Alright folks—time for VHS of the Week. Regular readers know that I like to start off these reviews with a personal story that usually goes on for a long while and probably guarantees that most people who don’t know me, and probably a few who do know me, will stop reading the review after a paragraph and a half. Well, those of y’all who could do without the whole “once upon a time in Worcester…” business are in luck because I have absolutely nothing to say about this week’s flick (with the exception of the next 3000 words I’m about to write, of course). It’s called Hollow Man and it was directed by notoriously pervy Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven. It was released in August of 2000 and was duly savaged by critics. In fact, the only positive pull quote they could find for the front of the VHS box says the film “has special effects that are really spectacular–the best since The Matrix!,” which isn’t all that awesome given that The Matrix was only 15 months old at the time of this quote. I didn’t step out for Hollow Man back in the day…but since the VHS section at my local thrift shop is down to 4 copies of Hope Floats, I decided to finally give Hollow Man a spin. Also—it stars two of my absolute favorite 80’s movie icons: Adventures in Babysitting’s Elisabeth Shue and Bacon Brothers’ frontman and legendary dong hanger Kevin Bacon. Man, Kevin Bacon is like the Tom Petty of movies—everyone likes him…and even those who dislike him don’t REALLY have a problem with him. There’s a reason why the game isn’t called Six Degrees of Nick Nolte, you dig? Actually…now that I think of it…my ex-girlfriend hated Kevin Bacon. She thought he was terrifying for some unspecified reason. She’d always say “Hey Tebo—what’s scarier than Kevin Bacon??”And I would say…you know…snakes. She’d say “what’s scarier than Kevin Bacon with snakes in his mouth?” and I’d say “zero things.” Maybe you had to be there. In her defense—I DID walk past Kevin Bacon in the Upper East Side once in the early 00’s and he had a horrible scowl on his face for no good reason that I could see. So I guess there’s that.
Hollow Man
Hollow Man
Hollow Man
Alright folks—time for VHS of the Week. Regular readers know that I like to start off these reviews with a personal story that usually goes on for a long while and probably guarantees that most people who don’t know me, and probably a few who do know me, will stop reading the review after a paragraph and a half. Well, those of y’all who could do without the whole “once upon a time in Worcester…” business are in luck because I have absolutely nothing to say about this week’s flick (with the exception of the next 3000 words I’m about to write, of course). It’s called Hollow Man and it was directed by notoriously pervy Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven. It was released in August of 2000 and was duly savaged by critics. In fact, the only positive pull quote they could find for the front of the VHS box says the film “has special effects that are really spectacular–the best since The Matrix!,” which isn’t all that awesome given that The Matrix was only 15 months old at the time of this quote. I didn’t step out for Hollow Man back in the day…but since the VHS section at my local thrift shop is down to 4 copies of Hope Floats, I decided to finally give Hollow Man a spin. Also—it stars two of my absolute favorite 80’s movie icons: Adventures in Babysitting’s Elisabeth Shue and Bacon Brothers’ frontman and legendary dong hanger Kevin Bacon. Man, Kevin Bacon is like the Tom Petty of movies—everyone likes him…and even those who dislike him don’t REALLY have a problem with him. There’s a reason why the game isn’t called Six Degrees of Nick Nolte, you dig? Actually…now that I think of it…my ex-girlfriend hated Kevin Bacon. She thought he was terrifying for some unspecified reason. She’d always say “Hey Tebo—what’s scarier than Kevin Bacon??”And I would say…you know…snakes. She’d say “what’s scarier than Kevin Bacon with snakes in his mouth?” and I’d say “zero things.” Maybe you had to be there. In her defense—I DID walk past Kevin Bacon in the Upper East Side once in the early 00’s and he had a horrible scowl on his face for no good reason that I could see. So I guess there’s that.