I think the fact that Kathie Bates was pretty unknown at the time helped the film. There were no expectations as far as her acting style and it helped create more of a sense of unpredictability.
@@fuzzywuzzy5749 Actually she wasn't. She had been in some films, television roles, and done stage work, but, as far as the movie going public was concerned many had no idea who she was. I think, at that time, she was one of those actors that people may have recognized her, but would be trying to remember from where.
In my experience during my 65 yr life, I learned that it is much better be kind and treat politely mentally ill people. They will remember it long time and thus make no harm to you. If you get their love, it will be unconditional (what could be better?), although un-usual sort of it. And: it is God's will and gift to you.
She well deserved the Oscar for best actress in the leading role. She was also nominated for Fried Green Tomatoes and for About Schmidt where she appeared in a nudity scene.
Dolores Claiborne is my most favorite adaptation of his work. I sent my first edition copy to King years ago and he signed it. I was reading it in a sunny room and was scared to go check on the meatloaf ! ☺️
Are you touched. After taking the sledge hammer to his foot he could still walk. After axing his foot off he probably wouldn't have been able to walk. And I agree that taking the blow torch to the wound was really the most terrible part. The dialogue in the book before she axes his foot was way longer and a lot more un-nerving than in the movie.
i think its much different, since annie was saying that its for the better that she simply tortures him. it would make more sense that she takes an axe to his legs and its for the better that he cant walk, but she truly thinks its for the better that he just suffers.
Have you caught Kathy Bates in "Straight Time," her first movie role? She plays a very touching character, the wife of Gary Busey's character and the mother of his son, played by his real-life kid, Jake.
I can watch the goriest movies ever made. Blood and guts do not phase me. But that hobbling scene in Misery is too damn much. I can watch every Saw movie without flinching, but damn I can't watch those ankles being broken. It's too.......real. Most splatter flicks are over the top to the point of comedy, but that scene is subtle. Not to mention I have twisted my ankle before and know how much it hurts. So there is a real world personal connection. Unlike getting your rib cage pulled out. I haven't felt anything like that before so I can't relate to it happening on film. That's what makes the hobbling scene in Misery so damn horrific.
Coming from a vet horrorhound, that 'breaking' scene was one of the hardest for me to ever watch. And I've recently been watching Kathy Bates in the American Horror Story series. She is still beyond amazing in anything she does.
Misery is one of my favorite Stephen King books and films! Annie was much more evil, deadlier, violent, and psychotic in the book than in the film. She killed over 35 people in the book! The book was so psychological and horrifying. I highly recommend you guys read it. I met Stephen King in 2014 at his Revival lecture and he was mesmerizing.
I just finished it a few days ago and I agree with you. It is definitely one of my favorite Stephen King book besides The Shining. It's amazing, I definitely recommend it.
I worked with a lady from Maine ( here in Sydney) who said King came to her uni to give a talk one day and he was piss drunk.We worked at Idexx a big veterinary company headquarters in Maine.
Minty, I love you. I'm your number one fan. Please don't ever stop doing movie reviews. I don't know what I'd do without your movie reviews. By the way, I'm from Maine.
I'll be honest with you, I kind of like not knowing why Annie is the way that she is. And to be perfectly frank, characters having daddy issues is WAY too overused these days.
No argument there. However, it's still an overused trope these days, and it kind of makes you wish that they'd pick another less-played out father-child dynamic.
Indeed. Plus, you know what would actually be scarier but still truthful in cases of real life? Someone growing up in a normal loving household and STILL coming out bad. You may not hear about it often, but it does happen.
it would of have been interesting if they followed up this movie with a prequel showing annies life and why shes such a wacko however stephen king wouldHAVE to be part of the script writing
In the novel Paul knew he was in trouble from the very first moment he woke up in Annie's house. I like the way the movie handles things by having Annie seem odd but friendly and caring at the beginning, even reassuring Paul that she contacted authorities, his editor and family, then revealing it was all a lie and she never intended to let him go alive right after she reads his latest Misery novel.
●SPOILER ALERT FROM THE NOVEL!!● In addition to Paul's foot being cut off, then blow-torched to stop the bleeding, she later cut off his thumb and stuck it on a cake like a birthday candle. That would have REALLY been creepy if it was in the movie.
