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Title: Misery (1990)
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 09 October 2021, 23:16:44: Just End to End, GREAT MOVIE... !!

Kathy Bate's character, so insane yet realistic.

Thoughts ?

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Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: dingusxmcgee on Sun, 10 October 2021, 07:19:20: Honestly I felt like the movie absolutely paled in comparison to the book. Which is probably often the case and I can’t blame the movie for that. It’s been a long time since I read/watched but I remember so much of the book being the inner workings of the protagonists own thoughts and how they couldn’t translate that to the movie. I was left kind of disappointed.

But again, it’s been a loooong time since reading or watching. This could be a figment of my imagination
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: fohat.digs on Sun, 10 October 2021, 08:16:43: A movie that I have spent 3 decades trying to forget.
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: Tastenplatte on Sun, 10 October 2021, 10:27:04: Can you recommend other Stephen King adaptions as well?
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 10 October 2021, 15:28:51: Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 10 October 2021, 08:16:43
A movie that I have spent 3 decades trying to forget.

too scary ?
Quote from: Tastenplatte on Sun, 10 October 2021, 10:27:04
Can you recommend other Stephen King adaptions as well?

Christine, needful things, green mile
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: Darthbaggins on Sun, 10 October 2021, 16:15:25: Quote from: Tastenplatte on Sun, 10 October 2021, 10:27:04
Can you recommend other Stephen King adaptions as well?

The original Pet Sematary (1989) - I haven't watched the remake but I know the original is amazing. IT, The Mist, Sleepwalkers, & Maximum Overdrive.
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: kurplop on Sun, 10 October 2021, 17:59:45: Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Stand by Me, and Misery were all great adaptations of King’s books. Kathy Bates made Annie Wilkes a bit more likable in the movie than how the book portrays her.
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 10 October 2021, 18:12:01: Quote from: kurplop on Sun, 10 October 2021, 17:59:45
Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Stand by Me, and Misery were all great adaptations of King’s books. Kathy Bates made Annie Wilkes a bit more likable in the movie than how the book portrays her.

When she went and did "the thing in the movie," nearly had a heart attack.
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: kurplop on Sun, 10 October 2021, 18:22:28: When she was ranting about the cockadoodie car?
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 10 October 2021, 18:57:38: Quote from: kurplop on Sun, 10 October 2021, 18:22:28
When she was ranting about the cockadoodie car?

was that in the book? hahaha seemed so out of left
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: kurplop on Sun, 10 October 2021, 20:25:53: I don’t remember. It was probably twenty years since I read it. One thing I do remember is when she rescued him from the car he described her foul breath when she gave him cpr and felt like he was being, in some way, raped. Much darker than the movie. At times in the movie you can easily have empathy, or at least pity for her. I never got that sense in the book.
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: chyros on Wed, 13 October 2021, 02:46:05: Ah yes, this is a real classic. Kathy Bates absolutely nailed her character :D .
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: phinix on Fri, 15 October 2021, 17:42:52: Yep. I loved that movie, real classic. Kathy in her best :)
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: Shapey Fiend on Tue, 19 October 2021, 18:39:48: I don't remember this but my mother mentioned that when I was 6 or 7, after not having much interest in television up to that point, I became a cinephile when I discovered it meant I could stay up past my bed time watching a grown up movie. One night we were watching Misery.

My mother was a bit concerned it wasn't suitable when it got to the part where Kathy Bates hobbles your man in the bed. But I seemed happy enough and not upset so she let me keep watching.

Then it got to the bit when the author makes a break for it, slamming her across the head with the phone and I jumped up and shouted at the TV "Hit her again. She's not dead yet!".
Title: Re: Misery (1990)
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 19 October 2021, 20:23:03: The dark side is strong in this one.