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Misery is without a dubiety one of the best films of the 90's, and in my stance, Stephen King's best adaptation into a film. This is Truthful horror, in that location's no monsters, no mega special effects, simply Kathy Bates who is truly made the large time on one of the scariest villains in horror film history.
Information technology's about a man named Paul Sheldon, he's an author, made incredibly famous by his popular books, specially his series called "Misery", the books are apparently about a adult female in the old days who goes through heavy times in her life and he shares her pain and forcefulness with the readers. When he finishes his final Misery book, he decides to celebrate and is heading back for his daughter's altogether, but he gets defenseless in a horrible blizzard and gets into a nasty and fatal machine accident, only is saved by Kathy Bates, or as we know her Annie.
He wakes upwards in a bedroom with his legs badly cleaved, bruised up, and cut up, only hears a lite and charming vocalization maxim "You're going to be just fine. I'm your number 1 fan!". Annie nurses Paul back to health and says she'll get an ambulance once the tempest clears up. She's so lovely and mannerly, you would never have whatever clue that she'd even just harm a fly. But when she gets ahold of Paul's last Misery book, she gets infuriated when she finds out that he's killing off Misery and continuing onto more dramatic and dark stories. She makes him write a new Misery where she is resurrected, Paul used to write for a living, now he's writing to stay live. Discovering slowly how crazy Annie is, he tries to escape more and more, but Annie is so convinced she's in dearest with him, she'll never let him go!
Kathy Bates truly is the amazing star of the film, she is then agonizing to lookout. Particularly during the "hobbing" scene, she breaks Paul'south legs once again, she makes it seem and so innocent, just it'south HORRIFYING to watch! Both her and James worked then well together and were only incredible. The pic is so awesome, I would highly recommend this pic for anyone! It's a movie not to be missed.
10/10
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Perfect performances by Bates and Caan
Based on the novel past him, 'Misery' is a real Stephen Male monarch film. It is a drama film, but likewise a thriller and sometimes even a horror. In one scene the horror is very clear, y'all will know what scene I hateful.
Writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan) gets in a car accident. He is helped by Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) who claims she is his number one fan. In his latest novel Sheldon has killed the favorite character of Annie making her a little mad. She keeps Sheldon in her habitation; he has to bring the character back to life in his next novel.
Bates, who won an Oscar, is terrific as Annie, one of her finest performances. James Caan who is in bed or a wheelchair well-nigh of the moving-picture show is very convincing. The room he is living in is one of those spaces in the movies you will not forget very soon. Directed by Rob Reiner this is a great flick, although it could be a bit boring for some from time to time.
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King Sized adaptation by Goldman; superb Bates & Caan
MISERY (1990) *** Kathy Bates, James Caan, William Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall. Bates, perfectly bandage as loony tune Annie Wilkes, won an Oscar for Best Actress as the cocky-proclaimed `#i fan' of bodice-ripping novelist Caan, who finds himself in her web of horror after a machine crash landing him in the snow engulfed remote home of his sociopathic, homicidal nurse who volition not take no for an answer. William Goldman expertly adapts the Stephen Rex best seller with a few nice nasty turns here and there and Rob Reiner gives but enough gruesomeness (picket the sledgehammer scene a few times; you lot'll come across what I hateful) for frightful season.
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I of the best thrillers of the 90's.
Misery is without a doubt one of the finest movies of the 90's and one of the best movies in the thriller genre. It is an ingeniously crafted horror masterpiece that seamlessly intertwines its incredibly tense and cleverly paced story with inventive cinematography, tight editing and exquisite performances. In my opinion Misery is 1 of the better adaptations of Stephen Male monarch's works and truly a movie that cannot exist missed, especially for the genre fans.
Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is the author of a successful serial of romance novels nearly a character chosen Misery, who decides to take a more serious arroyo regarding his future novels. On his way to publish his new manuscript, Paul drives from his hotel in Silvery Creek to New York. Due to the extreme weather conditions, he has an blow that leaves him severely injured and hopeless. A local nurse named Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) finds Paul and brings him to her remote abode in order to assist him recover. Claiming to be his number i fan, Annie discovers that in his last Misery novel her favorite character dies and so her obsession about him takes a dark and twisted plow as a long story of captivity and corruption begins.
The management by Rob Reiner is phenomenal and on a Hitchcockian level as the film has a plethora of perfectly crafted suspenseful moments that have the audition on the border of their seats from the offset till the astonishing climax. The editing of the movie is likewise flawless, as the shots are specifically designed to induce tension in any moment they tin. The cinematographer and Reiner both ace the perilous temper of the picture, using close upward shots of the moonfaced Wilkes both in her fits of rage and kindness which magnifies the polar extremes that Wilkes is decumbent to unexpectedly visit. What is also triumphed is the tedious convergence of the audition and Paul Sheldon. The moving-picture show received a lot of critical acclamation, specially due to Kathy Bates' spooky and memorable performance every bit Anny Wilkes that earned her the 1990's leading actress Oscar honour, which remains the but Oscar ever given to a Stephen Rex film adaptation. No matter how bang-up Kathy Bates' Oscar-winning performance is, James Caan's cannot go unnoticed equally it definitely qualifies as one of the best performances in his all-encompassing career, despite how enervating and challenging his role as Paul Sheldon was.
In conclusion, Misery is a dark and tense masterpiece that is an amalgamation of excellent direction, skillful writing, taut editing, astonishing cinematography and stellar performances, which succeeds into creating the feeling of captivity and helplessness that the thriller genre was purposefully built for, and that makes it one of the best movies of the ninety'south and 1 absolute classic in its genre.
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Suspenseful!
Misery has to be the best accommodation of a Stephen King novel. A close runner up is Stand Past Me, only for suspense and tension that just gets tighter and tighter, watch Misery. Kathy Bates tin can go from nice and cheerful to downright crazy like someone turning on a lite switch. While watching James Caan suffer through the torture that Bates puts him through, y'all can't help simply sympathize with the guy. Rob Reiner presents us with the problem, and he slowly escalates the tension and the dread that creeps over the flick. Even though the volume was unlike in the "hobbling" procedure, Annie Wilkes' method of hobbling all the same gives me the chills whenever I sentry it.
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She Just Craves His Company
I remember last year finally actually meeting my personal celebrity beat and it was great. Simply after autographs and pictures he went his mode and I went mine. At that place's a line between being a fan and being a freak.
Which is a line that Kathy Bates erased with her Oscar winning performance in Misery. In her disturbed mind the take a chance of a lifetime came when writer James Caan who writes Stephen Rex like novels comes to her boondocks and she follows him out ane winter night when he drove his car into a ditch.
I'm non sure that rescue is quite the discussion for what Bates does to Caan. She frees him from the wreck and brings him dwelling house and gives him needed medical aid equally she is a trained nurse. But with 2 broken legs and a broken arm, Caan's pretty much at her mercy.
And and so woe betide poor Caan when Bates discovers a draft of his latest work where he is killing off a favorite graphic symbol. Information technology's like Arthur Conan Doyle trying to kill off Sherlock Holmes and in fact he did try, but was forced by public outcry to bring him dorsum.
Just Caan'south facing a most demanding public of one. He gets under her tutelage to rewrite his piece of work. In the hateful time the fact he's missing is of national news. It's like if John LeCarre or Nelson DeMille went missing. The automobile is found and sheriff Richard Farnsworth has his suspicions.
Which brings me to the just weakness of the story. I can't believe that he did non bring those suspicions with the show he had to the state police and eventually not have backup when he decides to human action on his suspicions. He only confides in wife Frances Sternhagen and she'southward not much help.
