before he turns psychotic.
The entire film was shot in chronological order, with the lab being blown up at the end of the film was the last day of shooting.
The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects but lost to Gladiator.
Ironic how Johnny Depp was considered for the role, and yet this wouldn't be the last time as he was supposed to star in the now scrapped reboot of The Invisible Man which was set to be part of Universal's ill fated Dark Universe, but we all know how that went. And Robert Downey Jr. in a horror movie where he is the villain. Now THAT would be wild.
My Tremors hopes are crushed
DARN IT!
Don't worry mate, there's always next year for Tremors
@@dragondaveltd1992 💯
No one can deny the chemistry that Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon had together
I feel like Tremors has already reviewed plenty. Even Linkara beat Doug to Tremors, and I like his review of that movie, even though he normally reviews comic books.
There’s a good chance Sebastian was already messed up before he became invisible. Having that power only made it easier to do whatever he wanted.
I think that was the argument that NC was making: why would anyone give this maniac the power of invisibility?!
Because he has a reputation has a genius, he's rich and he's the boss. Because if you can create values for the (metaphorical or literal) shareholders, nobody cares about your sociopathy.@@zacharybartolo5111
@@zacharybartolo5111because 1. They thought they had the necessary protection to keep Sebastian in check with the monitors and 2. You can’t always pick and chose people you work with. The person at the top of their field like Sebastian may not be nice, but you need his intelligence to unlock the formula.
@@lightningmanmatthew1. He can destroy or steal them
2. You’re telling me no one else more responsible would do it and would it make more sense if he was doing the operation. That’s like if the man that invented guns was working on the prototype and he used himself as a test subject.
@@dante_0962 How many people are willing to die for it though. Also Originally he seemed like domineering ass, but not exactly a criminal. Not using r* word due to possible censorship.
13:33 there was a deleted scene when one of the ladies discovered the body of the same dog Sabastian killed (thankfully the body wasn't shown).
Gruesome, but I certainly remembered that.
*Some banned commercials you should take a look at. They're actually pretty hilarious:*
-"GM Super Bowl XLI 'Sad Robot' Ad"
-"Holiday Inn Bob Johnson Super Bowl Ad
-"Pot Noodle 'The Horn' Commercial" (UK)
-"Felicia the Goat Mountain Dew Commercial"
-"Doritos Park Bench Commercial"
Verhoeven is one of the best directors. Hollywood screwed him over. F Hollywood.
I do believe that the Original Invisible Man did the Original Concept of this Movie Better but I Love Hollow Man as a Story of giving the Wrong Person Powers, 8 out of 10, although I will admit, they’re blind to not see how dangerous this Man Was.
Hey, Doug. My wife and I have been fans of your channel for years. I just wanted to say thank you for making a shout out to the Michael J Fox foundation. My wife's father has Parkinson's, diagnosed when he was 33. It hasn't been easy for him and the family, but thanks to foundations like this one, he has gotten the help he needs. He's watched your stuff with us, and he loves your humor, especially the bat credit card joke, which we all reenact when we want to cheer him up in his bad days. Keep up the good work, and thank you so much for the shout-out.
Wow, got in before the guy who copies stuff over from the Trivia tab on the TV Tropes page
You can tell they start commenting way before the video gets going because they'll say things that the Critic ends up saying in the review.
The girl whom Sebastian peeps in the window is Rhona Mitra.
@nondjmaster Wonder which she regrets more? This or The Number 23 with Jim Carrey?
You really have to pity Caine's poor unnamed neighbour, who was sexually assaulted by him while he was invisible, and she likely has no Idea what even happened. The poor woman desperately needs TONS of hugs. 😢💔
Kevin Bacon summed it up in the film when he said “It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have to look at yourself in the mirror”
Yeah it was good thing they cut that scene. It’s very disturbing. Especially his behavior after he did it
One of the disappointing things that the sequel didn't follow up on. Since she experience this top secret government project who raped her and, taking into account that he wasn't wearing any protection, probably might had gotten her pregnant with some mutated baby.
Really is the big elephant in the room that the movie itself doesn't follow up on.
Hugs will fix it
Did anyone notice she's played by Rhona Mitra from Underworld: Rise of the Lycans?
