One day, Chloe Grace Moretz will follow the original Carrie- Sissy Spacek in winning an Oscar. She made the role her own in this. She could not be as waifish as Sissy was, but Chloe conveyed well a googly-eyed wonder & fear at the world around her.
And Julianne Moore made Carrie’s mother as crazy-scary as Piper Laurie, but with a controlled facade & a self-injury tendency which made her both scarier but also sympathetic. Yes, she severely damaged her daughter, but apparently, her own damage happened a long time ago. The opening scene gives evidence of this.
As much as I felt for the original Spacek Carrie, the ending of that film did not make me cry. In the last scene of Moretz-Carrie with her mother, I was crying for them both.
Funny, I was thinking about making the same case about the lack of need for the orignal Carrie when I saw that Bob Ducca had done it for me.
I liked the movie quite a bit.
Movies currently in local theaters rated at over 90% Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes: “Captain Phillips”, “12 Years a Slave”, “Gravity” and “Enough Said”. “Carrie” rated at 49% Rotten. No contest here. Except which of the good movies to see first.
I looked at the Rotten Tomatoes reviews and people are complaining that it’s an almost shot for shot remake of the original. It does look that way from the trailer. I wonder if they included the music montage when the boys are shopping for tuxes.
Different performances of Hamlet feature different interpretations. Different actors approach different characters from different angles with different motivations. Different undertones and overtones are emphasized by different directors.
Stories have always been retold and reimagined for different audiences since the very beginning of story-telling. You can find different versions of Cinderella across different countries and cultures.
For some reason, movies invoke some kind of weird selfishness among certain people. The version that spoke to me 30 years ago is good enough and must be frozen in amber untouched!
I’ll never get it. I love seeing different interpretations of the same basic tale.
I love remakes and I love the actress. She was killer in Kick-Ass, and I’m sure this performance will be at least as good.
Until you take into consideration the production values of the '70s. The original is still a good movie, but as a child of the '80s, it doesn’t feel real to me. It’s like watching old black and white movies. Sure, they can still be good, but they feel fake because of the production value. At least to me.
I’m sure that she is a good actress. I just think she’s not the right actress for the role. For me, the remake of Carrie is not working in the same way that the remake of Straw Dogs didn’t work. The original Straw Dogs worked because it was set in England. The remake doesn’t work because it is set in the Southern US. You don’t expect that type of behaviour from Englishmen, you expect it from Southerners.
