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A New Jersey resident, I became hooked on the genre after seeing the original Star Wars at age 6. From that moment on, I was a movie fan for life. Sure, life as an adult sometimes reminds me I can't go home again (prequels, anyone?) but I love watching and talking about movies -- at least when I'm not at my day job working for a newspaper. I've also had movie reviews published on Web sites like Associated Content and IMDB.

Now, don't get me wrong. This is not meant as any disparaging of the source material. Cronenberg's masterpiece, like Carpenter's "The Thing," is one of those rare remakes that tremendously improves on the original. "The Fly" is a great movie. But that is all it should be -- a movie.

Maybe I'm missing something here. Maybe this is another case of something that initially sounds like a horrible idea but that, if handled in just the right way, will turn out to be surprisingly fun, entertaining and even worthwhile.

But if this works, I'm afraid that someone will next get the idea of trying "Scanners" as a musical. That could be a problem -- if only because they'd have to be really clever in depicting that exploding head...

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