Today's Pick: Hollow Man (2000)
When the seventies hit, there was a great industry-wide shift happening in the movie business: take B-movie premises and treat them like A-list prestige pictures. It's exactly what happened at Universal during the thirties, and that gave us the first big wave of monster classics. This led to a whole bevy of cinematic treasures, including The Exorcist, Jaws, and Alien. The downside to this was that excellent B-movies began to look shoddy by comparison. That's why I can't help but love Hollow Man. It's not only an inventive "remake" of Universal's own The Invisible Man, it's also a film that's totally aware of its B-movie pedigree and doesn't even try to class itself up. Instead, it just attempts to be the best B-movie it can be, and it works like gangbusters.
When the seventies hit, there was a great industry-wide shift happening in the movie business: take B-movie premises and treat them like A-list prestige pictures. It's exactly what happened at Universal during the thirties, and that gave us the first big wave of monster classics. This led to a whole bevy of cinematic treasures, including The Exorcist, Jaws, and Alien. The downside to this was that excellent B-movies began to look shoddy by comparison. That's why I can't help but love Hollow Man. It's not only an inventive "remake" of Universal's own The Invisible Man, it's also a film that's totally aware of its B-movie pedigree and doesn't even try to class itself up. Instead, it just attempts to be the best B-movie it can be, and it works like gangbusters.
