Misery (1990) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!!
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- Misery (1990)
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No wonder Kathy Bates won an oscar for this. She did a terrifying & good performance in this film.
Absolutely stellar performance indeed! Both Kathy Bates and James Caan did an amazing job. I also really liked the supporting actors/actresses: Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen and Lauren Bacall.
And the Golden Globe, also.
Kathy Bates, the art of being both terrific and terrifying at the same time.
Kathy is probably my favorite actress. She's fantastic in everything she does. Check out her performance in my favorite movie of hers, "Dolores Claiborne"!
She's great in Dolores Claibourne too - a killer of a different shade.
THIS is the reason why celebrities' get REALLY uncomfortable when you're just a little too excited to meet them.
the dangers of parasocial relationships before they were named lol
If memory serves, Stephen King wrote this partially with his 'over exuberant ' fans in mind.
Considering how seldom this happens that's actually pretty funny.
@@makeupandtheology1821nope BS
I still love that Kathy Bates won an Oscar for this, she was fucking *chef's kiss* in this
They both deserved an Oscar for this movie.
I've never heard that expression before, but somehow understand it. The equivalent to "bee's knees" or "cat's meow".
Note: I know the gesture, just never heard it articulated
* chef's *deadly* kiss in this.
She absolutely deserved it, she’s phenomenal in this movie 🙏🏻 I adore her
When Samantha said "He's lucky" when he got found I laughed so hard
Although he probably would of been dead without that rescue, I'll take death over crazy Kathy Bates!!
Yes, he would have been dead without that rescue. So I guess it depends on how much he wants to live, whether he would have rather died or gone through pain and survive...
Then when she said she was a nurse: "He got _really_ lucky!" hehe
LOL, Was about to say same thing, He got lucky , Hmmm, kinda. not really.
James Caan deserves no less respect for his acting here. A great performance, considering he had only his facial expressions to act with. And I can't help mentioning my all time favorite old-timer Richard Farnsworth. I truly miss him as an actor!
His reaction to pain is pretty great. It isn’t a stretch to say that it actually sounds like he’s having his ankles broken. The only other actor I can think of that did as great of a job is Robert Shaw in Jaws when he’s getting eaten by the shark.
I actually like his performance more than hers.
I loved Richard Farnsworth as Matthew in Anne of Green Gables and it destroys me what happens in this movie, every freaking time.
@@amandaasbury3688 me too I watched Anne of Green Gables growing up with my mom and sister, always loved him
And he legit had to fist fight Kathy Bates to end the production, lol.
I watched Misery in a packed movie theater a day after it opened. When the hobbling scene happened, the whole of the audience
all let out a collective scream of revulsion and horror.
When the final fight scene took place,
there were so MANY cheers when Annie finally died.
One of the few films when the audience clapped as soon as the end credits began to roll.
Another Stephen King, Cathy Bates collaboration,
is "Dolores Claiborne" (1993) It's such a GOOD movie.
In the book, Annie hobbled him by chopping off a foot with an axe, and then cauterized the wound with a propane torch.
@@PaulArk woah 😳
That’s very cool that you got to experience that! Thanks for sharing. I never get tired of seeing people react to this film
Also in the book, Annie punishes Paul for refusing to write by cutting off a thumb, and kills the cop by running him over with a riding lawnmower.
@@PaulArk She also ran the sherif over with a riding lawnmower lol Reiner and company did the right thing by changing those things.
I wish you two the happiness and comfortableness of a long term marriage, like this older couple. I had to back up and stop at their bedroom scene. two married folks enjoying their comfy bed knowing they love each other, reading books. Best to you newlyweds. :)
"That's the red flag?"- comedy gold! Watching this movie makes me wonder if there was ONE fan Stephen King met who inspired this story or was it meeting many people like this over the years that freaked him out enough to try and deal with it by turning it into a story. I mean, that ending is just a fan saying how much she likes his work but we see how it's delivering a completely different message when people say that.
The film was very inspired by his drug addictions and not being able to escape them.
@@bekind3931 I'm sure even if it didn't really happen at the time, every famous person is fearful of this.
@@moonbrooke27 "every famous person is fearful of this". i think so too. the most widely know manifestation, i think, being eminems "STAN" (STA-lker f-AN).
