Chevy's other movies.....especially the invisible man, which in some ways its similair. Average guy, beset by extraordinary problem, embarasses know it all, tough guy and gets the girl in the end.
I'd give invisible man a much higher grade. MP is no better than a 3 or 4.
I haven't seen Memoirs of an Invisible Man, but to be honest, I actually liked Modern Problems quite a bit, actually. It's actually a favorite of mine. No, it's not Oscar worthy, but it's still fun to watch.
shareI haven't seen Memoirs of an Invisible Man, but to be honest, I actually liked Modern Problems quite a bit, actually. It's actually a favorite of mine. No, it's not Oscar worthy, but it's still fun to watch.
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I thought the pacing of the film was way off, and not nearly as funny as much of Chase's other works from the era, but the ballet scene was really funny.
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"Chevy's other movies.....especially the invisible man"
There's no movie called 'The Invisible Man', where Chevy Chase would have a role. Also, please learn capitalization of names.
Geez, it's like no one knows how to write english anymore.
Saying 'Memoirs of the Invisible Man' is better than this movie is NOT saying much. Both movies are about the same quality as 'The Jerk' or 'Dirty Rotten Scounders'. You watch any of them once, and then not in ten years, if you don't absolutely have to.
'MotIM' is not even funny, it's just depressing at best. How can someone take something as 'cool' as invisibility and turn it into a sad, depressing, self-pity-wallowing crap is beyond me. (The book is even worse)
I mean, I get the point that maybe a 'superpower' wouldn't be as good as people think, because they don't think of the 'bad sides' - but invisibility done RIGHT (as in, not just pure invisibility, but based on controlled interdimensional frequency fluctuation) would be nothing but a blast.
The movie does not dare reveal just HOW many advantages invisibility would bring someone, and it's not just that you could sneak into people's houses and raid their fridges, or go to a girls' locker room and watch them change clothes.
You could gather SO much information that you would be extremely powerful on many levels very easily and quickly, and no one could catch you.
Infrared glasses? Well, unless those people are heavily trained to compare two separate images in an ongoing basis without tiring themselves (believe me, this would become exhausting very quickly), it wouldn't work, because you don't ONLY see 'invisible' things with infrared glasses, you ALSO see the 'visible' things, so if there's invisible and visible individual standing right next to each other, you will see BOTH equally.
The only way to determine which is the invisible one, would be to compare NORMAL image and infrared image, to see that the other individual isn't shown without the infrared. In a crowd, there's NO WAY you can do this reliably, and I would bet 100 dollars right now, I could give you 5 minutes to check a crowd that way, that has an invisible individual somewhere in the middle, that you would never find that invisible one.
(Provided they don't do something weird, like spook the visible people, in which case you'd find them anyway without the infrared glasses)
The ONLY case where that could work, is if you see a lone invisible individual against a background where there are no other people, then it'd be easy. However, they could still hide behind vans, cars, walls, etc., so you would never catch them anyway - you're not gonna be running very fast with that equipment, so they would slip away and hide behind multiple walls before you can even realize what direction they ran to.
They could easily slip into places that are guarded by sight or cameras, because those things can't detect them, and so on. The book and movie makes it seem like you'd be miserable and depressed if you were invisible, but in reality, you'd have nothing but advantages, and the ONLY reason it seems like that in the book/movie, is because the government is CHASING him.
Take that out, and whoops, suddenly you can live in luxury with lots of advantages over visible people. Heck, you could be naked and not be arrested.. that alone would be worth the admission!
I thought this movie was hilarious.
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