+Wonko Sane did you actually have the nerve to say the movie is better then the book? no arguement is good but NO movie can live up to stephan kings written genius
Just a small edit...Paul actually wasn’t delivering his final book in the Misery series when the car crash happened. The final book for Misery had been delivered some time ago and copies of it were JUST being released to bookstores during the time of the accident. The accident happened when Paul was on his way home after celebrating his completion of a book completely unrelated to the Misery series, which explains why he abruptly killed Misery Chastain off in the last Misery installment in order to move on and start writing new things. This leads to Annie reading the new script, becoming upset with Paul for the new novel’s vulgar language, buying the last Misery installment at a shop in town once the roads were cleared, and becoming outrageously violent after discovering that Misery was killed off. Other than that, I love your video and how well it dissects Stephen King’s thrilling story :)
It would be so very cool if Stephen King, just for fun, wrote Fast Cars, as Paul Sheldon, 30 years later, as he ('Paul') would tell a brief summary of all that happened. The dedication could read; To Annie Wilkes. In your face, you DERANGED pig!
what the ...? There isn't only black and white in the world - just because I said something is "one of the best" doesn't mean that it's the best of them all. It's just part of a loose list of great movies. What is your problem? BTW: Who says that Hitler wasn't a great drinking buddy?
Correction: Paul isn't delivering the last entry of Misery when he gets into the car accident -- he's just finished his first non-Misery book basically since the start of his career. The last installment of Misery is due to release in the coming weeks. And we first start getting hints of Annie's instability when she's reading the non-Misery copy and spills the soup on the blanket as she's going through her colorful curses, which is well before she gets ahold of the latest Misery installment which sets her flying off the edge. You can tell Paul is a bit concerned once she reveals to have picked up her copy.
I actually read the book before I saw the movie. It was very intense. I felt like I was in Paul's shoes while reading. I was scared of Annie. She was so unpredictable at times. She would be fine one day, and crazy the next. One wrong thing said would set her off, and cause Paul to be hurt by her. Paul was always so polite to her. She was still crazy.
Most people and children will check under their beds and closets for a spook or Boogeyman,me,personally I check under my beds and closets to this day for Kathy Bates,haha!
TheDensley7 couldn't he have just told her it was a ploy? and after the decoy book Misery would be back to (reinvigorate) the brand? 😂 yes I enjoy armchair what-ifs
@@ennuiblue4295 The final book in the Misery series was already published where the main character died. Annie goes nuts after she reads it and forces him to bring her back to life in a new book.
I first saw this movie in the theater (one of my favorite movie-going experiences) and probably dozens of times since. I never get tired of it. The plot is so well structured, the cinematography so beautiful and the acting so good that I get drawn in every single time. It's crazy that a movie that mostly only centers on two people could be so riveting speaks to its power.
Just think about all of the different characters Bates has portrayed. From American Horror Story and all the different accents she pulls of each season to her Annie character. She is a friggn amazing actress. Making her a legend in my opinion.
RIP James Caan! Misery has been my favorite movie since I was 4yo.. I barely saw The Godfather a few months ago & loved it, Sonny was my favorite character.
This movie is right up there with The Shining and Silence Of The Lambs as one of those thrillers that still thrills every time, even if you’ve seen it 100 times. It’s a testament to perfect writing, directing and performances. Kathy Bates is a living legend.
I can't help but think there should be a spoof where George Lucas gets in a car accident and is saved by one of his fans... All this is before The Phantom Menace, and well, because of Misery we know what happens next.
That might be a little too close. When George Lucas was in high school in 1962 he was in a very bad car accident in which he was a ejected from the vehicle and almost didn't make it.
That wouldnt work as he had actually written most of the story, BUT he started the movies part way through the story with A NEW HOPE... And by changing the pryor storyline the first movies we saw wouldnt make sense.
Have you caught Kathy Bates in "Straight Time," her first movie role? She plays a very touching character, the wife of Gary Busey's character. Their son is played by Busey's real-life kid, Jake.
@@undergroundwarrior70 i looked it up online and the mother was an actress named wendy crewson. I swear in my memory of watching that movie it was jamie lee curtis..maybe im mixing up scenes from my girl or something.
