Yeah, as I get older, that's the most upsetting thing about Carrie: her mother was obviously a hideously abusive lunatic, but she also had a *point*. If you made a baby who had telekinetic powers and could (and would) kill a prom's worth of people, you'd probably go crazy too. (In the book, it's clear that Carrie's…

I'd have gone with Spacek for Actress and Foster for Supporting, but Laurie a clear runner-up for Supporting. Beatrice Straight's win is one of my all-time most-hated Oscars—-no character, no role, just a shoehorned-in incongruous monologue in the middle of an otherwise unrelated movie. I've heard that Chayefsky wrote…

The ending is very much a you-had-to-be-there moment. For me, the sequence where Amy Irving is walking to the grave is the spookiest thing in the movie. It's just ethereal and surreal and weird. (Apparently, she walked backwards and then de Palma reversed the footage in order to achieve that effect.) And by now,…

Dude here, no idea how women feel about periods: wasn't it more that she was 16/17 and freaking out about her period when they all assumed that she'd probably been having it since she was 12 or something? They weren't making fun of her for having her period—-just for not seeming to know what it was when, from their…

Agreed! It's funny that King spares the gym teacher because the gym teacher is a (relatively) kind character despite the "bag of lard" thing, but de Palma adapts her into a saint and still kills her off.

Misread "mutated into" as "murdered". That probably would have done it too.

I just logged into Netflix (Canada) to see if Carrie is there, because this conversation is making me want to watch it. It's not (fuckin' Canada, man), but it recommends that if I'm interested in Carrie, I might want to watch Mean Girls. Sounds about right.

Agreed! I've always been terrified on a deep, primal level (like, beyond the predictable "okay, there's a crazy person with a knife" level) of the scene where her mother is skulking around waiting to stab her, because it's so obvious that there's no need to skulk—-with the emotional state Carrie is in, her mother…

I don't even remember what happens in the shitty adaptation of Apt Pupil, except that David Schwimmer plays the teacher.

In a town that small, I'm willing to believe that all of the kids had, at some point, bullied Carrie. Not that that merits a death sentence, mind you, but still. The book makes it clearer than the movie that the period scene and the prom scene weren't isolated incidents—-that she was constantly being bullied by…

I've never been able to make out the words. You know what song I've recently fallen in love with, though? "Education Blues", which I believe is the song playing as they're entering the prom. It's so perfectly '70s.

If I recall correctly, this is Stephen King's biggest nitpick with the movie. In the book, Tommy is more developed as a nice guy who really comes to care about Carrie, making his death tragic. In the movie, he's a "good guy" in that he's "not one of the bad guys", but he's most notable for having the most ridiculous…

Not having seen or even heard of Split, "her character had some setbacks in that movie, also" is the funniest thing I've heard in weeks, because I'm just imagining the terrible things that must have happened to that character and then your deadpan response.

I honestly don't know how I feel about the changes from the book to the movie. In the book, Carrie destroys the whole town on her way home…but somehow the teacher and, I think, some of the more innocuous students, manage to get out of the prom alive. It's like King wasn't confident enough at that stage of his career…

Agreed. Hell, even Spacek was too pretty to play Carrie as described in the book, but she nails Carrie's oddness and ostracization, which Moretz can't do. Honestly, Moretz seems more cool and confident than the bullies from the original Carrie, never mind Spacek.

You have to go in the closet to make babies. Then someone will happen by and see one babies and the baby will look at him.

Thank you! I feel so bad for not liking that kid, because…he's a kid, and it's not his fault. But I feel the exact same way you do.

Ugh, disgusting. As I was just saying downthread, I hated the show in the '90s-early '00s—-she's really mellowed over the past few years. That's still not cool, though.

I've never even heard of that film/program. Incredible.

POSSIBLY INCENDIARY RESPONSE: for the same reason everybody in the universe seems to think either Donald Trump or Michelle Obama should be president - because people don't understand that these are actual jobs requiring actual experience and expertise, not just "I've seen this person on TV and they seemed pleasant".