All the directors of this new series of Carrie are women, which is great. Unfortunately, even with the benefit of the doubt, Mike Flanagan’s Carrie series is ultimately a disappointment that misunderstands the original story’s tragedy. Moreover, it reveals Flanagan’s worst storytelling impulses.https://discussingfilm.net/2026/10/01/carrie-review-mike-flanagan-amazon/
>>223510582>this story written by a middle-aged man has been told by too many middle-aged menNuke Hollywood now
>the author of the book has been telling Carrie story for far too longwhat?
The only adaptation I'd be interested in is one that keeps the book's structure where the story is mostly told through interviews and newspaper stories.
>>223510582>here is that girl nobody wants to date.
They need to make the talisman and blackhouse adaptations now! I miss wolfie.
>>223510582Uh, she's not real.
>>223510582I vaguely recall them saying it was gonna be an anthology with different espers, is that in this or were they expecting more seasons
>>223511777He wasn't middle ages when he wrote it, he was 26So we need to see zoomer men's take on carrie
Why do they never cast carrie as ugly?
>>223510582>Flanagan is a middle-aged manKill yourself, you balding cuck.
>>223512273I bet Curry Barker could do Carrie justice
>Carrie White's storyWhy is this fat retard speaking as if she's a real person?
>>223510582This Flanagan schmuck turned out to be a miserable hack-fraud.
>>223512089They'd have to cast a fat, ugly, pimply woman if they wanted to stay book accurate and believable, but no one wants to watch that.
As we speak there are men out there creating stories centering a woman. They may even be stories for other men. Straight. White. Men. Let that sink in.
>>223512442Horrific, sister. Where can I find them?
>>223512482One prolific offender goes by the name Taylor Sheridan.
>>223512322>why yes, I'm gonna name my child after a reeking food that pajeets likeWhere is cps when you need them?
https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/carrie/
>>223510582>Developed by Mike Flanagan>Showrunner Mike Flanagan>age 48>M
>>223510582>48 year old Mike Flanagan saying this after making the next dogshit Carrie adaptation
>>223512063That's how they should have done World War Z and made it a series.
>>223510582quote from another middle aged man.
>>223511777Dinosaurs dont have a dick.
>>223511854This. What a fucking fag.
>>223512387>They'd have to cast a fat, ugly, pimply woman if they wanted to stay book accurate and believable, but no one wants to watch that.I do, she also needs to be extremely hairy.
>>223513894There’s no proof they didn’t
>>223510582>which is greatWhy? Writers used to have to elaborate on points like this.
>>223512293Even when the director is trying to be “progressive” they won’t cast an actual ugly woman. The idea that OP pic would be bullied is retarded.
>>223514346it really isn't. cute girls can get bullied
>>223513394It's Empire. Take a star off everything they review.
>>223514414Thats cool but Carrie was bullied for being ugly. The level of isolation experienced by an ugly person will never, ever be felt by a babyfaced clear-skinned cute skinny girl.
>>223510582She looks so much like Brooke Shields it's uncanny
>>223514654Carrie wasn’t ugly. She was slightly chubby with acne because of neglect by her psycho mother
>>223514205because only women should be allowed to tell stories about women (even though this is a story about a girl, so the directors should be little girls)
>>223512442This is trans genocide manifest
>>223514654Carrie was plain and poor, which in an all white high school in the 1970s when the book was written meant shed be bullied.
>>223510582I have Mike Flanagan fatigue, he got outclassed by Widows Bay.
>>223512063My favorite part is the epilogue letter from some hillbilly woman about her daughter with the same kind of telekinesis as Carrie.
>>223514654Wrong! Plenty of girls get isolated because they are hot.
>>223515241Name three
>>223514948>the directors should be little girlsFine speech.
>>223510582>be Mike Flanagan>more or less put out consistently good, and on rare occasions even great, scripts>hand your latest script, based on a classic story, to a bunch of women directors.>It apparently goes to shit>Must be Mike's fault, surely not the directorsit's all so tiresome
>>223513894Yes I do.
>>223515212I always couldn’t stand his ass. So blatantly a le men bad in all his shit
>>223515376Criticism isn’t the directors though. It’s Flanagan missing the entire point of the book. So it’s him and whoever wrote the scripts
>>223515441Haven't seen it yet, so couldn't say if the fault is the writing or direction. But I'm inclined to believe in Flanagan. He hasn't shit the bed yet.
>>223512387Or Zedanya
>>223510582>Middle-aged men have been telling Carrie White's story for too long>says a middle-aged manThat's the pot calling the kettle black, for fuck's sake!
>story written by almost middle aged man>showrunner is middle-aged man
>>223513894Then how do you explain this?
>>223515764I... I can't.
>>223512322he'd change it so all the villains are men and womans are innocent
This guy legit thinks he's stephen King its quite weird to see. His movies are mostly bad also.
>>223512293she wasnt ugly in the book just an awkward teen girl whos super religious.
>>223512315I am not a cuck.
>>223510582The (pretty good) pseudo-sequel from 30 years ago was directed by a woman and so was the Chloe Moretz movie, so exactly how long are we talking here?
>>223512273This is a 26-years-old Stephen King in 1974. LOOK AT HIMThis IS a middle aged man.
>>223516350she was fat and had acne, she was an uggo
>>223516447since 2016 when the internet invented mysogyny also i just learned right now that bryan fuller wrote the bettis one
>>223516659No, she actually gets more attractive throughout the book. She's in an awkward teen phase. She's mostly bullied becuase shes weird and religious..
When's it out
>>223516793A few days occur during the book. She doesn't magically get prettier. It's heavily implied her psychic powers are why people start liking her at the prom, and her self esteem improves because she perceives herself to be more likeable and social during the prom.
>women are so useless that they can't even write themselves better than men
>>223516611most people from Maine look like that
It’s deservedMike Flanagan is an absolute hack and one of the worst “acclaimed” directors working today
>>223510582>Moving away from the 1970s setting, Prime Video’s Carrie updates the story to reflect the current sociopolitical moment
>>223512089I hate this trope.
>>223517334>Carrie turns to the camera. >"Chief Justice John Roberts has failed his oath. Pack the court."What did they mean by this?
Has any movie adaption of Carrie kept the bit where she casts meteor level four and makes rocks rain from the sky? I don't know what King was thinking with that part, it was a step entirely into the realm of just fantasy magic, like she's a sorceress. No horror feeling at all.
>>223517407They give her the dorkiest haircut possible and you still wouldn't a threesome with the sisters without her (in a manner of speaking).
>>223517573By the time of the movies, I think the actress insisted that they let her be hot.
>>223510582There is another Carrie adaptation?
>>223517689Sir, an xth Carrie adaptation has just hit the Chinese woodcarving imageboard.
>>223510582>that misunderstands the original story’s tragedy.oh come on lol it was never high IQ fare. Flannaghan probably intentionally changed stuff to make it more interesting.
>>223516611he's actually only 14 in that picture
>>223510582>All the directors of this new series of Carrie are women>Mike Flanagan’s Carrie series is ultimately a disappointment that misunderstands the original story’s tragedyYeah, no shit. Bro said the same shit twice.
>>223510582can't be worse than his Shiki live action shitty adaptation
>>223517844That's some fucking impressive facial hair if he really is. He must have never once shaved, which would explain why he looks generally ungroomed and grotty in the picture.
>>223510582has King identified as a jewish tween girl yet?
