I don’t have high hopes for this, but I love the original. Trying to go in with an open mind. The beginning is definitely different.
So this is rated R and yet they still fucked up the locker room scene and had no titties!!! The fuck is this bullshit??? I am going to be constantly comparing this to the original, which may not be fair, but when you remake a movie, you better expect nitpicking and extreme over analyzing. I’m so sick of the weak excuse of “Well it opens up the movie to a whole new generation”. That only is important when you can significantly improve upon it. The Thing remake in the 80’s, that made sense. the Ocean’s Eleven, it brought something different to the table. Will this do anything different or better?
So let’s elaborate some. They will try to over do the special effects I am willing to bet. If you have an R rating, fucking make use of that! The locker room scene would have been so much better with 2-19 pairs of tits involved. 20 would just be greedy. Now I just saw 2 high schoolers having sex in a car…..no tits. This is going to get a piss poor review from me I fear.
So I will say something positive. The 2 leads are decent. I’m a big fan of Julianne Moore, and Chloe isn’t awful. In the scene where the gym teacher threatens the girls with not going to prom, in the original, you had a class of girls that look like high school girls, some were chubby or unattractive, or average, there was a variety. In the remake….who the fuck is the average girl even? There’s no chubby girls. I fucking hate that shit. Don’t treat your audience like kids. Not every girl in these films have to look perfect, it’s not reality. Guys like a little variety. I mean not even the background girls were ugly. So fucking dumb!!!
I wish they would have found a better longing dude to play Tommy. The original guy was awesome with his sweet looking tux and amazing blond hair. This guy, he just looks like every other high school jock guy. Lame. I won’t even get into who they replaced Travolta with, but the bar has been lowered.
It’s about time I got to hear “dirty pillows” as well as “they’re all gonna laugh at you”.
So the prom scene was updated well….until they didn’t have her hear “they’re all gonna laugh at you” in the wierd way the original did. I mean that is a huge deal and they fucked that up. The other big thing they royally fucked up was the ending. The gravestone ending was blasphemous from my perspective.
All in all, the 4 main leads succeeded in various way, they weren’t the problem with it, although Chloe may have been too cute for the role. Chloe did a fine acting job, i really did like her performance. It was all the minor things that I fell in love with in the original, and this felt like an empty shell. It’s like when you are best friends with somebody and they turn their back on you, or your girlfriend dumps you, and suddenly you see them as only a shell of their former self. That’s what this was. I can still be friends with this movie, I don’t hate this movie, but damned if I don’t prefer the old Carrie. That was my Carrie.
I’m giving this 5.1 because I am unsure if I will watch this again, but I feel someday I might out of boredom. Too many missed opportunities to give it much above. And if anybody is reading this and hasn’t seen the original Carrie, go watch it, then tell it how much you love it.
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T & A Totals didn’t change at all…..really, nothing guys? It was rated R. Show us Judy Greer topless, something.
13 Bare breasts
2 bare asses
2 concealed breasts
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