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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 3, 2013 8:31:41 GMT 1
Hmm, maybe. I dunno, I think they do have chemistry, but the problem is that the script gives her no reason to like him. In the first movie anyway, I noticed this a lot. She goes from fancying him to being kind of infatuated to 'true love across the stars' very quickly and for no reason at all. She spoke to him several times, he fought things in front of her, he was chivalrous, he was good-looking, and though unintelligent he told her some things about space. I mean obviously I see the attraction in all those things, but Jane really didn't seem like the type who would be moved by any of them, let alone fall in love.
But it's the kind of movie where I'm happy to let that slide. For some reason she was just *really* into him very quickly. I dunno. She lives in the desert with Stellan Skarsgard and Nick and Norah's Comedy Sidekick, I'd jump on Thor too.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Oct 3, 2013 10:06:47 GMT 1
Who cares, shit is gonna be cosmic and explode-e! And Loki seems awesome like always.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 19, 2013 21:25:26 GMT 1
I just got back from seeing the new remake of "Carrie"... and the movie was very well done... and struck a horrible chord with me about the bullying and the viciousness of high school girl-packs. I bawled my eyes out at the end of the movie, and Chloe Moretz is a fantastic actress... the way she portrayed poor Carrie was nothing short of heartbreaking...
And Julianne Moore is terrifying as a delusional psychotic religious fanatic... and the way she treated her poor daughter... no wonder the poor girl snapped...
I can't believe this movie made me cry so hard - the original did not make me cry...
Five stars, fantastic movie.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Oct 20, 2013 11:36:55 GMT 1
In my only gripe against Stephen King....his characters are mostly horrible 2-d. I think anyone here can make a antagonist with more depth then King can. Hence you shouldnt take the bullying so seriously Lily Been hearing good things bout this movie as well tho, love the poster.
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Post by jklinders on Oct 20, 2013 11:52:25 GMT 1
My massive gripe against King is how long it takes him to get to the point. The Stand could have had a third of the pages and lost nothing. His monsters were OK, but yeah his human bad guys were total strawmen.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 20, 2013 13:40:35 GMT 1
In fairness, the story of "Carrie" is the story of this girl and her struggles... to an emotionally and physically abused girl who is afraid of her own mother, and afraid of everyone around her, and does not know who to trust as a result of the abuse, it would seem - to her - like everyone is out to get her. And since the story is pretty much Carrie's POV, the bad people would seem really bad. And in real life, there are some people who are just as sadistic as the main instigators in this story.
Now, in this movie, the only people who were truly against Carrie were Kris Hargensen (who blamed Carrie for her own punishment of being banned from Prom for her treatment of Carrie) and Billy Nolan (Kris' boyfriend who is just plain sadistic and likes to hurt girls). Oh, and Carrie's mother, Margaret, who technically did love Carrie but loved her own bastardized version of God more and felt that Carrie was evil and needed to be killed for her own good. The other girls in the gym class just went along with the original tampon-throwing incident out of mob-mentality - Kris started it, the others followed. They all felt varying degrees of bad about it after, as evidenced by the fact that they all accepted the teacher's punishment without argument and not one of them backed up Kris when she refused to take the punishment and got herself suspended and banned from prom as a result.
As for the bullying, I will admit that I never went through anything as horrific as Carrie did, but the girls in my old High School could be pretty vicious. I was afraid to go to school on a daily basis, and I saw a bit of myself in the way Chloe-as-Carrie in this movie walked around the school with her arms crossed protectively around her chest, her head down, and her eyes wildly darting around watching for the least little threat. I used to walk almost as defensively in school when I was that age. And, when I was 15 (in grade 10 using Canadian grading systems), the bullying and harassment I went through in my old High School got so bad that my parents pulled me out of that school and sent me to live with my grandmother in Halifax NS (my parents and I lived in a small town about 2 hours away from Halifax at the time), and I was enrolled in a private Catholic all-girls school for that year. I had safety and happiness in school for one year, but then due to other circumstances I had to return to my old High School in my hometown for grades 11 and 12 - and the harassment started right back up on day 1. To the point where I overheard a couple of girls talking about me and saying they wished I would just kill myself and get it over with. So yeah, High School can be a dangerous place for people who don't fit in.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Oct 20, 2013 17:24:04 GMT 1
Back when I was a little Gorvar, me and this other guy didnt really get along. Eventually we duked it out and after that we became friends...kinda. I think its just hormones and shit, for girls its probably worse hence the bitchyness there. Come to think of it, highschool was a bitch...espcially that one guy... FREDDY YOU BASTARD!
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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 21, 2013 0:36:13 GMT 1
I love the original Carrie movie, and from what I've heard this new movie makes me very nervous. I don't know if I want to watch it at all or just pretend it doesn't exist like that Evil Dead remake.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 21, 2013 1:50:44 GMT 1
I love the original Carrie movie, and from what I've heard this new movie makes me very nervous. I don't know if I want to watch it at all or just pretend it doesn't exist like that Evil Dead remake. Why does this remake make you nervous? It was fantastically done...
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Oct 21, 2013 7:55:59 GMT 1
Wasn't it GROOVY enough?
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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 21, 2013 10:25:29 GMT 1
Aside from you Lily I've heard very bad things. It has about 50% on Rotten Tomatoes and he clips I've seen were... dodgy.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 21, 2013 10:46:13 GMT 1
I really am annoyed by the attitude the online review sites and all seem to have about remakes in general... what evidence do they produce to back up their ratings?
The only complaint I'd heard before going to see it was "Oh, it's new so it sucks - why remake it when the original was so good?"
Well, when you think about it, pretty much everything is a remake if you look at it a certain way - every time a movie is made based on a Shakespeare play, for example; and the Marvel universe movies that all tied in to The Avengers - those are all remakes of comic stories...
And I had not heard any other complaints before I saw it aside from the whole "remake" complaint, which does not hold water in my opinion.
My advice would be to see it with an open mind and judge for yourself; if you're interested.
One thing I really liked was that this movie was actually a bit closer to the original novel than the first movie was.
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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 21, 2013 10:51:33 GMT 1
Hm, going to have to disagree with you on the remakes front. I can't stand them. Very, very, very occasionally there's one I like but it's usually one that goes out of its way to be different.
Haven't seen the new Carrie, but again, I'm probably not going to.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Oct 21, 2013 11:01:32 GMT 1
Dont mind Buch, Lily. Ever since I outed him for being a big wuss for not trying to beat Castlevania 2 he has been a dick to everyone.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Oct 21, 2013 12:22:49 GMT 1
Buch, I would prefer to ignore what the internet says I should enjoy. Especially since so many "reviewers" think games like Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines or Alpha Protocol are poor games but that any Halo or Call of Duty game rates glowing reviews and praise.
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