I wonder if King got inspiration for this story when he suffered an accident while walking on the sidewalk. A car veered off the road and crashed into him. He was badly injured and it took a long time for him to recover.
@@anzaeria I thought about that but figured if he used it, it was just for adding the detail of the car accident. What I was wondering about is more like what was the moment he realized he was talking to a fan who might actually be crazy? Not just weird, not just creepy, because there are lots of weird and creepy people around and we all meet them just about every day. I'm talking about the kind who set off red flags that THIS person might be dangerously mental.
“Red flag!”
Well, yeah, but also literally everything else. 😂
Bates won a deserved Oscar, but I retroactively realize that James Caan deserved a nomination, too. Paul's reactions to Annie's shenanigans are 50% of why this movie works. I don't think the Best Actor category was very strong in 1990 either, so he'd easily be one of my 5 nominees from that year.
Really? Morgan Freeman, Robin Williams, Tom Cruise aren't a very strong field?
James Caan should be cleaning bathrooms. He sucked in this movie.
@@moondog3056 I think you're mixing up 1989 with 1990 when Misery was released. The winner that year was Jeremy Irons.
@@robertthomas4633 Sorry, I am still learning.
DeNiro in Awakenings, Costner in Dances With Wolves, Depardieu in Cyrano, Richard Harris in The Field, with Jeremy Irons winning for Reversal of Fortune. I've never seen The Field, but I've seen all the others, and while I agree it's not the strongest year, I'd still give the Oscar to either Irons or Depardieu by a huge margin. However, I think Caan's performance here is at least as good or better than DeNiro's, and wayyy better than Costner's.
I am glad you mentioned the old couple. I remember critics complained about their presence in the movie, given that the focus on Paul and Annie disappeared. They are not in the book either, but I always thought they were a good addition to the story.
I love the Sheriff and his wife; loved their fun banter. So upset when he was shot.
YES ,So shocking when she killed Buster, Kathy Bates wow, she is terrifyingly brilliant , one of the best Stephen King film adaptations up there with Shawshank and Green Mile.
Yepp
Till this day, Kathy Bates still scares me after I saw this film.
I love how Annie is so psycho and violent but she can’t even curse lol
“You’re just another lying ole dirty birdy!” Lmao 🤣 🤦🏼♀️
even psycho got standard lol
@@siumahin9049 hahahaha true like American Psycho he is so precise and perfect but a lunatic killer
Completely on brand, Annie is a republican during one of the many moral panic eras
It’s an act. She cussed up a storm at the end.
My ex was called Paul. He had never seen this movie so we watched it together and it shook him up because she kept saying his name. Every time he came home drunk, I would stand over him calling him a lying ole dirty bird and a cockadoodie whatnot 🤣🤣🤣
“She’s somehow a very sane psycho.” 26:26 I love that line. Those are the scariest ones 😉
I prefer right before that.
"Red flag!"
"That's the red flag?"
All psychos _seem_ sane. That's their danger.
What I really appreciate about this channel is the lengthy and elaborate convo you guys have at the end, it really adds a lot. A lot reactors barely bother with an outro beyond "like, comment, subscribe". Also, the arm-in-arm is sickeningly adorbs. Keep it up.
'adorbs'? Jesus Christ.
I said the same thing myself previously (the "convo" bit not the "adorbs" thing!). and ofc its not _just_ that its lengthy, its also very interesting and very insiightful. the length alone would be a negative if it wasnt such a good discussion.
These 2 do a really good post-movie analysis. They could be a siskel ebert duo! For those of us who like the movie, I really do appreciate the analysis and getting into the minutiae.
I also appreciate that they don't look away at the most gruesome part, they force themselves to watch it. I feel cheated when reactors turn their head away and don't watch.
Agreed! These two are the best :)
"He got lucky!"
"He got *really* lucky!"
And this is why we love first-reaction videos. 😃
Haha exactly
I saw this in the theater, and there is nothing like the sound of a whole theater in shock and disgust at the point when she hobbles him.
