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The Fly

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When I first bought this back in december 2002 it was my favourite film ever. Now, I have moved on, but I will always remember what a classic it is.

Jeff Goldblum is a scientist called Seth Brundle, living in a condo. But when he is working on a teleporting experiment, he accidently merges with a housefly. Geena Davis is Veronica, she has fallen in love with him, and has yet to know that he is transforming. Soon, Seth starts to get bad skin, his nails start to fall of, and he begins to get stronger, and Veronica expects something is wrong. When she finds out what's happening to him she realizes that she is going to have a baby, Seth's baby, and she thinks it will become what Seth is about to become. She tries to get the help of her ex-boyfreind (John Getz) and stop Seth for good.

This is a gory film, with a sickening ending and lots of disturbing scenes, but it can also really touch you, you can see how much pain Seth and Veronica are going through in the movie. In my opinion this is an 80s classic. Wonderful performances, great makeup and just a good plain horror movie.

i thought this movie was quite well done,very atmospheric and
creepy.Jeff Goldblum plays,Seth Brundle,A quiet,introverted scientist
who spends most of his time alone working on his new project.Geena
Davis plays Journalist Veronica Quaife,a journalist who Seth invites to
his place to show her what he is working on.up to this point,Seth's
experiments(teleportation) have been successful with inanimate
objects,and not so successful with living creatures.Seth thinks he has
worked out the bugs and tries the experiment on himself.the experiment
goes horribly wrong.Seth begins to change from being mild mannered and
shy to something else.Jeff Goldblum is terrific in showing the gradual
mental deterioration of the scientist.the actual physical
transformation that Seth undergoes is startling,but the final
transformation is something else entirely and somewhat disgusting.but
well done,considering the movie is over 20 years old.Geena Davis is
good in her portrayal of a woman at 1st fascinated and then terrified
by what has happened.the best part of this movie is the musical score
by Howard Shore,which is very moody and eerie.Nile Rodgers also
contributes a nice piece of music to the film with the original song
"Help Me".i'd have to give "The Fly" 4/5

When a movie is this gross, I would give it no stars. But this remake was so much better than the original and the acting was so much better that I had no choice but to give this film five stars. But I have to say that after the first time I have seen this film, I was literlly sick to my stomach, but that only goes to show you that the make-up was that amazing. I am not a fan of Jeff Goldblum's, basically because most of the time his acting is kind of dry and dull, even though he can play a pretty good "brainy" character, but I really liked him in this film. Yeah is playing a somewhat dull-brainy-dry part, but he doesn't play it dry.

Jeff Goldblum is in the role of Seth Brundle, a scientist who does his experimentations with these two tripods. The process is to put one thing into one tripod and put something else into the other and the two objects or animals transport to the opposite tripod. One night, while doing the experiment on himself, a fly became trapped in the tripod Seth was in. The fly's DNA had mixed with Seth's causing him to become part human, part fly. Geena Davis plays Veronica "Ronnie", Seth's girlfriend. She begins to witness Seth's gruesome transformation. Then, Ronnie reveals to ex-boyrfriend, Stathis Borans (played by John Getz), that she is pregnant with Seth's child. She decides to go tell Seth, but by then, Seth is in one stage away from becoming a complete human-fly being. She goes in and has a talk with Seth, but after seeing what Seth has become, she decides not to say anything about the baby to Seth. Instead, she finishes the conversation with Seth and runs out to tell Stathis that she wants an abortion. Seth, hearing this from the roof, builds a third tripod and kidnaps Ronnie. With the third tripod, he can put Ronnie in the first, himself in the second, and then Seth, Ronnie, and their unborn child will come out of the third as one. Ronnie wants no parts of it and that is when Seth transforms one last time into the most horrifying, but most disgusting creature this world has ever seen, which leads to a heartbreaking conclusion that will leave you breathless, and also have grabbing a bottle of pepto.

Yes, this film is very gruesome, but I really enjoyed it. The acting was unbelievable, the make-up was incredible. What's not to like? The movie even won an Oscar for Outstanding Make-Up Effects. Watch this film and I guarantee that you will enjoy it.

HEY LITTLE P***IES OUT THERE THAT THINK THIS MOVIE IS SO GROSS AND DISGUSTING I GOT A LITTLE TIP FOR YA, GROW A BACKBONE YOU KNOW A SPINE! THIS MOVIE HAS WHAT NOT TOO MANY MOVIES OUT THERE TODAY HAVE AND THAT IS A SCARE FACTOR. MOVIES TODAY RELY TO MUCH ON CGI EFFECTS AND I GOTTA TELL YA, ITS GETTING BORING.

BY THE WAY THIS MOVIE RULES!