Stephen King has written any number of novels with monsters and other worldly creatures, merely this story is pretty horrific all by itself, especially when the only monster here is a human i.
Bates and Caan are great pair of antagonists. Misery is a dandy story near obsessed fans and what they can do.
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Don't EVER have a Number 1 fan...
Horror movies generally aren't my cup of tea, but people accept always talked about how slap-up Misery is. So I decided to give it a look when it came on TV today. All I can say is that I was definitely not disappointed; this was an amazing motion-picture show.
Misery is the story of writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan), who is driving through a snowstorm afterward just having finished his newest novel. The car crashes, and it seems that Paul will die, trapped in his car in the snow in a deserted forest, when he is rescued by a mysterious stranger. She turns out to be Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), a former nurse who dresses his wounds and gives him a comfortable bed. In addition, it turns out that Annie is Paul's self-proclaimed Number 1 Fan. Specifically, she is obsessed with the Misery Chastain series, Paul'southward major merits to fame. Annie keeps Paul in an isolated room for days, then weeks, as the outside world searches for him. Somewhen, when Annie objects to the content of Paul'due south latest manuscript, and when she has a hysterical reaction to the death of Misery in the latest novel, Paul (and the audience) come up to see that there may be something wrong with Annie.
Caan and Bates were absolutely stunning in their performances. The vast bulk of this movie focused on them, so information technology was crucial that they both be able to convey the sense that something horrific was going on. It was no surprise that Kathy Bates won the Best Extra Oscar for her role. Everything in this movie really worked to show merely how trapped Paul was, and how hopeless his situation seemed. And of course, this movie left a few indelible images in the mind. (Ane in particular comes to mind, and I actually wish that I hadn't seen that scene previously on some other Telly show; that almost took away from the impact of seeing it in context.) So, if you are a fan of suspenseful fare, or you just want to meet a horror motion-picture show (mostly) sans blood and guts, Misery is for you. Y'all volition never, ever want to hear anyone say that they're a fan of yours again.
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The best horror film always adapted from a Stephen King book
"Misery" accomplishes something which Hitchcock achieved in "Psycho" merely which very few modern horror films accomplish: it entertains without seeming exploitative. Even the movie's well-nigh gruesome scene, which ranks upwards there equally ane of the more than memorably horrifying moments in all of cinema, ends with a laugh that somehow doesn't cheapen the textile--perhaps considering it arises so naturally from the basic situation which the picture show takes very seriously. We're not being urged to find the violence itself entertaining, as is the example for and so many horror films these days. Rather, the humor is a way of breaking the tension of a desperate, nightmarish scenario. It is, we suspect, what helps the protagonist survive the ordeal.
Like many of the greatest thrillers, "Misery" begins with a bizarre set of coincidences. A bestselling romance novelist named Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is on his style to the countryside to piece of work on his next volume when a blizzard causes his car to crash, leaving him severely injured and unable to walk. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), a retired nurse and obsessive fan who was following him, takes care of him in her business firm without letting him leave or contact anyone. She is upset that he has recently killed off a central grapheme in his serial, and she forces him to write the new book more to her liking, though in full isolation from the exterior world. His family and friends fear him dead, only the local sheriff (Richard Farnsworth) is investigating a little more than closely.
"Misery" belongs to a unique genre in which a single graphic symbol is trapped in a small area and spends the entire story attempting to escape. I've been fascinated by this type of story ever since I get-go read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum." With his fine attending to detail, Stephen King has made ii notable contributions to the genre: "Misery," and the unfilmable "Gerald's Game" (where a woman spends the entire novel handcuffed to a bed in the middle of nowhere). Everything is topsy-turvy in a story similar this. The protagonist must conform to a weird new set of rules that put a diabolical twist on normal routines. To nigh people, a business firm is a mundane setting where you wake upward every day and leave without blinking an heart. For a house to go a prison seems almost unthinkable. Stories like "Misery" have the urgency of a nightmare, where the thing you fear most is always on the verge of happening.
