I finally own Carrie!

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This is a thread where you can talk about Carrie, the movie, and how much you love it :P

i got it as a late xmas present

the front is hollogramic!

best damn movie

best damn christmas present too

not sure when i will watch it . . . i do have a friend coming to visit. i made her watch it for the 1st time in college!

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vs

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Not even a contest, Nancy Allen all the way. Had such a crush on her when I was like 10.

Dark horse candidate:

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dirty pillows is one of my favorite euphemisms ever

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De Palma never got any better than this imho. only misstep in the film is maybe the house sinking into the ground in the end, which is kinda too ridiculous.

ugh nancy allen is hot

How is The Fury? I has a strong inclination to see it b/c psychic powers are awesome.

De Palma never got any better than this imho

Blow Out is better imho

Blowout put me to sleep

altho amy irving's hair was kind of amazing tbh

This is one of my favorite movies EVER! Jesse bought me the deluxe DVD set for some gift giving holiday five or six years ago. No holographic cover, but on the bonus disc we do learn that in the scene where Norma gets it with the fire hose, the water pressure actually burst P.J. Soles's ear drum.

Also:

THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

was gonna post^^^

It's taking a lot of restraint for me not to just warble "They're all gonna laugh at you!" out loud here at my desk. It's only the fact that I'd have to explain what the hell I was doing to my coworkers that is keeping me quiet.

I can probably slip "Eve was WEAK!" into causal conversation at some point without raising too many eyebrows, though.

A psychotelekenetic bloodbath at the morale boosting potluck lunch might be harder to skate away from though...

THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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was gonna post^^^

― plax (ico),

me too!

xp - If I could set things on fire with my mind, my workplace would have been ashes two years ago.

How is The Fury? I has a strong inclination to see it b/c psychic powers are awesome.

It's one for the De Palma nuts like me, who thinks it's among his best. Everyone else receives it with indifference or worse.

Dark horse candidate:

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I tell this to everyone who will listen: When I was about 10 years old I read Carrie, the one with the pics from the movie. I was immediately OBSESSED and I wanted to be her. I played Carrie by filling an empty gallon Kemps ice cream bucket and dumping it over my head on the porch, then doing this over and over and over:

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I like The Fury! Haven't seen it in quite a while, but I remember being entertained by it repeatedly when it used to be on HBO all the time.

this movie is so damn amazing

the opening (?) scene where de palma floats through the steamy showers is one of the most beautiful things ever

it really is

it's also funny to consider this as a sort of revenge fantasy for anybody who went through high school gym.

i used to just cut and drink in the bathroom

oops

that prom scene is something else. the plain sadness in her fury is chilling.

Great '70s film--the band that plays at the prom is perfect, and William Katt is like a blueprint for The Virgin Suicides' Trip Fontaine. (Speaking of which, VS's prom--at least in the film--is almost certainly a nod to Carrie's.)

By the way: Kael loved The Fury.

And she was wrong.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

I like The Fury, especially Carrie Snodgress's death and the scene with the toy train, but wouldn't put it in De Palma's first tier. Has there been a De Palma poll? For me it goes, 1. Casualties of War, 2. Blow Out, 3. Carrie. Which would probably match Kael's list exactly...oh no, I'm a Paulette!

i wonder if i would like blow out

how much do you like John Travolta

god i don't know. but i do like nancy allen

Blow Out is a neat movie imo.

Blow Out rules. Probably my favorite De Palma.

Hoberman's got some good stuff on Blow Out in The Dream Life. He sees it as the end of a 20-year progression that began with various films dating back to the Kennedy administration.

There is a De Palma poll...zero for Casualties of War! Ouch. Much better news: only two votes for the monumentally silly Scarface.

how scary is this movie? i've never seen it, and watching horror movies is a major commitment for me, because i am a pussy.

eh not very. Piper Laurie is scariest thing in it

Carrie is much more sad and tragic than scary.

yea but the sadness is scary in a disturbed, cold way

Hmm.

