When people think of Sam Neill now, they think of an avuncular figure who turns up in family-friendly films and is very likeable. The Omen 3: The Final Conflict: wound detail, infanticide, Satan worship, blasphemy, absolutely outrageous dialogueĭisney+ also hosts a film where Satan's offspring is played by the cool dad from Jurassic Park. Goldblum should have won an Oscar for his performance in The Fly and his ass should have as well. And during a mid-transformation gymnastic display and a few horribly uncomfortable sex scenes with co-star Geena Davies, you will also not believe what incredibly good shape Jeff was in back in 1986. If you've seen Goldblum in any other film, you will not believe how good he is in The Fly. What makes it truly enduring is that it manages to humanise Brundle, even as he is literally dehumanised into a fascist, sex-mad lunatic who eats food by vomiting strong acid onto it in order to dissolve it – we've all met one of those guys, right?
If it was all just special effects of that level of horror, this film would still be a winner. There is one bit in particular where scientist-turned-human-fly Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) pretty much snaps a man's arm off in grotesque, slow-motion detail, during an ill-advised barroom arm-wrestling bout. This movie was also made by 20th Century Fox.ĭavid Cronenberg's bravura remake of hoary old horror flick The Fly was one of the most successful disgusting films ever made. The Fly: absolutely grotesque wound detail, persistent threat, adult themes, Jeff Goldblum's pert butt The likes of Peacemaker and Deadpool have proved that skewing towards winking irony is more profitable than the dourness of this outlier. It's doubtful anyone will make a better R-rated, superhero movie than Logan. And secondly that, after various events unfold, Wolverine and a female mini-me version of him rip a load of armed mercs to bloody pulp, in a sustained, cathartic sequence of extreme violence. What makes this film work is that firstly it has a lot more depth than most MCU films, almost to the point where you start to worry there will be no real action. Professor X (Patrick Stewart) is dying, most of the other X-Men (and Women) mutants are dead and shady government forces are closing in on the former Wolverine, who has lost the will to carry on the fight.
If you ever wondered what it would be like if Wolverine (Hugh Jackman – brilliant in this) was in an R-rated movie, and quite what his claws raking through human flesh would look like, well… this is your huckleberry.Ī grim reflection on ageing, failure, societal breakdown and death, Logan – Wolverine's real name, for those who aren't X-Men fans – is kind of a bummer for most of its 2-hour run time. As such, it's a more natural part of the Disney+ world than all the other films here, but it is still by no means family entertainment. It's loosely affiliated to the MCU – although more so the X-Men films that are not officially part of the MCU due to copyright blah blah. I totally forgot that this film existed before I started writing this.
This is an actual Marvel movie, albeit not really part of the MCU.
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