"Oh we invented a technology, what we should use it for?"
" Harassing women without consequences?"
" YOUR DOING THIS FOR YEARS SEBASTIAN, EVERYBODY KNOWS!"
Hollow man, a.k.a., the real remake of the invisible madman
Why couldn't they just keep their goggles on?😮
Dear nostalgia critic, I love your videos and have been watching them since I was nine. You’re super funny and informative about the movie. Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your videos and you.
The effects on Kane without skin still hold up. Though I have to ask how the hell he survived getting burned AND electrocuted. Especially that second one. He was literally covered with water.
I always chalked it up to the serum they gave him. Maybe it had the unintended effect of making him super human.
@@zacharybartolo5111 AND he got hit in the head with a crowbar only to get right back up again.
Like dude
I might be remembering incorrectly but didn't he throw people around as well?
A normal person cannot launch people around the room, they can make them stumble or fall but not launch them.
They don't hold up
What's interesting is that Kevin Bacon plays a psychopath named Sebastian in this movie and a few years later would play a different psychopath named Sebastian in X-Men: First Class.
You know if I had a nickel for every time Kevin Bacon played a douche with superpowers named Sebastian, I'd have two nickels.
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Kevin Bacon might be thinking about right now is “The only time having a cult following is a great thing is when you are actually in a cult.”
My parents have a funny story about this movie. They saw this movie opening weekend and I was an infant (for some reason they brought me with them). During the scene when Sebastian fondles his coworker when she sleeps, I shouted "Boobie!!!" very loudly in the theatre. The whole auditorium roared with laughter.
2:53 "-we can tell right away he's a psycho: He's watching Jay Leno for entertainment."
Somebody please send this to Vinny Vinesauce.
HEY HOW YA DOING
I'm glad it's not just me who thought of Vinny!
No, somebody send Grey Leno to NC
That sexual assault scene with Sebastian assaulting the woman was actually longer in the original cut of the movie and made Sebastian even more unsympathetic in which Verhoeven felt extremely uncomfortable filming. You can see the extended scene in the Extended Cut of the film
Maybe I accidentally saw the extended cut because it already felt way too fucking long in the film, i mean jesus
shame on the producers or whoever even recommending that scene
I definitely remember the scene being longer than shown here. Saw the film once and that's probably the only scene I really remember.
Finally good old reviews like back in the golden age of nostalgia critic.
Thanks Critic 👍
Fun Fact: **information that is already mentioned in the video except people want to be the first ones to post it in the comments**
Just recently finished MAXXXINE and.............honestly, "Evil" Kevin Bacon can give some of the best laughs I've ever had.
He has a ridiculous Southern accent in that film (which literally sounds like Ernest P. Worrell when he screams). I had stomachaches all the next day because I laughed wayyyy too hard.
What movie is that at 5:27?
Pretty sure it's Young Frankenstein
@@Mr_Movie_Fan Thanks, mate!
@@EarthwormShandy my pleasure, friend
You can't pull a "there's nothing to see down there" joke on Kevin Bacon though. Anyone who watched Wild Things could shatter that illusion pretty quickly.
you see all of Kevin's bacon in that shower scene
17:55 is that a Carrie poster to Doug's right? Is next week's video going to be a review of Carrie?
As Ryan George said: invisibility is really only good for being a creep.
Could you please do these as part of FanScription
• What if Disney’s Cinderella was engaged to marry a horrible, ugly and infamous Baron by her evil stepfamily (Disney’s Cinderella 1950movie)
• What if Bambi lost the fight with Ronno (Disney’s Bambi)
• What if Disney’s Alice returned to Wonderland (Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 2)
• Wolverine vs The Predator
• What if Nemo Got Older/Grew up (Finding Nemo 2)
• What if Gaston survived Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 2)
• What if Elsa married Hans in Disney’s Frozen
• Batman vs Sandman
• Spider-man vs Catwoman
• What if Madam Mim (from Disney’s The Sword in the Stone 1963movie) had won?
• What if we fixed Daredevil (2003movie)
what if Nemo got older it's a missed opportunity? I imagine if they revisit the Great Barrier Reef Hank the Octopus would be the focus
I'm still waiting for the upcoming What If Richard Donner directed Superman 3, with Brainiac/Bizarro instead of Richard Pryor?
