Carrie

[quietly_chaotic]

 It's 10 days 'til Christmas and I spent the early afternoon watching the end of Carrie.  (I feel so festive.)  Oddly enough, it was on A&E of all channels.  I'm still wondering why.

The special effects were laughable at times, as was the acting of the crowd after Carrie loses it ("Oh noes!  I have been hit with water from a hose, and fallen over!

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[fullmetal_cute]

My biggest problem with Carrie 2 was it made no sense in relation to the original. It's stated in both the book at the movie that Carrie's father died when she was very young/before she was born, so HOW could he have fathered a girl that was a teenager in 2000 (or whenever the movie came out), and have had a daughter who was a teenager in the '70's?

And don't get me started on the plotholes between Book!Carrie and Carrie 2. Original Carrie is one of the best adaptations of King's work, and very faithful to the source material, while Carrie 2 is just... *shrug* Normally, I love horror movies, but Carrie 2 just didn't do it for me. It honestly felt like they slapped the Carrie stuff into that movie to cash in on the name.

[quietly_chaotic]

Huh. I've never read the book and only saw Carrie from the part where she's covered in pig's blood and onward. Well, minus most of the part where Carrie and her mother talk up to the part where the mother dies (I think she dies before the house falls down, couldn't really tell though) because my Mom came in to talk to me so I had to turn the TV off. I can't comment on inconsistancies between book and sequel, or early movie.

I don't know anything about the father, except that he is apparently a Bad Man? But I do remember wondering about him myself, because how could Sue Snell be the same age as Carrie and yet old enough to be a councillor for Rachel? I think I made up some backstory of him being an immortal who had dabbled in the forces of darkness. Combined with the timeless "maybe it was explained in the original" excuse, my suspension of disbelief was appeased.

It honestly felt like they slapped the Carrie stuff into that movie to cash in on the name.I'd believe it. It might have been the similarities in the general plotline that

[crimsonquills]

Hi there! This comment isn't related to this post at all, I'm just commenting on your most recent post because I noticed that you friended sometime in the last couple of months (I haven't been checking very often *sheepish*) and I have a filter that I always invite newcomers to my journal to join.

It's called the "Fics in Progress Babble" filter. There isn't any actual fic posted there, in whole or in part, though. It's just where I give status updates on stories in progress, bitch about problems I'm having in my writing, ask for help, post word counts, squee about finishing stories, and stuff like that.

People have to specifically ask to be put on the filter because I don't like to tease folks with stories that may not every be finished or posted. If they've knowingly signed up for said teasing, then it's okay. *g*

Interested?

[quietly_chaotic]

Yes, I would like to be put on the filter.

[crimsonquills]

You're on the filter now! Welcome to the insanity. :-)