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Summary: The Fly/ The Fly 2
Review: "The Fly" is one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. Both Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis give excellent preformances, and the film has wonderful direction by David Cronenberg. Being a fan of the orginal fly series ("The Fly" and "The Return Of The Fly"), I was extremely happy to see the remakes. Overall, "The Fly" is a masterpiece that deserves a better treatment than just trailers. It has a great plotline that amazes me after watching this movie many times. You can see why it was given an oscar for make-up. Chris Walas does an amazing job. Very suspenseful and effective. 5 stars."The Fly II", although an OK film, does not at all live up to it's predicessor. It has a plotline that barely passes. This is an unnessicary sequel if I have ever seen one. Most of the beginning is dull, although it does have it's moments. Few. As it winds down to the end, it becomes very, very gory. The first Fly remake was gross when Stathis' hand melted off, but this is disgusting. Mostly whan the guy's head blows apart, and whan the guy's head is spat on, resulting in one of the most gory sequences ever shot. Beware. It becomes dependent on the gore. The first film maintained suspense. Even with the gore, "The Fly II" is an OK film in my opinion. Although it lookes like director Chris Walas did all he could with it, I give it 2 stars. The combination of both films is genus, since I usually go out and buy a film and end up wanting to buy the sequel. I like to complete my colection of a series. The DVD is superior to the VHS in picture as well as sound. Buy it today. This combination on DVD gives a new meaning to the phrase "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
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Summary: A look at the un-watchable
Review: "The Fly" is simply brilliant, an emotional roller-coaster that takes you on a horrifying trip with Geena Davis as she watches her lover, Seth Brundle (played with great sensitivity by Jeff Goldblum) turn into a fly as the result of a scientific experiment gone awry. Director David Cronenburg does not spare the viewer any more than he does Davis; she and we watch the disintegration, the mutation and, eventually, the death of someone who was once normal, loving, loved. The film's emotional power lies in the fact that, because she loves him so deeply, Davis' character CANNOT TURN AWAY from Brundle as he transforms into the gooey, pitiful BrundleFly. Because, through Goldbloom's delicate, endearing performance, the audience has come to view Seth Brundle with affection, we, too, are unable to avert our gaze, essentially "abandoning" him to his fate. The pain of both characters is riveting, but ultimately redeemed by the love which doesn't die despite the changes which Brundle experiences. Made in 1986 when the AIDS crisis was gaining strength, of course one could think of it as an allegorical tale referencing anyone who's watched a loved one die from some horrible disease, such as cancer or AIDS. What makes this film so powerful is that you are involved in the characters' tragedy, just as you would be were you watching a father, mother, lover, sibling transformed outwardly by rot and unnatural change. When I originally saw this in the theater in '86, I drove about halfway home afterward, the pulled over to the side of the road and cried harder, I think, than I ever have before or since. Seldom does a film impact the viewer on such a gut level. "Fly II" ... well, it just doesn't even bear mentioning. I'm amazed they put these two films together. Must've been the only way "Fly II" would sell. Don't even bother with it - once you've seen "Fly I", you'll be sadly disappointed and wonder why anyone wasted time and money on this celluloid turkey.
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Summary: 2 wonderful masterpieces for the price of one!
Review: "The Fly"
A scientist creates a telepod, goes in, comes out fine, but slowly mutates into a freakish fly-being out of my worst nightmares. Really graphic and disgusting make-up effects, beyond realistic acting, great character development, and a suspense filled ending make this movie a unique find. I love the make up effects. ****/***** "The Fly 2"
The scientist from the previous movie has a kid, and he's no different from his father. After his birth, a big company takes him in to study him. 5 years later, the kid is 15 years old. He falls in love and discovers that the company had been lying to him.(watch the movie) He mutates into a fly/crab monster and goes on warpath. Severley underrated movie. Don't believe what everyone else says, "Fly 2" is every bit as good as the original. ****/*****
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Summary: The Fly/ The Fly 2
Review: "The Fly" is one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. Both Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis give excellent preformances, and the film has wonderful direction by David Cronenberg. Being a fan of the orginal fly series ("The Fly" and "The Return Of The Fly"), I was extremely happy to see the remakes. Overall, "The Fly" is a masterpiece that deserves a better treatment than just trailers. It has a great plotline that amazes me after watching this movie many times. You can see why it was given an oscar for make-up. Chris Walas does an amazing job. Very suspenseful and effective. 5 stars. "The Fly II", although an OK film, does not at all live up to it's predicessor. It has a plotline that barely passes. This is an unnessicary sequel if I have ever seen one. Most of the beginning is dull, although it does have it's moments. Few. As it winds down to the end, it becomes very, very gory. The first Fly remake was gross when Stathis' hand melted off, but this is disgusting. Mostly whan the guy's head blows apart, and whan the guy's head is spat on, resulting in one of the most gory sequences ever shot. Beware. It becomes dependent on the gore. The first film maintained suspense. Even with the gore, "The Fly II" is an OK film in my opinion. Although it lookes like director Chris Walas did all he could with it, I give it 2 stars. The combination of both films is genus, since I usually go out and buy a film and end up wanting to buy the sequel. I like to complete my colection of a series. The DVD is superior to the VHS in picture as well as sound. Buy it today. This combination on DVD gives a new meaning to the phrase "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
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Summary: WOW! It's like you buy THE FLY and get the sequel free.