Also, I'd love to see them do a Fanscription sequel for Megamind. That Doom Syndicate is not a real sequel; it was a theatrical pilot episode for the Megamind Rules tv series, similar to The Inhumans series.
One thing about this movie I genuinely like is the Score by Jerry Goldsmith, his final work in the Horror-Genre.
Happy nostalgiaween! These videos has been amazing 🎃🎃
They’re fantastic
I've never heard of Hollowman until a couple years back and now it's one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
Yes! This film is one of my guilty pleasures! Please do deep blue sea!
If I had a nickel for every time Kevin Bacon played a villain named Sebastian I'd have two nickels right now. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
12:14 Ooooh boy! You should see the director's cut (or deleted footage) where that scene plays out in *horrific* detail
Can't wait for next week, you know what time it is.
JOE HILL TIME!
@@AlexHarrison-zv4jjI just binged N0S4A2 and, yeah, you could tell me that was a Stephen King show and I would have believed you. Psychic teen? Check. Psychic vampire as a villain? Check. Alcoholism? Check. New England? Check. Abusive small town? Check. Evil Christian fundamentalist? Briefly, but check.
Actually, no. It's Wackey Adventures of Ronald Mcdonald: Scared Silly.
@@sebastianemond5313 B-but Stephen King! You can't do Nostalgiaween without Stephen King!
Time to be THAT guy....
Back in the early 2000's, I bought the Director's Cut DVD of HOLLOW MAN after seeing online reviews hinting at cut sequences. You can guess which cut scene made me by the DVD.....😂😜❤
Doug really needs to do Star Kid
Idk if Stephen king reviews are still a thing next week (I just heard differently is all) but if they are
SILVER BULLET
Weird point to make that they "should have gone further" on the mol*station and r*pe scenes. And no this is not a meme comment, this is an actual response to what's in this video.
3:15 So, is Doug a Fullmetal Alchemist fan?
Maybe.
What’s the characters name?
@@Chaotic-hex Lust. She's one of the Homonculi.
The studio didn’t “take away” this movie from Verhoeven. He was coming off 2 financial disappointments, including the most mocked and ridiculed bomb of the 90s (that also killed any prospect of studios seriously backing NC-17 films). He was never going to get creative control on this one.
Just leaves the Stephen King Review. My money is on Salem's Lot because it's relevant sort of again, but I'd personally hope for Silver Bullet since hey, it's Gary Busey vs a Werewolf.
@@christermyrberg3661 I said VS a Werewolf. Read.
@@christermyrberg3661 Actually no, it was Everett McGill from Twin Peaks and Dune, who would go on to be the crazy nut in People Under the Stairs with his fellow Twin Peaks Co-star, Wendie Robie.
Hollowman is one of my favorite movies of all time
The uncut version of Hollowman doesn't immediately cut away from the...erm....scene
makes it even worse
May I suggest the forgotten giant enemy crab horror of "Apollo 18" or Norwegians + American form an unlikely team up against....Americans?! in "The Thing (2011)" for the final October episode?
Post-script: ruclips.net/video/CgiditpCqho/видео.html
When I saw on Twitter you were gonna do a Kevin Bacon movie for Nostalgia-Ween and I was hoping it to be Tremors but I was wrong but anyway only one week left till Halloween!
I'm hoping for Doug to review X-Men: First Class. Kevin Bacon is playing a villain named Sebastian again, I'm only hoping for a joke between this and Hollow Man.
I was hoping it’d be Tremors or Friday The 13th Part One
The most amazing thing about this movie is Elisabeth Shue got billed over Kevin Bacon. That must have been an interesting negotiation process.
Well at the time she was the more well known of the 2.
@CosmicGoku529 Dang. Bacon's career must have been in a slump at the time.
I could swear he made a review out of this back in 2012. I must have been in parallel dimension back then
1. I actually like this movie.
2. 12:18 there’s a deleted scene that shows more of the assault. It’s very disturbing. Be glad they cut it.
Did not know about the CGI models being donated to schools ‘cause of their detail, that’s pretty cool.
~_~
4:50 How, and I mean HOW are you supposed to figure out how to make visible an invisible creature if you DON'T HAVE an invisible creature to test on???
