Loveunderlaw 11 July Unless you are easily amused by foolishness, I wouldn't waste my time watching this show. I have always been impressed by magic and I have always wanted to be able to do it naturally, I don't think I have ever seen a magician go as far as Criss Angel takes it, which is why I think he is hated or criticized by major magicians, their followers and skeptics alike. Unlike the others Criss teaches us some tricks such as the any card at number with dice.
The ACAAN is probably the most sought after holy grail of card tricks, so to learn that dice version from Criss is basically extremely rare and very fortunate because not only is it so incredibly good it can be performed anywhere with anyone's cards and dice, making it an authentic, genuine and natural effect. Its not hard to learn that Criss has a twenty four seven make up artist and spends copious amounts of time working out, I am personally not a fan of vanity but I guess he like any other tv celebrity of any kind he has to present himself well.
I was disappointed how readily he lost his gothic long black hair from the first season taking on his styled emo effect How ever I found it interesting that in season one Criss was getting audiences no larger than fifteen people and consistent denials from people to do his street magic with. By the fifth season he had people idolizing him and he had audiences of over one thousand people.
The impression I get here is that this individual is definitely an aspiration. Its rather easy to say the entire show is comprised of paid actors, stooges, props, devices, gimmicks, doubles, suggestion, misdirection, wealth and sheer fakery but im not to sure that is the case. There are four things Criss did in this show that make me really wonder how? The first trick was driving his Lamborghini at Ks into a zephyr of steam and not coming out the other side, having a girl slide through his mid section, dropping a waited bandana from the top of a high building, then catching it on the ground and cutting a mans arm in half.
Of course a lot of the other illusions he did were also confusing like making the Elephant appear on top of a car park but over all I would admit that Criss is actually extremely talented and there are not many people in the world that think like he does, that being said I am almost convinced that after much thought and contemplation; not just Angel but a lot of magicians are using unnatural means to meet there ends.
I know that basically all the famous magicians purposefully go out of there way to prove such things do not exist but I think they are doing that for their own benefit. This is TV Show is so great! He is so real, and his magic is amazing! I'd love to meet him one day, and he can do a magic trick with me, it was be just the coolest.
He's so cool, and this is my favorite Reality Show. And whoever thinks it's not real, you're so wrong! How can this show be a fake? It's very entertaining, and so fun to watch, and very suspenseful too. This show is one of the best, and I enjoy watching it, and his stunts make me cry, cause I hope he doesn't get hurt, and it's just so cool, I hope people can enjoy this show as much as I do!
I'm such a Mindfreak fan, it's just such a cool show. Love ya Criss Angel :D. There was a time when the only reality show on television was the news, and the rest of the schedule was full of fiction. Now it seems there's little but 'reality ' on the box, while conversely some of the most entertaining and comical fiction is on Fox News.
It's billed as a reality show about a magician, who's also a member of a heavy metal band. It also showcases his music, live street magic, some behind-the-curtain preparation and his family life.
Part Marilyn Manson, part David Blaine with a touch of Alan Partridge, we follow Angel around as he spouts mystical nonsense, including this gem: 'A lot of what I do is completely real. There are no tricks. It really is the mind, body, and spirit connection. And a lot of what I do is an illusion. It's up to you to determine what is real and what is If you like magic tricks and the colour black, this show should entertain. He may well look and talk like the sort of person you'd never get tired of punching, but as tricksters go he's one of the best.
Angel is so confident in his abilities, he once publicly challenged magic's other infant terrible David Blaine, saying if Blaine could perform a trick that he couldn't replicate on the spot then he would retire. Somewhat tellingly, Blaine never took up the challenge, although to be fair, Criss is yet to live in a box for 40 days and be abused by Londoners.
That is, unless you watched one of those 'magician's tricks revealed' series and you'll know how a lot of them were done. For those who didn't peek behind the curtain, this won't freak your mind as the title promises, but it will set it off thinking about how he did it. And these days, a TV programme that makes you think is a rare trick indeed.
The most magical thing about this show is that anyone takes it serious. The tricks aren't interesting, the acting is terrible, and the so called "reality" part of it is so silly. It's all so overly dramatic. Watch Angel and his nerdy minions create; overly dramatic spectacles and half baked, childish, schemes. Truly cringe worthy. Are YOU Ready?! I hate "reality" shows. Because they are as far from "reality" as I am from gracing the cover of next month's Vogue.
I admit I detest television, as a general rule. It amazes me the absolute rubbish that fills the ever increasing number of channels. So, it follows I should hate Criss Angel: Mindfreak, right? That alone should be reason enough to check it out. It has spawned NO copycats, another TV first. Because duplication would be impossible.
Criss Angel: Mindfreak is a magic show. A REAL magic show. Not some guy in a tuxedo and a Vanna White clone. It's completely unique, and the sole reason is its' star, Criss Angel. Criss Angel describes himself as a "provocateur". I agree. He provokes your mind, titillates your senses, and forces you to question reality. Seemingly effortlessly. The show itself, originally a "road show" , is now in its second season and filmed in Las Vegas.