The guy who adapted this was William Goldman, who wrote "Princess Bride" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and loads of other stuff. Goldman originally wrote the hobbling scene with Annie chopping off Paul's feet as in the book but he started getting pushback from Rob Reiner and others that maybe that was too strong. Goldman said he became a bit of a bastard about it, insisting that the whole movie wouldn't work without the horribleness of the foot chopping but everyone else disagreed that they had to go that far with it. Goldman got really grumpy when they shot the scene as it appears, he was convinced that they had ruined the movie. Then he saw it with an audience, experienced the reaction you described, saw how long the people in the cinema were buzzing about it and missing most of the following scene and conceded that Reiner and the rest were right. After thinking about it a while he concluded that had they done the scene his way, with the foot chopping, the audience might have turned on Annie entirely and tuned out of the movie whereas the maiming as it is, without actual dismembering, allowed them to maintain some small degree of sympathy for her craziness. Who knows what the truth of it is, but I'm glad I didn't see her chop dude's feet off.
I wouldn't change a frame of the movie we have but Wikipedia tells of a long list of amazing people who turned down both roles before James Caan and Kathy Bates signed on. They offered Annie to Bette Midler who said years later that turning it down was the stupidest thing she ever did. Word is William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman, and Robert Redford all turned down the movie. It looked like Warren Beatty was going to do it, which would have been interesting, but post production on "Dick Tracy" ran long and he had to back out. James Caan - who never gets anything like as much credit as he deserves for being the sane, stable anchor of this movie - said he took it because it was nothing like the parts he usually got.
When this novel came out my dad was in the hospital and asked me for a book, I gave him this while forgetting the villain was a nurse. Needless to say he was not happy whenever a nurse would check on him in the middle of the night. Sorry dad.😂
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In my honest opinion, Misery is right up there with movies like Psycho in terms of timeless classics. Pure quality suspense.
Rob Reiner directed another beloved Stephen King adaptation, Stand By Me. Highly recommend it.
Yep, they did not notice his name in the opening credits. Stand By Me has a place in my all time favourite films and my childhood.
@@arconeagain same here
Yes I agree
And that movie is the reason he got the gig for this one. Stephen King was so impressed with SBM that he sold the film rights to Misery with the condition that Rob Reiner would either produce or direct it
it's just too bad Reiner turned out to be a Nazi communist.
I love that at the end, most reactors relax when they see the actual waitress and not Annie then go "augh don't say that" when she tells Paul she's his #1 fan, but you just say "kill her" lmao
He's gonna go through the rest of his life acting like an informer on the mafia waiting for the next psycho fan to have a go at him 😱🤪
@Scarletta Agni They should have nuked the entire restaurant from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I cackled.
3:23: "He got lucky". yep...so lucky. What a blessing!
The scrapbook “memory lane” scene is to me perhaps the scariest in the whole story. I’m glad you didn’t gloss over it or skip it as I’ve seen in some other reacts to this flick.
Exactly. Not only was she that crazy person who killed babies, but she actually SAVED those clippings talking about that case. Definitely a closet serial killer, and Kathy Bates nailed it (and she deserved the Oscar she won). James Caan was awesome too, as well as Richard Farnsworth as the old sheriff.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere yup. But aren’t all serial killers sort of “closet” serial killers? Lol well I guess not the ones who leave notes and clues for the police. Cheers 🍻😉
@@nickcolbert9615 I guess that's the scariest thing about serial killers is that they can live relatively normal lives on the outside, but on the inside they're planning their next victim. Look at guys like Ted Bundy who was a straight A law student, highly intelligent, had friends, girlfriends, etc. He even worked a volunteer crisis line for suicide prevention (if I remember correctly), yet in his spare time he was killing college girls.
They don’t gloss over or skip ANYTHING. They never shut up for one second!
@@snowbird9660 have you ever considered watching a movie by yourself if you dont want people to talk over it?
If you want a review, look up a review and not a reaction of it. Duh, duh.
Sorry to get annoyed but every comment under reaction videos complaining that the people reacting to it talk too much... it makes you look like a jackass.
In the novel, Paul only tricks Annie into thinking he's burning the manuscript and saves the actual one and publishes it after he's rescued. I liked the change for the movie that he actually burns the manuscript for Misery's Return.
