The Rage: Carrie 2

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Comparisons of RAGE 2 to the first Carrie are going to be inevitable, since, after all, this is a sequel. However, what makes the first Carrie far more superior is 1) Stephen King's brilliant imagination 2) Brian DePalma's brilliant direction 3) the magnificent acting of Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, whom both earned Oscar nominations for their respective roles, and 4) a storyline not of full of holes and cheesy plot twists. Rage 2 is an OK movie to watch if you're bored and want to pass time, but it's so full of flaws, that on a grander scale, it's much harder to appreciate. The dialog is cheesy, the acting is bland, the plot is drab, and the whole movie seems like it was hastily put together. Amy Irving plays Sue Snell, one of the originals in the first movie, and she is annoying as hell as the high school counselor who is trying to reach out to Carrie/Rachel. She sees similarities in Rachel as she did in Carrie, in that she can move things with her mind. That's where the similarities end. Carrie was believable as a social misfit, with her stringy hair, shabby clothing, downcast eyes, and lack of self-confidence. Rachel, on the other hand, seems like every other girl that you see in 90s teen-angst movies: black clothing, black nails, pissy demeanor, etc. What makes her a social misfit, I don't know, since she really isn't an ugly girl. Unfortunately the writers failed to develop her character more. And perhaps the biggest travesty of this movie is the waste of the wonderful Mena Survari (American Beauty). She only appears in the first 10 minutes of the movie, and since her character wasn't developed as well either, it's kind of hard to sympathize with her character's untimely death. While the original Carrie relied less on gore and horror to make an impact, RAGE revels in it. And the connection between Rachel and Carrie's character (they have the same father): amateurish storytelling at best. Watch this movie for cheap thrills; return to the origianal for brilliant movie-making.

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Summary: I LOVED IT!
Review: I truely love this movie i thought it would be very dumbbecause of the first one. But when i rented it, it was better than ithought.....it was kewl except for when she falls in love and its her true love than she dies all because of his friends....I cant wait till i can buy it on VHS!

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Summary: I really liked this movie
Review: I liked this movie but I would have given it 5 stars if the girl hadn't died at the end. I hate stupid endings. It ruins the whole movie. I am looking forward to be able to buy the movie on VHS. Anyone have any idea when it might be released? I hav'nt seen the DVD version. I heard it has an alternative ending? Over all, I though the movie was good. Emily Bergl is an actress on the rise. I saw her on NYPD BLUE a couple of Tuesday's ago. [e-mail]

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Summary: I have no idea what your talking a bout...that scard me
Review: i didn't even watch the WHOLE movie and it scard me! i'm thinking about writing a third one but a Jr. High kind of school...i'm just 11 not in high school!

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Summary: I have no idea what your talking a bout...that scard me
Review: i didn't even watch the movie and it scard me! i'm thinking about writing a third one but a Jr. High kind of school...i'm just 11 not in high school!

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Summary: Sissy Spacek was better!
Review: I thought Carrie 2 was terrible! The acting was bad, it had a bad cast, it had a horrible plot, and it was just like the first one! When I heard about this sequel I really wanted to see it but now that I saw it I thought it was pretty stupid. The first one is the best because I thought Sissy Spacek played a great Carrie. I thought Emily Bergil had the worst part of playing Rachel. This was a weird sequel and for those of you who hadn't seen it yet, DON'T! Stay far away from this movie it's not good!

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Summary: Looks Can Kill... so can stupid movies.
Review: What can one say about MGM's 1999 release of The Rage: Carrie 2? Chances are, no one has anything good to say about it, except that it really bites. The story begins with two high school girls, one of which kills herself in the first ten minutes of the movie. The other, Rachel, finds out why her friend committed suicide, leading into a high school storyline spawned off of Varsity Blues and the original De Palma classic, Carrie. There is a strong absence of emotional depth to this movie, as well as any evidence that this movie wants to do its predecessor justice. While trying to maintain a steady movement to keep its audience entertained, this movie jumps from scene to scene without any sense of flow. Of course, the inevitable ending disaster comes, in which Rachel uses her mind to destroy her classmates at a party. This is where the movie gets really ridiculous, with a strong emphasis on gore and blood. I mean, come on: CD's slicing into a girl's body, shattering doors beheading several people, a fire poker killing two at once. What is it with Hollywood? Where is the point to this sequence of blood and guts? I give this movie one star on the basis of one thing: it's about time someone shot off Zachary Ty Bryan's... well, you know. This is definitely a movie not for the light of the stomach or those in search of drama, only for those with blood on the mind.

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Summary: It's an outRage!
Review: I think the only reason this movie was made was to cash in on the new wave of teen horror, and make a few quick bucks. This movie was such a copy off the original; there were no new twists and the secondary characters were so one-sided and poorly developed. Even Rachel, the lead, wasn't believable as the class outcast. She's not even remotely ugly, she's actually quite attractive when she smiles occassionaly. Take my advice, stick to the original.

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Summary: Silly Sequel, but DVD improves the experience
Review: Carrie 2: The Rage is proof positive that Hollywood will make a lame sequel out of anything, even if it means simply repeating the same story as the original. In this case, Carrie 2 is a poor update of the original, with little of the tension of the DePalma classic. The pacing of the story is not bad, but the main character, Rachel, does not bring the sense of forbidding, haunting charm of Spacek and there's nothing in this sequel one doesn't expect to happen. Like the original, the story slowly builds to the big climax at the end, and when it arrives, it arrives with plenty of gore (one scene in particular, involving genitals becoming detached, will certainly make all male viewers cringe). But this movie doesn't have the heart or the emotion that made the original so great, and the characters on the sidelines are so cardboard, it's hard to take anything very seriously. One thing good I can say about the DVD is that it contains excellent features, most notably the directors' voiceover narrative of making the movie scene by scene, and the showing of scenes that were cut from the movie, along with explanations why. They provide interesting insight into the craft and art of film-making, even though this is anything but memorable movie-making.

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Summary: Teaching
Review: First you will need to invision a tunnel going between you and the object (think of nothing else) then imagine your hands coming out of yourbody through the tunnel when you feel a strong pull. fire out more energy and it will move.Maybe