In particular, this picture has much in mutual with the 1962 suspense drama "Whatsoever Happened to Babe Jane?" (which I recommend). The bones construction of the story is the aforementioned, involving a disabled person in the house of an insane woman, who subjects her captive to concrete and psychological tortures while almost anybody on the exterior doesn't even know the victim exists. Only in the older film, the motives were simpler, rooted in sibling jealousy and onetime wounds. "Misery" brings the conceit to a new level by making the captive a famous writer and the kidnapper a crazed fan. The movie makes much of the irony that she'southward a pretty good editor. She's non actually sadistic or vengeful, as was the case with the Bette Davis character in "Babe Jane." The tortures she inflicts on Paul are the natural outcome of her trying to fit him into her bizarre little globe.
Kathy Bates won an Oscar for her operation, one of simply three horror performances ever to receive that award. (The other 2 are Fredric March for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and Anthony Hopkins for "Silence of the Lambs.") One of the all-time actresses working today, she's fortunate not to accept been typecast in this sort of role. She later on proved herself quite skillful at playing vulnerable women, similar the dilapidated wife in "Dolores Claiborne." She brings to the role of Annie a certain earthiness that you don't await in this kind of function. She plays the character as a woman who doesn't perceive herself as insane, who acts bubbly and cheerful most of the time and seems to view her sudden mood shifts every bit merely a personal weakness. At times, the moving picture almost comes off as a demented parody of a normal relationship betwixt a human being and woman living together.
The very best of the Stephen Rex horror movies, "Misery" is a motion-picture show which I count among my favorites fifty-fifty though it is so intense I sometimes have problem sitting through the whole thing. With a screenplay by William Goldman, who has a knack for developing bizarre torture scenes (the Nazi dentist torture in "Marathon Man," the Machine in "The Princess Bride"), the movie manages to exist scary and classy at the same time--a rare feat for a modernistic horror picture. Kathy Bates is in my nightmares!
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Splendid accommodation of the novel
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MISERY is another in a handful of first-class motion-picture show adaptations of Stephen Rex novels. This motion-picture show's really preferable to the original volume, every bit adept as it is, because Rob Reiner's management is outstanding and heavily influenced by Hitchcock. Essentially this pic is a two-hander between two slap-up performers at the acme of their game. Kathy Bates equitably got an Oscar for her role equally the seemingly mild-mannered Annie Wilkes while James Caan is equally practiced, one of those tough guy actors completely convincing as a vulnerable, crippled figure. This single location thriller is miles and miles ahead of Male monarch's second effort at the genre, GERALD'Southward GAME, which was also turned into a poor motion picture. Information technology's slowly paced but admittedly riveting, making you really feel for and care about the protagonist as if you're there in the room with him. The changes from the book are for once superior, toning down the needless gore and saving virtually of the violence for two crucial scenes which have more bear on as a result. The one-act relief between the sheriff and his wife turns out to be the icing on an already-fine block.
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Trapped, Tortured & Terrorised
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With nearly of the activeness set in ane room and involving merely two people, this tense psychological thriller is more like a stage-play than a movie. Fortunately, this style of presentation works well in establishing the claustrophobic temper and sense of unease that prevails throughout this tale of an unfortunate man who, through no fault of his own, is held captive by a psychotic woman. The concrete pain and mental torment that he suffers is dreadful and the journeying that he makes through his personal nightmare is both harrowing and compelling to sentinel.
Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is a highly successful writer whose numerous romantic novels featuring his heroine, Misery Chastain, have all been best-sellers. Having grown tired of writing this type of material, he'd recently been working on his offset serious novel and on completing his manuscript, sets out from Silver Creek Order in Colorado and drives downwardly a mountain route in a snowstorm to evangelize his piece of work to his agent. Equally the atmospheric condition worsen and the road becomes more glace, he loses control of his car which rolls down a banking company and into a snowdrift where he ends up unconscious with two cleaved legs, a dislocated shoulder and numerous other injuries.
