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Post by moviemouth on Jul 5, 2021 0:20:24 GMT
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Post by jcush on Jul 5, 2021 0:23:12 GMT
1986
I like both.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 5, 2021 0:47:33 GMT
1986
However I think the 1958 film is damn good.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 5, 2021 0:48:20 GMT
The Fly (1986) - 9/10
The Fly (1958) - 7.5/10
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Post by rudeboy on Jul 5, 2021 0:54:12 GMT
A tough one… I like both but love neither. I think I give the edge to ‘86, although the end of the earlier film is more haunting.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 5, 2021 0:54:20 GMT
No competition
Cronenberg's remake, or re-imagining if you will, has the advantage of a couple decades of advanced film technique combined with improvement in the science of DNA. The strong script is alternately horrific, romantic, amusing and ultimately tragic with superb performances from everyone.
That is not to fault the 1958 movie, which rightly retains its high status among the few genuine science fiction classics of that period. The cast is able to hold the movie together over that long buildup to the entrance of the Fly and even the "help me" sequence, so often ridiculed, still gives one a creepy feeling at the base of the spine.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 5, 2021 0:58:04 GMT
A tough one… I like both but love neither. I think I give the edge to ‘86, although the end of the earlier film is more haunting. I actually agree. The end of the 1958 movies is scarier/more haunting, the end of the 1986 movie is sadder/more tragic. I think they both achieve exactly what they are trying to with the last moments of the movie.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 5, 2021 1:31:12 GMT
I've always like Price's explanation to his nephew about his father's death:
Even the 1986 movie can't top the eerie echo of a string of disintegrated cat atoms crying for help .
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Post by rudeboy on Jul 5, 2021 1:34:12 GMT
A tough one… I like both but love neither. I think I give the edge to ‘86, although the end of the earlier film is more haunting. I actually agree. The end of the 1958 movies is scarier/more haunting, the end of the 1986 movie is sadder/more tragic. I think they both achieve exactly what they are trying to with the last moments of the movie. Yep, completely agree with you on this. Each film reached for a particular tone on which to end, and achieved it perfectly. I need to see the 86 film again, actually, but I remember it being such a downer that I’m not sure I can do it.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 5, 2021 1:42:50 GMT
I actually agree. The end of the 1958 movies is scarier/more haunting, the end of the 1986 movie is sadder/more tragic. I think they both achieve exactly what they are trying to with the last moments of the movie. Yep, completely agree with you on this. Each film reached for a particular tone on which to end, and achieved it perfectly. I need to see the 86 film again, actually, but I remember it being such a downer that I’m not sure I can do it. There are definitely downer movies that make me feel like crap afterwards or while watching and then there are downer movies that are actually exhilarating and cathartic. The Fly (1986) falls into the latter category.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 5, 2021 1:44:33 GMT
I felt someone needed to vote for the 1958 version.
The sequel is horrific in ways--Vincent Price tries so hard to warn his nephew not to fiddle with the same experiment and it happens again--but also, the lab assistant was such an asshole in that movie.
He sticks the cop in the teleporter-and then steps on the guinea pig afterwards--and then in a total asshole move, he sticks the scientist in it with a fly-deliberately, knowing full well what would happen.
He should have had his face melted with acid.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jul 5, 2021 1:48:03 GMT
Huh. Shit, I guess I spoke too soon about always siding with Vincent Price, because I'm going with Cronenberg...
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 5, 2021 1:55:32 GMT
Huh. Shit, I guess I spoke too soon about always siding with Vincent Price, because I'm going with Cronenberg... Well, in this case his character isn't even in the remake. Jeff Goldblum isn't playing the Vincent Price character.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 5, 2021 2:07:33 GMT
1986 However I think the 1958 film is damn good. Agreed.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jul 5, 2021 2:45:20 GMT
Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise.
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Post by James on Jul 5, 2021 3:01:00 GMT
86
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 5, 2021 3:02:25 GMT
Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. That would have been quite the little speech for Vincent Price to deliver, despite not playing the main role. But just imagine it spoken in Price's voice.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jul 5, 2021 7:54:23 GMT
The 1958 version is my favourite horror movie of the 1950s period. I actually find parts of it creepy even today.
That said, the 1986 version is an absolute masterpiece. The single greatest body-horror movie ever produced. It's less watchable though owing due its overwhelming grossness.
I voted for the Cronenberg movie, but both are excellent.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jul 5, 2021 10:45:34 GMT
1986. Jeff Goldblum reigns supreme.
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Post by Downey on Jul 5, 2021 11:05:29 GMT
Jeff Goldblum being an idiot again didn't make The Fly any less disgusting to watch.
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