The Invisible

TeeJay · 10 Feb 08 :: 15:23

Looks like it has the same special features as the US one. Though I'd have to go look if the US one has the music videos too.

-TeeJay

deedee · 10 Feb 08 :: 16:24

I belive it does have the videos... yep. I have it and it does. Well my copy does. EEE I am get a "the invisible" poster free from a local store down the street. So far i only have a just friends poster but alas my collection for posters for chris' movies is growing!

TeeJay · 10 Feb 08 :: 18:27

I'm waiting for the day when Chris is actually on a poster. When that day comes and I like the design of the poster, it's gonna replace the Sirius Black poster in my bathroom.

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 10 Feb 08 :: 19:19

Me too, Tina! I am going to ask the cinema if they would give (or sell) it to me after the movie's gone again. I wish they would make an Infestaion poster with him. But maybe they'll just make one with a giant bug or something like that.

notsofairytale · 10 Feb 08 :: 20:09

Yeah, I bet the posters will look like that- or mini Chris to the side or half of his head on the bottom paper.. ;/

You have a Sirius Black poster, TeeJay? Yummy!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 10 Feb 08 :: 20:13

Should we start flooding Rankin with emails now begging him to make the marketing people put Chris's face on the poster? :devil:

TeeJay · 10 Feb 08 :: 20:26

Yes, PLEASE!

-TeeJay

deedee · 10 Feb 08 :: 22:12

I THINK SO. start a petition?! hahah send him some ideas;) it should def. happen i mean.. there aiming for teenagers well chris is drool isous! :drool:

TheCentralScrutinizer · 10 Feb 08 :: 22:20

Ooooh, maybe TeeJay will get inspired to make us our own one day.

TeeJay · 10 Feb 08 :: 22:43

For that I'd need to have proper image material from Infestation. Or do you mean a poster for The Invisible that has Chris's face in it?

-TeeJay

TeeJay · 18 Feb 08 :: 00:02

I just stumbled across a German movie message board where they were talking about TI. It was funny, there were a lot of posts from before the movie came out, and people were really excited about the trailer. They all said it sounded great and were dying to see it. There were a few reviews from people after they'd seen it. Most were, not surprisingly, disappointed. However, there was someone who said a bit about the different actors, and about Chris he/she said:

Chris Marquette fand ich ganz okay, aber ich habe das Gefühl, er spielt immer die gleiche Rolle.

Which translates to: I thought Chris Marquette was okay, but my feeling is that he always plays the same roles.

Argh! Typecasting! So not what I wanna hear associated with Chris!! So I'm asking myself: What other roles has this person seen Chris in. I didn't go as far as signing up on the board to ask, but this is quite interesting. What has Chris really been in that was shown in Germany? Freddy vs. Jason, Girl Next Door, Just Friends and maybe this person might even know him from JoA, though that's not all that likely as only s1 was shown, and in a really bad time slot. Unless this is someone like me who doesn't get his/her stuff off German TV. Assuming this person has seen Chris in either of these movies/shows, none of the roles were really like Pete, were they?

There are a few similarities in some aspects, maybe. Both in Freddy vs. Jason and TI he was an outsider, a subdefective if you will. In JoA he was that too, and he was also the quiet, sad kind sometimes. Pete has nothing in common with Eli. And even less with Mike. What say you?

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 18 Feb 08 :: 00:48

I say that person clearly has no idea what they're talking about.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 18 Feb 08 :: 04:06

Whoever wrote that is clearly a moron....

notsofairytale · 18 Feb 08 :: 04:26

Maybe the girl is partial to dramatic roles, so she hasn't seen the comedies or other works Chris has been in? I know a girl who actually favors comedies over other genres so she thinks Chris is in similar roles as well (just based on "JF" and "GND"-- I know, I know!). I told her to watch "The Tic Code" and "American Gun," though. I don't think she's going to do that, but hopefully she'll stumble upon the films and think of me and pick it up.

In regards to Chris' dramatic roles being almost "the same," I highly disagree. I can't really see Pete being similar to any other [dramatic] roles I've seen Chris do.. hmmm.. Miles? Definitely not. Adam Rove? Heck no. Linderman? Not even. David? NO. Keith? Maybe.. they both were a tad goofy in a sense but then had their bad moments.