The style is nouveau documentary, lots of hand-held camera shots and disjointed cutaways. Each episode features one big "trick", and follows the intense preparation necessary to pull it off. Interspersed throughout are interview clips of other magicians and behind the scenes people who comment on the undertaking at hand. Although the pragmatic portion of your brain knows he will be ultimately successful, you still cannot help but be caught up in the building suspense.
The tricks, and it really cheapens them to use the term, are dangerous. These are NOT parlor games. Every one of them could easily cause death or permanent injury if a mistake is made. In a season and a half, Criss Angel has set himself on fire, been buried alive, dumped off a boat, manacled and shackled in a shark cage, suspended 90 feet above a concrete parking lot, and more.
Angel has been accused of camera trickery, planting "volunteers" in the audience, and various other nefarious "cheats". If you, I, or anyone is locked in a cage, handcuffed, in leg irons, and dropped over the side of a boat without an oxygen tank, we had better be pretty damned quick about getting back to the surface.
You run out of air, you drown. That's all the reality I need. Criss Angel is, in himself, extraordinary. This is not some perfectly coiffed and manicured fellow. Long haired and darkly handsome, this man is in beautiful, nearly perfect physical condition. He moves like a cat. His mental conditioning is even more awesome, his intense focus palpable. He is totally committed to his performances, and absolutely serious about what he does.
You cannot categorize Criss Angel. He is a mentalist, in the best Kreskin like tradition. He is apparently able to pull numbers, colors, ideas and names right out of his subject's head. But, he's more than a mentalist. He's one of the very best slight of hand magicians I have ever seen. Not only traditional card tricks, but anything and everything is fair game.
It may be relatively "easy" to "pick a card", but I defy anyone to explain how the man can get a cell phone inside of a beer bottle, drop an expensive piece of jewelry through a glass case, pull a snake out of a woman's purse or a tarantula out of some guy's hat! He levitates people, walks on water, makes a couple walking toward him suddenly vanish and reappear fifty feet away.
He flies, he floats, he disappears in a cloud of dust in the middle of the desert. He makes a straight pin travel up his arm, under the skin, to be spit out of his mouth. He gave a girl a voodoo doll in the middle of a busy intersection. She stuck it with a pin, and his chest began to bleed. She freaked. She wasn't the only one. These illusions are done at venues where stringing wires or setting the stage is nigh impossible.
I've seen him lift up a taxi and push a palm tree over. Not to cast aspirations on his staff, who are excellent, but simply because backstage people with that kind of talent would be very hot commodities.
None of these people are well known in the industry. Omniscient Hollywood may overlook one or two of them, but a couple of dozen? And, even more implausibly, what Burbank and Broadway missed, Angel was not only able to find, but assimilate into a team? On the credibility scale, that possibility falls roughly somewhere between Pamela Anderson's "naturally blonde" hair and the odds on winning the Publisher's Clearinghouse Giveaway.
However he does it, WHAT he does is fascinating. Sometimes he will teach us how he does a trick, but if you try it yourself you will quickly see, at the least, it requires hours of practice to pull it off smoothly. I have seen every episode of this show, AND Angel's live show.
Of all of his magic, for me, the most incredible single feat was in the first season. All I'll say is this: It involved a charter bus on a dusty highway, a deck of cards, and a girl named Stephanie. I wanted to create a different show and experience than the one in Vegas. This show takes some of my favorite — and fan-favorite — illusions and demonstrations and stripping them down.
It's much more "up-close and personal. Caller-Times: When did you become interested in magic? What kind of kid were you?
Angel: My aunt Stella taught me my first card trick. From then on, I was hooked! My first audience was my family on Long Island. My first assistant was my mother, who I levitated on a broom in our living room. I remember after the trick I felt this incredible sense of power that an adult didn't understand how it worked, but I did.
I practiced magic tricks obsessively from that point on and did my first magic show at Angel: They're all my children, so it's hard to pick a favorite. In the RAW show, my favorite is the one trick that I'm doing for the first time. It's a demonstration, and the audience will be awestruck when they see it because they won't be able to comprehend how it just happened. I pull people from the audience, and people's fears comes to life, whether that's in purses or hats. From tarantulas to snakes to scorpions and clowns, whatever fear they might have, and it freaks people out.
It's totally random and in a split second they're picked. Angel: For a lot of people, it's the "not knowing" how it's done. Since the Grand Canyon is a National Park, Angel would have had to be careful not to damage anything.
Fans think the video looks almost like a parody. One fan says they went to the show and left early. Apparently Angel was performing to a half full theater. CelebrateLife Despite this obviously fake stunt, Angel is actually very successful.
He is a talented illusionist. He would have to be to have made it this far. Angel has been performing since he was a kid. Angel was only 12, but it still counts. Angel knows how to hustle.
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