The worst part for me was when she rebroke both of his legs. I snapped my lower left leg in half when I was in the Army and that scene sent chills down my spine and made me wince. I hate seeing limbs bent in unnatural ways. Overall, it was an excellent movie. Great reaction; glad you both liked it.
Kathy Bates won a well deserved oscar for this. I still find her terrifying even though I'm sure IRL she is a nice little old lady.
Though it was a role made for the Oscars.
You’re not the only one who still finds her terrifying. She jokes that to this day, it’s still hard for her to find dinner dates. 😂
In the book, she does use an axe on his foot. The book has a smaller cast as tge cop and his wife don't exist. Stephen King loved Kathy Bates in this so much that he wrote the novel Delores Clairborne with her in mind. She ended up doing the film adaptation. Director Rob Reiner previously directed Stabd By Me based on "The Body," one of four novellas included in Different Seasons. Also included was "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption."
and the often overlooked Apt Pupil.
@@1ofLouisBoys beat me to it
@@1ofLouisBoys I remember it having good reviews when it came out, then it just stopped getting talked about.
@@johncampbell756 if there is anything worth talking about with Apt Pupil is the amazing performance by Sir Ian McKellan. that man plays a great war criminal in hiding.
@@1ofLouisBoys I don't think I've ever actually seen it. I think I've seen a scene or two, or I might just be remembering the trailer. Isn't David Schwimmer in that? And Sir Ian is great at anything.
You mention the road reminding you of the one from Shining. Fun fact, in the novel, it says Annie saw the Overlook explosion in the distance, so these take place in the same area.
@@VictorLugosi A bit harsh, but I realize everything I like about King are the movies, and they some times are very different and not even to King's liking, like with The Shining. At least you could say King provides great source material for movies.
@@VictorLugosi Most of his books are in Maine, but The Shining and Misery are set in Colorado.
Besides, I doubt you've read Misery. Possibly Kings best book ever. The Shining is definitely debatable whether the book is good.
When someone says "Stephen King cant write" it sounds an awful lot like you dont read Stephen King. If you havent read at least half of his more than hundreds of stories, its a pretty asinine take. Kings writing spans from schlocky garbage to timeless classics. Its a very interesting body of work, and writing it off like that is pretty lame.
When you guys were saying Paul was lucky to have been saved by Annie, I was thinking "if you only knew what she was like, you wouldn't say that". This film is very good, very underrated.
I laughed when they said he was lucky!
laughed so much at that.
She did save his life, though!
@@fillerbunny I mean, yeah. That's true.
This is one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed horror films ever.. wat u mean its underrated?
Idk why I absolutely died when he was like, "Oh, my God!... Kill her." Then, "She's a tank!" 😆
@@eddiecollison that i would like too see, he goes all ptsd on ppl beacause of what happend with annie
@@pickamaterina1313 nice name
“He thrusts his fists against the post and still insists he sees…”
Oh. Wrong book!😂
hahahahahah well , right auteur though
"My life for you"
Can you dig yoooo man,baby can you dig yoooooo man,he s a righteous Man.
ladyfingers just like ladyfingers
Lol. You guys are great! Thank you for the quotes and memories!
“We all float down here.”
The paper smudging is one of a few moments in the book when Paul tries to explain the real sausage making of what actually writing a book entails to Annie but she just doesn't care. She wants her fix and the work doesn't matter to her.
Kathy Bates absolutely deserved the Oscar for this performance. it is at this time that I like to recommend to reactors my absolute favorite performance of hers, that also happens to be another Stephen King adaptation: Dolores Claiborne. please add it to your list of reactions. I promise you will not be disappointed. excellent reaction, as usual. love you guys!
“This house is going to be filled with romance, ooh, I’m going to put on my Liberace records!”
😂😂😂😂😂👍
It doesn't matter how many times I watch Misery, the hobbling scene goes through me like nothing else I've watched in a film. Even watching this edited version put my guts in knots! Kathy was phenomenal in this, as were all the cast.
I can sit through the chest burster scene in Alien but I have yet see the hobbling scene in its entirety. The other was the the American ambassador suicide in The Final Conflict.
The incredulous look from Samantha married to "that's the red flag?" had me belly laughing.
Movies like this I find more scary than "slashers and monsters" style movies. Real people are usually more scary.