Though the original actually seems like a workable or at least bankable idea ahead of its time -- post-Twilight/High School Musical/Glee (hell, that one Buffy episode as well), why not something that puts all the pieces together now?

insofar as that's a misreading of DePalma's version, that is

Yeah, I like a lot of what Chaw says, but he's absofuckinglutely nuts if he thinks this version is more about Carrie than the '76 version because, um, SISSY SPACEK!!

BTW, did I mention how totally pointless this new version is?

Billy Nolan is kinda cute, but Tommy Ross ain't really my type.

yeah I dunno how he thinks Spacek is upstaged by the supporting roles (great as they are), that's just bonkers. the focus is always on Carrie's untenable predicament, her endurance of abuse, confusion, etc.

xp

Billy Ross = Chronicle dude, right? Was mostly thinking of him.

Might see this if the opportunity presents itself, which means that it isn't all that likely that I'll see this.

Billy NOLAN. Heh.

Yep. I think he bulked up somewhat since then too.

Urge to see this rising...

(incidentally, how has there never been a Treehouse of Horror spoof with Lisa Simpson as Carrie? Unless of course there has been; I stopped watching these the moment Homer started farting spider webs.)

yeesh good call, provoked by the simpsons season 2 thread but w/ no actual simpsons on hand i watched the simpsons movie and then decided to give this years treehouse of horror a shot and wow, do not recommend. anyhow i watched a few clips from that last carrie remake and thought 'wow, how pointless was this'. i could see an argument that depalma's carrie is more about amy irving's character, w/ her and william katt and betty buckley representing these benign forces whose token gestures at righting a wrong only serve to make a situation worse. the original's on tonight on some channel. haven't read the book since i was a king fan as a preadolescent, remember it being a similar format to stoker's dracula, different formally than anything king really did after. since this is almost definitely the second best king adaptation it is odd that king has neither embraced it nor done his ott complaining about it like he has w/ the best king adaptation. i don't know if that's cuz carrie is a relatively minor work for him (unlike the shining) or if the vision isn't too far from his own, that there's more of him on the screen vs the shining. also now it seems to me this was a gussied up less blatant nerd revenge fantasy rewrite of rage. neverminding the movies and relative fame, the reason carrie is still in print while rage isn't is probably the same reason ppl keep being tempted to remake it - it's a way to make a hack entertainment that plays on columbine, etc. while keeping it sublimated enough to not draw outrage.

many xps
I always thought of Juliette Lewis as a plain Jane type, but she's not in the current crop of young actresses. Laura Dern too, for that matter.

Considering the trailer to this is basically the original film in a minute or two, in order, I was sort of hoping the film would pull a fast one and do something totally different. From reading that Pierce profile, however, it seems pretty mercenary. She needed the work, and probably needed something somewhat close to a hit, if she ever wanted to get funding for a more personal movie ever again. I've got to assume she did the best she could with the material, and she's got a good cast, but man, I don't want to see this.

I'm seeing this tonight. don't have high expectations but lately movies have been zen for me and hey it's a horror flick at least.

the reviews coming in are mostly mixed to negative, but better than I honestly expected.

welp this was pointless

girl that played Sue Snell had maybe 1.5 facial expressions.

Julianne Moore was relegated to doing actress karaoke, left to copy Piper Laurie's performance.

Moretz did a different take on Carrie, but went a little overboard with the apologia towards her mother in the second half.

also major LOLs at following the most intense 30 minutes of the movie with an epilogue that seems straight out of an AMC Family drama.

also Barry Shakaba Henley, gtfo at wasting your time playing an doofusy awkward principal.

Can't say I didn't warn you.

lol this is true

brody is a fan

ws Judy Greer

Seeing a disturbing if predictable trend of critics seizing the opportunity to talk about how De Palma's version was no good.

whether it was or wasn't (I love it), that it was a better film is pretty much inarguable, sooooooo.....

has Armond reviewed this yet?

who cares?

cos it'd probably be more entertaining than the movie was....

In fairness, I used to agree, but I just can't be bothered to read his crap anymore.

Who's today's Shelley Duvall?