Local Woman Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) discovers the wreckage and pulls Paul out of the vehicle before taking him to her isolated abode where she starts to nurse him back to health. When he regains consciousness, Paul is grateful for what Annie's done and soon learns that she's a trained nurse and a devoted fan who feels privileged to have him staying at her abode. She tells him that because of the storm, the roads are closed and the telephones are out of activity, so she's unable to inform anyone immediately of his whereabouts. Annie'due south plain a lonely person and acts rather coyly and politely at this stage.
After reading Paul's just-completed manuscript, she changes radically, becomes very angry and expresses her strong cloy at the amount of swearing it contains. A fiddling after, when she also reads his newly-released Misery Chastain novel, she becomes outraged when she discovers that he'southward killed off her favourite character (Misery) and feels betrayed by him. She uses her dominance over him to make him burn his new manuscript and write a new novel in which Misery is brought dorsum to life. As her behaviour continues to go increasingly violent and unhinged, Paul tries to go along with what she wants as far every bit possible whilst as well trying to devise a mode of escaping his hellish ordeal.
Annie Wilkes is a highly eccentric grapheme who's initially very ingratiating but afterwards becomes completely deranged and horribly violent. With her pet grunter (called Misery), her love of Liberace's recordings and an obsessive demand to control Paul, the scope for whatsoever extra who portrays her is plain enormous. Kathy Bates, in her Oscar-winning performance, does an amazing chore of bringing this complex woman to life and James Caan, whose character is so helpless and physically constrained throughout, skilfully overcomes these limitations to brand Paul a very sympathetic victim. Richard Farnsworth and Frances Sternhagen add some light relief as the local sheriff and his wife and Lauren Bacall is too splendid in her cameo office equally Paul's agent.
The way in which the activity unfolds on-screen is vital to the success of this motion-picture show and manager Rob Reiner's brilliant pacing plays a big part in building up the mood and tension and so effectively. There are some shocking moments such as the shooting of one of the story's pocket-sized characters and the infamous "sledgehammer scene" but more surprisingly, peradventure, there'south also a sure corporeality of humour to enjoy.
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Great obsession thriller!
Misery has a direct-forward, no-nonsense plot - about a fan obsessed woman (Annie Wilkes) who rescues her favorite author (Paul Sheldon) from a car wreck without telling anyone and nurses him back to health, simply firm-arrests him until he rewrites his latest novel to her liking. While there were really no subplots or few twists, the story actually grabs your attending with the tension, suspense and well-pacing of the course of events. Kathy Bates' outstanding portrayal in the role of Annie Wilkes is something to reckon with; she grows on the audiences from her seemingly sweet personality at first after rescuing Paul Sheldon, then, creeps everybody out as yous see her mental instability progress from obsession to threatening.
The suspense of Annie's unpredictability to Paul'southward no-escape predicament is a good edge-if-your-seat experiment. You will exist left very eager to observe out how everything unfolds at the terminate - it'southward a groovy thriller to sit down and spend the day/night with.
Grade A
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Gripping...
Misery is a dark, but witty venture into Stephen Male monarch territory. It's about a pop novelist who crashes his car on a snowy mountain road and is rescued by a nurse who claims she is his number 1 fan. As the fourth dimension goes past, he realizes she has no intention of letting him leave.
The film moves with a brisk, taut pace cheers to managing director Rob Reiner, who helmed another excellent Stephen Rex motion-picture show, Stand By Me. Tension is kept generally throughout (in that location are some predictable moments...but who cares?) And the performances are also a major plus. James Caan is very easy to empathise with, and he manages to continue his cynical sense of humor. Richard Farnsworth, as a grizzled sheriff was a nice addition to the film since his character didn't exist in the book. He as well has a dainty sense of humor, and he's the kind of guy who yous desire to root for. But the almost amazing performance is from Kathy Bates, who treads a fine line alternate betwixt sweet and lovable to amazingly evil. She won an Oscar for this pic, and whole-heartedly deserved it.
