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Why do people feel a need to do shit like this? Yes. I know: Because someone is dumb enough to pay for it.
The only antidote I can think of for this is to rent The Fly II. While it didn't make Baked Potatoes, it has got to be one of the all time worst sequels made. So bad that it's LOL funny.
No Vincent Price. No dice.
I DID see The Fly 2 and I loved it. Eric Stoltz's performance was excellent.True, the movie was not perfect, but it was consistent with the original in tone and theme, and overall it was well acted and well-directed, and it made sense as a logical progression to the events of the first movie.
As for making The Fly into an opera, well, why the hell not? The Fly- the David Cronenberg version of The Fly, was one of the top three or four sci-fi horror movies of the 1980s (along with Alien/Aliens and The Thing). It was a great movie, and did the very difficult job of being extraordinarily scary and presenting an absolutely sympathetic monster. That makes it great source material for an opera. If they can make classics based around cheap porn conceits (The Barber of Seville) or Psycho-style revenge tragedies (Carmen- dude, she cuts off a guy's head and sings at it for, like, fifteen minutes), then they can damned well do one about a guy who accidentally splices his DNA with a fly in a teleportation accident and slowly sloughs off his human exterior in gory technicolor.
I know I'd pay to watch it.
Yeah, I too am looking forward to this - it could be interesting, and the question of how to keep opera from becoming a museum-piece preservation-of-the-classics-only form is interesting. Can't really imageine why anyone who actually didn't care would bother posting a "who cares?" comment - it doesn't make you look smart, just like a grouch - but that's the web for you.
Carmen- dude, she cuts off a guy's head and sings at it for, like, fifteen minutes
I believe you're thinking of Salome, not Carmen. Carmen only stabs a dude. And technically Salome just orders Jochanaan's head be cut off, she doesn't cut it off herself. She does, however, sing to it for a very long time and kisses it on the mouth. Oh, and then some soldiers crush her to death with their shields.
