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Post by lowtacks86 on Aug 16, 2021 17:23:11 GMT
Easily one of the better Stephen King adaptations (I think even he liked the film) and Kathy Bates was perfect casting, dunno who would have been better at the time (maybe Glen Close)
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 16, 2021 17:39:38 GMT
That fat woman from In The Line of Fire probably could have done the role too. Roseanne Barr? There's an early 70s tv-movie with a similar plot--Bradford Dillman and Shelley Winters.
There was a funny Oscars telecast where the sound department winner was going on and on and on--it seems to be a trait with the sound awards winners-they talk forever--and the camera cuts to Bates in the audience, frowning and shaking her head.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Aug 16, 2021 17:49:02 GMT
That fat woman from In The Line of Fire probably could have done the role too. Roseanne Barr? There's an early 70s tv-movie with a similar plot--Bradford Dillman and Shelley Winters.
There was a funny Oscars telecast where the sound department winner was going on and on and on--it seems to be a trait with the sound awards winners-they talk forever--and the camera cuts to Bates in the audience, frowning and shaking her head.
"Roseanne Barr?" GOOD GOD NO. Funny enough I think Katey Sagal from "Married With Children" (which was like an edgier version of "Roseanne") could have been a good casting choice, she played a manipulative sociopath in "Sons of Anarchy"
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Post by Lux on Aug 16, 2021 18:00:22 GMT
That fat woman from In The Line of Fire probably could have done the role too. Roseanne Barr? There's an early 70s tv-movie with a similar plot--Bradford Dillman and Shelley Winters.
There was a funny Oscars telecast where the sound department winner was going on and on and on--it seems to be a trait with the sound awards winners-they talk forever--and the camera cuts to Bates in the audience, frowning and shaking her head.
"Roseanne Barr?" GOOD GOD NO. Funny enough I think Katey Sagal from "Married With Children" (which was like an edgier version of "Roseanne") could have been a good casting choice, she played a pretty manipulative sociopath in "Sons of Anarchy" It's funny you laughed at his alternative but did the same thing he did only worse. Kathy Bates was perfect for the role because she was basically fat and desoery, Katey is too attractive to hold James Caan hostage in a bed. You typically have to look convincingly like garbage for the role which Kathy Bates did well. Roseanne as an alternative was actually better than yours, Katey playing a manipulative scheming matriarch is different to being an unhinged loner, you need to study different types of evil. |
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Post by jamesbamesy on Aug 16, 2021 18:04:16 GMT
Definitely one of the best SK adaptations. As for who else could have played Annie, maybe Rosie O'Donnell?
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Post by phantomparticle on Aug 16, 2021 23:01:34 GMT
Anyone playing the role must have a second level underneath the madness that will elicit some sympathy from an audience before she goes full psycho. Bates hit the dual notes perfectly.
I cringe thinking what Barr or O'Donnell would have done with the part.
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Post by jcush on Aug 16, 2021 23:04:20 GMT
I'm a big fan. Bates is brilliant and Caan is pretty damn good too.
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Post by mgmarshall on Aug 17, 2021 0:45:36 GMT
Miriam Margolyes could've pulled it off.
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Post by Lux on Aug 17, 2021 0:54:03 GMT
Miriam Margolyes could've pulled it off. She's creepy definitely but she's too gremlin like it would end up being a Guillermo Del Toro like movie. |
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Post by Vits on Aug 17, 2021 8:53:01 GMT
8/10
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Post by movielover on Aug 17, 2021 14:13:58 GMT
9/10 - Suspense/thriller classic.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Aug 17, 2021 19:55:43 GMT
That fat woman from In The Line of Fire probably could have done the role too. Roseanne Barr? There's an early 70s tv-movie with a similar plot--Bradford Dillman and Shelley Winters.
There was a funny Oscars telecast where the sound department winner was going on and on and on--it seems to be a trait with the sound awards winners-they talk forever--and the camera cuts to Bates in the audience, frowning and shaking her head.
Funny you should mention Roseanne Barr, because she actually spoofed the Wilkes character in an SNL skit around the time Misery came out. It was pretty funny.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Aug 17, 2021 20:06:51 GMT
I love it; probably one of the best "classical" thrillers not made by that Hitchcock dude.
Bates receives most of the praise (and for good reason), but Reiner's direction is spectacular, too.
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