Amen to that. Real life crazy takes it to a whole other level.
Agreed! it's a lot more realistic, especially when it happens to be people that seem kind and hospitable. Ted Bundy was apparently very charismatic which is how he lured so many women in.
@@lulub517 The court room footage of him is worth a look if you haven't seen it , his confidence and charisma is out of this world. Impressive in a sick way. It's also an example of a media circus trial that i found interesting. Even the judge is nice to him , its weird.
James Caan's best role since "The Godfather"
Caan really doesn't get near enough credit for how great he was in Misery.
@@drlee2 agreed.
"Thief" is a good one too.
@@Grnademaster Definitely. One of Michael Mann's best films. I love the music in Thief!
He was great in "Rollerball"(1975).
In the novel, she does cut off his foot with an ax actually. Then she cauterizes his bleeding leg with a torch.
It’s better with the hobbling.
@@eddietucker7005 It's horrific enough, and much harder to watch.
She hobbled him with the sledge, she cut off his thumbs with an electric carving knife.
@@genetodd1643 indeed! and who said romance is dead? she sure knows how to keep her man.
@@eddietucker7005 they're both hobbling, but for the movie, the visial of the broken ankle is imo much stronger than it getting cut off, but, i think as an idea, the idea of someone slowly cutting you into pieces is more horrific and that works better in book form.
Great reaction, guys. Always both smile and cringe when folks watch this flick and get to the part with the, uh... ankles.
Funny that Samantha mentioned that Paul was able to walk 18 months after his ordeal, and that he should write about that. There's a weird turn of events, in that Stephen King was actually hit by a van in 1999, many years after he wrote "Misery." The accident literally shattered one of his legs. At the time, he was writing a non-fiction book called "On Writing," which (who would guess) was about writing. Partway through his recovery, King picked up writing "On Writing" again, and included the story of his accident and his ongoing recovery. So, in a super-roundabout way, Paul (Stephen King) did write about his horrific leg injury, his recovery, and eventually learning to walk again.
Does the beginning of "Kingdom Hospital" ring any bells on this subject also?
@@Grnademaster Haven't seen that one yet. Will definitely check it out now.
I love “On Writing”.
You gotta love the Sheriff and his wife. The amount of sass between them is great. I could watch a whole sitcom of those two characters!
I know it's a movie but always felt bad for his wife when she finds out he's dead :(
Any time I see Kathy Bates in any movie, this is the only thing that pops into my mind 😂
One gripe is Buster, who has shown himself to be a very capable sheriff, who knows Annie's background and clearly suspects her of involvement with Paul Sheldon's disappearance, just entering her home without any concern for her.
In Buster's defense, it was an EXTREMELY small town without a lot of violent crime. Also, not only did Annie not have any previous history of using a firearm or weapon, but the only thing she was convicted for was the baby killings; not for pushing her husband or nursing school rival. Lastly, there is the human factor. Everyone makes mistakes. Veterans, whether they be law enforcement or military combat veterans, die all of the time, and often at the hands of a comparative novice.
I agree to a certain extent but i dont think she was actually convicted was she? ive seen the movie multiple times and read the book several times but i cant recall that exact detail. she was arrested and charged with killing the babies but i thought she was aquitted because of lack of evidence. and she was never suspected of/charged with any other crimes. so even if Buster thought she might have been guilty but got off with it, he might think her a cowardly murderer of defencelss babies, but wouldnt have the guts to try anything iwth a full grown adult.
But still, it is a tiny, tiny weakpoint in the plot of an otherwise flawless movie, i agree.
@@ravenmasters2467 I definitely agree with you on the conviction point. She probably wasn't convicted, just changed, arrested and put on trial. However I still wouldn't consider this a flaw in the plot. As you pointed out, the vast majority of criminals who victimize small children don't have the courage to deal with or victimize adults. The addition of human error in any story isn't a flaw, but rather a reflection of reality. (Unless you're suggesting that intelligent, sensible people never make sometimes obvious [to others] mistakes in real life?)