Side note: This is one of the few films which took an Oscar, that yous tin actually say the University had the guts to give out. Can anyone name some other horror film which won such a notable prize?
Anyhow...by the end, the novelist and the viewer or put through some torturous activity. We sometimes feel his pain, and it is and so much fun to hate this adult female................the volume is excellent.....the movie is just every bit good in about 1/6th of the time it would accept to read. Either manner, enjoy!
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So Suspenseful if You Can Watch Information technology
I had a landlady in college who would sit down each twenty-four hour period and write letters to the characters who appeared in her lather operas. Seriously, she would give them advice on their romantic encounters and their imitation pas. So when I saw Kathy Bates going crazy with her convict, James Caan, it wasn't hard for me to make the jump to the actions of a psychotic, non seeing an actor for an thespian. Bates is astonishing in this film in the sickest way possible. She just can't empathise what is going on. The trouble is that she is utterly dangerous, murderous. Of course, this is Stephen King, then nosotros know at that place are Bates types effectually every corner. I felt, equally I watched this play out, that I was punishing myself. What else could she practise to him without killing him. The only other moving-picture show I felt this way about was the top horror movie of its year, "The Passion of the Christ," where Mel Gibson used every torture device and weapon to vanquish on Jesus'due south body before he was crucified. Anyhow, I would warn anyone that has not seen this film to be set for their ain misery.
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corking performances from Kathy Bates and James Caan
Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is a successful writer who is tired of his fictional character Misery. He crashes his auto driving dwelling on a snowy road after finishing his latest novel where he kills off Misery. He is rescued past his "number one fan" Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) and brought to her cabin where the telephone is out. His agent Marcia Sindell (Lauren Bacall) calls Sheriff Buster (Richard Farnsworth) and he starts looking for Paul with Virginia (Frances Sternhagen). Annie reads Paul's manuscript and demands a rewrite.
Director Rob Reiner brings this Stephen King novel to life. James Caan is terrific. Information technology is the wonderfully unhinged performance of Kathy Bates that elevates it over the pinnacle. It'due south a great psychological thriller that is more than the usual Stephen King adaptations.
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Kathy Bates Is a Sight to Behold
"Misery" is one of those films that over-achieves. The material is not very good, the plot is somewhat thin, and well-nigh of the characters are ane-dimensional. However, with that said Kathy Bates takes the fabric and runs with it all the way to the bank. This film fabricated her a household name and provided her with a Best Actress Oscar in 1990. She stars equally a crazed fan who cares for writer James Caan after he's involved in a near-fatal auto blow in the centre of nowhere. Speedily her mood goes from cheerful to downright frightening when she learns that Caan's fictional heroine "Misery" volition die in his newest novel. Caan'south grapheme is non very well developed and this somewhat stalls the motion-picture show, simply it really does non matter because of Bates's performance. All in all, "Misery" is one of Stephen King'southward novels that actually plays well on picture show. If Bates were taken away, I am not sure how this movie would fare. Thank goodness we do non accept to find out. 4 out of v stars
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A Solid Thriller
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A very good motion-picture show of a Steven Male monarch novel, keeping very close to the book, the film retains the tension Male monarch created and i take to say Kathy Bates captures the insanity of the Annie Wilkes character expertly.
Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is a novel writer, who creates stories about Misery Chastaine, Annie's favourite graphic symbol that she follows religiously through every one of Sheldon's novels.
Sheldon who has finally finished with the Misery novels is caught in a road accident and is rescued by his number one fan. Likewise injured to motility and the weather preventing any further assist arriving, Annie patches him up and begins to nurse him dorsum to health.
