Stephen King's 'Carrie' remake

[TheDreamMaster]

Well, there is that awful TV show.

Hey, Nightmares and Dreamscapes was a great mini-series!

Spoiler

Well I like Under the Dome....mostly.

 

[Sawyer]

The pilot was very good. The first half of the season was promising. Then they took a nose-dive off a ****ing cliff.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Havent really followed this but fancy seeing it, Moretz's movies that I have seen have been mostly gold so far, loved KA1 and 2 and Let Me In was amazing as well, hope this follows suit. The Texas Killing Fields and Dark Shadows were ok as well.

 

[:eek:]

What the hell happened to all the Stephen King movies? The last ones were in 2007 (The Mist and 1408). 6 freakin' years.

These days movie companies are too busy buying the rights for what they're hoping for will be the next YA-phenomenon.

I suppose Stephen King hasn't been a "hot" enough author in recent years. Which maybe is a good thing when you consider the quality of most movies released in the 80's when Hollywood where pumping out Stephen King-adaptations like there was no tomorrow

 

[Project862006]

Marc Beltrami Carrie Score Tease

 

[Loki882]

I'm certain that his Shining sequel Doctor Sleep will be getting a movie adaptation in the near future.

 

[dark_b]

fantastic idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M

 

[The Shape]

Every time I see a TV spot or trailer for this new Carrie film, I cringe because it feels like I'm watching the entire movie in abbreviated form.

And before anyone says "Well, everyone already knows the story of Carrie"...that's BS. Then what's the point of the remake or "re-imagining"? I mean, the trailers and even some of the TV spots I've seen show Carrie as a weird loner, Carrie's crazy mother doing evil **** to her, Carrie slowly developing her powers, Carrie getting asked to the prom, Carrie getting a slight makeover and coming out of her shell a bit...then they give away that the whole prom date thing is a cruel prank...they show Carrie "winning" prom queen...they show the iconic moment of her getting pig's blood (or whatever it is in this version) dumped all over her while she's on stage...and they even show her unleashing her powers on her fellow students and even some of the ensuing chaos in the streets afterwards (the friggin' car flip, for God's sake)!!

I mean, what's left to see? A little bit of extra chaos after the prom? A few more buildings being blown up? A couple of elements from King's novel that weren't in the original film? This has to be one of the worst "blow your load early" marketing campaigns in recent years. Aside from the initial teaser which was solid, there has been no suspense or creativity in the marketing of this film.

 

[Heretic]

Trailers should be a taste of the film. In fact, I think I'd be fine with a rule for most films stating that not a single second from the third act can be revealed in pre-release footage. Give me the set-up...tell me why I should care...and then let me feel that thrill of the film as it comes at me on screen. I LIKE not knowing what I'm about to watch.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the norm. Studies have shown that people like reruns of tv shows because they enjoy knowing the jokes etc in advance. Modern movie trailers makes the entire film a giant rerun the first time we see it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Every time I see a TV spot or trailer for this new Carrie film, I cringe because it feels like I'm watching the entire movie in abbreviated form.

And before anyone says "Well, everyone already knows the story of Carrie"...that's BS. Then what's the point of the remake or "re-imagining"? I mean, the trailers and even some of the TV spots I've seen show Carrie as a weird loner, Carrie's crazy mother doing evil **** to her, Carrie slowly developing her powers, Carrie getting asked to the prom, Carrie getting a slight makeover and coming out of her shell a bit...then they give away that the whole prom date thing is a cruel prank...they show Carrie "winning" prom queen...they show the iconic moment of her getting pig's blood (or whatever it is in this version) dumped all over her while she's on stage...and they even show her unleashing her powers on her fellow students and even some of the ensuing chaos in the streets afterwards (the friggin' car flip, for God's sake)!!

I mean, what's left to see? A little bit of extra chaos after the prom? A few more buildings being blown up? A couple of elements from King's novel that weren't in the original film? This has to be one of the worst "blow your load early" marketing campaigns in recent years. Aside from the initial teaser which was solid, there has been no suspense or creativity in the marketing of this film.

You are 100% right. My brother has been saying the same thing for awhile. I think this actually looks good, but the ads have not built any suspense.

