An eccentric scientist
named Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) meets
a beautiful woman named Veronica Qualife
(Geena Davis) who has just been recently
single and he tries to woo her to come to
his place and show her his latest
creation. She eventually agrees as he
introduces her a teleportation device and
hopes to teleport living things from one
to another but he tries one of his
monkeys which fries to death in the next
teleportation device.
The two of them fall in love with one
another and he even tries using raw meat
on the teleportation device but yet it
tastes different.
He eventually makes the teleportation
capable of transporting a living thing to
the other without getting harmed and one
day he tries it on himself but something
goes wrong as his genes have been fused
by a house fly that landed on the device
and he slowly transforms into a
terrifying mutant creature known as
"Brundlefly" as he finds
himself in a fierce battle as his mutated
genes begins to take over. He starts to
act obnoxious and deadly too.
Veronica discovers that she's pregnant
with his child and goes to the aid of her
ex-boyfriend named Stathis Borans (John
Getz) since he's been stalking her but
this time asks for help on this matter
since she wants an abortion but Seth is
protecting her so this child can be born
and tries to teleport her with his
device. Stathis must try to rescue her
even if it causes his own life against
Seth.
A nice
begiing with Seth Brundle trying to act charming towards Veronica Qualife at a party which shows alot of
spunk. There's also a nice moment when he
invites her to his place and shows her
his teleportation with her acting
sarcastic which looked natural for the
two of them.
There's a good moment with Seth lying on his bed with Veronica acting flirtatious towards him moving up
to him as well as good close up shots on
them making out.
There's a good close up shot on Seth cutting up a steak as well as testing it
with his teleportation device as all of
this looked very artsy.
There's a good moment with Stathis Borans getting creepy with Geena at a
clothing store and acting obnoxious and
demanding which looked very intense while
she tries to avoid him.
There's a good moment with Seth drinking alcohol and acting drunk towards
a monkey which looked quite comedic as
well as a fly zooming around the monkey.
There's a nice shot on him going into the teleportation with good
close up shots on the fly landing in one
of the windows of the device which looked
creepy since the makers made
sure that the shots were good and
impressive leaving it a drawing card to
the story of what will happen.
There's nice shots on him doing all sorts of aerobics making his
body look light enough to do anything
along with Veronica watching him.
There's also a good moment with Seth at his place trying to drag Veronica to the teleportation and trying to get
her to try it with her refusing and then
a nice direction of him changing his ways
and acting obnoxious and extremely
aggressive towards her. Looks impressive when she is
trying to tell him about the
teleportation machine and something went
wrong with it and him just acting crazy
towards her and throwing her out of his
place which looked quite disturbing.
There's a nice scene with Seth walking down an alleyway and jumping up
and hitting street lanterns.
There's a good shot on him sitting at a counter in a bar and staring
at a woman and
trying to flirt with her.
There's also a nice moment with Seth and a redneck arm wrestler at a bar on the
two of them arm wrestling as well as good
close up shots on the two of them with this redneck looking intense with his exressions as
well as on their hands together showing
some goo coming out and then his arm snapping and him screaming in intense
pain making this scene really hard to
watch.
There's a good aggressive moment with Seth trying to make out with this woman at the bar and then him dragging her to the
teleportation device with her getting
scared and then a nice approach by Veronica telling her to be very afraid in a calm
and firm voice which was greatly done
with all the surrounding of this.
There's a nice close up shot on Seth checking his computer and finding out
what happened with a great wide eyed
expression on his face.
There's a great intense scene with Veronica entering with Seth on canes
looking sick with a good close up shot on
his face rotting and falling apart along
with him spitting out goo and her looking
upset. The direction was wonderfully
twisted with what was happening when she
cries trying to tell him she's pregnant
and her just choking down the words.
There's a good scene with Seth walking on the walls like a fly when
there's another discussion with him and Veronica.