Misery is one of my all time favorite movies from the 90's. I never got to read the novel sadly so the fact that it wasn't a sledge hammer but a freaking axe blew me away. I actually had to stop the video to let that sink in, and that rarely happens. Maybe once every 80 videos or something like that. I was surprised that asked so many actors to play the writer but you are right Cann did and amazing job. I have to agree about Bette Milder. I don't know if she would have made the impact Bates did because Bates plays a really great villain.
If you dig Stephen King, I highly recommend reading this one. It isn't hugely long like some of his others, and it goes meta where you're reading Annie's "commissioned" book 'Misery's Return' as Paul is writing it - so there's segments of a novel within the novel. I think it was my first Stephen King book actually. I revisited it recently and was genuinely surprised at the page count.
11, and worth mentioning: the book ended very differently in one area: Paul did not actually burn "Misery's Return", but a mock up of it. And, after defeating Annie, he took the real manuscript with him and published it. Since the movie could not accurately explain his rationale the way the book did, they simply had him destroy it for real.
"Luckily, Caan took on the role. And in my opinion did a great job. He was likeable, and yet you could empathize with him." Wait...what? Not my favorite Bates role, but one she absolutely knocked into the stratosphere. Given her history of starring in Broadway productions, and not being used when they were translated to screen ("Frankie and Johnny", and '"Night, mother" being two of them), it's gratifying to watch her work in this film, knowing it won her a well-deserved Academy Award.
My mother and I went to the drive in to see a double feature when I was 6 or 7. Back to the Future 3 and misery.(what a selection 🤣) I fell asleep before the end of BTTF 3 but woke up again right as James Caan was being hobbled. I remember letting out a high pitch scream right as the sledgehammer made contact. I startled the shit out of my mom😂
You mentioned it would be better if we had a more thorough backstory, now we are getting it with Castle Rock on Hulu, introducing Annie Wilkes in season 2
Both James & Bates are great actors cause only great actors can play great serious roles and hilarious roles and nobody could’ve played them better in this move. Perfect movie 👍🏻
And *intense* - seeing something on the screen is one thing but in live theater it's a completely different experience, you're immersed. ... unless they made Misery into a musical - that would be too weird.
@@caglep.1348 Hi Cagle !! It is no joke about my sister. While I was in the hospital when my mother was dieing she and her 2 grown 'kids' (A daughter and son...the son has lived with 'mommy' for years and years, lives in her basement ...Sis has a house with 3 bed rooms but makes him live in the celler.) were going though my mother's house taking anything not nailed down and stole the 'WILL & changed it & cut me out of it....she even stopped mom's funeral plans so she could save that money. The son only worked 2 wks in his life, been in jail for a time and has lived with his booze drinking mom almost all his life. All three are the laziest things on 2 feet. They went to visit mom when she was in a nursing home but my sister never made it to her room, she fell asleep in the lobby of the place!! I haven't spoken to them in 9 years come Aug 1st. She made it possible for my step sister to steal my mother's ashes!!! My mom wanted to be burried with my real dad. Is that sick or what?! I don't ever want to see them again. When my sister would talk about 'our' mother she would always refer to her as 'MY MOTHER' ..(meaning like I was an only child).like she didn't even think of having a mom. ...How sick is that? People ask me if I'm ever afraid to ghost hunt...I say that I fear the living more than the dead. My sister's👹 real middle name IS ...😈.ANN👺 !!! 😲😞 😩👻😨
You just blew me away w/ Cathy Bates character being a metaphor for addiction!!! WOW, I had NO idea yet it 1000% makes sense! I gotta sit down, great video!
One of my favorite things (way before Dark Tower) was all the little easter eggs he'd toss in referencing other novels in his work for avid readers to find.
@@MintyComedicArts I thumbed your comment down for sheer irony. I'm a big fan of your work. Speaking of Bette Midler, could you do Drowning Mona. Anywho keep up the good work
Bette Middler can't do evil? You should watch Hocus Pocus, it maybe a kids movie, but Middler plays the character of Witch Winnie Sanderson with gusto.
I saw a production of Misery in London's West End about 25 years ago with Bill Paterson and Sharon Gless. It was terrifyingly amazing! And yes, she chopped his foot off in that version although, to be honest, I remember squeezing my eyes firmly shut at that point.
I remember reading the book a couple years after it came out. I thought it depicted his suffering better than the movie - the sheer scale of the pain, waiting for her to come back from her long drives and give him food, water, meds, the absolute agony of being at her mercy. That said, I’m happy they did the movie like this - it was more horrifying in some parts (like the hobbling - cutting off his foot seems much more painful, but the hobbling is much darker, twisted) and it has more closure than the book.
