Well, before get onto the rant/rave about the first movie I am going to review as part of my new blog, I just wanted to annouce that this will be a primarily movie review blog, with the occasional book, and maybe news story, but don't hold your breath on the last two.
So, for the first movie I decided I would choose my favorite movie from the 70s, "Carrie" based on the Stephen King book, which I do plan to read, but I have to wait until I have a little more money, so I can get it off on Amazon, and then I shall review it, as well.
That being said, I will NEVER review the "Carrie" version from I believe, 2002, because it sucks, watching it once was enough.
*Carrie (1976)*
So, let me start off by saying, I don't think I've seen Sissy Spacek(who plays Carrie) in anything else but this movie, and if I have, I cannot think of it off the top of my head. But I love her in this movie, she plays the role perfectly, the only thing that bothers me about Sissy Spacek being in the movie, is that she looks to old to be a senior in high school, but that's really here nor there.
But Carrie is actually not my favorite character, it's the Margret White(played by Piper Laurie), I don't really know why, because if Margret wasn't so religious and crazy, the ending of the movie, might not have ended so....like it did. But, with that said, if Margret wasn't so religious and crazy, we wouldn't have a movie. I am a Christian, but sometimes, you can take a good thing too far, and that's what Margret White does, and chances are, she is worse in the book.
I wasn't necessairly a misfit in my high school years, but I didn't really "fit in" in the sense that, I hung out with everybody, the Christians, the jocks, the nerds, the drugs users/abusers, and I still do, so I semi-understand what it's like to be in Carrie's shoes (except by the age of 16 I knew what a period was), which may explain my like for this movie.
You can't really discuss the movie Carrie and not talk about Betty Buckley's role as Mrs Collins, she understood Carrie, at least, as much as one could understand someone like Carrie, ya know? I mean, I don't know if I'd understand a misfit with telekentic powers. Mrs Collins is probably my 2nd favorite character is all of the movie, (although I do prefer her death in the 2002 version, to the one in the 1976 version, but the 2002 version still sucks). In 2002 her death is "less scary, but more real." if that makes sense.
Tommy Ross, is probably my favorite male character, because while I don't think when Sue asked him to take Carrie to the prom, that he had any intention of doing so, that by the end of the night, before they gain their title as king and queen, he begins to see Carrie as a real person, and not the misfit she has been her entire life, same with Sue...I think she really did want to help Carrie after the tampon incident in the first scene (or maybe second, I don't know which it would be under). and Chris and Billy used that to their advantage, and thus.....we have the ending of the movie, which is probably #2 in most recongized movie scenes (there's no actual proof, just my opinoin), #1 being the shower scene from "Psycho".
All in all, the 1976 version of 'Carrie' gets a 8.5/10 while the 2002 version get's a -10/10
:)
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