I finally own Carrie!

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?

Then again, given the song in specific that link refers to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D49pGKyt4I

well, replacing half the songs is no fair

Caught the Frasier episode a couple nights ago where Christine Baranski plays the Dr. Laura parody "Dr. Nora" and Piper Laurie shows up at the end as her crazed mother in a seeming Carrie spoof.

now on c4. great xmas day film imo.

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

― 2 guys 1 jag (J0rdan S.), Thursday, April 1, 2010 7:12 PM (8 months ago)

its really fun to imagine brian dePalma silently levitating through a mass of showering cheerleaders w/ his camera trying not to be noticed

revamped version of the flop stage musical opens in NY next winter.

I have still never seen this, at all.

anyone else think they could.. move shit with their mind if they tried really hard, after seeing this film?
possibly just me.

damn, thought this thread weould be abt. the 1988 hit single by Europe..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Europe_Carrie_single.jpg

it's nancy allen's birthday

happy birthday nancy allen

I finally own a camel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovSKIRf1tQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dz2gdXP6Zs

I'm going to see it, but my expectations are low.

One sometimes-ILXor friend of mine complains that the new Carrie is too fucking ~cuet~ and I agree. That's my biggest hang-up, but also it doesn't look like Julianne Moore is going to hold a candle to Piper Laurie's displays of batshit fervor.

tbf to Julianne Moore I don't know if anybody could hold a candle to Piper Laurie. Her performance was perfectly OTT and has become so iconic that anybody cast in that role is at a significant disadvantage already.

Also Sissy Spacek was cute as hell. She just had freckles.

Not to defend this remake, which should never have been made.

This one looks more like The Rage: Carrie 2, which is, obviously, not good. The Angela Bettis version from 2002 (with Patricia Clarkson as Mrs. White) was pretty solid and took what is probably the best tact: avoid high style because you'll never be DePalma and instead focus on a gritty, handheld realism. I'm kind of surprised I haven't seen more recent reassessment of the 2002 version, given the interest of the new remake.

Surprised King doesn't complain about DePalma as much as he does Kubrick. King's Carrie White was a chubby, pimply loser. I know that movie's never going to get made in Hollywood, but still.

Blatant scale-tipping: 1976's Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominees

movie polls can always use more meaninglessness

Oh, and even in revamped form, Carrie: The Musical kinda sucks.

the whole 'wink wink, we're in on this too' musical trope is very played at this point.

The new Carrie seems to have latched on to all the wrong things about Carrie and ignored the things that matter the most.

is this essentially just remaking the film, or are they going back to the source novel and just acting as another interpretation of that?

just wondering since the poster said something like "you will know her name" and I remember the end of the book, that was literally true, that everybody knew it was Carrie White due to ESP imprinting (even people that didn't meet or know her), but perhaps I'm being overtly optimistic.

have you seen the trailer? i think that will answer some of your questions.

only a short one. the trailer seemed to indicate they're just revisiting the first movie, but I haven't seen an expanded or more recent trailer.

it's probably going to suck - the lack of advance reviews isn't a good sign.

They're screening it incredibly late in the game. So, yeah, it's probably a disaster, tho I am intrigued that a female director's doing it this time around.

I do like Chloe Moretz though

It would have been interesting to see someone take the journalistic approach of the original novel. God, this is gonna suck.

Also Sissy Spacek was cute as hell. She just had freckles.

Oh sure. I was re-using the word "cute," but what I meant was that Sissy Spacek doesn't look like conventional hottie, and they were able to make her look mousy.

W/ Moretz, they're doing the Hollywood fake-ugly thing e.g., glasses = frumpy nerd, or in this case, shirts buttoned all the way to the neck and overalls + a crucifix. But even those touches only go so far, and the way she plays the role doesn't look like it will be timid and apologetic enough.

Give her a Virginia Woolf nose, maybe.

yeah, there's no way a girl that looks like Chloe gets clowned on that level.

That's why Angela Bettis was good casting. She's just odd enough looking/acting to really believe she'd be ostracized. You wouldn't even need to give her the standard-issue goony glasses.

you are both otm

chloe three names looks like tavi
it's not her fault that she's so freaking cute, but it was a poor casting choice

the way she plays the role doesn't look like it will be timid and apologetic enough

Yes! Very astute. Sissy Spacek was cute as hell but played mousy very convincingly. Plus like Angela Bettis, you could believe that as cute as she was, people would still pick on her because she had something about her that deviated from the accepted beauty standards of the day (red hair and freckles for Sissy, Angela Bettis's face for Angela Bettis*).

*Not to throw shade on Angela Bettis, but if other circumstances were right, I could definitely see her getting picked on for her looks in high school.

There's not enough odd-looking/non-conventionally pretty actors now the way there was in the 70s. Who's today's Shelley Duvall?

Tilda Swinton?

(in that she can be made to look odd easily)

<3 Shelley Duvall <3
I don't think there is a young Shelley Duvall.

no way

there is no modern equivalent to Shelly Duvall come on now

Tilda Swinton is a full grown adult. Young actresses aren't allowed to look that weird.

I genuinely believe you can trace the downfall of modern movies to the fact that there is no equivalent to a young Shelly Duvall working in modern movies.

Tilda also strikes me as one of those preturnaturally British/academically-trained Actors with a capital "A"

Shelly is an American with no training iirc

yeah it was just a shot in the dark rly

Better than my best guess:

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/This+Is+40+Premiere+poIR5lI9Quzl.jpg

Definitely Swinton and Bettis. I think Lili Taylor had a bit of this quality. Emily Watson could have probably played a good Carrie.

who's that other weirdo, the one who maybe played a mute girl once?
none of them are as versatile as shelly duvall, but i guess they're weird.

Also, the original novel turned 50 in the last couple weeks (!!)

crazy

i wouldn’t mind rereading the novel again, i havent done that in a while