Review: ..I say this because this DVD is at such an affordable price. You get The Fly (1986) on one side of the DVD and THE FLY II (1989) on the other side. Both presented in widescreen and 5.1 surround sound. The Fly stars Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. It's a horrific horror classic with gory award worthy effects. Goldblum is superb as the hidious title character, his gittering and effective nervous system failure is amazing to watch. The last 30 minutes are not for those with a weak stomach. However if you make it that far your likely to be alright. The Fly II stars Eric Stolz in what was a somewhat disappointing sequel. There are just so many things that just wouldn't have went down the way they did. The Lab/Scientist seemed so unprofessional, it was hard to take them seriously. On the upside the make-up and some of the special effects were pretty good. Over all the two movies together make for a very good double feature.
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Summary: The Fly Soars
Review: A "contemporary classic" in every sense of the phrase. Jeff Goldblum stars in the role he was born to play as quirky scientist Seth Brundle, reclusive and, though he won't admit it, lonely. While attempting to pick up an opportunistic journalist played by Geena Davis, he accidentially lets her into his idiosyncratic world and an eventual romance evolves from it. They establish a relationship, find some common ground and then they sleep together (it's a novelle idea I know). But tragety soon incurs as one night in a moment of drunken carelessness Seth teleports himself through his latest invention and comes out the other end a changed man (or is it a changed fly?). Immediately Davis' character notices a difference. He begins eating sugar like it's going out of style, exhibiting superhuman strength and removing his teeth and fingernails - exhibiting symptoms of the fly. Little does he know that's exactly what he's becoming. The first hour unravels as a tightly wound psychological thriller but the second half falls into the typically gruesome sci-fi poptrash. And while it doesn't all together work, the finale is satisfying enough not to taint the rest of this mesmerizing film.
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Summary: Like father. Like son.
Review: A pretty good sequel, not brilliant but not bad. This also had some gruesome scenes. Only John Getz (Stathis) returns from the original cast. Eric Stolz's performance was'nt too bad either. I wonder if there will be a 3rd fly film. C'mon hollywood, afterall it's a franchise.
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Summary: Well worth buying just for the first one...
Review: Cronenberg's masterful remake of "The Fly" is, simply put, one of the very best sci-fi movies in recent memory. Much like his "The Dead Zone," it mixes a character's terrifying journey with a powerful love story, and manages to do so successfully. Poor Seth Brundle's transformation is disturbing, suspenseful, and gory indeed, but Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis bring such conviction and sadness to their roles, your heart is pulled along for the ride. The metaphor of watching someone you love succumb to a disease which changes them utterly, is just as shocking as the mutations Brundle's body undergoes. Enough said. This is a great and powerful, albeit sad, movie experience.
"The Fly 2" is far less successful. It's always good to see Eric Stoltz, who is a strong actor with lots of appeal, and although his career has proven that he's not exactly leading man material, he comes close to pulling it off here. But the movie takes the formula from the first movie and screws it up: the gore is heaped on while the love story takes a back seat to it. Daphne Zuniga and Stoltz just don't generate the kind of chemistry and compassion that Goldblum and Davis did. Instead, the movie is basically an F/X vehicle. Once the two pretty young people hit the sack, it's pretty much downhill into head-smashing, face-peeling splatter movie territory. Too bad.
But Cronenberg's movie will live on forever; this two-movie disc is well worth the price for anyone interested in a frightening, suspense-filled human drama which doubles as a pretty darn cool horror show, even if its sequel is vastly inferior.
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Summary: Well worth buying just for the first one...
Review: Cronenberg's masterful remake of "The Fly" is, simply put, one of the very best sci-fi movies is recent memory. Much like his "The Dead Zone," it mixes a character's terrifying journey with a powerful love story, and manages to do so successfully. Poor Seth Brundle's transformation is disturbing, suspenseful, and gory indeed, but Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis bring such conviction and sadness to their roles, your heart is pulled along for the ride. The metaphor of watching someone you love succumb to a disease which changes them utterly, is just as shocking as the mutations Brundle's body undergoes. Enough said. This is a great and powerful, albeit sad, movie experience.
"The Fly 2" is far less successful. It's always good to see Eric Stoltz, who is a strong actor with lots of appeal, and although his career has proven that he's not exactly leading man material, he comes close to pulling it off here. But the movie takes the formula from the first movie and screws it up: the gore is heaped on while the love story takes a back seat to it. Daphne Zuniga and Stoltz just don't generate the kind of chemistry and compassion that Goldblum and Davis did. Instead, the movie is basically an F/X vehicle. Once the two pretty young people hit the sack, it's pretty much downhill into head-smashing, face-peeling splatter movie territory. Too bad.
But Cronenberg's movie will live on forever; this two-movie disc is well worth the price for anyone interested in a frightening, suspense-filled human drama which doubles as a pretty darn cool horror show, even if its sequel is vastly inferior.
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Summary: An Icky, Gooey, Slimy Love Story...
Review: David Cronenberg directed the remake of "The Fly". Actually, it bears little resemblance to the original. Cronenberg is the master of over-the-top gross-outs that nevertheless seem to fit the story. He has crafted a poignant love story, smeared with goo and ooze! Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis fell in love for real making this movie, and it shows! They are totally believable as tragic lovers, caught in hideous circumstances beyond their control. Their bond is deeper / stronger than the horrors that befall them. Yes, there's lots of gore and mega-violence. Especially stuff like the infamous arm-wrestling scene or the finale. However, this is NOT your typical splattery monster movie! Goldblum and Davis go from passion and mutual lust, to true, agonizing love in a way that's unheard of in most, if not all movies of this type. As for "The Fly 2", well, it's not as good as "The Fly", but it's not a complete abomination either. There's no Jeff Goldblum or Geena Davis here. Eric Stolz isn't bad as the son of Brundle. The gore is ratcheted up, without Cronenberg around to give it purpose. I still highly recommend this double bill! ...
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