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Movie Reviews of Carrie
Movie Review: Awesome Adaptation of King's 1st Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved the '76 movie but this is great also. I like how Carrie's mother is not quite so over the top in this newer version. Angela Bettis was outstanding as Carrie. Definitely recommended!!!!Movie Review: freaky movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This freaky movie is a remake of the original Carrie, but has its own twists and turns that are as weird as the first - worth buying if you like the "Carrie" style movie.Movie Review: Carrie is Really Good
Summary: 4 Stars
High school is a horrible place. Everyone is really cruel. The popular kids, pick on the nerds, the nerds dump on the popular kids, and the kids left in the middle, they pick on and make fun of the nerds and the popular kids. But there is always that one kid. The kid who sits at lunch by himself, he never says a word and boy does he get dumped on the most.That's why the Stephen King's classic CARRIE will always appeal to mass audiences. She's the quiet kid who's always getting picked on. It prays on our irrational fear of the one who is a little odd, but it also gives us a glimpse into our own hurt psyche. We've all been put upon in our lives. We've all be humiliated by the people around us, and we all wish we could gat back at out enemies.
As I sat through the recent television remake of CARRIE, all I could think of is how I am Carrie, but I'm also the one who has destroyed people like Carrie. It's the human condition, I guess? It's that ever-present darkness we all have in our hearts. No matter how we try to suppress it.
Angela Bettis (May) plays Carrie White, a high school senior with a legalistic mother and the whole world against her. She's quiet, introspective, and really naive about what's going on the world. So of course all the girls in school pick on her, and tease her. They are downright cruel at some points.
Little does anyone know, but quiet Carrie has begun to develop weird powers. She can make things move using her mind. But when another prank goes wrong, Carrie goes medieval and takes no prisoners.
Angela Bettis was born to play Carrie and she is great. She has this innocent and yet dangerous look about her. She gives Carrie this poised quirkiness that the film desperately needs. You can see how each humiliation wears away at her façade, and without Bettis's small but subtle character changes, this simple and yet so complex character would fall apart at its seems.
I especially liked the scene in which she's waiting for her prom date Tommy (Tobias Mehler, Disturbing Behavior) to arrive. He's late, and she thinks she going to be stood up and as the minute's progress the furniture slowly begins to rise off the floor. That is a great sequence.
The supporting cast also does a great job Patricia Clarkson's (Far From Heaven) performance, as Carrie mom is one of true evil and even a little sympathy. She generally cares for Carrie, too bad she's so bad at showing it to her daughter. To bad she's been duped into the lie that legalism can save your soul. I like that it has more dimensions than Brian Deplama's characterization of Carrie's mom in the original film.
Rena Sofer (TV's ED) is also very good as Carrie's tough as nails gym teacher, one of Carrie's only supporters. She walks that thin line between feminine and bitchy without turning her character into a farce. I liked how she handled her gym class, when they obviously deserved worse, and I loved the small conversation she has with Carrie at the prom. Sofer is one great actress.
Director David Carson (Star Trek: Generations) visual style is also refreshing. Much of the film is shot with stylized steady cam and disjointed camera angels. While many times this technique can be distracting. It works really well for this film, and is never distracting.
My only qualm with this movie is pretty trite. Since it is a TV movie some sequences are a little choppy because of commercial breaks. I wished they had fixed some of the editing at these points for the DVD. Because I found it distracting that they would go to black only to come back to the same shot. It's also a tad overlong, and some sequences drag on merely to stretch the running time. But they are few and far between, so forget I even mentioned them.
This new CARRIE is really good. It has a great cast, a nice visual sense, and aspires to do something new and different. I would recommend you see Deplama's film before you see this one. But don't let that discourage you from giving the new CARRIE a look.
This is one of the best Made-For-TV movies I have ever seen.
Movie Review: Great but no where near as good as the origional
Summary: 4 Stars
First off I have to say that I LOVE the 76 version of Carrie! It has to be one of my top 5 favorite horror movies of all time! And for me this re-make was highly anticipated! It was all I could think about since I had seen the previews on TV and it lived up to my expectations, which were high, but I knew it wouldn't surpass the origional! Well, it basically is a mirror image of the first but it follows the book more closely! And I love the book aswell. Well Carrie is a social outcast with a Jesus freak as a mother ( I mean no disrespect in that I am a Christian myself ) and Carrie has telekinisis the ability to move objects with the mind. So, she has her first period in the locker room one day and everyone makes fun of her and fills her locker with tampons and they are just very cruel to her. And it is clearly noticible that this is an updated re-make with talk of Freddie Prinze Jr. movies and the songs, that this is modern day rather than taking place back in 1976. So of course sex is brought up a few times and rumors that Sue and Carrie are in a lesbian relationship and stupid things like that that could have been left out and still the movie would have been good. And I like the feel of this movie more than I do the origional, the color I like better, but the way it was filmed is odd, it's like someone was holding the camera the whole time and never put it on a solid holder, cuz the camera is always moving and at times it can get frustrating. But the music is good and so is the acting, except from Carries mom, she could have been a lot more agressive like Piper Laurie in the origional. But everything was good and Carries rampage over the school and town was very realistic and very good looking. I only have a problem with the ending. SO stupid and completely different from the 76 versiona nd I hated the end!!! That was what gave it my **** rating! But it is still a very good re-make! They did the right thing by putting it on TV cuz it wouldn't have done very good at the box office! I'm glad they decided to put it on DVD and VHS! I highly recommend this movie, but if you want the better version, rent Depalma's first, then this one!!Movie Review: LET'S PRETEND THIS IS NOT A REMAKE...
Summary: 4 Stars
..and take it on its own. It's inevitable to think of Brian DePalma's original scarefest with the Oscar nominated Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie; but if we take this made for TV movie on its own merits and try not to compare it, we may find it's a pretty good movie. Angela Bettis is mesmerizing as Carrie White, the daughter of a religious fanatic, who made it rain rocks when she was born and also when she got angry as a child. We obviously know this little girl is something out of the ordinary. But Stephen King's CARRIE really focuses on the loneliness of being different; of being mocked because you aren't like everyone else; the joy of being accepted at a prom with the handsome hunk Tommy; and ultimately, the irony of revenge on everyone whether they deserved it or not. The production values for a tv movie are very good, even if some of the CGI effects look a little forced, but director David Carson gives us the portrait of a lonely girl who just wants to fit in, and whose retaliation on a sad bunch of spoiled brats is carried to the extreme. Patricia Clarkson's understated performance as Margaret White is just as chilling as the over the top fanaticism of Piper Laurie; Tobias Mehler is a likeable and hunky Tommy; Rena Sofer brings a lot of punch to her role as the gym teacher; Katherine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps) is a bitchy Tina, and the young lady who plays Chris (didn't catch her name, but she's currently on the hit series LOST) is also effectively sinister. Kandyce McClure seems slightly out of place as Sue Snell, and I'm not sure the addition of the police investigation (led by the sturdy David Keith) is necessary. I also felt the ending paled in comparison to the original (Mama being impaled by knives in a mock effigy of the horrible crucifix she had). Seems like the writer wanted to shy away from doing the same ending, but didnt come up with one as memorable.
All in all, though, Bettis is magnificent as Carrie, and Sissy Spacek should be proud of her.