Afterwards reading Sheldon's new release, the final outing for the Misery grapheme, Annie decides that this is unacceptable and holds Sheldon prisoner , while she forces him to write a new Misery book and reincarnate her favourite graphic symbol.
The principal difference from the book is the scene where Annie smashes Sheldons ankles with a sledge hammer, in the book she removes his anxiety with an axe, although this scene loses non of the horror, despite the change.
8/ten A fine translation to screen
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Simplest movies are the best!
This picture show is truly one of the greatest horror movies out at that place. Merely because its so streightforward and kathy bates performance in information technology was truly incredible. The story follows a author who is driving home (james caan) in a blizard and his car is overturned in the snowfall and he is taken into intendance by his number one fan as she says (kathy bates) but she is abit more sinister than she offset appears. I enjoyed this so much have seen it a few times. James caan was skillful just kathy bates really gets my vote fantastic horror
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The pic adeptly juggles agonizing suspense with cartoonish freakishness.
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A deranged nurse (Kathy Bates) cares for her hero, a romantic novelist (James Caan), when she finds him injured in a road accident. But when she learns he is nigh to kill off her favourite heroine, she starts torturing him in an effort to change his mind.
Misery is i of the very best adaptations of Stephen King's work - a long, dark look at the toll of celebrity and the wilder shores of fan worship. Bates and Caan brand an unlikely merely outstandingly effective pairing, and Bates's wild fits of anger are discomforting, too every bit very funny. The film was ranked #12 on Bravo'south 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
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One of the best Stephen King adaptations
Along with The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, Misery is 1 of the all-time adaptations of Stephen King's work. On its own terms too, it is a bright flick with a wonderful atmosphere especially. The movie looks very good, with the sets, costumes, locations and cinematography striking and suitably atmospheric. The screenplay is very fine, exploring themes such equally fanatical devotion, creative dilemmas and worthiness of commercial fiction without a psychological suspense context, while the story is always well paced and compelling.
Also outstanding is the management of Rob Reiner. He adeptly exercises in chilling claustrophobia and allows a numerous numbers of genuine jolts. The interim is great, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth and Lauren Bacall are all great but the film belongs to Kathy Bates who is monstrously scary and equitably won an Oscar for her brilliant performance.
Overall, Misery is a superb film and 1 of the all-time Stephen King adaptations. 10/ten Bethany Cox
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Very Suspenseful Yarn And Oft Quite Chilling!
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This is a Classic Picture show, with a ton of suspense, and it'due south very chilling at times. Information technology's tension filled, and Kathy Bates, and James Caan give 2 amazing performances. I wasn't expecting much from this movie since, i didn't think it would exist my type of flick, but surprisingly, i loved it,information technology's unpredictable, brutal, and Kathy Bates is just a maniac!. This is one of the best Stephen Rex adaptations ever!, it's very well written, and i loved the atmosphere too. It's engrossing from outset to end, and what James Caan goes through is absolutely insane, and i truly felt for his graphic symbol!. The last 15 minutes are especially tense, and had me on the edge of my seat!. The Management is crawly!. Rob Reiner, does a tremendous task here, using a very creepy location, keeping it suspenseful throughout, some cool camera shots, and overall doing a great job!. non much claret, but it does go nasty. We get nasty bruised and encarmine legs 2 encarmine gunshot wounds, head is bashed in by a typewriter, and other various objects,nasty broken anxiety by a sledgehammer. The Interim is Oscar Worthy!. Kathy Bates is Amazing hither, she is extremely creepy, and was mentally unstable, she reminded me a scrap of Norman bates (not quite every bit creepy), she is specially , scary near the end, what a performance!, she definitely deserved her Oscar!. James Caan is OUTSTANDING here, he gave an nigh Oscar worthy performance hither, as the poor sap author, i really felt for his character,and i was rooting him on!. Richard Farnsworth is good with what he has to do equally the Sheriff. Overall A MUST SEE,Classic! for everyone see information technology now!