@@helifanodobezanozi7689 well as an intelligent, sensible person i can tell you that i have never made a misteak in my ilfe! 😜
But seriously, i think perhaps its only because we know so much that he doesnt that it makes him look foolish. When hes leaving he's satisfied that theres nothing wrong there. When he hears the noises he invstigates and calls out asking if Annie is ok. But when he hears a mans voice calling from behind a hidden doorway if he had just drawn a gun then everything else proceeded the same he would have looked less foolish. After all, prior to this he had shown himself to be very competent.
@@ravenmasters2467 Well, again, we're talking about a small village/ town where everyone seems to know one another. Even in the US, under these circumstances, guns are only going to be drawn on strangers or if there is a visible threat.
“He got really lucky…..”
Famous lasts words!😂😂😂😅
Annie's monologue about the rain is one of the best depictions of depression I've seen.
Gotta say, first time I've seen more of a reaction from the sheriff being shot than from the hobbling scene. I love that you loved him so much.
25:58 "THAT'S the red flag?" hahaha! that delivery was perfect
4:18 “He got really lucky”
Me: Yeah hold on to that thought
Your all’s reactions are by far the best it’s almost we’re there in person watching movies with good friends.
The acting range on James Cann is great. He's double acting. He has to play his part in the film and also.....play an act to keep himself from getting killed
Also, he had to do all the physical acting of being someone who couldn't walk and be in intense pain throughout most of the film. And not once did Caan overact in this. Every reaction to Annie and his facial expressions were spot on. Defniitely one of my favorite horror movie performances along with Kathy Bates.
Stephen King was so impressed with Kathy Bates' performance in Misery that he wrote Delores Claiborne with Bates in mind to play the lead role in the movie adaptation.
Oh no, seen a lot of react channels doing this movie and I have to watch poor Buster bite it each time.
RIP Buster!!!
"Really, THAT'S a red flag? 😂😂😂
Good one, Samantha.
Kathy was the first woman to win an Oscar in this genre. Well deserved.
Jack Nicholson was offered the role of Paul. He turned it down because he didn't want to do this kind of film on the heels of The Shining.
Stephan King loved Kathy's performance.
Long time watcher. First time commenter. Love you guys.
Keep it up. PS: I'd like to suggest you react to On The Beach, from the novel by Nevil Shute. With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardener, and Tony Perkins(Yeah, Norman from Psycho). It's black and white and it's about a group of people in Australia after an atomic war. They are waiting for the radiation to arrive from the northern hemisphere. It follows how they deal with their and the human race's impending death. It's a really great and emotional movie. You'll really like it. I promise.
Regards from Illinois!!! ✌& ❤
Kathy Bates AND James Caan we’re absolutely phenomenal in this
I have to say that I just love how relaxing the intro theme is, not to mention how welcoming and genuine both of you come across. Love your reactions.
Great reaction. Everyone was great, especially Kathy Bates and James Caan. Paul's agent was Lauren Bacall, who was married to Humphrey Bogart and starred in a few incredible films with him like The Big Sleep and Key Largo.
Rob Reiner talked about talking to James Caan, who was getting a little stir crazy, about how he wanted him to prepare for the scenes when he wass bedridden and said he told him “now Jimmy, for this scene, I want you to be…in bed” 🤣
Reiner always seemed funny when I saw him occasionally in films.
He's one of Tom Hank's friends in Sleepless in Seattle.
In the book, the book he wrote for Annie wasn't burned. He just used a pile of waste paper and discarded pages as a decoy. So in that story, I think Misery's return WAS published. So Annie DID kinda succeed. She got the thing she wanted most.
Eh, but it wasn’t about Annie. It was about Paul. He realizes she was right about his new novel Fast Cars. He was so desperate to get away from Misery that he wrote a pretentious overly technical novel. Misery’s Return is a really good story and he writes it to escape Annie. He actually gets the idea to pretend to burn it by thinking, “How would you feel if she made you burn Misery’s Return?…. More importantly, how would SHE feel?”
I think it’s King dealing with the critics who called him a hack for years. There’s such a prejudice against popular fiction in literary circles and it had to hurt King’s ego to be constantly trashed. I once had a college professor who was telling us how he saw a book that looked interesting, then he saw that it was on the Best Seller’s list so he “obviously” didn’t read it. He referred to it as “a close call.”
