I remember watching Curtis' version on the eve of my eighteenth birthday.

Gerard

I remember watching it when it first aired almost 20 years ago.  I was rather impressed.

Gerard

Well, I don't know.  There isn't much in that trailer to go by.  That being said, often I disagree in calling an adaptation of an original work into another film a "remake."  It's another adaptation of the original work (in this case, Levin's novel), not a remake of the previous classic cinematic version.  It's like Spielberg's adaptation of HG Wells The War of the Worlds.  It was an adaptation of the novel, not a remake of the classic 1953 film - although it paid homage to it).  The same with Carrie.  The first film adaptation came in 1976 with the classic DePalma film.  Then came the 2002 version, updated but closer to the novel than the first film (but also paying homage to it, since Larry Cohen who was involved in the first was involved in the second), and then the latest with Chloe Moretz brought into the twenty-teens that was the flattest.  Maybe there's a reason why the newest Rosemary's Baby had its locale moved from New York (as in the novel) to Paris (and whatever changes also occur).  I guess we'll have to wait and see.  This could be a better adaptation of the novel and we need to wait.  I consider the 2002 version of Carrie superior to the classic 1976 version (and I know that's heresy).

Gerard

I think I read somewhere that Doris Roberts will be playing Dr. Julia Hoffman.  Instead of using meds, she'll use guilt and food.  They've already fitted her with a red wig.

Gerard

Ben:  "You paid how much for this on e-bay?  Haven't you ever heard of amazon?"

Gerard

I can envision an uber-isolated, small place like Collinsport, even in the 21st century, never having TV cable access for those two reasons:  it's too isolated and too small for any cable company to make a decent profit.  There are actually still some places like that scattered across America.  But on the other hand, I have a hard time envisioning denizens of Collinsport, especially the Collinses, not availing themselves of satellite TV.  That's accessible anywhere.  I simply can't accept that the rich family on the hill would make do with either just an antennae or aluminum foil over the rabbit ears to pick up only a couple snowy channels in the hopes of catching The CBS Evening News or Wheel of Fortune when they would have ESPN-14-All-Ping-Pong and BBC-7 with constant marathons of The Vicar of Dibley and Keeping Up Appearances.  How would Sophia bake all those cakes for Roger without having The Food Network?

Gerard

Fifty years?!?  How could it be 50 years?  I grew up watching DS, right from the pilot, and I'm only 35.

Gerard

Happy birthday, Annie!  I know it's on a Wednesday (yuck), but I hope you get to do some celebrating this coming weekend!  I'll have some spirits then in honor of your day - not the ghostly kind, but the kind Roger preferers!

Gerard