A while back I suggested more Stephen King and you've not disappointed. You're honestly one of the only must watch channels for me on YT. Keep up the great work Minty.
To me, the sledgehammer was the best choice to go with over the axe. It was a very crange Worthy scene that most people recall when talking about the film. I loved how she explained why she was doing it and the little "history lesson" of the backstory of the ACT. It wasn't a pointless monologue or just an action taken out with no thought. It was very well premeditated. Also find it more realistic because someone like her would own a sledgehammer so, she would have those items and everything about the scene was very practical and believable. The axe would have been Overkill, IMO.
Minty Comedic Arts Totally. She wasn't a monster but, she was deeply Disturbed. Everything was justifiable in her mind. It makes sense if she was brutalized as a child and those books helped her cope. She may have felt threatened, like her protection would be gone if her favorite character would die. It was like trying to save a best friend from being murdered. More likely her only friend. Her just chopping off his foot just doesn't fit with her character. I can see how it would work, in the book, but it doesn't fit the TV adoption. What she did do seems like something she would be capable of.
This was Kathy Bates "hanibal" role she scared the hell out of me to the point If I seen her I would not approach her for a autograph. It wasn't until her role in Titanic that I wasn't afraid of her anymore.
I really like this film but the Rob Reiner should have lead the audience in to a longer false sense of security Annie Wilks shows her true self too quickly.
I saw Misery in the theater when it came out. I went alone, and my attention was drawn to a college-aged guy a few seats ahead of me, as he was the only other person going solo. When the 'hobbling" scene happened, he was yelling "FUCK!...FUCK!" at the top of his lungs, and rocking backward and forward in his seat.....his popcorn spilling away from him willy-nilly. I'll never forget that.
Maybe you don't know Bette Midler's filmography (being too young probably?). I remember it, because sadly I'm not too young. Anyway, as soon as you said that Midler was considered for the role of Annie, I instantly saw her in it and I think she would have been great!. She has a lot of edge believe it or not. Infact, I actually wonder if she could have acted innocent enough for the "nice" side of Annie's personality.
I think the fact that Kathie Bates was pretty unknown at the time helped the film. There were no expectations as far as her acting style and it helped create more of a sense of unpredictability.
She was a really well known actress.
@@fuzzywuzzy5749 Actually she wasn't. She had been in some films, television roles, and done stage work, but, as far as the movie going public was concerned many had no idea who she was. I think, at that time, she was one of those actors that people may have recognized her, but would be trying to remember from where.
In my experience during my 65 yr life, I learned that it is much better be kind and treat politely mentally ill people. They will remember it long time and thus make no harm to you. If you get their love, it will be unconditional (what could be better?), although un-usual sort of it.
And: it is God's will and gift to you.
I liked Kathie in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
@@darylkanofski9327same. Plus Titanic and Waterboy
I'm so glad that Kathy Bates got the role, she's the BEST.
Agree! I couldn't see Bette in that part. Bette Midler also passed on SISTER ACT, that role she should have taken.
Yea she did awesome.
I couldn't imagine any one else who would of played the part as good, she's brilliant.
@@jasona9 how dumb, those could have been the roles of her life ( in side note I think those characters fit her just fine)
You should see her in an early role in "Straight Time."
I love Kathy Bates, especially in Dolores Claiborne and Fried Green Tomatoes. She is so talented.
Dolores Claiborne is one of my favs. She should've gotten an Oscar for that one, too.
She is brilliant in Fried Green Tomatoes.
She well deserved the Oscar for best actress in the leading role. She was also nominated for Fried Green Tomatoes and for About Schmidt where she appeared in a nudity scene.
Dolores Claiborne is my most favorite adaptation of his work. I sent my first edition copy to King years ago and he signed it. I was reading it in a sunny room and was scared to go check on the meatloaf ! ☺️
Not to mention come back to the five and dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean
I love watching Misery on a cold winter's night. Drinking hot tea with chili in the crockpot 🍵🥣
Thats just sick.
Sounds like a plan 😁 Stephen King movies are good for cold winter's nights.
Lame lol
YEEESSSSSS. Can't forget the heated blanket either.
about a year ago, i watched this at 2am on TV... in the hospital i work at... the dark, quiet creepy hospital...
i shouldn't have done that...