 

[The Shape]

Trailers should be a taste of the film. In fact, I think I'd be fine with a rule for most films stating that not a single second from the third act can be revealed in pre-release footage. Give me the set-up...tell me why I should care...and then let me feel that thrill of the film as it comes at me on screen. I LIKE not knowing what I'm about to watch.

I totally agree. The marketing campaign for Gravity is a perfect example of how to get asses in seats. The footage shown in previews for Gravity were only the smallest fraction of the full film, which left people salivating to find out what it's all about. They saved all the most suspenseful sequences for the film's release.

I understand not all films or franchises can have that kind of mysterious marketing campaign, but a Carrie remake would have benefited from it. Instead, we've seen footage from 90% of the key sequences, so when we go see the film, they will have made suckers out of us.

 

[DACrowe]

To be fair, it's hard to make a mystery box out of remake. Everyone knows the entire plot to Carrie as they've seen the original masterpiece. It is about selling that it's...the same, but kind of different. And I guess it does that.

 

[DACrowe]

P.S. I saw your original post. I still think the vast majority of people have seen it, it's on Netflix right now. Besides that, if they have not seen it, they have seen it lampooned or homaged in so many other things that they know the big reveal at the end.

 

[Warhammer]

fantastic idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M

That video went viral like crazy. It's some damn good marketing.

 

[John Locke]

From what I've seen from the director, she wants us to know the ending. So every scene we watch will build suspense due to the fact we know what happens at prom. So the marketing is geared towards that but I feel they went to far. Everyone does know the ending to Carrie but not everything before that.

That's why the first trailer was amazing. It showed us the ending but it didn't show us what happened before the ending and it showed that there will be more things from the book. But with the second trailer they showed us what happened before the ending. If they just showed Carrie getting asked to prom and at prom intercut with the massacre it would have been more effective because most people wouldn't have known what happened to Carrie to make her snap.

 

[redhawk23]

That's pretty much the way the book is, it pretty much states on the first page that something terrible happens at the prom and then moves directly into a fake academic article about telekinesis.

As for the marketing, its not as if everyone doesn't already know about the Prom scenes so why try and hide that from the marketing?

 

[redhawk23]

I totally agree. The marketing campaign for Gravity is a perfect example of how to get asses in seats. The footage shown in previews for Gravity were only the smallest fraction of the full film, which left people salivating to find out what it's all about. They saved all the most suspenseful sequences for the film's release.

I understand not all films or franchises can have that kind of mysterious marketing campaign, but a Carrie remake would have benefited from it. Instead, we've seen footage from 90% of the key sequences, so when we go see the film, they will have made suckers out of us.

How will you have been made a sucker if you get exactly what you were anticipating?

Also if you think the trailers for the new film give too much away, just look at the trailers for the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSF6WVx_Tdo

Pretty much the whole film is included and described in detail by the narrator.

 

[redhawk23]

And interesting interview with the director of this new version Carrie. This interview actually gets into some spoilery bits about how this film differes from the original though, so heads up.

http://io9.com/the-freakiest-thing-julianne-moore-does-in-the-carrie-r-1446495151

 

[DrDoom]

Hey, Nightmares and Dreamscapes was a great mini-series!

I liked it, though the only story that I remember and REALLY liked was the one with Ron Livingston about his genius brother curing alzhiemers only to have it backfire on him

 

[DrDoom]

HA! Just saw a sneak peek of Carrie with an intro by Moretz, after the clip she said a sentence a little to fast and it sounded weird. She said "Dont misscarrie this October!"

 

[terry78]

^Ha.

Hitting the 10pm tonight with the girlfriend, will provide some feedback later.

 

[hammerhedd11]

How will you have been made a sucker if you get exactly what you were anticipating?

Also if you think the trailers for the new film give too much away, just look at the trailers for the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSF6WVx_Tdo

Pretty much the whole film is included and described in detail by the narrator.

Not many people realize that trailers ruining the entire film is not a new phenomenon. Arguably, in some cases it was even worse in the past.

 

[Heretic]

Maybe film-spoiling trailers have been around a long time. Maybe I was just too young and dumb to notice when I was a kid. Still, I don't like knowing every plot point in the movie before the movie even comes out.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I've heard too many "this film was mediocre" comments for me to have any excitement to see it, it seems either most people didn't like it or just thought it was ok and complain it's too much of a shot for shot remake without even truly updating it with modern themes or ideas.

 

[jmc]

So this film was a waste of everyone's time from what I've read.