Kristen Schaal

so sissy spacek in this movie may be my favourite performance of all time i've decided

Yes!

so fragile... tender... hopeful... horrified... horrifying... it's just magical

those moments at the prom where she's just starting to sort of relax and allow herself to get excited are just devastating

Pretty much every single actress I've ever seen tackle the role fail miserably once the prom scene is over. Only Spacek has managed the impossible task of re-earning audience sympathy.

(fails)

Did nobody else find that Chaw review unreadable? The sentences are tortured, the concepts muddled... basically a whole lot of head-shaking until I got to this and just gave up: "thank God she's 24 because I'd be going to jail". Yeah, I'm done.

i havent seen any of the others, i cant really imagine it even being possible to make a movie that audacious today

"thank God she's 24 because I'd be going to jail".

whoa he had sex with her

spacek so great.

I love Chaw, and his review was strong enough to almost make me wanna see a movie I don't care one bit about, but yeah, he needs to knock that shit off.

This is indeed the version of Carrie for those (like Peirce) who found De Palma's take "campy." Problem is, the lack of pop smirk makes it a lot duller, too. While I've always found the playfulness of De Palma's film problematic, watching this dour version highlights just how much his tricks give the emotional ugliness of the material its punch. I found the movie watchable, but never uncomfortable, and it wasn't until just now that I realized how integral discomfort was to Carrie's effect.

Moretz is a strange case--she seems way more comfortable in the sweet (pre-massacre) prom scenes than in any of the darker stuff, which I guess makes her ill suited for Carrie. Moore didn't register with me at all--Neanderthal's comment upthread about her doing "actress karaoke" pretty much nails it. In fairness, both actresses are in the unenviable positions of having to follow, and evoke, what are by now a couple of pretty iconic performances. The boys fared better for me, but then again a) they're cuter than William Katt and John Travolta, and b) Katt and his stupid hair always seemed to me to be about as far away from "dreamy," by any standards, as one could get.

The film also forces something of a happy ending re: the Sue character. Can't recall if this detail was in the novel or not, though.

I haven't seen this but why they never tapped Clea DuVall to play Carrie when she was younger still mystifies me - she is much more of a Carrie type, and she has great range

kinda too old to play high school now tho :(

#missedopportunities

I still say the only acceptable new version of Carrie would be a Treehouse of Horror spoof with Lisa as Carrie.

Saw it at the Lightbox last night. One of the mid-sized theatres, only half full. My friend had seen Robocop there a few nights ago, and that was sold out. I don't get it.

My single favourite moment: when William Katt, sitting between Betty Buckley and Amy Irving ("We don't care what we look like, do we?") shrugs his shoulders helplessly and giggles. Favourite shot: the high overhead entrance of Carrie and Tommy at the prom, everyone dancing and that excellent, cheesy glam/metal/pop band playing their "Smokin' in the Boys Room" rewrite. Seeing it in a theatre for the first time in a while, some of the chaotic climax seemed a little less convincing--death by malevolent hose for at least a couple of people. (But Betty Buckley's spectacular as always.) Also took more notice of the how sappy the slow-dance prom song is--it's the one piece of music in the film that's weak.

I read the novel for a university essay way back when. My recollection is that it was a fairly ordinary stepping-off point. I'm still amazed at how much invention, humour, and feeling De Palma brought to it. (Spacek gets most of the credit for the feeling.)

it's incredible. i'm watching it for the 100th time now and i'm still scared bc it's perfect and devastating.

if someone is awake and can offer support pls let me know thx

ok i made it thru.

r u ok

it still makes me feel like i've ~lived through something~. i felt such a weird kinship to carrie in the book & spacek just nails that acute betrayal so well, it leaves me reeling & full of tears every time

definitely ok and yes i feel you re: living through something. funnily enough i was just wondering again about the 'live through this' cover connection. it really does look like Chris on the cover.

it does! i always thought of it as a nod

i don't know how sissy could go to that emotional place so well without doing real damage mentally but god love her for putting that on screen

def a nod. apparently Leilani Bishop is actually the girl on the cover and is in a movie with Joan Rivers from 2000 called Intern http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202989/ (not a lead)

also yes Spacek does that for a few roles, it is baffling.

Halloween, 20 years ago
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!!

awesome