Honestly, I think a sledgehammer to the ankles is WAY more disturbing than just axing it off.
The cutting off wasn't the most brutal part. It was the blowtorch to seal the wound! It still sends chills through me!
@@aaronjanusch6090 fuck that
How about cutting his thumb off and later bringing him a birthday cake with a "special candle?"
Are you touched. After taking the sledge hammer to his foot he could still walk. After axing his foot off he probably wouldn't have been able to walk. And I agree that taking the blow torch to the wound was really the most terrible part. The dialogue in the book before she axes his foot was way longer and a lot more un-nerving than in the movie.
i think its much different, since annie was saying that its for the better that she simply tortures him. it would make more sense that she takes an axe to his legs and its for the better that he cant walk, but she truly thinks its for the better that he just suffers.
Anne screaming “SHE DIDN’T GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODY CAR” bit always cracks me up partly because of Paul’s face
Forget Michael, Chucky, Pinhead, Jason etc. Annie is the scariest villain because she's so real
exactly the scariest is knowing there are people who are just this nuts! kathy does such an excellent job
Pinhead still scares the shit out of me😀
She's one of the best horror movie characters, but, scary? Nah, nothing a .45 wouldn't take care of. I don't identify as a spineless victim.
Yup, reminds me of a couple of nurses that had ME helpless in bed at a VA hospital. They worked as a tag-team.
buffalo bill, silence of the lambs. or leather face. x
James Caan should've at least been nominated for a best actor Oscar. He was excellent in the role.
Rip ❤
Kathy Bates is queen .❤
Have you caught Kathy Bates in "Straight Time," her first movie role?
She plays a very touching character, the wife of Gary Busey's character and the mother of his son, played by his real-life kid, Jake.
This was Kathy Bates's movie all the way. Her performance was one of the best I've seen. Totally deserved the Oscar that year.
Kathie was brilliant
I can watch the goriest movies ever made. Blood and guts do not phase me. But that hobbling scene in Misery is too damn much. I can watch every Saw movie without flinching, but damn I can't watch those ankles being broken. It's too.......real. Most splatter flicks are over the top to the point of comedy, but that scene is subtle. Not to mention I have twisted my ankle before and know how much it hurts. So there is a real world personal connection. Unlike getting your rib cage pulled out. I haven't felt anything like that before so I can't relate to it happening on film. That's what makes the hobbling scene in Misery so damn horrific.
It doesn't hurt that James Caan's acting is pretty damn good.
Heh heh... "doesn't hurt"....
Monroville Also didn't hurt that she clipped one of his toes and scared the S out of him, adding to his performance👍
Then you don't want to know what she does in the book...they actually tamed it for the movie...
totally agree, it's so much more believable with the sledge.
I don’t know. That one saw scene where the black dude is having his limbs slowing twisted backwards was pretty brutal
Coming from a vet horrorhound, that 'breaking' scene was one of the hardest for me to ever watch.
And I've recently been watching Kathy Bates in the American Horror Story series. She is still beyond amazing in anything she does.
The nobbling scene was done incredibly well with numerous cutaways until the final image with the prosthetic leg. I can't watch it.
“Vet horrorhound” - has a Saw profile picture 🤦🏻♂️ yikes..
Misery is one of my favorite Stephen King books and films! Annie was much more evil, deadlier, violent, and psychotic in the book than in the film. She killed over 35 people in the book! The book was so psychological and horrifying. I highly recommend you guys read it. I met Stephen King in 2014 at his Revival lecture and he was mesmerizing.
I just finished it a few days ago and I agree with you. It is definitely one of my favorite Stephen King book besides The Shining. It's amazing, I definitely recommend it.
Killed 35? Was she the "number one fan" of them all?
After I finished the hobbling part of the book and I cried for an hour. It was *so vivid!* I haven't touched the book in almost a week.
The lawnmower scene from the book was horrific 😣
I worked with a lady from Maine ( here in Sydney) who said King came to her uni to give a talk one day and he was piss drunk.We worked at Idexx a big veterinary company headquarters in Maine.
Minty, I love you. I'm your number one fan. Please don't ever stop doing movie reviews. I don't know what I'd do without your movie reviews.
By the way, I'm from Maine.
