Why No Love For Misery?

[blunthead]

IMO, "Misery" is one of the best adaptations-well directed, well acted-and gee, a well written story to top it off...Go figure

GNTLGNT has got it, right on, imho.

Confused: awful flick gets 9/10, and no one posts about Misery.

I love sK fans!!!

[wally wonder]

I absolutely LOVE this movie! Kathy Bates was very impressive in her role as Annie Wilkes. Now I want to watch Dolores Claiborne because Kathy Bates is in it. Can anyone tell me, is it a good film? As impressive as Misery?

hey georgie! i wish i could answer your question, but alas, i'm in the same boat. i've seen misery......and i believe i've read on the board here that the one we haven't seen is too.

[blunthead]

GNTLGNT has got it, right on, imho.

Confused: awful flick gets 9/10, and no one posts about Misery.

I love sK fans!!!

Oops, my bad. Sorry. I thought the original post was that Misery was an awful flick. I agree, it was awesome!

[sprinco12]

Misery is one of my all-time favorite movies and I don't think anyone else could have played Kathy's part.

[Lily Sawyer]

I saw Misery again recently for the first time in over 15 years. It has really held up, partly because the plausability of the circumstances involving Paul's car accident.
I was struck again with how good the dinner scene is. Caan couldn't have had better facial expressions as he realizes the wine he's drugged has been spilled...and that all the time he's spent palming the sedatives for it has been for naught.
It made me want to re-read the book....so it's now on my list of I-Wants.

[Robert 'Bob' Gray]

This was one of my favourite Stephen King adaptations, if not my all-time favourite. I thought the way Kathy Bates played Annie was superb. For example, the subtle hint of unease she gives off from the very beginning. Also, James Caan is one of my favourite actors, and he nailed Paul Sheldon

[MistahJ]

I wanted to point out as well that it is the only SK adaptation to win an academy award (wait did Stand By Me win any? , I can't remember haha) great film, great cast, and yes it is a challange to write an entire novel about one place and two characters!

Stand by Me was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay but it didn't win...

[MistahJ]

I think the reason why is because Stephen King fans are presented with their own "what if?"...It's like King is holding up a mirror

Stephen has mentioned in an interview (don't remember where) when they talked about the movie and I remember he said something like, "Misery is my love letter to my readers. Let's just say that some of their elevators don't go all the way to the top"

[Anna Rose]

i think Kathy did an amazing job and i couldn't picture anyone else playing the part of Annie

[Hey Georgie]

That's awesome! Thanks so much!