I finally own Carrie!

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.

Amanda Plummer another unconventionally attractive actress put out to pasture. Judy Greer could play either way, hot or weirdo.

ahhh judy greer. i like her.

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If they remake Carrie again but with a male lead I hope they avoid the obvious "Cary" and go with the more evocative "Carold."

Who's today's Shelley Duvall?

a friend nominates Greta Gerwig. haven't seen her enough to judge (ie, Baghead and Greenberg), she does have a certain awkwardness about her

Huge eye roll. Waaaaaay tooooo prettttty.

that was kind of my reaction

hahahaha

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Shelly did cheesecake too but I agree she's just stranger-looking

Who is the P.J. Soles in this version?

Gerwig can play the PJ part.

lol judy greer is playing the betty buckley role in this

who's billy nolan?

the nice white guy from chronicle

there was a profile of K Peirce in NYT Mag on Sunday... Carrie apparently doesnt kill on purpose in this one. :p

"had an allergic reaction to the pig's blood, looked up, everybody was dead. man teendom is HARD :/"

My other fave Di Palma

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q5ZOEwjUFc0/UE1waBWGGvI/AAAAAAAAEbk/zHealSN21CI/s1600/Sisters.jpg

Not really a spoiler; the whole thing is the point

Expected this: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/carrie-2013

Did not expect this: http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2013/10/carrie-2013.html

Honestly, would still be completely willing to shrug this off were it not for this, from the latter:

The irony of it is that DePalma's film shares the view of Carrie as a freak; Peirce's sees her as a little girl lost, eaten alive by the burden of fanaticism, class, beauty, biology. The DePalma is about Sue and Kris, the Peirce is about Carrie herself--and therein lies all the difference.

Plus the boys are cuter in the new one, I guess.

DePalma's film shares the view of Carrie as a freak; Peirce's sees her as a little girl lost, eaten alive by the burden of fanaticism, class, beauty, biology

totally disagree with this

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.....