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Summary: Movie is Decent but the DVD Sucks
Review: The movie The Fly was a super hit in the 1980's. This DVD version is more repellent than anything Jeff Goldblum did in the film. You might as well wait until the film comes on television because this DVD has nothing additional to offer accept for the ridiculous Fly 2 who nearly everyone always ignores. With a film this popular, at least back then, I expected commentary from either the director or Goldblum himself. This DVD deserved to have a behind the scenes feature, vintage interviews for the film, photo gallery, deleted scenes and cast biography. Instead we get nothing but a VHS printed on a disc loosely called a DVD. If a DVD has no special features then there is no need for one is there? If you had the film on VHS for all these years and it's in good shape then you don't need this DVD. You can tape The Fly off the television and you'll get just as much as you would with this pitiful, pathetic DVD release. Is this how Fox treats one of their modern day classics? If Fox has any sense they will make a Special Edition's, Director's Cut version of The Fly as quick as possible. This is one reason why some movies are better left on VHS. Was throwing that terrible Fly 2 in suppose to be a bargain? Sorry Fox, try again.
Three stars for The Fly
One star for The Fly 2 and the overall DVD presentation.
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Summary: This movie was still a good sequel to the 1986 The Fly movie
Review: The movie to me was kind of a good start and then gets better.Eric Stoltz was good enough to play Martin Brundle the son of Seth.John Getz was good to because what he told about his father and mother was mostly true.Daphene kind of reminded me of Geena who was in love with scientist also. The fly effects were different but they were desinged by the same person Chris Walas Inc and I thought it was still pretty good.There were two different themes about it a evil villian,and being human and really didn't get it because that wasn't in the 1986 Fly movie. Even though people said it was bad to me it was pretty good.
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Summary: keep the first, trash the sequel!
Review: the only reason i gave this 4 stars and not 5 is the terrible sequel included in this set. i give the first film 5, and the second bomb.The Fy: This film is an extremly powerful story of an border line mad scientist, played by Jeff Goldbloom and a beatiful journalist, played by Gena Davis, and the hell they go through. Jeff Goldbloom plays Seth Brudel. A scientist working on a new invetion of telepoting objects from one place to another. once he begins to have success with his experiment, he takes the next step by testing himself in the machine. but as luck would have it, just before he is teleported, a tiny fly flies into the transporter pod and mixes genes with Goldbum. at first, nothing seems wrong. after Davis and Goldbum fool around for a while, Goldbum starts noticing changes. yup...hes becomming an 185 pound human/fly. and to make tings even more dramatic, davis gets preeganst DUM DUM DUM... great special effects and music. incredibly emotional when goldbum has to tell davis "you have to leave and never come back because...i'll hurt you if you stay" it sends chills up my spine every time. well, this movie isnt really for people who are squrmish from gore and bodily trasformations. still, in my option a wondeful love/horror/dramma. worth the dvd pack on its own. The Fly II: well well well. here we have the obvious sequel to the orignal (since the first ends with a cliffhanger). this flick is about goldbloom's kid who is half fly and starts to change just like in the first. [bad] sets, [bad] acting, [bad] music, but i guess they had to make this just to make fans of the first shut up. i guess you'll have to watch just to see how it ends, (could it be a happy ending for once?) no where near as good as the first but see it for the hell of it. you might like it. :)
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Summary: Great remake, terrible sequel
Review: The remake of The Fly was good in its own way. Jeff Goldblum gives an excellent performance. Unfrotunately, this potentially enjoyable movie is marred by disgusting and unnecessary scenes of self-mutilation and over-the-top gore. The sequel is no better, in fact it is worse in terms of gore. Special effects in the sequel are also lacking. However, if you are a fan of The Fly, then don't pass up the opportunity to have both movies in one DVD pak!
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Summary: Awesome but kinda gross
Review: The sequel to The Fly is in my opinion, much better than it's predecessor. As anyone who watched the original The Fly knows, a scientist named Seth Brundle was using his teleporter pods one day and a fly accidentally got in the teleporter that he was in. As a result, Seth's DNA got mixed together with the fly's DNA, and he slowly started mutating into a creature that was part fly, part human. At first, the changes were good. Seth gained the agility of a fly and the proportionate strength of a fly. In other words, his was as strong as a fly his size would be. However, as time went on, he started mutating more radically. His skin grew deformed and gross, his ears, teeth, and some other parts of his face fell off, and he gained the ability to dissolve food(and his enemies)with acidic fly vomit. Eventually, he turned into a horrific fly monster, and he couldn't deal with it, so he had his girlfriend blow his brains out with a shotgun. However, a short while before he died, he impregnated his girlfriend and she has a child in the second movie. However, Martin(Seth's son)has a rare condition that causes his body to age much faster than it should, both physically and mentally. As he ages, Martin spends the five years of his life in a huge research and medical facility where doctors and scientists are pretending to try and cure his condition. However, they're really just waiting for him to mature into a fly monster like his father did so they could study him and try and create more creatures like him to use as soldiers. However, when he finally does mature, Martin mutates into a horrific but extremely cool-looking fly monster and takes revenge on the scientists who tried to use him. I think the new fly monster is a definite improvement on the old one. The only thing I don't like about this movie is it's absurd amount of blood and gore. To this day, I still have trouble watching some of the bloody scenes.
