call marge: re horror

[bossymarmalade]

Wow, did Lynn ever look good. I didn't expect that one bit. Although sadly, I wasn't surprised by her hand on Justin's thigh.

All in all--Barbara is really very dull, isn't she? I cringed in embarrassment with each new insipid question and her awkwardness with popular culture. And they played up the Britney angle like he had no life outside of her or something. Anyhow. I got through it by staring at Justin's pink, pink mouth, and all was good.

Except then I switched stations and watched the end of that remake of Carrie. What the fuck was THAT about?!? Carrie can't live! She's not supposed to kill her mother by telekinetically stopping her heart! It's supposed to be knifey and gruesome! And the Jesus in her closet wasn't scary at all. I was sorely disappointed.

Plus, Stephen King didn't even show up in his requisite guest appearance as Shitkicking Dumbass #3. Muh.

Comments

[ms-nerd.livejournal.com]

Justin and Babs: what you said!

Carrie: I said the same thing!

Dude, this mind meld stuff is freaky, yo!

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Dude, y'know?!? If you're gonna remake a classic, at least don't pussy out on the end. Jeez.

And Babs was dull, dull, boring, dull. I expected more from her than questions that were easily answered by Justin looking earnest and genuine. She couldn't even make him cry! All she managed was to make Lynn cry, and that's easy like Joey, man.

[dungenesscrab.livejournal.com]

that's easy like Joey, man.

Hee!

[minette.livejournal.com]

Christ, am I glad I didn't watch "Carrie" like I'd planned. I watched the Geminis instead and decided that Sean Cullen would be the perfect accessory to my home. ;)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I was initially going to hide the comment about Carrie behind a cutaway, but then I figured that nothing could have spoiled that movie more than it already had been. You made a wise decision, my friend.

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

um...I hate to tell you this. But, in the novel? That's how she kills her mom. Telekinetic heart-stoppage.

Of course, I'm sure the TV movie sucked ass in many other ways. (Carrie LIVED? wtf???) I've never been a big fan of SK adaptations, anyway--there's just *something* about his books that never quite translates.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

*g* It's been so long since I read the book--I guess seeing the movie in the interim erased that bit of info.

still, though--they had Carrie "see" inside her mother's chest and "scrunch" her "heart." It was so anti-climactic and pathetic that I'm "abusing" air-quotes to tell it, yo.

And yes, she lived. Her mum "drowned" her in the bathtub, abd then Sue Snell came in (?!?!) and gave her mouth-to-mouth, and then drove her to fucking Florida to "start a new life."

You did not miss a goddamned thing. Grrrrr.

I see your whatever icon and raise you a...whatever

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

dude. START A NEW LIFE? Consider me outraged.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

My all time favorite (read: hated) SK adaptation wuss-out was the end of the movie version of Cujo.

Argh! Argh, argh, argh!

Dude, *I* was rabid at the end of that thing. Grrrrrrrrrr...

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[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I read Cujo so long ago, I don't even remember the ending. And I never saw the movie, actually. Although I get the vague feeling that you perhaps were a wee bit unsatisfied by it....

*g*