I love your sense of humor
you sound like Annie
el trumpador Oh yes, Maine is like an unknown treasure trove of aliens, cryptids, weird history and paranormal.
Trevor Donohoe that was the joke...
ok dont break me ankles plz
I'll be honest with you, I kind of like not knowing why Annie is the way that she is. And to be perfectly frank, characters having daddy issues is WAY too overused these days.
tis, but probably tends to be the case in real life. parents are the ones who fuck you up before anyone else
No argument there. However, it's still an overused trope these days, and it kind of makes you wish that they'd pick another less-played out father-child dynamic.
That's true because even in the book it's only HINTED that she was screwed up because of her father.
Indeed. Plus, you know what would actually be scarier but still truthful in cases of real life? Someone growing up in a normal loving household and STILL coming out bad. You may not hear about it often, but it does happen.
it would of have been interesting if they followed up this movie with a prequel showing annies life and why shes such a wacko however stephen king wouldHAVE to be part of the script writing
In the novel Paul knew he was in trouble from the very first moment he woke up in Annie's house. I like the way the movie handles things by having Annie seem odd but friendly and caring at the beginning, even reassuring Paul that she contacted authorities, his editor and family, then revealing it was all a lie and she never intended to let him go alive right after she reads his latest Misery novel.
●SPOILER ALERT FROM THE NOVEL!!●
In addition to Paul's foot being cut off, then blow-torched to stop the bleeding, she later cut off his thumb and stuck it on a cake like a birthday candle. That would have REALLY been creepy if it was in the movie.
How would he use the SPACE BAR when typing ?
Seems counter productive ....
She was WAAAAAY worse in the book, bitch went all out batshit
YES. THIS PART DISTURBED ME EVEN MORE THAN THE FOOT SCENE.
+Wonko Sane did you actually have the nerve to say the movie is better then the book? no arguement is good but NO movie can live up to stephan kings written genius
Salty???
Just a small edit...Paul actually wasn’t delivering his final book in the Misery series when the car crash happened. The final book for Misery had been delivered some time ago and copies of it were JUST being released to bookstores during the time of the accident. The accident happened when Paul was on his way home after celebrating his completion of a book completely unrelated to the Misery series, which explains why he abruptly killed Misery Chastain off in the last Misery installment in order to move on and start writing new things. This leads to Annie reading the new script, becoming upset with Paul for the new novel’s vulgar language, buying the last Misery installment at a shop in town once the roads were cleared, and becoming outrageously violent after discovering that Misery was killed off. Other than that, I love your video and how well it dissects Stephen King’s thrilling story :)
It would be so very cool if Stephen King, just for fun, wrote Fast Cars, as Paul Sheldon, 30 years later, as he ('Paul') would tell a brief summary of all that happened. The dedication could read;
To Annie Wilkes.
In your face, you DERANGED pig!
one of the best movies of all time :)
come on bro... it's good no doubt but best movie of all time?!?
I said ONE of the best ... that doesn't mean #1, the doesn't mean top 10, it doesn't even necessarily mean top 100 ...
MickeyKnox damn following that logic Hitler would have made a great drinking buddy.
what the ...? There isn't only black and white in the world - just because I said something is "one of the best" doesn't mean that it's the best of them all. It's just part of a loose list of great movies.
What is your problem?
BTW: Who says that Hitler wasn't a great drinking buddy?
MickeyKnox ok so would it be in your top 10 top 50 or top100? ( I'm pretty sure at least 6.000.000 would agree with me)
Correction: Paul isn't delivering the last entry of Misery when he gets into the car accident -- he's just finished his first non-Misery book basically since the start of his career. The last installment of Misery is due to release in the coming weeks. And we first start getting hints of Annie's instability when she's reading the non-Misery copy and spills the soup on the blanket as she's going through her colorful curses, which is well before she gets ahold of the latest Misery installment which sets her flying off the edge. You can tell Paul is a bit concerned once she reveals to have picked up her copy.
Thank you!
And in the book it was titled "Fast Cars."
I actually read the book before I saw the movie. It was very intense. I felt like I was in Paul's shoes while reading. I was scared of Annie. She was so unpredictable at times. She would be fine one day, and crazy the next. One wrong thing said would set her off, and cause Paul to be hurt by her. Paul was always so polite to her. She was still crazy.
I really like the book, the opening passages especially
Kathy Bates is a legend.
