This movie was terrible and a disgrace to the original
Now I know the truth.
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I thought it was crap, too.
shareI especially disliked it because McClure's character was dead wrong. Some people are NOT lying when they say they don't want to belong! In fact, I've personally known one or two who were most definitely islands "sufficient unto themselves."
shareHaving seen the movie in its entirety, now you know she was covering for Carrie during her interviews.
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I think the introduction of the detective doing the interrogations in this remake was a mistake. He even suspected Sue of conspiring with Chris and Billy to humiliate Carrie, but ultimately nothing was changed from the original story and so the part of the detective only wasted time. This was not a mystery or detective story.
shareYou haven't read the book, have you?
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I have not read the book.
sharePlease read the book and you will gain a different (even if not positive) appreciation of the 2002 version of Carrie.
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I do not believe in such arguments. A film is not an appendage to a book and must be judged in its own right. Similarly, if I decide to spend time reading a book, it should be because that would be enjoyable on its own, not in order to understand a film.
In any case, I guess the book did not show Carrie as a small girl (long before the period scene) causing meteors to hit Earth, and that after the prom fire she did not escape possibly to continue her rampage in another town - like this 2002 version showed? (Forgive me if those were actually in the book).
Perhaps you did not understand my original point, which is that if a film had made very drastic changes to the book already, then one cannot simply defend some individual scenes just by saying that those particular scenes were in the book. You have to justify them in the context of the film.
The book DOES show Carrie as a small girl causing rocks and chunks of ice to fall from the sky.
The book DOES have an investigation into Prom night by a "blue-ribbon panel," which is represented by Detective Mulchaey in the movie.
The book DOES cut back and forth between Carrie's story, the stories of Sue and Chris, and reports, accounts, and investigations of Prom night.
The book DOES NOT include Carrie reading a poem in class; DOES NOT have Sue showing up at the prom; DOES NOT have anyone seeing the bucket before the blood drop; and DOES NOT have Carrie survive.
I enjoyed the book and this version resonates with me much more than the other two because of that fact. And I don't mind the ending, because in my mind, Carrie is more than a religious freak or a telekinetic monster. She's a human being who never really had a chance to express her humanity. And for that, I have written a fan-fiction sequel covering another year of her life. I'll be posting it at fanfiction.net sometime in the next six months.
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This remake was in fact quite awful. Any changes that were made had been for the worse - to the extent that the plot became asinine. The more recent remake in 2013 with Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie at least stayed close to the original.
The choice of actors was ill-advised and that hurt the film immeasurably. Sissy Spacek in the original was 27 but her slender build and long hair made her credible enough as a late teenager. By contrast, Angela Bettis (who played Carrie White) and Kandyse McClure (as Sue Snell) were both far too old. Bettis looked every of her 30 years and McClure every of her 33. Perhaps they were better in other roles but in this case they practically destroyed the film.
The idea of starting the film with the detective's investigation AFTER the fire and interrogation of Sue Snell and others (including the fat dude that was present in the pig killing, the teacher, and Norma the class president - that for some reason were allowed to survive), and depending on them mostly to get the story of Carrie White, was questionable. That served no purpose and only slowed down the narrative. Why not tell the story straight when everyone knows what it is already?
The treatment of telekinetic power of Carrie was beyond stupid. I assume it was Carrie becoming an adult (her first period) that set off her power in the original film. But here even as a little girl, Carrie already sent furniture crashing through the windows and even brought meteors to earth?! Yet a few scenes later, the adult Carrie was shown trying to move a hairbrush on the table! Please at least make it consistent! Later, Carrie created mayhem at the prom and yet with all her powers her mother almost succeeded in drowning her in the bathtub. Also, I think the idea was that Carrie's rage resulting from her humiliation made her turn murderous, but in this remake she did not know or remember what she did at the prom, and that weakened the impact of the scenes.
While characterization was not particularly great in the original, here character development was even weaker. Compared to the original, both the teacher and Sue Snell had little screen time. Sue told the detective that she and Carrie were not good friends and the detective and the others all questioned her motives in "helping" Carrie. Sue then disappeared and was not even present at the prom! For little reason, she reappeared to save Carrie at the end and even helped her escape, though that could have got her into serious trouble.
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