There's good shots on her in a
hospital room going into labour with her
screaming in pain and then her screaming
in terror with a good shot on a giant
maggot which looked more comedic than
scary. Of course this was a dream
sequence which looked not too badly done.
A good moment with her in a hospital room which seemed silent
and then Seth crashing in
which makes you jump a bit. There's a
good shot on him carrying her away with
her screaming which looked greatly
done.
Good shot looking up on Stathis holding his shotgun and looking at the
computer of the teleportation and then Seth attacking him by spitting his goo on his
arm and leg with great gruesome close up
shots on this.
There's a nice shot on a monstrous
looking fly crawling towards Veronica with her poitning the shotgun at it
weakly sobbing as it was a sad and
touching moment.
Bottom line is that this remake beared
no relationship to the original in any
way whatsoever only the fact of a
teleportation device and a fly that
landed on it causing problems to the
person but the results are very different
too (C'mon, the results were strange and
corny in the first one). The story was a
bit more original and in better taste and
it jumps right in from the beginning with
the lead actor trying to woo the lead
actress to check out his latest creation
from a party. Yet the plot didn't do a
whole lot. Still some parts are
entertaining to see the change of this
person's behavior day after day when he
slowly changes and turns evil. There's alot of disturbing moments like
an arm wrestling match in a bar and the
results afterwards as well as when he
starts to get sick and his flesh rotting
too. There's also some odd twisted romantic
scene's between the man now a beast with
the woman who's pregnant on him taking
her away which seems to borrow a bit on Phantom
of the Opera except for the
pregnancy thing. It looked creepy for it's time for sure
but now it looked slightly cheesy.
However, it stood out enough to look like
a bud budgeted film from the 80's and
mainstream too. With all the remakes
happening now I wouldn't be surprised to
see another one like this for the second
time but please if they do one make the
story different too.
Although the original spawned a bunch of
sequels this one only had a part 2 and
nothing more. Sometimes too many sequels
are a bore.
The acting is
greatly done in which Jeff Goldblum
(Seth Brundle) lived to play an eccentric genius on
creating the teleportation device as well
as showing a nice outgoing charm and
behaving full of life too. He packed some
great energy showing off his althetic
moments too. Plus he showed a great nasty
streak to him after slowly turning into a
giant fly which was quite disturbing a
swell as him acting sick and weak too. He
brought this all together and so far I
found this to be his best performance
ever showing a nice versatality to his
part in it all. He could easily portray
the Phantom in a Phantom of the
Opera flick.
Geena Davis (Veronica Qualife) had a nice touch to her
role in the film with her soft speaking
and calm attitude along with showing the
odd good aggression too when she needed
to be that way. She also knew how to cry
on set very well which seemed very
realistic as you kinda feel sorry for
her. She showed alot of great
characteristics too and was a perfect
choice for the flick.
John Getz (Stathis Borans) was another attention
getter with his aggressive and intense
attitude and can come across as very
intimidating with his demanding attitude
as an ex-boyfriend in the flick. He just
was a total ball of energy and reminds
you of one of those people that you want
to aovid if he's in a lousy mood.
There's a brief butt shot
by Jeff Goldblum when he goes
into the teleportation device.
A monkey is fried up in the
other teleporter
A man in a bar's wristed is cracked open
during an arm wrestling match
Seth is slowly decaying with his flesh
falling off
Stathis has his arm and leg melting from
goo
There's real
powerful classical violin and trombone
playing throughout the film which sounded
incredibly superb especially during the
opening credits in the film. There's some
piano playing too which sounds very nice
and with some heavy drum beats and
cymbals clanging during the suspenseful
spots. There's great screeching sounds
and echoey effects for when this creature
spits goo on his victim. All of this was
composed by beautifully by Howard
Shore.
Ronnie:
[Ronnie is driving to Seth's lab
quickly in her car. Seth is on the
passenger side, breathing heavily and
appears to be ill] Are you sick?
Seth Brundle: [sighs] Huh?
Oh... sure.
