http://home.freeuk.net/blindyouth/carrie.jpg
This is a thread where you can talk about Carrie, the movie, and how much you love it :P
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i got it as a late xmas present
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
the front is hollogramic!
best damn movie
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsI/8532-2980.gif
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
vs
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_In5M5mqIDqU/R8QtNduxp2I/AAAAAAAACVE/GOV5Z97OzAA/s320/Nancy+Allen+-+Carrie+95.jpg
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Not even a contest, Nancy Allen all the way. Had such a crush on her when I was like 10.
Dark horse candidate:
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsS/16222.gif
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
dirty pillows is one of my favorite euphemisms ever
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ZU3ONTp0Bh2WEM:http://www.morethings.com/fan/carrie-sissy_spacek/martyr_mom/piper_laurie-carrie_white-murder-suicide118.jpg
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/guides/parents/carrie_large.jpg
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.
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh nancy allen is hot
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
How is The Fury? I has a strong inclination to see it b/c psychic powers are awesome.
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
De Palma never got any better than this imho
Blow Out is better imho
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Blowout put me to sleep
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
altho amy irving's hair was kind of amazing tbh
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Also:
THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
was gonna post^^^
― plax (ico), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I can probably slip "Eve was WEAK!" into causal conversation at some point without raising too many eyebrows, though.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
A psychotelekenetic bloodbath at the morale boosting potluck lunch might be harder to skate away from though...
― Convenience Fish (snoball), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, April 1, 2010 4:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― plax (ico),
me too!
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - If I could set things on fire with my mind, my workplace would have been ashes two years ago.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsM/11491-2980.gif
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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:
http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/carrie-blood.jpg
― it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 1 April 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
it really is
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 2 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 2 April 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
that prom scene is something else. the plain sadness in her fury is chilling.
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
By the way: Kael loved The Fury.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
And she was wrong.
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if i would like blow out
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
how much do you like John Travolta
― kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
god i don't know. but i do like nancy allen
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Blow Out is a neat movie imo.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Blow Out rules. Probably my favorite De Palma.
― circa1916, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
There is a De Palma poll...zero for Casualties of War! Ouch. Much better news: only two votes for the monumentally silly Scarface.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― symsymsym, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
eh not very. Piper Laurie is scariest thing in it
― kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 April 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Carrie is much more sad and tragic than scary.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yea but the sadness is scary in a disturbed, cold way
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Then again, given the song in specific that link refers to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D49pGKyt4I
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
well, replacing half the songs is no fair
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Taller than the president (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
now on c4. great xmas day film imo.
― caek, Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― plax (ico), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
revamped version of the flop stage musical opens in NY next winter.
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 June 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I have still never seen this, at all.
― maximum biker daddy realness (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone else think they could.. move shit with their mind if they tried really hard, after seeing this film? possibly just me.
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Heady Snobbin (Pillbox), Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it's nancy allen's birthday
― j lol (surm), Friday, 24 June 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
happy birthday nancy allen
― j lol (surm), Friday, 24 June 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
I finally own a camel!
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 24 June 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovSKIRf1tQ
― etc, Monday, 8 April 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dz2gdXP6Zs
― piscesx, Monday, 8 April 2013 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Monday, 14 October 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 October 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― The Thnig, Monday, 14 October 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Monday, 14 October 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Blatant scale-tipping: 1976's Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominees
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Monday, 14 October 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
movie polls can always use more meaninglessness
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and even in revamped form, Carrie: The Musical kinda sucks.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
the whole 'wink wink, we're in on this too' musical trope is very played at this point.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
The new Carrie seems to have latched on to all the wrong things about Carrie and ignored the things that matter the most.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
have you seen the trailer? i think that will answer some of your questions.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
it's probably going to suck - the lack of advance reviews isn't a good sign.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
I do like Chloe Moretz though
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
It would have been interesting to see someone take the journalistic approach of the original novel. God, this is gonna suck.
― The Thnig, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
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.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah, there's no way a girl that looks like Chloe gets clowned on that level.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― The Thnig, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
There's not enough odd-looking/non-conventionally pretty actors now the way there was in the 70s. Who's today's Shelley Duvall?
― kate78, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Tilda Swinton?
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
(in that she can be made to look odd easily)
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
<3 Shelley Duvall <3I don't think there is a young Shelley Duvall.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
no way
there is no modern equivalent to Shelly Duvall come on now
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Tilda Swinton is a full grown adult. Young actresses aren't allowed to look that weird.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
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
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 October 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah it was just a shot in the dark rly
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Better than my best guess:
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/This+Is+40+Premiere+poIR5lI9Quzl.jpg
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Definitely Swinton and Bettis. I think Lili Taylor had a bit of this quality. Emily Watson could have probably played a good Carrie.
