The Fly (1986)

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I saw this yesterday and gave it 4.25/5. I thought it was very good but quite disturbing and creepy in places :eek: Some clever and gross effects especially for 1986 - also I think it showed how one man be destroyed/changed by his creation. Seth's personality changed when he merged with the fly.
Jeff Goldblum's haircut was awful! :eek: ;)
 
Well it's better than the original that's for sure. I never could quite take a guy turning into a tiny housefly and shouting "Help Me!" in a squeaky voice seriously :D

The 86 version is a stonewall classic. Goldblum's finest performance imo. Put me off doughnuts for a few years :o

Fly II on the other hand....
 
I think it was so ahead of it's time it's STILL to be beaten. Filmmakers just don't have the balls to go there in terms of the great mix of sci-fi and horror drama. No-one could match Goldblum in that role anyway. Pure genius!
 
I saw the original The Fly with Vincent Price just the other day and I couldn't believe how terrible it was, especially towarRAB the end.

One of the many occasions where the remake is better than the original IMO.
 
I loved this line from The Fly, when Seth says

"I'm saying, I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it, but now that dream is over and the insect is awake"
 
The original was very faithful to the short story by George Langelaan, where it's told in the form of a confession from the wife after she's been committed to the lunatic asylum.

The original script by Charles Pogue for the 1986 version was closer to the short story than the version that was finally filmed, in that it was based around a mad scientist husband and his wife. David Cronenberg, who took over the project, changed it to the boy-meets-girl scenario. What's interesting is that all the gore & weird body mutilation that's traditionally associated with Cronenberg was in the original script, and Cronenberg's main contribution to the script was the love story.


That's one of my favourite ever scenes from a movie. Goldblum should have had at least an Oscar nomination for that performance, if not a win!
 
Yes. Also, if you were a woman would you give birth to a baby who you knew would be deformed? I know in the film its shown to be extreme but that question can be applied to if the baby was normally disabled or whatever, it's asking if your pro choice or not.
 
Who else freaks out EVERY SINGLE time he smashes through the window at the hospital, no matter how many times you've seen it?? The film is so intense for that last 30 minutes. Even though he's turning into a monster it's a very strong human drama.
 
Me, every time! :o



Christ that freaked me out as a kid!! This was my first ever horror film, and I don't think it's been beaten by many apart from maybe The Thing, Alien(s) and the first Saw.
 
I didn't think much of the second film apart for 2 scenes where a security guard gets the white acid stuff on his face and he basically rips his own face off in pain and we see his skull and blood everywhere and yet he's still alive a few moments later lying on the ground and also the other guard who was nasty to Martin the whole film and he gets thrown under a lift and it crushes him and you see his head get caught between the corner of the lift and the ground and the top of his head pops off and blood goes everywhere. Very strong images to see when you're young, and still as disgusting to see today.

The original is very good though and quite scary/disgusting in parts. A great performance by the two leaRAB in the film, I myself am surprised that Goldblum didn't at least get an Oscar nomination. Very well performed creepy role.

Paddy :D
 
Hollywood are rumoured to be remaking this too.Well it's been planned since 2003 anyway - only a matter of time.

Apparently a producer (of the remake) wondered why the fly couldn't actually fly in the original.They will be using that as the basis for a remake.
 
SounRAB appalling already. Plus the fact that the makers seem to be oblivious of the fact that it's a movie and it doesn't really matter if he couldn't "fly"... if they're going to go down that road then are they going to have him hovering around buffet food or pieces of dog shit? :p
 
^^^ hahahaha!

I thought it was just his internal system which turned into a fly rather than just his external one which happened at the end? I suppose that's why he didn't have wings. If it get's remade now he will have wings, will be flying around New York and they'll make some big song and dance action horror out of it where a SWAT team (no pun intended) are brought in with a giant mechanical fly swatter or something to kill him.

Hollywood, please leave this alone.

Paddy :D
 
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