Simply put, the thing about Pete was that, he wasn't really likable like his other characters-- In my opinion, of course.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 18 Feb 08 :: 04:54

I see similarities between Adam and Travis. And Eli and Mike. Miles and Cody. Mason and early Marc. And I guess Pete is a little like Keith only in the sense that they both get sucked into something way over their heads. Personality-wise though, they're not much alike and would never get along. The Dorquettes generally feel that Chris is a chameleon because he has played all kinds of characters. There's nothing he can't do.

notsofairytale · 18 Feb 08 :: 05:19

Yeah, but of course, with Pete, he was in his little situation due to his own doing whereas with Keith, he didn't have control over what would have happened. The two would definitely not have gotten along, haha. That would be an interesting mix now that I think about it..

I feel bad- I haven't seen most of the characters he portrayed on TV shows except for the vidclips on this website, of course. But I agree, he is a chameleon and there is nothing he can't do. However, I'd still like him to play a really dark psychopath one day.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 18 Feb 08 :: 05:22

Oh he will. He wants that too.

notsofairytale · 18 Feb 08 :: 05:34

Too bad they didn't show that umbilical cord scene in "Huff" ;/ Even if it was short. Darn it.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 18 Feb 08 :: 05:35

Yeah, weird as it sounded, I really wish I could see that.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 12 Mar 08 :: 04:35

This is cool...

From an article about the movie...

To play Pete, David Goyer chose Chris Marquette, a rising young star who has won legions of young fans in his role on television's "Joan of Arcadia" and is now coming to the fore in feature films. Establishing the loyal but unequal relationship between Nick and Pete was key to the intricacies of the story.
"Nick is the one who always gets the girl, always the good grades and Pete has been kind of a hanger-on in the shadow of this golden boy," explains Goyer. "But it is Pete's cowardice that sets in motion all the events that lead to Nick's potential death. I thought Chris was amazing in the role. He reminds me a lot of Sal Mineo in the James Dean film 'Rebel Without a Cause.' He plays this sad, wounded soul so beautifully."
Justin Chatwin so enjoyed working with Marquette that the two developed a friendship that added further layers of realism to their on-screen relationship. "Chris was great," says Chatwin. "He really digs deeply into the characters he plays, and right from day one, we clicked. Chris and I had mutual friends in common, and I had always wanted to do a movie with him. We just had fun in every scene that we worked together in."
Marquette was immediately attracted to the screenplay's nuanced depiction of teen lives inside a harrowing tale of suspense. "I thought the story was really unique, and I also felt there were a lot of truths in the characters," Chris says. "To take a concept that's so out of this world, where you have this otherworldly character wandering around, and then to find a lot of reality and truth in it was really interesting to me."
Still, Marquette admits it was difficult to play out Pete's tragedy. "Pete is a weak person," he explains. "Nick tells Pete that he has to learn to stand up for himself, to hold his ground, but Pete doesn't quite know how to do it because he's so scared all the time. He's constantly letting himself be pushed around and told what to do, and all of the sudden, it erupts into this terrible situation he never thought he could be in."

Read the whole article: http://www.visualhollywood.com/movies/i … about3.php

deedee · 12 Mar 08 :: 06:23

Lol. I definitely love Pete's character... he is so wounded and a hanger on to the popular boy. The funny but weird thing is.. I got the dvd for Christmas and have yet been able to bring myself to watch it. Am I odd.. I mean. I love the movie but I know what happens so I can't bare to watch it.

domesticelefant · 12 Mar 08 :: 20:07

Cool article!

deedee · 29 Mar 08 :: 18:56

So i just watched the invisible on tv with my mom. She bawled like a baby. Man i love this movie..

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 30 Mar 08 :: 03:51

I love the Invisible too, Doree. It's really intense and dramatic but totally worth watching!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 02 Apr 08 :: 18:04

Some chick's kinda funny blog about The Invisible...

