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Re: Invisibility! and Mystery Men
Posted By: koalamom, on host 4.33.108.213
Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000, at 20:36:17
In Reply To: Re: Invisibility! and Mystery Men posted by Brunnen-G on Wednesday, August 23, 2000, at 15:11:46:

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> > I thought the idea in "Mystery Men" of an
> > invisible boy who could only be invisible when no
> > one, not even himself, was watching was a nice
> > idea as well.
>
> Ha! We saw Mystery Men just the other week and thought it was hilarious, after the world's lamest opening scenes. It picked up pretty well from there on. I don't think it even had a theatre release here, I'd never heard of it until seeing it on the video shelf.
>
> I imagine they'd have regulations about not snacking at your station on the Enterprise, but yeah, that's a great mental image there. I picture a signal coming in from an evil intruder ship and the comms officer jumping to pick up the call with a big mouthful of popcorn. "MMMPH mmph! *choke* *splutter* sorry, I was *gulp* eating something, what did you say about the Neutral Zone?"
>
> Brunnen-"reeeeeally impressive"G

..speaking of Mystery Men, our neighrborhood's tiny claim to film fame is being used as a location for that movie. The exterior of the Shoveler's house and the pool scene where they audition potential superheroes is just around the corner from us.

koala"not Gone With the Wind, but darn close"mom