Ronnie: You're not a very
accomplished drunk.
Seth Brundle: No, no I'm always
like this it's um... motion sickness.
When I was a kid, I uh... puked on my
tricycle.
[Ronnie goes over a speed bump. The
car bounces]
Seth Brundle: [smiles weakly]
I hate vehicles.
Seth
Brundle: [Seth and Ronnie try an
experiment late at night. Seth takes a
steak and cuts it in half. He cooks one
half, and the other half is teleported
then cooked. He hands one plate to Ronnie
and cuts her a piece] Okay. Eat this,
and I need an objective opinion.
Seth Brundle: [Ronnie chews it
and looks at Seth confused as to what he
is doing] Yeah?
Ronnie: Well, it could use some
finesse, but um... it tastes like a
steak.
Seth Brundle: Mmm-hmm.
[Cuts some steak]
Seth Brundle: Now, I want you to
try this... teleported half.
Ronnie: Oh, are you serious? A
monkey just came apart in there.
Seth Brundle: Baboon... Eat.
Ronnie: [Ronnie eats it]
Oh... Oh, oh, tastes funny.
[Spits it in a napkin]
Seth Brundle: Funny? How?
Ronnie: It tastes um... synthetic.
Seth Brundle: [Seth smiles and
takes the napkin] Mmm-hmm.
Ronnie: [smiles with intrigue]
So, what have we proved?
Seth Brundle: The computer is
giving us its interpretation... of a
steak. It's, uh translating it for us;
it's rethinking it, rather than
*reproducing* it, and something is
getting lost in the translation.
Ronnie: Me... I'm lost.
Seth Brundle: The flesh. It should
make the computer, uh crazy. Like those
old ladies pinching babies. But it
doesn't; not yet because I haven't taught
the computer to be made crazy by the...
[smiles at Ronnie]
Seth Brundle: flesh. The poetry of
the steak. So, I'm gonna start teaching
it now.
Ronnie:
Don't you get it? I am finally onto
something that's big. Huge.
Stathis Borans: What? His cock?
Veronica
Quaife: [to Seth after he fills
his coffee with sugar] Do you
normally take coffee with your sugar?
Veronica
Quaife: You're changing Seth.
Everything about you is changing. You
look bad. You smell bad.
Seth Brundle: I've never been much
of a bather.
Veronica Quaife: Those... weird
hairs that were growing out of your back.
I took them to a lab. I had them
analyzed.
Seth Brundle: The hairs? The
hairs? Oh... Yeah, that's a strange thing
to do.
Veronica Quaife: Not as strange as
the results. The guy at the lab had
trouble identifying them. He finally came
to the conclusion, that they were
definitely not human.
Seth Brundle: Oh... Very good.
Veronica Quaife: Not human, Seth.
In fact... very insect-like hairs.
Veronica
Quaife: [to Seth] Something
went wrong, Seth. When you went through,
something went wrong.
Tawny:
Are you a body builder, or something?
Seth Brundle: Yeah, I build
bodies.
Tawny:
[after Seth teleports] Wow! Are
you some sort of magician?
Tawny:
[after Seth says it's Tawny's turn to
teleport] I'm afraid.
Seth Brundle: Don't be afraid.
Ronnie: No. Be afraid. Be very
afraid.
Seth
Brundle: You have to leave now, and
never come back here. Have you ever heard
of insect politics? Neither have I.
Insects... don't have politics. They're
very... brutal. No compassion, no
compromise. We can't trust the insect.
I'd like to become the first... insect
politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but...
I'm afraid, uh...
Ronnie: I don't know what you're
trying to say.
Seth Brundle: I'm saying... I'm
saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he
was a man and loved it. But now the dream
is over... and the insect is awake.
Ronnie: No. no, Seth...
Seth Brundle: I'm saying... I'll
hurt you if you stay.
Seth
Brundle: There was an old lady who
swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die.
Veronica
Quaife: No, I can't. No, I can't. |