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Fans.... Who needs 'em!
A existent classic. This movie has all the ingredients - a not bad story, fine casting, and pace. Still shocks afterward iii decades. This intelligently crafted piece shows exactly what sharp directing and crisp cinematography tin do - even more so in an age earlier the onset of over the summit CGI. A must have in the horror section.....
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Shining, shocking dark one-act in the Hitchcock mold
Writer William Goldman and director Rob Reiner do Hitchcock proud with this one. It has all the elements: a seemingly innocent place and situation invaded by a growing sense of sinister dread until a breathtaking climax. The intelligent script is peppered with moments that volition either make y'all cringe or make you express joy, depending on how morbid your sense of humor is. Information technology is a harrowing film to watch the first time around. The crew has washed a skilful job of making you feel Paul Sheldon's pain. Few films torture the audience like this one. In fact, I venture to say this is the best motion-picture show of its kind since "Psycho" thirty years earlier.
The interim is expert all-round. Farnsworth steals every scene he'due south in with his sardonic and relentless sheriff - he did not get plenty accolades for what would have been a routine role in a lesser player'south hands. Caan is solid and underplays beautifully, and the inimitable Kathy Bates carries the film with her alternately hysterical or ridiculously-sappy Annie, the psychotic Sheldon fan. Her functioning is a throwback to Hollywood's onetime days - it'southward not subtle, not quiet, and borders on over-acting. This is not method interim, this is showing off. Only Bates makes it piece of work, investing Annie with enough pitifulness to make the character complex and, thus, agree the role together. This movie is famous, of grade, for making Kathy Bates an overnight sensation as everybody went into the flick wanting to meet what Sonny Corleone looked like every bit an older homo, but left with accolades for Kathy Bates on their lips. She is absolutely terrifying and unforgettable in this role and perfect for it.
Bright operation that elevated a 7-star thriller to 9-10 archetype status.
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A good accommodation for a Rex film, with some terrific performances
Well acted, and eerie in all the right ways, Misery may not be the almost entertaining King adaptation, but it certainly is a skillful one. James Caan and Kathy Bates atomic number 82 this terrifically acted adaptation of Male monarch'southward honey novel, and exercise it with great ease. Bates is great at portraying the dangerous mood swings of her character, adn Caan great at trying to survive them. Their emotion, hurting, and true effort they put into their characters is truly outstanding, and most certainly y favorite thing almost the film. At times it can certainly be very thrilling, but other times the tone seems to fall apartment, and become nothing short of dull. Yet, this is often saved by giving other plot points their well deserved handling, and Reiner is able to go on the moving picture alive with truly utilizing its strengths. In the end, Misery is not neat, but a fairly good adaptation from one of my own favorite authors (although i'm hardly a #1 fan). It's acting is incredible, and though it may prove to be totally unstable from time to time, it finds its footing often enough to truly prove itself worthwhile. My Rating: 8.5/10
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Stephen King was the author, Paul Sheldon was the earnest, Anne Wilkes was the psycho
Misery is my favorite Stephen King thriller. Misery displays a author held hostage by his #1 fan. Misery is a spectacular movie considering it keeps you wondering what will happen side by side. Kathy Bates' performance was the best and I'm glad she won an Oscar. Misery is one of King's real-life state of affairs novels. I think that's what he'southward nest at, writing almost real things. Still, his horror books are still pretty scary and wild. Reiner impressed me with his management in this moving picture. Highly recommended, if you have any comments for me, delight e-mail me at tylerripen@yahoo.com.
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A trivial masterpiece of drama and thriller
Misery is really a lilliputian masterpiece of drama and thriller.This story is elementary: writer Pul Sheldon has a car accident and is helped by Annie Wilkes.This stay turns slowly into a kidnapping. The performances of Kathy Bates and James Caan are excellent. But we must also thank Rob Reiner for this very good dark story.
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