over-acting of the mom turned it into comedy instead of horror
it could have been a great horror film but the over-acting of the mom turned all those scenes into comedy
shareLet me guess, you think the remake is much better than this one.
shareI didn't watch the remake yet. just watched the original and I think a remake might be a good idea in this case (and usually I hate remake)
because I do see the potential for improvement in some places.
I'll watch the remake soon and will let you know what I thought of it
Yeah, watch it and come back. To me, the remake is horrible.
sharejust watched the remake. indeed horrible.
what the hell happened to movie making??
did IQs suddenly drop in Hollywood?
why does every single remake suck so much.
it's just sad because it's such a missed opportunity of failing to improve the source material but instead they always make it much worse.
but I have to say that the actress who played the mom was better in the remake, but pretty much all the other characters were much worse. (especially the coach who was the best one in the original and the worst one in the remake)
carrie herself is totally unbelievable as the abused loner type in the remake unlike the original.
in terms of visual effects they went so over the top in the remake i felt like watching a star wars movie.
often times less is better.
turning her into a flying superman combined with emperor palpatine waving hands to kill everyone one by one was far worse than the original prom scene which (although i thought was a little lacking) was so much better than this over-the-top mess which felt like a darth vader wet dream more than a horror movie.
A lot of people were turned off by her performance, but then a lot of people love her performance. I admit I wasn't a fan of her when I first saw this in 1978 and I even kind of hated Sissy Spacek as Carrie but that's because she played the role so well as a strange ugly girl. Same for the mother. She played an unlikeable character and she was so convincing at it.
shareI actually preferred Piper Laurie's performance over Julianne Moore's. Which is weird because I am such a fan of Moore. But I felt her performance was so subdued. She whispered most of her lines, and came off as the frail and weak one, when that should have been Carrie.
Piper's overacting is exactly what is needed in the role. She is supposed to come off as this overbearing, religious fanatic, and I think pulled it off quite convincingly.
Actually, one recent remake - Peter Jackson's redo of "King Kong" - was first rate. "Casino Royale" (with Daniel Craig) wasn't bad, either.
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