Everybody piss yourself: CARRIE opens tomorrow

I am going tomorrow night! I am VERY excited.

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It's not. I was being snarky. And there has been some critical reaction, just later than usual:


C- from the AV Club (the comments section is priceless)

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Updated On: 10/17/13 at 09:04 PM

The most important narrative of the last half of the 20th century can never be retold enough.

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Updated On: 10/17/13 at 10:08 PM

"Director Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) has replicated the De Palma film scene for scene, but also drained every drop of camp humor and crazed craftsmanship, as one might remove the blood from a sow."

This sounds like a no-brainier after the huge success of the Van Sant Psycho! I smell a franchise.

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I was excited to see this until I read that's it's basically a scene for scene rehash of the DePalma film. What's the point? I thought this version was going to be more true to the original novel. I was curious if Kimberly Peirce could bring anything new to the material but it sounds like she didn't even try.

The reviews seem to be very middling, its not bad, pretty good, not awful etc, so not an embarrassment but not amazing, i dont think any expected anything more right? It seems that its a competent remake, but not an adventurous one which is shame considering the talent involved. Oddly enough though a lot of the major critics (not blog critics etc) seem to like it, i thought they would rip it apart

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""Can't they just remake the real masterpiece...The Rage: Carrie 2!""

OMG CLASSIC!!!

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i meant your COMMENT was classic.

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Hi Harris!

I saw the remake this morning, and rather than being it awful I just felt it was stupid. What was the point? It's not shot for shot, but stays faithful enough to the original film. All of the interesting camera work is gone (the thrilling rotating shot at the prom) and the final moments SUCK.

Julianne Moore is decent, but isn't given a ton of stuff to work with. Like the MCC revival, this film really tries to de-camp the material and that only makes things boring and instead of scarier.

Chloe Grace Moretz is miscast if only that she's way too pretty for the part, and a little too spunky and sure of herself as well. By the time she's dolled up for the prom she's a knockout and way prettier than any of the other girls, especially Chris.

The CGI distracts rather than enhances; adding a CGI blood when the bucket goes wasn't smart.

The pacing is swift and I never got bored. I went out of curiosity to see how bad it could be, and if that's your only motivation I'd say skip it.

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Was this the last five seconds?

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Very minimal swearing and sexual content. There's a decent amount of violence, but it's not too scary.

Another big misstep with the remake is that they turned Carrie into a cross between Iron Man and a witch from The Vampire Diaries. She doesn't have super human strength and she doesn't have Thor's hammer. She has telekinesis (which should be enough!).

When Carrie loses control she should ACTUALLY have no control over her powers. She is supposed to be destroying everything in her path without a thought for who she's hurting or what she's dismantling. In the remake she is very much in control and exacting calculated vengeance on her enemies. I think the change is misguided.

Clyde, the last five seconds is SPOILER***********************



Not the hand coming out of the ground!!! It's Sue putting on a flower near Carrie's tombstone. Someone has spray painted, "Carrie White burns in Hell" on the stone and a crack begins to splinter up the tombstone before the credits roll.



END SPOILER*****************************

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