By Drew Dietsch | publishing
It’s Drew Dietsch, the real human, here again lets the giant Freakin robot talk about another infamous film failure.
We are watching one of my personal favorite movies, a movie that I have caught the attention of on the weekly movie club podcast Genrevision.
A sci-fi/horror sequel was dismissed by critics and quickly discarded by audiences for inevitably being better than the award-winning predecessor of his masterpiece.
Thanks in part to the reception of this sequel, no other film has ever been produced by a franchise.
When I explore why Fly II Failed.
Fly II Origin
George Langelaan’s short story originated in 1957 fly It was first adapted into a successful feature film in 1958, and it was one of my favorite movies and I was happy to shoot the video.
But in 1986, Canadian genre master David Cronenberg remade it fly And his version is not only in the audience, but critically out of control.
Cronenberg’s fly Considered as a true classic.
Naturally, behind the producer fly Want to take advantage of the success of the movie through a sequel. It’s always interesting to note that one of the producers is comedy icon Mel Brooks.
Chris Walas is the effect artist who leads Cronenberg’s remake Fly II.
Walas deliberately hopes that the sequel is more of a thorough monster movie than an operatic tragedy of Cronenberg movies.
In some ways, this reflects the low budget and less popular sequels of the original 1958 film fly and The curse of the fly.
As far as public opinion is concerned, the sequel has little chance of matching Cronenberg’s miraculous achievements.
so, Fly II There have been many baking obstacles even before the roll of the movie: the sequel has a smaller perceptual nature, its impossible life-than-faith of its predecessor, and an artistic approach that highlights how the entry differs from previous movies.
Fly II Story
story Fly II Centered on the first film’s protagonists Seth Brundle and Veronica Quaife’s child, Martin Brundle.
Martin grew up in a lab at Bartok Industries, which is funding Seth Brundle’s Telepod experiment.
Martin aged at an accelerated rate due to corrupt DNA, but he also possesses the intelligence of a genius and tries to solve his genetic fate.
Naturally, he ended up being a great fly monster before saying it out and finishing it.
The effect becomes very big
No need to sort out every point of the plot or give you my comments Fly II – This is the purpose of the genre plot- enough to say, Fly II There is one expectation for people to have a sequel fly:gooppy, big effect.
But while Kroenberg’s films fueled these effects with a tragic and intentional tone, Fly II Try to have more fun in its effect work.
The boy did it, losing the entire movie climax with the incredible Martin Fly Puppet, which gave us one of the greatest mind smashes in the cinema and explicitly made the best face tear ever.
But it’s not hard to see why this more celebratory approach to Blood and Monopoly of the Beast may not be sitting with the audience.
although Fly IIThe tone of affirmation was less than his ex, and the story didn’t lift the urination out of the predicament. Both the characters and the story are treated with real emotional weight, which can lead to dissonance in the audience when things get pleasant.
Cronenberg’s films treat these effects with the greatest sincerity to make people feel disgusted and frustrated. Chris Walas’s attitude has the same sincerity Fly IIbut this is not the same emotional goal as Clorenberg’s approach.
By the end of the story, Martin is our complete hero, which brings his climax confrontation closer to the superhero story than the tragic romance of the first film.
I’m willing to bet this doesn’t click on the expectations the audience brings fly.
A lot of dogs died
Now, Fly II Its story does have a very dark and frustrating key factor that is more consistent with the emotional expectations of the first movie, but it’s the worst plot when you like the audience of the movie.
Martin became friends with one of the test dogs in the lab, but witnessed it being used in the Telepod experiment. It turned into a terrible creature of suffering, and Martin was told to be euthanized.
But it was a lie, and Martin discovered that his dog friend had been alive. This led to Martin killing the dog on the screen later, and I bet to let someone leave the theater in protest.
Again, you can hear all of my views on the movie on GenreVision, but let’s make it clear that the dying dog in the movie is a well-known negative mark of the movie because the movie watches the numerous crowds of people watching the movie.
And if you kill a dog in a movie and don’t deal with it in the way most people feel is right, it’s likely that it will hurt your movie in a substantial way.
Add to Fly IIIn trouble, it’s rooted with young actors who don’t have a considerable cache of audiences. I talked about the same issue Fire rule Video and Fly II There is the same burden.
But unlike most of the movies we talk about in this series, Fly II It actually opened at the No. 1 box office. According to reports, the budget is reportedly $12.5 million, which will eventually make $20 million at the domestic box office and nearly $19 million in the international market.
So, where is the “failed” part?
Fly ii killed the franchise
Excellent, Fly II Most critics have been cut into ribbons by ribbons, and their general perception of the film is already in trouble. Another sequel is developing Fly II Making another sequel look too risky.
And that bad reception ends up casting the clouds with other potential continuity in the form of movies. Although there is a continuation of a comic Fly IIThe story, no other film project is shown in this attribute.
Therefore, effective Fly II Killed anyone else fly Movie until further attention.
I’m not saying I need to have it again fly Movies, but in the era of IP era, seeing that the movie franchise was actually chopped after the sequel was very little, and a layer of reflection should be added to it Fly II.
It just shows that money is not a measure of popular culture success. Even if I will always love Martin Fly, he may still be a bit of a jerk in the eyes of most people because his father is not as good as his father.