"The Fly" from 1986 is, in my opinion, one of the scariest and best horror movies ever. Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis both do their best work here. I like how director David Cronenberg combined a tragic love story with the sci-fi/horror story. The love story gave the film an extra layer of depth that you wouldn't expect from a horror flick. This is one of the few horror films I've seen that is emotionally moving. "Poltergeist" and "The Sixth Sense" are other examples. Goldblum gives his character, Seth Brundle, so much humor and pathos that we still care about him even when he transforms slowly into another being. The makeup won an Oscar and deservedly so back in 1986. I highly recommend this film to all fans of horror and sci-fi.

A scientist (Jeff Goldblum) has discovered a way to transport objects from one location to another almost instantaneously. It only works with inantimate objects though. Seth Brundle (Goldblum) is not satisfied with that. He wants to be able to transport living tissue but all his experiments in this direction have failed. He demonstrates his invention to a journalist (Geena Davis) he meets at a science fair. The stocking she lets him use is teleported from one pod to another. Seth continues to experiment, trying to transport living things, but it's not working. When he tries to transport a baboon it ends up as a mass of bloody tissue, as if it's been put in a huge microwave oven. As Veronica (Davis) continues to follow the progress of Seth's scientific endeavor she develops a fondness for him and naturally, they become lovers. As the story continues, Seth finds a way to program the computer to transport living things. His next attempt with a new baboon is successful. Seth needs to have tests done on the baboon that could take weeks to make sure he's alright. He doesn't want to wait that long. He attempts to transport himself and it works. But he didn't transport only himself. A fly happens to buzz into the pod with him. Seth's genetic makeup is merged with the fly's. Seth is suddenly exhibiting signs of incredible strength and agility. His appetite starts demanding incredible amounts of sugar and sweets. "Something went wrong Seth, when you went through, something went wrong", Veronica warns him. In time, as Seth's body starts deteriorating, he knows something did go wrong. When he searches the computer for the answer he discovers the horrible truth.

Fresh from the success of 'Videodrome' and 'The Dead Zone' Canadian Director David Cronenberg's update of the 1958 Vincent Price classic is now, as stated by most, a horror classic itself. Jeff Goldblum stars as Seth Brundle, a little known inventor of the first ever Telepod. At first turning anything living inside-out, Brundle finally cracks the genetic code and prepares to teleport himself with disastrous consequences. Spliced with a fly that accidentally flew in as the chamber door closed and locked, Brundle has a dramatic and painful transition into a human fly, Brundlefly. Quirky quotes and buckets of gore come in equal doses as Cronenberg's reworking of the classic tale quickly unfolds into a desperate race for survival. With horrific images that would make the toughest stomachs turn, Horror doesn't usually come any better than this. Geena Davis and John Getz costar.

What we have here, is a failure to horrify. I watched the classic original on tv when I was a mere tadpole, and for the next ten years my brother could have me in tears with the mere words "Heeeeeeelp meeeeeee!" Sure, it was a bit corny in the special effects, but it had real horror, real relationships, real reactions. This remake, on the other hand, goes all out in the gross department, mostly centered around the Fly's regurgitating on various proteins so he can then consume them and various bits of his body dropping off at inopportune moments. They aren't so much horrifying as they are nauseating, but that's not the real failure here. The real failure is in the lack of any sincerity in the relationships that are portrayed in the film.

For some odd reason, they tried to make this a love story. Well, they failed there as well, because there are no real reactions here. The scene that best sums up the improbability factor is one in which Davis's character gets her first real look at the transitionary monster Goldblum's character has turned into. Upon tenderly reaching up to cradle his face in her hand, she winds up with his ear in her palm. With lukewarm reaction to this rather shocking event, she then goes on to press her cheek to the space where the ear had been. Now I know what it is to love someone, and if my husband's ear popped off in my hand, I would likely not go screaming into the street, but you can bet I'd drop that sucker and perform the dance of "ew ew ew" to the other side of the room, and I certainly wouldn't go nuzzling the spot where it had been two minutes later. My suspension of disbelief only goes so far. I really cannot buy the relationship I'm handed without seeing this woman popping two handfuls of valium before she heads in to check on her boyfriend. Everyone here seems to have such subdued reactions that drugs are the only plausible explanation.

This film falls far short of a true horror story, and even farther short of a love story. Give it a miss and watch the original instead. The corniness of a bygone era is much more acceptible and less likely to leave you whimpering "Heeeeeelp meeeee!"

This film 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. Followed by a sequel that recaptured the gruesome nature but lost the intelligence.

This has to be one of my favorite sci-fi/horror movies. The special effects are some of the best, and I repeat, the BEST you'll ever see! Jeff Goldblum is fabulous as a scientist who invents machines that transport matter from one place to another, called telepods. He decides to use himself as a guinea pig and transports himself. When he comes out, he feels like he's on top of the world. But all is not right........a fly gets in with him in the telepod, and he find out the fly has fused with him, and slowly but surely he begins to turn more and more into an insect. Geena Davis is also great as the love interest. "The Fly" is sure to please any sci-fi buff, if you have the stomach to take it. The special effects are also some of the most gruesome you'll ever see, but, hey, it's an 80's horror movie. What did you expect?