― The Thnig, Monday, 14 October 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Amanda Plummer another unconventionally attractive actress put out to pasture. Judy Greer could play either way, hot or weirdo.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 October 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
ahhh judy greer. i like her.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2008/12/spe_riding_the_bus_hp_photo.jpg
― anonymous jazz majors (Matt P), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
If they remake Carrie again but with a male lead I hope they avoid the obvious "Cary" and go with the more evocative "Carold."
― The Thnig, Monday, 14 October 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 October 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Huge eye roll. Waaaaaay tooooo prettttty.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
that was kind of my reaction
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 October 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha
http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/b7/628e107e6d11e1bcc4123138165f92/file/greta-gerwig-shot-solo-directorial-debut-last-year-film-could-hit-festival-circuit-as-soon-as-the-fall.jpg
― kate78, Monday, 14 October 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Shelly did cheesecake too but I agree she's just stranger-looking
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 October 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Who is the P.J. Soles in this version?
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 14 October 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link
Gerwig can play the PJ part.
― The Thnig, Monday, 14 October 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
lol judy greer is playing the betty buckley role in this
― balls, Monday, 14 October 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
who's billy nolan?
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
the nice white guy from chronicle
― balls, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 00:31 (ten years ago) link
there was a profile of K Peirce in NYT Mag on Sunday... Carrie apparently doesnt kill on purpose in this one. :p
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
"had an allergic reaction to the pig's blood, looked up, everybody was dead. man teendom is HARD :/"
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link
My other fave Di Palma
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q5ZOEwjUFc0/UE1waBWGGvI/AAAAAAAAEbk/zHealSN21CI/s1600/Sisters.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
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
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
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!!
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
BTW, did I mention how totally pointless this new version is?
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Billy NOLAN. Heh.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
Yep. I think he bulked up somewhat since then too.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
Urge to see this rising...
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
(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.)
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― balls, Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
many xpsI 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.
― nickn, Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
welp this was pointless
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 05:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
also Barry Shakaba Henley, gtfo at wasting your time playing an doofusy awkward principal.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 05:27 (ten years ago) link
Can't say I didn't warn you.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
lol this is true
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link
brody is a fan
― caek, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
ws Judy Greer
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Seeing a disturbing if predictable trend of critics seizing the opportunity to talk about how De Palma's version was no good.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
whether it was or wasn't (I love it), that it was a better film is pretty much inarguable, sooooooo.....
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
has Armond reviewed this yet?
who cares?
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 October 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
cos it'd probably be more entertaining than the movie was....
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
In fairness, I used to agree, but I just can't be bothered to read his crap anymore.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 October 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
Kristen Schaal
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Friday, 18 October 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
so sissy spacek in this movie may be my favourite performance of all time i've decided
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Yes!
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
(fails)
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
i havent seen any of the others, i cant really imagine it even being possible to make a movie that audacious today
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
"thank God she's 24 because I'd be going to jail".
whoa he had sex with her
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 27 January 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
I still say the only acceptable new version of Carrie would be a Treehouse of Horror spoof with Lisa as Carrie.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 27 January 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 March 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
ok i made it thru.
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 06:15 (eight years ago) link
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
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 July 2015 06:32 (eight years ago) link
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.
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 06:33 (eight years ago) link
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
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 July 2015 06:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 06:39 (eight years ago) link
Halloween, 20 years agohttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48829929726_4218712eae.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 4 October 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
!!awesome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 October 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
saw this tonight at a local “micro”cinema ie v small rep theater w 25 seatsstill so fucking goodthe split screen stuff in the prom is so effective, i really like how they used thatragsdale is so good in the scenes w carrie, all his interactions feel really natural & genuine nancy allen is such a hottie also shoutout Edie McClurg as one of the mean girls! aka Ed Rooney’s secretary in Ferris Bueller “he’s a righteous dude”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 01:45 (one month ago) link
THEYRE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU
You've got me stumped on ragsdale...Tommy Ross/William Katt?
― clemenza, Monday, 22 April 2024 01:52 (one month ago) link
fuuucking hell talk about a brainfart jezusKATTWILLIAM KATT
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 02:23 (one month ago) link
thx clemenza
i can't with this film, i couldn't then and i can't now
it's too terrifying
but then why do i watch it every other year with rote and rupturus horror
― Swen, Monday, 22 April 2024 02:45 (one month ago) link
Didn't realize there was a William Ragsdale, or I would have figured that out without asking--I remember that show, Herman's Head. I did discover there are a number of Carrie Ragsdales out there in the world when I searched that.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 April 2024 04:27 (one month ago) link
William Ragsdale ably played the protagonist the original Fright Night movies.
― henry s, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:12 (one month ago) link
Also, the original novel turned 50 in the last couple weeks (!!)
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:15 (one month ago) link
crazy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:27 (one month ago) link
i wouldn’t mind rereading the novel again, i havent done that in a while
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:28 (one month ago) link