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Summary: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Review: The 5 star rating is mainly for the first film which is the best horror film of the 80's. Its dramatic music, grousome special effects and fantastic acting (especially on Goldblum's part)make it a masterpiece of modern horror. Goldblum's synical Brundle is his best part in a film ever, as body parts fall off he seems more interested rather than afraid. Geena Davis gives a great performance as Brundle's fearful girlfriend and delivers one of the greatest lines in Horror film history.
Both films have a great moral and I reccomend them to all horror film lovers.
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Summary: Maltin Type Review(s)
Review: The Fly (1986) ****Many people argue which one's better, the 1958 classic or the incredible 1986 remake. For me, it's the latter. In this film, scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) goes through the very slow stage of becoming a human fly after transporting himself through his new telaportation machine. Incredibly intriguing and intense, this remake certainlpy deserves a place in the kingdom of the few good remakes. Rated R **** The Fly 2 (1989) Not even close to being as good as either the 1958 classic or 1986 remake, this film concerns yound Martin Brundle (Eric Stoltz) attaining puberty at five years of age and becoming a scientist, and working on what led to his father's death. however, unknown to him, the scientists in which his care he's entrusted are just waiting for him to turn into what his father turned into. What saves the movie is the beginning 45 minutes, but once Stoltz starts mutating, it's a bore. Rated R **
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Summary: The Fly /The Fly 2
Review: The Fly /The Fly 2 DVD ~ David Cronenberg ar two very good and disturbing movies. The special effects are great and the acting is stupendous. Goldbloom is giving his best performance ever and that is a shame since he has been type cast in many movies that do not show his true ability as an actor.
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Summary: Misunderstood Masterpiece
Review: The Fly 2 is a surprisingly good sequel that improves over it's predesscessor in alomost every aspect. The story is rather confusing, so I'd recommend you go to the IMDb and look up their Fly II Plot Summary. However, I will say that it is quite original and refreshing. Fly 2 has great special F/X that equal the F/X of Fly 1 100%. MartinFly is one of the coolest movie Monsters in Cinema History and is one Heck of a Powerhouse. The level of gore is also highler than that of the original and makes the original look like a Disney Film for the whole Family. Faces melting into bloody blobs, a Dog getting horribly Mutated, Babies hatching out of blood-soaked Larva. I must also say that Chris Young's music score is absolutely mind-blowing and fits in perfectly. He once again has created a brilliant score that'll fascinate loads of Movie-Goers. The acting was top-notch. Eric Stoltz portrayed Martin Brundle brilliantly and the Bartok guy was a friendly old man on the outside and a mean, evil man on the inside who fooled you silly. The direction and script are also VERY good and the plot was totally unpredictable. The Cinematography was fantastic too and made the film even more scary and unpredictable. All in all, The Fly 2 is an excellent sequel that improves over the original and is even more violent. Give it a chance and ignore all of the Negative reviews below and the bad reviews you'll find anywhere else. The DVD is VERY bare-boned though. All it has is a Theatrical Trailer. The picture however is crisp and the sound is booming.
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Summary: Not Worthy of the Name
Review: The Fly II is one of the worst movies ive ever seen. The first fly had great effects and was lucky to have jeff goldblum as the star. Eric Stoltz is a bad actor and he gives an unworthy profermance to his proceeder. I give this movie a one (because i cant do a zero!) and warn anyone that this is a bad movie but if you like this kind of sci-fi/horror movie, i strongly suggest that you watch the first fly! At no time in this movie was i ever impressed, except for the brief moments containing Jeff Goldblum. I was also happy to see John Getz return, but sadly not as good as he used to be. BEWARE THE FLY II!
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Summary: THE FLY IS HORROR AT IT'S BEST!!!!!!!!
Review: THE FLY IS ONE OF THE BEST HORROR FILMS EVER DONE. JEFF GOLDBLUM
AND GEENA DAVIS ARE BOTH VERY GOOD IN THIS FILM. IT HAS MARVELOUS SPECIAL EFFECTS AND THE TONE OF THE FILM IS VERY SPOOKY AS IT PROGRESSES. IT IS NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART BECAUSE OF A LOT OF THE GORY SEQUENCES, BUT THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE IF YOU CAN MAKE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!
IT IS A TRAGIC LOVE STORY AND IT KEEPS THE AUDIENCE IN SUSPENSE UNTIL THE VERY END.
THIS DVD INCLUDES BOTH THE FLY AND THE FLY 2. I DO NOT WISH TO COMMENT ON PT. 2 BECAUSE IT DID NOT IMPRESS ME AS DID THE FIRST.
SO, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FLY, YOU SHOULD.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT GOES WRONG!!!
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Summary: Be Afraid, Be very afraid. And Be wary of the sequel.
