Back in Munich...

[selenak]

...for a few days, at least, but not yet able to watch either the Breaking Bad finale or the Once Upon A Time season premiere (it's only a matter of minutes for the later, though), and at some point I'd love to get my hands on the season premiere of The Good Wife as well. I grew somewhat dissaffected during the last season, but the finale included

Comments

[futuresoon]

I read Carrie back in my King phase in early high school, and I think it was the first time I'd ever seen a depiction of bullying an overweight girl as A Bad Thing. As an overweight girl myself (who did not have many friends but was thankfully in a much better position than Carrie), it struck a chord, and when I finally saw the movie last year I was pretty pissed off. Not only was the opening scene atrocious--had these people ever even seen a girls' locker room?--but there's just a different dynamic between a bullied girl who is fat and a bullied girl who is rail-thin. It felt like I was being told, oh, it's okay to show a girl being horrifically abused by her classmates and mother, but her being fat, no, that's going too far

[selenak]

Carrie the Brian de Palma film put me off for this reason as well - nothing against Sissy Spacek, but she really looks nothing like Carrie White. (BTW, same thing about The Neverending Story - Bastian is fat in the book, which is important to his characterisation a reason why he's bullied, but of course in the film he's a pretty thin boy.) I have other problems with the film as well, but ignoring this really important thing about its heroine was key.

[pujaemuss]

I loved Misery for the same reasons as you, but my favourite would have to be The Stand. Yes, it petered out towards the end, but I loved the first half with a fiery passion because of the people he created and the way they all reacted to the paradigm shift of the world nearly ending.

PJW

[nevacaruso]

Good luck getting into the Stephen King event! I've always loved his books too.