Misery loves company
ANTHRAX
HAHAHAHA
Not bees, though.
kirby march barcena haa good one
"Yeah remember beaches? That movie your mom used to watch all the damn time back in the day" lol I've never felt more personally attacked
Rian Rodriguez haha me too! Loved it since a teenager... still makes me cry as a grown ass...um mother!
Most people and children will check under their beds and closets for a spook or Boogeyman,me,personally I check under my beds and closets to this day for Kathy Bates,haha!
I wonder if she['s related to Norman?
Really? I check behind the shower curtains
Both actors were great. Can't imagine anyone else in either role.
I love Kathy Bates
In the book, Annie also chops off Paul's thumb and puts it on a cake as a birthday candle.
Holy shit 😮
He wasn't on his way to deliver the final book in the series though. He had the manuscript of his first non-Misery novel, which Annie makes him burn.
TheDensley7 Well spotted! Thanks for writing that so I didn't have to.
TheDensley7 couldn't he have just told her it was a ploy? and after the decoy book Misery would be back to (reinvigorate) the brand? 😂 yes I enjoy armchair what-ifs
According to King, the original ending was supposed to be the new Paul Sheldon book bound in Paul Sheldon's skin.
@@ennuiblue4295 The final book in the Misery series was already published where the main character died. Annie goes nuts after she reads it and forces him to bring her back to life in a new book.
@TheDensley7 yes. The book was called "Fast Cars."
The mystery of why Annie Wilkes is the way she is makes the story work better.
If there were any explanations it could destroy some of the tension.
I first saw this movie in the theater (one of my favorite movie-going experiences) and probably dozens of times since. I never get tired of it. The plot is so well structured, the cinematography so beautiful and the acting so good that I get drawn in every single time. It's crazy that a movie that mostly only centers on two people could be so riveting speaks to its power.
Just think about all of the different characters Bates has portrayed. From American Horror Story and all the different accents she pulls of each season to her Annie character. She is a friggn amazing actress. Making her a legend in my opinion.
2 videos in 1 day ? We're blessed to have you minty
RIP James Caan!
Misery has been my favorite movie since I was 4yo.. I barely saw The Godfather a few months ago & loved it, Sonny was my favorite character.
This movie is right up there with The Shining and Silence Of The Lambs as one of those thrillers that still thrills every time, even if you’ve seen it 100 times. It’s a testament to perfect writing, directing and performances. Kathy Bates is a living legend.
I dunno, somehow seeing/hearing his ankles being violently snapped seems more horrifying than chopping off a foot.
marna little TOTALLY agree! Mr. Reiner did the right thing.
I can't help but think there should be a spoof where George Lucas gets in a car accident and is saved by one of his fans... All this is before The Phantom Menace, and well, because of Misery we know what happens next.
they made that
its a fan film
That might be a little too close. When George Lucas was in high school in 1962 he was in a very bad car accident in which he was a ejected from the vehicle and almost didn't make it.
Riann Johnson & Kathleen Kennedy...LOL
Better yet, George Romero gets into a car accident and Annie has to save him from zombies.
That wouldnt work as he had actually written most of the story, BUT he started the movies part way through the story with A NEW HOPE... And by changing the pryor storyline the first movies we saw wouldnt make sense.
Excellent performances by both actors. James Caan plays the character in pain amazingly well, and as for Kathy Bates-perfect.
The hobbling scene still makes me cringe :::Shudder:::
me too
I can't even listen to that scene in the audiobook. I turn the volume down.
Ditto.
“Oh Paul! I’m gonna go put on my Liberace records Alll Dayyy so you be inspired >:•D”
Minty - You great !
I discovered your canel 3 days ago and I start to binch watching - cant sleep - have to watching oll night.
Its great ! 😻👍👏👏👏❤
I've never watched the hobbling scene in Misery......I can't........I always close my eyes.
I have never even watched this movie...... because I'm scared to do so! I have read the book several times though.
I have to see this movie!! I have never heard of it.. And I love Kathy Bates!! This is my next priority! It looks Great!! Thanks Minty!!👍👍👍👍
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U love Kathy Bates yet never heard of Misery? Huh. Well, it's been 4 months- did ya like it or what?
poor dear living under a rock all this time, how is it possiable you have never heard of misery. i hope you watched it and loved it
Have you caught Kathy Bates in "Straight Time," her first movie role?