@@83gemm Depressing. I had a friend in college who refused to listen to any songs that broke the top 50 in the national charts. Similar. Good is good, regardless of medium.
@@davelister2961 Some people are terrified of being ordinary
@@83gemm Annie is meant to be a metaphor for pill addiction as well, she takes care of him but she also keeps him sick and her influence is keeping him writing.
In the book, Paul only gets his symbolic victory over Annie when he finally begins writing again to cope with his PTSD. Misery's Return is a good book but it's not supposed to feel good for Paul. He uses the circumstance to publish the book and retire, but that just turns him into a depressed alcoholic. Only when he begins writing for himself again does he win against Annie and have hope to be happy again one day.
@@davelister2961 I had a college professor who proudly told us that he had seen a book that looked interesting. Then he realized it was on the Best Sellers list, so he promptly put it back. The guy was like fifty bragging to a bunch of college kids about how he’s too cool to read the books that are popular. I don’t know how everyone else felt, but I was soooo embarrassed for him. At 19, I was rolling my eyes, that’s how bad it was.
The sheriff's wife (Frances Sterngagen) is the woman who had a lot of peas in The Mist. She's in a good Sci Fi movie with Sean Connery called Outland.
Interesting that you say you thought she was going to use an axe on his legs. In the book she does use an axe to cut his foot off, then cauterizes the stump with a blowtorch. SK has wrote so many brilliant stories but for me this is his best. Its ironic that he's known as the king (pun intended) of spooky horror but his 2 best, this and shawshank redeption which is regarded by many as one of the best movies of all time, have no supernatural elements at all.
I'm so glad you loved this movie. Ofc i knew you would. I know you guys so well. ive watched every single one of your videos. I know all your reactions off by heart. You see...
i'm you number one fan...
The stories with human monsters are worse (or better, lol) because with supernatural creatures, our minds know they're not real no matter how well they're written. Human monsters do exist and it makes the stories so terrifying
I was laughing out loud before I clicked *Read more * Well done!
"Stand By Me"
Your reaction when she jumped on his back was priceless. I went back and watched it several more times. 🤣
Kathy Bates and James Caan were next level acting in this film. Just incredible.
Be sure to watch another terrific Kathy Bates performance in a movie from a Stephen King book, Delores Claiborne (1995).
LOL TBR: "Please let her be dead." Pause, then: "I would smash her head a few more times just to be sure." LOL I've replayed that about eight times and I'm laughing more each time!
Hehe I love this couple so much. I love their intuition, curiosity and insight
"He got really lucky! - Had to pause and comment right there and then! If only you knew, Sam. hehe
Kathy Bates is terrifying in this. Ya know.. given the plot.. it's almost like she's running a Bates Motel.
I would honestly be terrified of being a videogame maker and get several hundred players angry because a character they like dies.
You two are such an adorable couple! I love how you always seem to be holding hands when watching movies together ❤
"I'm also a nurse." Samantha: "Oh! he got lucky!"
Everyone who has seen the film: "Just wait."
Kathy Bates is absolutely amazing in this movie.
I love watching reactor’s faces when she hobbles him. I have no idea how many times I’ve seen this movie. But every time she does that my legs hurt.
"I don't think he's going to walk again"
"That's the point"
Lol.
Some friends and I watched this during a sleepover when we were about 8 in the early 90s. One of our friends went home crying because he was scared. I think it scarred him for life lol.
That was funny: Kathy Bates says "I'm also a nurse", Samantha says "He got really lucky!". Weeeeeeellllllll...
I absolutely LOVED y’all reaction😂 my dad loved this movie in the 90s and made me watch it years ago when I was in the 4th grade. that hobbling scene oddly cracks me up now that I’m older
36:25 the Doubletap. Learn it. Know it. Live it.
The Misery screenplay was written by William Goldman, the author of The Princess Bride (and several other good books and movies)!
"He got lucky."
Well, yes, but actually no.
Yeah.... 😐
@@karlmortoniv2951 frying pan into the fire is the expression
@@fjparasite1172 The cockadoody, choppy/poundy, druggy, needly, piggy fire! 😱
Well.....Bad luck is a kind of luck, I guess.