Not a bad film, but not a good one either. It had a lot of good things for it like the performances, score, and special effects, but the story and characters were the problem
Soooo true. Seems like the definition of a mixed bag.
Sooooo….. like Frozen 2?
@@chasehedges6775 No. This is flawed, but not that bad.
@@sebastianemond5313 Exactly.👍💯
I’m nostalgic for this movie it’s stupid but entertaining and Jerry Goldsmith did an amazing score for it.
It was one of the last movies he scored before his death in 2004. I miss that guy as a music composer.
10:42 did he say? “Something formula?”
"Back to formula."
@@itishappeningagain3072 thank you. That’s what the green goblin said in Spider-Man.
Well, like Norman Osborn-
"He's something of a scientist himself."
7:01 Kevin Bacon: I will play Green Goblin in Spider-Man.
Willem Dafoe: Hold my flu-iiiddd.
16:23 I legitimately thought of “Frying the Coke”. You gotta admit the fact that it is referencable anywhere else kinda something.
Except here, it would be "Frying the Bacon."
CSI Miami: *😎YYYEEEEEEEAAAHH!!*
I remember seeing it at the time.
At the time the special effects had left me on my arse. It was impressive.
I admit it's got old. But it's true that it was only the special effects that I remembered. Neither the other actors, nor a punch line, not a single performance stuck in my memory. A bit sad for the film in the end.
With Kevin Bacon, I'd recommend more Stir of Echoes. That was great.
Outside of the 2020 Invisible Man movie and Memoirs of an Invisible Man, You have to check out the original Claude Rains Invisible Man movie for it's groundbreaking effects and how it adapts, albeit with some liberties, one of the most influential science fiction novels ever written. Or better yet, it's sequel which not only ups the effects but it features a man, played masterfully by Vincent Price, trying to retain his sanity while invisible and on the run.
Hollow Man did have its flaws but it's a solid early 2000s thrill ride by every definition.
Jay Leno > David Letterman
The pool scene freaked me the hell out as a kid!
Speaking of “Secondhand lions”, seriously, do a review of that!
Also he should check out Without a Clue, with Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley as Holmes and Watson.
NC has turned into untitled review show energy with a custom thumbnail + the outfit, sigh
I understand why, the algorithm spits you out, thus budget goes down, thus all the cool skits and weird fun energy goes away but still feels heartbreaking when the creator you grew up with falls out of the limelight at the whim of an analytics model 😞
This style of videos is what made him big us original fans didn’t like how his reviews became 15 mins of annoying skits
@@yoshifrazzled7628 I'd disagree some somewhat, Stephen King Drinking Game, The Room, Nicholas Cage Month, Matrix, old school nostalgiaween outperform current videos not just in views but likes to dislikes.
There are plenty of channels out there that do this current style. Old style NC, AVGN and so on had their own style.
I'm not saying it in a negative way, I guess I'm just struggling to find the right way to communicate my thoughts. I don't remotely dislike NC, I still love the videos, I just miss some elements.
A more interesting script would be The Invisible Man is actually fighting with his inner demons manifesting as "scientists" who reflect his insecurities. Turning invisible causes his own latent fear of being completely forgotten to come to the surface, resulting in a Freudian psychotic break. Basically akin to "The Cell" where he doesn't even know what the hell is reality is anymore. And because no one can see the guy, he's forced to fight for his own sanity. Basically the damn fool did the experiment on his own, so no one knows the invisible man is real....but him. No one dares believe in such a thing, for fear they're just going insane. A horrific existential nightmare for The Invisible Man, as the demonic "scientists" torment him and reality collapses slowly but surely.
6:02 oh come on! No Back to the Future joke?!
That is one amazing title card.
Could it work as a business card?
And then we had another movie that almost acted as a remake to this later on!
Crossing my fingers that Longlegs is the final Nostalgiaween this year
If he says it got Nic Cage, it's gotta be that. 😏
@@AshParth560or any of the other actors in it
Next week is probably gonna be Stephen King time.
@@AlexanderHarrison-p7c I mean, can't have Nostalgiaween without the ol Stephen King Game.
Not exactly, but it's got another notable pale faced celebrity.