Review: THE FLY is surely a unique film. Sure, it has a science-fiction horror storyline. It has production values similar to most other horror films. And it has more than it's share of gross out moments. But, where this film is unique is in its truly dramatic performance by JEFF GOLDBLUM as the tragic hero. From early on, his Seth Brundle is a brilliant anti-social with a scientific experiment that could change the world as we know it. But, when a minor detail is overlooked, his experiment changes his body. Gradually, he loses his human body to that of a BRUNDLEFLY, half man and half housefly. No matter the horror overtones, Goldblum takes the role very seriously and the results are admirable. He is paired in the film with a science reporter portrayed by Geena Davis (ACCIDENTAL TOURIST). She works well with the medium as well, even though she is often left with expository dialogue. The direction is tight and this will probably be David Cronenberg's most commercial effort as his films are often more 'artistic'. That is not to say there are not negatives in the experience. The worst of these is the performance by John Getz as Davis' former boyfriend Stathis Borens, a truly amateur addition to this otherwise great film. But, filmmakers decided that Seth Brundle had a son. He is also brilliant. He matures rather quickly. And he is probably gonna turn into a beastie like his old man. After the small budget success of THE FLY, it was inevitable someone would cash in and make a sequel. The result is a quick bang for your buck hour and a half. This time around, CHRIS WALAS takes over directing chores. He did the original make-up designs for the first film. And so, unsurprisingly, this entry is filled with even more grotesque and sickening "gooey" effects. But gooey is not always better. Eric Stoltz plays the five-year old offspring and is given very little to work with in the formulaic screenplay. He does have one excellent scene as he prepares to immerse his body into a cocoon, so he can get "Better". Daphne Zinuga is the beautiful but useless girlfriend who, like Geena Davis before her is quite often running her hands over the wet, gooey, deformed skin of her fly-friend. And like it's sequel before it, we have another ridiculous performance by Gary Chalk as Scorby, the overzealous security guard. John Getz, the only performer returning from the predecessor, joins him in the ridiculous department. (Goldblum does show up in a brief video recording.) The second film is often gross which was obviously the intention of the director. All in all, THE FLY 2 is an obvious story to get a quick buck. Come prepared. Bring a flyswatter. The Double Feature DVD set is excellent in that it is priced that you get the sequel for free! The audio, including Howard Shore and Christopher Young's musical scores sound great and the video transfers are sufficient. The disc also includes theatrical trailers for both films.
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Summary: Have you ever heard of Insect Politics?
Review: The Fly must have been one of the single greatest films of the 1980's because it left us with quotes, parodies, and astounding visuals that would change special FX in moviemaking forever. Besides the makeup effects, It had terrific acting especially from Jeff Goldblum whose performance as Seth Brundle sparked my interest in theater. People ask me when i'm interviewd "What got you into acting and production?" my usual response is "The Fly". Sometimes I say Jeff Goldblum but this is the one that made me realize I had to become an actor. The humanism is astonishing in the screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue whom I would hire to write for a project any day. It takes a modern turn from the 1958 version in which the teleportation booths are now Telepods. The names and locations have been changed. The forging of the characters is also different and there is a better conflict between Seth and Stathis Borans. Seth and reporter Veronica meet at the Bartok industries party where new inventions for that year are being unveiled. The first shot of the film besides that terrific title sequence with the cell like colors and the beautiful main title begins with a shot of Seth saying "What am I working on? Uh I'm working on something that will change the world and human life as we know it." Then we cut to Veronica asking if it will change it a lot or just a bit. They then go back to Seth's lab for a demonstration with her stocking as the subject of teleportation. She is clearly astonished and starts to get quotes when he gets excited and says she can't write a story. Luckily for him, her boss doesn't buy it. Seth then propositions for her to live with him and record his process. They fall in love and make love like 3 times in which once after merging with the fly he gets her pregnant leading up to part 2. One night she leaves to confront Stathis for printing a story after he said he wouldn't and Seth assumes that she's running out on him and gets drunk. He feels that the pod's imperfections are worked out and decides to use the ultimate subject- himself. But a stowaway fly wants to join in on it too and the computer (one of my favorite pieces of the system) splices their DNA patterns together and soon Seth finds he is turning into a freakish, irritable 185 pound fly with one ill temper and dangerous enzymes that can melt through anything. So he directs his anger to Stathis who suggests an abortion and the murder of Brundle. But the newly formed Brundlefly won't go down without a fight. He sets out to find a cure for himself even if it takes killing Borans and sacrificing the life of his one true love to do it. This film struck me hard when i viewed it on the sci fi channel for the first time. I loved it. I loved the telepod system especially because of the construction of the computer, pods, prototype pod 3, and the backup generator (you see that in the background sometimes). I loved the computer's visuals on the screen and i wish more computers were made that way. But most of all I loved the stages of the brundlefly transformation. There needs to be a seperate dvd of this film with lots of bonus features, photos and the infamous deleted monkeycat/leg amputation scene. If i'm not mistaken, there is an online petition fot the special edition dvd release. That was the first film on the disk. Lets move on to the inferior sequel. The Fly 2 was pretty good to be so low budget and low in plot. Martin played by Eric Stoltz is pretty good for a kid raised to speak properly and in scientific terminology. He turns into a bigger, meaner, faster and more fake looking fly than his dad. He undergoes a catterpillar to butterfly like transformation but when he merges, he comes to get revenge on those who lied to him for so long with deadly results. I liked it pretty good. It had dramatic music and sequences and i liked the "I'll show you a magic trick you'll never forget." line. The idea of a bulletproof, acid shooting monster roaming around killing everything in an unescapeable complex is great. And he actually finds the cure. There were some pretty unbelieveable parts. Such as injecting water into the blood stream (...) I grew up with them. They got me to where I am today. I owe it all to a small stowaway fly.
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Summary: The Fly/The Fly 2 Classic Modern Monster Movie
Review: The Fly was a wonderful remake of the old Vincent Price movie of the same name. The special effects were well done and added an almost sci-fi aspect to the movie. One thing that makes it different from most monster flicks though is that the fly(Jeff Goldblum) is able to retain enough humanity to make you feel sorry for him. The Fly 2 picks up the story in the future. A relative of the origianl Fly starts struggling to remain human himself. This sequel is also great, but has a new feel to it since the characters are totally different from the first "Fly". These two movies compliment each other very well and should be enjoyed by any true sci-fi or monster movie fan.
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Summary: Good remake of the original 1950's films
Review: The Fly with Goldbloom is OK- he is obnoxious and his acting style wears real thin real fast- he is best known as one of the muggers in Death Wish from 1974 with Charles Bronson. Geena Davis is gawky and awkward. The Fly 2 with Stoltz has a few great scenes.
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