Then when she said she was a nurse: "He got _really_ lucky!" hehe
When this novel came out I sat down on a Saturday afternoon and started reading. I finished the book sometime after midnight. I'd never before or since read a book in one sitting. I simply could not put it down.
😂 “ is that cop alive…. Maybe?” That was awesome
37:27 "No, kill her, F'n kill her" 😂 😂 😂 I Lol'd so hard 😂 😂
Yes! Kathy Bates is a Queen. And James Caan is fantastic as well. "He didn't get out of the Cockadoodie car!"
Great reaction. I really like how you break things down afterwards. I believe I have become "your number one fan" (I think I just scared myself lol)
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I came across your channel by casualty but as soon as I saw MISERY, I HAD TO SEE THIS. I don't know if it's okay but this is one of my favorite movies ever, and I'm not a big fan of horror/thriller movies but this one makes sense and actually has some dark humor that I like, that I ended liking it too much. Also the actor and actress are amazing in this, and they're not even huge stars or whatever. MORE PEOPLE NEED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE!!
I love that you keep west coast time for your uploads so us east coast insomniacs get new content right when we need it haha.
agreed! 🙏night shifters😵💫
👍 from another insomniac 😊
Haha agreed!
For anyone who loves this movie and who has not done it already, I highly recommend reading the book! It has a few differences, but first of all it shows how ingenious this movie implemented the story from the book and you also get to read parts of the misery-book Paul is writing while in captivity.
"12 Angry Men" is another great movie that takes place in a single room, with all of the notable actors of their time giving some of their best performances. Highly recommended.
Just a correction, this isn't your first Steven King adaption not directed by Darabont. The Shining was a King adaption directed by Kubrick.
The looks on your faces are priceless when Annie does something super creepy!!!!
What an awesome fun couple! You have such a great time watching these movies. Love it! 👍
Kathy Bates' performance managed to make Annie Wilkes both Awful and Awesome. I first watched it when I was 14 or 15 and LOVED it since! The scenery in this film is just GORGEOUS!
2:31 Annie mentions the Overlook Hotel in the book because all of King's books are set in the same universe.
"The Dead Zone" is another good King film adaption.
Very good and also has a plotline that accurately predicted the current political atmosphere that it's kinda scary
How does _The Dark Half_ hold up? Haven't seen it in decades.
It blows my mind when someone don't know Misery... I mean it's normal. You can't have seen something until you've seen it... but it was such a part of my childhood.... I love that you're watching it!!!
The casting is genius... if it wasn't Bates and Caan, I don't know that it would have worked.
In the book, he starts to get in the zone while writing... and he starts to like it. It makes him feel alive... it adds a wrinkle in the story...
The sheriff , Richard Farnsworth , stars in an incredibly underrated movie The Straight Story . Director David Lynch shows another side of his talents.
Kathy Bates went from truly terrifying in this to absolutely hilarious in The Waterboy showing how gifted she really is.
"He got lucky" I laughed out loud at this 😃
My wife doesnt watch a lot of movies, but recognized the officer as an actor from Anne of Green Gables. That couple really is adorable.
My favourite thing about Misery is that the year before, the director did When Harry Met Sally.
William Goldman, who wrote the film adaptation of Misery, also wrote the book "Which Lie Did I Tell? - More Adventures in the Screen Trade" in which he talked about the adaption and trying to get the film made. He said they asked the top 30 or so leading men in Hollywood at the time and all of them turned it down. At one point they got to Richard Dreyfus, who initially agreed to star in it... until he read the screenplay. Then he turned it down. He surmised that they all declined the role because none of them wanted to be in a movie in which they were at the mercy of a woman for the entire film.
They also had a hard time finding a director to make the movie. Originally, Rob Reiner, who did go on to direct the film, was only supposed to be a producer on it. But after no one was willing to direct the film, he decided it was too good to pass up and he would do it himself.
Eventually, they asked James Caan, who was further down the list and the only one that showed any interest in making the film. Caan was also coming out of some drug problems that derailed his career for a number of years prior to the film. To gain the trust of the director, he had offered to do a drug test every day while filming to show that he was clean. They ended up casting him and declined his offer to get tested each day.
One of my favorite movies of all time. And an all time performance from Kathy.