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Perhaps he is merely acting out the implicit logic of the 1933 film of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man, of which Paul Verhoeven's new movie is an entirely unacknowledged remake. Both Caine and Claude Rains' Jack Griffin find it easier to attain the ectoplasmic state than to return from it; both become increasingly megalomaniac as a result of the scientific process they embrace. The big difference between the two pictures is attitude. James Whale, who directed the first movie, made a kind of moral comedy of the situation--lots of befuddled English country types doing dialect jokes--but with...
...many special effects, many of them stomach churning; too much pornographically arranged death. Early in the picture you wonder why Verhoeven is so obsessively interested in a perfectly ordinary elevator. Later on you see why: it's where the climactic fireball is going to explode, imperiling Elisabeth Shue's and Josh Brolin's hairdos. They deserve better than this...
...years (though for some reason she agreed to do Gloria, Sliver and The Muse), but relented when original producer Mario Kassar regained the film rights. "I felt assured that the project will be made with respect to the original," said Stone, although co-star Michael Douglas, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas won't re-up. "I'm hoping that this will also be a two-box-of-popcorn fun experience at the theater." Like it was the boxes of popcorn packing people...
Shue tore her Achilles tendon during the shooting of her next movie, Paul Verhoeven's The Hollow Man, and filming was delayed for several months...
...part of the Conscience and Courage film series about resistance during the Holocaust, take in a screening of The White Rose. Director Michael Verhoeven will be there and you should be too.Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar International Center, Brandeis University, South St., Waltham. 781-736-8600. 7:30 p.m. FREE...