The Invisible man - toxic masculinity the horror movie

[kadoink]

Written and directed by Leigh Whannel(co-writer of SAW)

Synopsis: When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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new movie trailer for The Invisible Man When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a seri...

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So we got yet another remake of a classic horror film, but this time its about toxic masculinity. Stalker ex boyfriend turns invisible to drive large foreheaded ex girlfriend crazy in some weirdo revenge plot. So what can we learn from this lazy, generic, virtue signalling crappy trailer?

Lets check the known virtue signalling tropes:

Villain is a white man. White man is crazy, possessive, unhinged!

Victim is white woman. Shes naive but good and pure!

Morale guardians are her black friends. They's strong and stoic!

White man is an invisible evil. Deep Symbolism, you wouldn't understand.

I'd say that 2020 is probably gonna usher in a new era of virtue signalling horror from the retards at Blumhouse that made this film. So far the only thing the trailer didn't have was a gay character queening around. Expect this film to get some serious buzz from the faggot force at rotten tomatoes as well as the retarded star Elizabeth Moss, known scientologist slut.

 

[Caesare]

I did like the scene in the preview with the black friend getting his ass kicked by the invisible gentleman.

I thought they might wuss out and not have something like that.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Hollow Man was a sweet movie.

 

[The Nothingness]

And this was a rewritten movie after the Dark Universe flopped.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Hollow Man was a sweet movie.

I liked it when Rhona Mitra showed her sweet cans.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I liked it when Rhona Mitra showed her sweet cans.

You know what pisses me off? In the movie Doll Man vs Demonic Toys the blond chick never took her tits out. That really pissed me off!

 

[Vampirella]

Hollow Man was a sweet movie.

I did like that he couldn't sleep well because his eye lids were invisible, and they took time to render his wiener when he was in the rain. Because that's important.

 

[frozenrunner]

Do you think Elisabeth Moss is annoyed that she's now the go-to "not pretty enough to be threatening" actress for pro-female/anti-masculinity identity politics-tinged bait entertainment made for victimhood addicts? Or is she just happy to be getting steady work?

(Aside: this movie looks kind of lame.)

 

[Biffo]

Looks more interesting than whatever the Johnny Depp movie would have turned out like, and the Invisible Man comes across as liking to fuck with people which is true to the original movie.

Could end up being bad/heavy handed but for now interested even if most of that comes from Leigh Whannell last movie being Upgrade which was pretty good.

 

[Scratch This Nut]

Maybe white men are getting too sensitive if this is enough to rustle their jimmies.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

He's only doing what we all would do when invisible.
Slamming our hands on showers really loudly and leaving our hand prints to let people know we are still there and getting onto public transportation for free.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Do you think Elisabeth Moss is annoyed that she's now the go-to "not pretty enough to be threatening" actress for pro-female/anti-masculinity identity politics-tinged bait entertainment made for victimhood addicts? Or is she just happy to be getting steady work?

(Aside: this movie looks kind of lame.)

Yeah, kids books are kind of lame too. When I have a kid by abducting one from a super market I'm going to read them Naked Lunch every night as a little goodnight story.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Becoming invisible almost guarantees you'll do bad shit. It'd take one hell of a morally strong man OR woman to have that kind of power and not abuse it.

 

[frozenrunner]

Becoming invisible almost guarantees you'll do bad shit. It'd take one hell of a morally strong man OR woman to have that kind of power and not abuse it.

You've just inadvertently explained to me exactly why I don't like this new version of the invisible man: he was already a wife-beating monster before he turned invisible. So there's no "heart of darkness" descent to follow at all. That ruins the best thing about the story!

 

[Dom Cruise]

I did like that he couldn't sleep well because his eye lids were invisible, and they took time to render his wiener when he was in the rain. Because that's important.

Couldn't he just wear a sleep mask?

Becoming invisible almost guarantees you'll do bad shit. It'd take one hell of a morally strong man OR woman to have that kind of power and not abuse it.

I admit I'd engage in voyeurism but I don't see why being invisible would make me a psycho that'd want to hurt people, ideally no one would even know I was there, right?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

You've just inadvertently explained to me exactly why I don't like this new version of the invisible man: he was already a wife-beating monster before he turned invisible. So there's no "heart of darkness" descent to follow at all. That ruins the best thing about the story!

It's what makes a character relateable/compelling. Like Jack from The Shining or Heisenberg from Breaking Bad. A flat character with no arc or personal journey is boring as hell.

 

[Vampirella]

Couldn't he just wear a sleep mask?

I think he did. I remember he had to wear a mask so he could be seen. It was interesting watching the guy slowly go insane. That's the core theme of the Invisible Man, guy gets power to not be seen and can do what he wants, and goes insane. It's in the original book, movie, and Hollow man, but this remake seems to have missed the point.

 

[The Nothingness]

SBN3 had the right idea of making the title character just an asshole.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

So you become invisible, have the powers of a virtual god - you are:

~are able to kill anyone without fear of getting caught.
~Able to become the ultimate assassin, shaping world politics to your liking
~ able to break into any house and steal anything not locked down
~ live in any mansion that you want to rent free
~sneak into any show or movie that you want to
~get close to any movie star that you want to get close to
~do practially anything you've ever wanted to do without fear of reprisal

And all you can THINK of to do is bother your ex-girlfriend. Movie writers: why would ANY man bother with some thot who dumped him when he can sneak into the Moonlight BunnyRanch or stalk his favorite movie star?

A movie about a person becoming invisible should involve deep philosophical questions about what we'd do if we were given the same power and/or a look into the chaos that could be created if someone with high ambitions and high intelligence ever achieved invisibility. Invisibility is basically a "Death Note" level power for reshaping the world. But NO. Audiences don't want to see that. They'd rather see some ratty-ass Lifetime Movie where the stalker's invisible.

 

[frozenrunner]

And all you can THINK of to do is bother your ex-girlfriend. Movie writers: why would ANY man bother with some thot who dumped him when he can sneak into the Moonlight BunnyRanch or stalk his favorite movie star?

1) A lot of Western women love Resentment Porn. Whether it's a thriller like this, a biopic of a famous female figure who got a raw deal, or a historical drama (set usually in Victorian England for maximum Caucasian female oppression), the movies let female audiences stay prosperous, safe, well-fed, and Western while imagining they're beleaguered, undervalued, and abused females from some other era or some other part of the world. Then they can get indignant and self-righteous (which always feels great) towards safe Western male targets (white and straight, obviously) who will at worst roll their eyes and go on with their lives while the ladies blow off steam about how unfairly hard their lives are. In a place where everyone literally lives freer and better than any people have in the history of mankind.

Substitute all mentions of women with black people for an explanation of modern films about American slavery. Identity-based resentment sells.

2) Studios really want to sell horror/thrillers to men and women... so they brought in the Mad Men/Handmaid's Tale chick and decided to tell a story that would be really scary to women in particular: the insane, possessive, murderous ex-boyfriend who nobody else believes is a threat. Plus there's a classic sci-fi horror premise/pedigree for the dudes. It remains to be seen if this was a good tactic.

I'm hoping there's no actual wokeshit in this movie and that's it's just a twist on a classic, but I have a feeling they wouldn't remove the central theme of the Invisible Man story without a reason...