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Summary: What do you get if you put Fly 1 & Fly 2 in the teleporter?
Review: This average DVD is the result of fusing the DNAs of a superb remake of The Fly (5 stars) and a lousy sequel (0 Stars). A barebones edition, no extras, no Cronenberg commentary, no deleted scenes (that we've all seen in the mags): ZILCH!. Avoid yet another disgracement treatment of a Cronenberg film. Something will follow soon, I'm sure...3 stars for the transfer (at least it's anamorphic) alone.
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Summary: The Fly (1986) and The Fly II (1989) on one DVD disc.
Review: This DVD is a double feature. The Fly (1986) is on one side of the disc and its sequel The Fly II (1989) is on the other side. Both films are in Widescreen. The Fly (1986) is a remake of the classic The Fly (1958), which two sequels were made, RETURN OF THE FLY (1959) and CURSE OF THE FLY (1965). Twenty-eight years later after the classic THE FLY (1958), this 1986 version stars Jeff Goldblum and his lady interest, Geena Davis. These two in real-life were a couple at the time. They have since been long divorced. This version is very different from the classic, more gore, heavy on the special effects. The teleporting is still there with just two machines with lots of smoke. It's a cool movie. Teenagers will like this, but I still think the 1958 classic is the best. The Fly II (1989) is a sequel, but is more like the son of The Fly. The son is played by Eric Stoltz (Mask [1985], Naked In New York [1994]). The movie begins with the baby being born. (Geena Davis is not in this one) Her worst nightmare, a mutant thing is delivered, however inside this mutant coccoon is a live baby. Stathis (played by John Getz as in the first film continues his role) watches on. They raise the boy in a clinical lab who by the way is a genius. Normal in every way, except he has a disease. The same one his father had. He ages more rapidly than the norm. He will be a teenager soon. As a boy, he sneaks in to Zone 4. He sees the lab people are continuing the same teleporting exercises his father did (as he will understand later). Now he is five years old, but his body and mind are of the age of eighteen. After viewing videos of his father (Jeff Goldblum returns in cameo appearances) he decides to continue his father's legacy and performs his own teleportation experiments. Beth, played by Daphne Zuniga (Stone Pillow [1985 TVM]), is his new friend. K.D. Lang tune, "Lock, Stock and Teardrops" can be heard here. This double feature DVD does not contain any special features.
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Summary: A bona-fide celluloid disaster.
Review: This film illustrates the common claim that sequels almost never live up to the standards set by the original. From start to finish, _The Fly II_ revels in mutilation (animal and human), graphic violence, and numbing degradation. If the last few scenes don't make you lose your lunch, then nothing will. With no original redeeming qualities that I could spot, this is the sort of rubbish that gives science fiction a bad name.
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Summary: An oft lost gem
Review: This is another work by a composer who tends to give films better scores than they deserve (I'm thinking of the 'Hellraiser' series or even 'Species'). While not as good as Howard Shore's score for 'The Fly', this sequel (of sorts) manages to capture the tragic beauty and spectacle of the grotesque. Young moves from melody to atonality from track to track making some of the tracks hard to listen to in a linear fashion. Still, Young is one of the most interesting composers around when it comes to terrifying nuance (as each of his scores shows)and this one is no different. His score speaks to perhaps the doomed desire of man (in his attempts at transformation, both mentally and physically) and also of a love affair lost and best remembered in as a dream (rather than nightmare). It is a score not so much about the end inasmuch as it is about the passing of seasons, a change from one life to the next (see the final track). My personal favorites are tracks one, two,nine, ten, and twelve. The reason why the score doesn't get five stars is because the musicians are sloppy with the playing at times and also because the sound quality is at moments poor. Otherwise, I'd recommend this score for anyone interested in underappreciated film composers (Young, Shore, Nyman) who continue to get better with each year.
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Summary: Symphonic horror!!
Review: This score by Chris Young was written almost simultaneously with his score to Hellbound: Hellraiser II. This can be heard easily; they are both sweeping symphonic horror scores, performed by a full orchestra. No holds barred on these two!! There are some atonal and nasty sounding tracks as well as some soothing quieter ones. Hellbound had the same characteristics. If you are a Christopher Young fan and you love Hellbound, then this is the perfect companion score.
If you are more into his not-so-dark action scores like Hard Rain (The Flood) or more into his gentle and sentimental scores like Murder in the First, I don't think you'll like this. Mind you, this score is not so creepy and atonal as The Dark Half or A Nightmare on Elmstreet 2, but melodic and beautifully melodramatic, with contemplative tracks as well as a full-blown orchestral finale. Again a parallel with Hellbound. In my humble opinion this lesser known Chris Young score belongs to his top three soundtracks!!!
No thanks to the not so good motion picture it came with.
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