An American Werewolf In London VS David Cronenberg's The Fly
Syfelkstrikt
~Hades
You've been kidnapped Oldboy style and locked in a room. You have a television and a means to watch movies. You're asked which of these films you want, you can only choose one. Accepting neither is an option also... but in this case I'd choose The Fly.
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Jury. Executioner. Judge.
Both have become a lot less interesting to me over time
AWIL starts out pretty interesting, but then the after the hospital it all goes downhill. I don't mean it starts getting bad in the usual sense of the word, but that the 1st act is great, and then there's almost no 2nd act, and then the 3rd act is like half the movie where he's falling apart. I don't feel paid off for my time in the 3rd act anymore
And I so used to love werewolves as a kid, but I don't really know of any great werewolf movies any more (for me and my tastes that is)
For The Fly, I feel like it devolves rather quickly in to a special effects ending and forgot to keep the story going. Like there's two acts of story, but three acts of movie. I feel like the lower quality, but still good sequel with Eric Stoltz has the much better story here
I think, at least for where these two movies are concerned, I've become an old fuddy duddy. So don't anyone think I'm trying to tear them apart, it's just that these two don't do much for me anymore...
It was the cow...
The Fly if I have to choose. Pretty shitty two movies to end up with.
It was the cow...
Does it give up the romance plot too soon?
If so, that could be, still not the movie I'd want to walk away with. I'd have to watch it again to decide if that makes it better, but that also makes it something completely different, like apples and oranges different. And I don't think I can get a copy to watch, maybe on Youtube tho, dunno
Never though of the romance as very deep tho
It was the cow...
Get a VPN and torrent brah
The original is more like atomic horror, tho not obviously so
While the remake doesn’t follow that theme at all, more like a Cthulhu/alienation horror of the man messing with things he shouldn’t variety
It was the cow...