Review of Carrie (2013) by Ethan W — 19 Jun 2014

It wasn't actually as terrible as I expected and hoped it to be. Julianne Moore is surprisingly pretty good as Carrie's mother. And though Moretz does overplay the awkwardness way too much (at home with her mother, she acts completely rational and pretty much like Chloe Moretz herself would have acted on set, and yet when she's at school she just drifts down the corridors with her books hugged to her chest like a stupid little girl pretending to be shy and not knowing how the fuck to do it realistically).

The patheticness she displays in all the school scenes makes her fucking deserve to be bullied - where as you can easily buy into Sissy Spacek's portrayal, as she simply comes across as a reclusive girl that wants to be left alone.

The director made some weird and pointless decisions, and while I appreciate her not trying to rip off De Palma's classic build-up in the prom scene, I really didn't appreciate how fucking basic and unimaginative that entire climax actually went down.

I hated how in this she was more like a fucking character from X-Men, moving things willingly in that stupid Magneto style; in the original, she can't control her powers - they just happen - and thus the ending is much sadder because you feel like Carrie doesn't deserve to go to hell for killing all those people.

The thing is, I really would prefer to write a proper review of this film (which, eventually, on Goodreads, I will do) because while there were many failures, I did still watch it through to the end. Admittedly it did get some things right, and while I just naturally feel repulsed by the idea of any remake just because my generation and below refuse to watch an old fucking movie with actors that aren't in one of their superhero franchises, I am still fair enough to acknowledge that some of this pointless remake wasn't all that unbearable either.