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
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
― 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 (thirteen years ago) link
happy birthday nancy allen
― j lol (surm), Friday, 24 June 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I finally own a camel!
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 24 June 2011 17:38 (thirteen 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
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 (five months ago) link
William Ragsdale ably played the protagonist the original Fright Night movies.
― henry s, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:12 (five months ago) link
Also, the original novel turned 50 in the last couple weeks (!!)
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:15 (five months ago) link
crazy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:27 (five months 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 (five months ago) link