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The Fly, a review by Tom

The Fly (1986/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Director: David Cronenberg Writing: George Langelaan (Original Material By), Charles Edward Pogue (Screenwriter), David Cronenberg (Screenwriter) Length: 96 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: DTS 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle
Geena Davis as Veronica Quaife
John Getz as Stathis Borans
Joy Boushel as Tawny
Les Carlson as Dr. Cheevers

Plot:
A chilling contemporary remake of an all-time horror classic has now been transformed into the ultimate Collector's Edition DVD. Reborn with hours of in-depth, never-before-seen extras, this all-new 2-disc set takes terror to a whole new level!

Jeff Goldblum stars as an overly ambitious scientist who accidentally merges with a housefly while conducting a bizarre teleporting experiment. Now his journalist girlfriend (Geena Davis) suddenly finds herself caring for a hideous creature whose insect half gradually begins to take over.

Awards:
Won:

Academy Award (1986)		Best Makeup (Chris Walas, Stephan Dupuis)
Saturn (1986)		Best Actor (Jeff Goldblum)
Saturn (1986)		Best Horror Film
Saturn (1986)		Best Makeup (Chris Walas)

Nominated:

AFI (1986)		100 Years... 100 Passions (2002)
AFI (1986)		100 Years... 100 Thrills (2001)
BAFTA (1987)		Achievement In Special Effects (Chris Walas, Jon Berg, Louis Craig, Hoyt Yeatman)
BAFTA (1987)		Make-Up Artist (Chris Walas, Stephan Dupuis)
Hugo Award (1987)		Dramatic Presentation
Saturn (1986)		Best Actress (Geena Davis)
Saturn (1986)		Best Director (David Cronenberg)
Saturn (1986)		Best Music (Howard Shore)

Extras:

• Closed Captioned
• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Original Short Story and Screenplay
• Photo Gallery
• Scene Access
• Test Footage
• Trailers

A very entertaining movie with a great performance by Jeff Goldblum. I never saw the original, but what I have seen of it, it seems to be rather ridiculous. Not the case here.

Rating:

(From Tom's Horror Marathon 2012 on October 22nd, 2012)

The Man Who Knew Too Much, a review by Achim

Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Year: 1956
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: PG
Length: 120 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono, French: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
James Stewart
Doris Day
Brenda de Banzie
Bernard Miles
Ralph Truman

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Trailers
Featurettes
Gallery
Production Notes

Tom said he found this film rather boring and I know what he means: Hitchcock misses the mark a bit in the pacing department. The film is too long and could have used some additional trimming. The story is good (typical Hitchcock with an innocent guy getting caught in a bigger scheme) and there is several scenes which allow for suspense (notice my wording...). It seems, however, that suspense was not what Hitchcock was after. The whole affair feels more like a family drama with a tacked-on assassination plot. Many scenes drag on too long when things should rather move on creating, as Tom said, boredom in the viewer. In one scene I was noticing that Jimmy Stewart's pamts seemed too short rather then anticipating where he was going...

The actual climax of the film in the Albert Hall (which is not where Que Sera, Sera is sung, the cover blurb got that wrong) is awesome and exciting. Doris Day's acting here is wonderful, showing us a mother torn by her emotions. The editing is also excellent and the use of the music drowning out the dialog works great. Unfortunately there is a second climax which could have had the film going out woth a little bang at least, but somehow they manage to have everything grind to a halt and suddenly it's over.

Jon already mentioned in response to Tom that apparently this was a contractual job by Hitchcock and unfortunately that notion comes through almost all the way.


(if it wasn't for the concert scene it would have been )

(From Alfred Hitchcock Marathon on August 31st, 2009)

Tom's Glee Marathon, a review by Tom

Glee
Season 1.17 Bad Reputation
Writer: Ryan Murphy (Created By), Brad Falchuk (Created By), Ian Brennan (Created By), Ian Brennan (Writer)
Director: Elodie Keene
Cast: Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray), Chris Colfer (Kurt Hummel), Jessalyn Gilsig (Terri Schuester), Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester), Jayma Mays (Emma Pillsbury), Kevin McHale (Arty Abrams), Lea Michele (Rachel Berry), Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson), Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester), Amber Riley (Mercedes Jones), Mark Salling (Noah "Puck" Puckerman), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina Cohen-Chang), Jonathan Groff (Jesse St. James), Molly Shannon (Brenda Castle), Iqbal Theba (Principal Figgins), Patrick Gallagher (Ken Tanaka), Stephen Tobolowsky (Sandy Ryerson), Naya Rivera (Santana Lopez), James Earl (Azimio), Max Adler (Dave Karofsky), Heather Morris (Brittany Pierce), Harry Shum, Jr. (Mike Chang), Dijon Talton (Matt Rutherford), Olivia Newton-John (Herself), Mary Jo Catlett (Mrs. Carlisle), Jean Sincere (Ancient Librarian), Robin Trocki (Jean Sylvester)

This is a fun episode. Glee club gets their hands on a video where Sue does aerobic to "Let's Get Physical" and posts it on YouTube. This attracts the real Olivia Newton-John to do a remake of the old music video of this song together with Sue.

Finncompetence:
This episode shows that Rachel has much more chemistry with other characters than with Finn. In this case with Puck (or Puckleberry how their romance was known in school and to fans). Even the fandom's name of the pairing sounds stupid: Finchel.

Brittana:
Brittany and Santana play angels in Rachel's music video.

Notable music:
There are some fun songs in this episode.
Will is rapping again, but this time around I enjoyed it. He did "Ice Ice Baby".

Another funny music scene is when some of the Glee club members are trying to be badass by singing "You Can't Touch This" in the school's library. But it backfires.


Another funny music scene is Rachel's video to "Run Joey Run".


My favorite song in this episode though is "Total Eclipse of the Heart", but I may be partial to it. Since I saw the musical "Tanz der Vampire" where this song was covered, I am a fan of this song.


Rating:

(From Tom's Glee Marathon on September 15th, 2012)