One of my absolute favorite films.
[B]Actors:[/B] Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
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For the fans of:[/B] Horror, Sci-Fi, and some gore
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Basic Plot Outline:[/B] A scientist accidentally fuses his DNA with that of a fly.
[B]Full Plot Outline:[/B] Journalist Veronica Quaife(Geena Davis) is out at a Science Convention looking for an interesting story. She then meets Seth Brundle(Jeff Goldblum), who is 'working on something that will change the world.' Curious, Veronica agrees to follow him home, where she finds that he has constructed a fully working teleportation device. It works by taking the atoms apart, and putting them back together in perfect condition in the other telepod.
Although she promises him not to tell anyone, she tells her editor Stathis Borans(John Getz), whom she had ended a relationship with. Preparing to document the work Seth had done, Veronica suggest to try teleporting a living thing. Seth then puts in a baboon, which is teleported, but it is teleported inside out and dies. Trying to calm Brundle, he and Veronica have sex. After cutting himself on a piece of circuit board he rolled onto, he realizes why the teleporter didn't reintegrate his baboon correctly.
After teleporting a steak, Seth cooks it and Veronica eats it, but it tasted 'synthetic.' After tweaking with the systems, Seth teleports another steak, which now tastes fine. The next night, he teleports his other baboon, which comes out just fine. Hoping to spend the evening with Veronica, she is called away. Thinking that she is having an affair with Stathis, he gets jealous and decides to teleport himself, although when he gets in, so does a small fly. He is teleported successfully, but the fly is unseen.
Veronica(really confronting Stathis, who planned to reveal Seth's telepods too soon) then comes back to Seth's lab/home, and they reconcile. After getting up in the night, Seth does this incredible show of his strength in the lab. Thinking that the telepods had 'purified' his body, they have sex for hours but Veronica can't keep up and is tired when Seth is not. She notices some strange hairs in Seth's cut from the circuit board and cuts them out. Seth also has what looks like a case of bad acne. Once she refuses to be teleported he leaves her and roams the streets.
Seth then ends up in a bar where he meets some sleazy woman, which gets him in an arm wrestling contest where the winner gets the girl. And the winner is Seth, after snapping the man's wrist into a compound fracture. After almost forcing the woman into the telepods, Veronica comes in and stops them. The sleazy woman flees, and Veronica tells Seth that the hairs were fly hairs. Detesting this fact, he tells her to leave and 'never come back.' Shortly after, Seth notices that his fingernails are falling off. He checks his computer's records of the telepods and finds out that a fly got in and he and the fly have been fused together.
[I]I suggest for those considering to see the movie to not go on any further[/I]
After a month of no contact with Seth, Veronica decides to visit him finding that Seth has been deteriorating into a fly. His skin looks like raw meat, he has lost some of his hair, he is missing an ear, and he cannot walk without the help of some canes. He now vomits enzymes on foods to digest them. She consoles him and then tells Stathis, who tells her to stay away from him. Veronica goes back and films some of Seth's new abilities(which he seems to have embraced in a way) such as being able to climb on walls and, of course, the enzyme vomit(playfully called vomit-drop). Stathis views the tape and is disgusted. Then, to Veronica's horror, she finds that she is pregnant with Seth's baby, but she doesn't know if it was from before or after the teleportation. Veronica then has a nightmare about giving birth to a maggot. After trying to tell Seth(who has lost all his teeth, both ears, and his genitals and learns that the only way to become human again is to fuse with a human)about the baby, she can't bring herself to do it. She leaves and tells Stathis that she wants an abortion and Seth overhears this. While waiting in the doctor's office, Seth breaks in and takes her away. He tells her that the baby is the only human part of him left and can't see it dead. He then takes her back to the lab.
[sp]Stathis goes after her, armed with a shotgun. Seth gets the drop on him and vomits on one of Stathis's hands and feet, leaving him on the ground and helpless. Veronica then stops him from killing him, but then learns of Seth's plan to heal himself, by teleporting Veronica, their unborn child, and himself, becoming the 'ultimate family.' Almost being forced into the telepod, she pushes him away and tears off his jaw, which makes him mutate into the Brundlefly who then pushes her into telepod 1 and himself into telepod 2, which have been hooked up to an older version of the telepods. Stathis then gets a hold of the shotgun and shoots a cable connecting Veronica's telepod to the others. The Brundlefly sees this and try's to get out but is teleported just as he breaks the door. In the third telepod, the Brundlefly exits, but has been fused with parts of the telepod. He crawls near Veronica, and she picks up the shotgun, and (with some 'encouragement' from the Brundlefly/booth thing) she blasts Brundle's head into pieces.[/sp]
A very good film and I heartily recommend it.
Definitely a must-see for any horror or Cronenberg fan :D
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The sequel, "Fly 2" was also really good... the ending scene always gets me :P
I love the ending because[sp]Stathis was a creep throughout the movie and practically the antagonist, and then he ends up being the hero in the end. You don't see that in movies often, and I loved it.[/sp]
The makeup/special effects in this movie are astounding. Disgusting for sure, but you can't help but look at it.
That was one disgustingly creepy movie
best jeff goldblum movie
One of the best remakes ever in my opinion. If you're a fan of the movie and you haven't seen the Monkey-Cat deleted scene its a must see. If you haven't seen the movie yet don't watch this clip, watch the movie first.
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[QUOTE=M2k3;22750959]One of the best remakes ever in my opinion. If you're a fan of the movie and you haven't seen the Monkey-Cat deleted scene its a must see. If you haven't seen the movie yet don't watch this clip, watch the movie first.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlZZ9fTskxs&has_verified=1[/media][U][/U][URL="http://youtube.com/watch?v=KlZZ9fTskxs"][/URL][/QUOTE]
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OMFG I've never seen that before!! Is that deleted scene included in the DVD or something?? If so, I need to get this movie on DVD ASAP! :q:
I believe its on both the DVD and Blu-Ray versions.
[QUOTE=M2k3;22750959]One of the best remakes ever in my opinion. If you're a fan of the movie and you haven't seen the Monkey-Cat deleted scene its a must see. If you haven't seen the movie yet don't watch this clip, watch the movie first.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlZZ9fTskxs&has_verified=1[/media][U][/U][URL="http://youtube.com/watch?v=KlZZ9fTskxs"][/URL][/QUOTE]
Why did they delete more nastiness???
Possibly one of the most disgusting films I have ever seen. Not to mention one of my favorites.
As good is as this film is, it is fucking revolting.
I love this film so much, the sequel was actually pretty good too.
I hadn't seen the cat-baboon scene.
Look it up on Youtube, but make sure it goes onto the full rooftop scene where an appendage bursts out of his chest.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;22787116]Look it up on Youtube, but make sure it goes onto the full rooftop scene where an appendage bursts out of his chest.[/QUOTE]
That's precisely what [B]M2k3[/B] posted earlier :v:
My teacher had us watch this in our grade 11 English class after reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I still think it was disgusting as hell.
It's funny that I never thought of it as that gross or disturbing. Maybe because I saw the original Fly, which is not gross really but has that totally disturbing ending...
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I saw a lot of Cronenberg's other movies first. Stuff like Rabid and They Came From Within sort of set the standard of how far Cronenberg has to go to get a 'whoa, wtf!?' out of me.
What I thought was great about his version of The Fly is how he was able to make his type of movie but in a mainstream way that average audiences could also appreciate. It's a great crossover movie from a guy who pushes the envelope.
This was the first Rated R movie I ever saw.
It's like the scene of a horrible accident, disgusting and gruesome, but you don't look away.
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