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Invisible
So, not-so-funny-but-I'll-tell-it-anyway story: This summer, I went through a teensy obsession with Chris Marquette, which I would often joke about with my sixteen-year-old cousin Emma. When she and her family went to D.C. for a week, I told her to say hi to Chris Marquette if she saw him, which...wasn't going to happen at all. But then she called me a few days later and was all, "We Pay-Per-Viewed The Invisible in the hotel and guess who's in it?" I already knew: Chris Marquette. Boring story! I know. But it sort of cracked me, up and this is my blog.
Anyway, I finally got around to seeing The Invisible last night, after about a million Netflix snafus. I sat down to watch it at around 11:00 PM, and I went straight through to the end despite being tired and sort of wanting to pass out. Right from the beginning I sort of loved the tone, and with the music and the blue tinting it reminded me a lot of how I imagine my novel to look if filmed. Anyway. Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is a graduating senior, a high school golden boy of the type you knew back in your day, but with floppier hair. His mom (Marcia Gay Harden) is an emotionally reserved robot who once told thirteen-year-old Nick, right after his father died, that "nothing will change for [him]" with regards to his future, which leads Nick to assume that she saw his beloved father's death as some sort of annoying hiccup, not a life-altering event. Despite being, um, hot and smart, Nick doesn't seem to know a whole helluva lot of people at his Seattle high school--he has a girlfriend (Tania Saulnier), sort of, and a BFF, Pete (Chris Marquette), but other than that he's pretty much a loner, which makes no sense. He's also a cheesy bad poet (although the film would like us to think he's the next Ezra Pound) and an aspiring writer who plans to skip town before the ink is dry on his diploma and attend a writer's program in London, which he's been selling tests and papers all year to save up the money for. His path collides quite forcefully with tiny pretty terror Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva), a hoodlum classmate who looks like a cheerleader and yet acts like a drug dealer (they hide her beautiful long auburn curls under a toque for most of the movie, probably to make her seem more bad ass), when he tries to clear Pete's debt with Annie (she sells stolen goods, and he bought a cell phone from her). They appear to have something of a past, which never gets fully explained, and Nick has his most BA/asshole moment when he leans down and whispers in her ear, "You are so broken." Which I took to mean that he knew her once and that she's really, really changed, but that never gets followed up on the way I think it should have.
Later, Annie steals a bunch of jewelry from a storefront with her boyfriend, Marcus (Alex O'Loughlin), and when he demands a cut and she refuses, he calls the cops on her and she is arrested at school (the goods are found in her locker). Annie believes Pete was involved in ratting her out, since he was watching her at her locker, and Pete, who believes Nick is on a plane to London, panics and puts the blame on his friend. Nick, however, is not winging his way to the British isles; he is, in fact, at a party thrown by his girlfriend-ish person, because his mother has found out about his plan and he's feeling too conflicted about being a big fat deserter to go. He wanders home drunk, and Annie and her posse find him only feet from his home. They chase him down with their car, drive him deep into the woods and beat the shit out of him, with Annie delivering the final consciousness-busting blow after she asks, "Who's broken now?" and Nick responds, "You are. Still you." Then they drag him into the woods and throw him into...the sewer? I'm confused here. They open up what looks like a manhole but which is also in the middle of the freakin' woods, toss him in and close it up again. Oh, and Pete is with them, watching and not doing anything to stop it. If Nick survives, he's totally going to want his friendship bracelet back, man.
The next morning, Nick wakes up in the woods and wanders to school (like he wouldn't go home first? And what, this party was on a weekday?), only to find that nobody can hear or see him, and he can't affect anything around him. After way too many "HELLO!"s and "CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?!"s, Nick logically concludes that he's dead. Until an experience at home with a bird makes him realize that he's not dead, he's just mostly dead, and in the words of Miracle Max, "mostly dead" means slightly alive. So Nick goes on a journey to get somebody to find his body, except he can't be heard or seen, so that sucks. So instead he basically just stalks Annie, who's being investigated by the police and torn apart by guilt, and yells and verbally abuses her until she finally hears him, then he tries, with fits and starts, to get her to save him before he actually does kick the bucket.
I don't know. It wasn't the best movie I'd ever seen, but I was still oddly captivated, even though I knew who killed Nick. I think that a lot of that had to do with the extreme vulnerability of Annie, who was absolutely heartbreaking at certain moments. I mean, I don't believe for a second that somebody as petite and button-cute as her could command enough respect from hoods to be able to run some kind of weird black market operation, but...I don't care. There's a moment where Annie, on the lam, finds shelter in a night club and winds her way onto the dance floor, where she finally takes off her omnipresent jacket and toque and lets her hair down to dance. She literally transforms, and you can tell that the undead Nick is captivated by her; he's so close he could practically be on top of her, and it's hard to create sexual tension between a girl and a guy she doesn't even know is there and not make it have a creepy stalker vibe. If they got together, these two would be smoking hot, which the movie makes completely obvious but also never follows up on.
Plus, the ending made me cry. It's probably not a film I'd buy, but I'd definitely be willing to see it again. There's just something about it that appeals to me, though I can definitely see how others could not enjoy it as much as I did.

Yeah, I'm bored.

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