She plays a very touching character, the wife of Gary Busey's character. Their son is played by Busey's real-life kid, Jake.
Its been 100 years, have you seen it yet?
No bro it’s aunt Jackie from Roseanne lol I mean that’s where I know her best from
Bruce and laurie met on the set when he was friends with roseanne after they did the voice over work for LOOK WHOS TALKING
I came here to say just this lol.
Hey, Minty. I would like to see a facts video about "The Good Son", the movie in which Macaulay Culkin played the villain. ;)
I remember that movie...jamie lee curtis played the mother of elijah woods i think.
I don't think it was her
@@annasloan2349 Nope. Jamie Lee Curtis was not in that movie.
@@undergroundwarrior70 i looked it up online and the mother was an actress named wendy crewson. I swear in my memory of watching that movie it was jamie lee curtis..maybe im mixing up scenes from my girl or something.
Culkin even said "dont fuck with me".
Misery is phenomenal. I still close my eyes during the hobbling scene. If I look, my feet twitch.
Caan! Caan!! *throws hands up screaming in the air on my knees* CAAN!!!!!!!!
Top 5 thrillers of all time defo, minty your channel is definitely one of my favorites on TH-cam just now brilliant
Misery is one of my all time favorite movies from the 90's. I never got to read the novel sadly so the fact that it wasn't a sledge hammer but a freaking axe blew me away. I actually had to stop the video to let that sink in, and that rarely happens. Maybe once every 80 videos or something like that. I was surprised that asked so many actors to play the writer but you are right Cann did and amazing job. I have to agree about Bette Milder. I don't know if she would have made the impact Bates did because Bates plays a really great villain.
If you dig Stephen King, I highly recommend reading this one. It isn't hugely long like some of his others, and it goes meta where you're reading Annie's "commissioned" book 'Misery's Return' as Paul is writing it - so there's segments of a novel within the novel.
I think it was my first Stephen King book actually. I revisited it recently and was genuinely surprised at the page count.
You should totally read it!
@@Liverbirdjen ii ever get the chance forever running out of things to read.
Kathy Bates is such an amazing actress. She has such a wide range
11, and worth mentioning: the book ended very differently in one area: Paul did not actually burn "Misery's Return", but a mock up of it. And, after defeating Annie, he took the real manuscript with him and published it.
Since the movie could not accurately explain his rationale the way the book did, they simply had him destroy it for real.
Roy Schieder would have been real good in the Paul Shelden role. I can't picture anybody but Kathy Bates as Annie.
Minty i'm your number one fan,so keep up the good work...or else...
Dirty Dan's number 100,000.000,001 Fan.
“We all go a lil mad sometimes”
Well said Norman Bates!! It REALLY applies to Annie
I love this movie! Great video!
You can give me monsters, vampires, demons or werewolves but there was nothing more scary than Annie Wilkes... Kathy Bates was terrifying...! X
Still to this day, I can not help but cry when I see the sledgehammer scene.
Or when I just see Kathy. I'm traumatised for life. Lol
In the book she cut his foot off
"Luckily, Caan took on the role. And in my opinion did a great job. He was likeable, and yet you could empathize with him."
Wait...what?
Not my favorite Bates role, but one she absolutely knocked into the stratosphere. Given her history of starring in Broadway productions, and not being used when they were translated to screen ("Frankie and Johnny", and '"Night, mother" being two of them), it's gratifying to watch her work in this film, knowing it won her a well-deserved Academy Award.
Love Laurie Metcalf! Plays wacky crazy sooo well!
"He didn't get out of the cockadoodie car!!" Kathy Bates is legendary in this role.
I think that sledgehammer scene was more horrific than an axe could haven been. Don't ask me why, but it just seems more treacherous.
RIP James Caan you gave a great performance as Paul Sheldon no one else could’ve played the part better IMO
Could you do one about candyman if you can
Yeaaaa,💘
I do love Candyman. Helen.....also that Philip Glass soundtrack...so good
My mother and I went to the drive in to see a double feature when I was 6 or 7. Back to the Future 3 and misery.(what a selection 🤣) I fell asleep before the end of BTTF 3 but woke up again right as James Caan was being hobbled. I remember letting out a high pitch scream right as the sledgehammer made contact. I startled the shit out of my mom😂
This movie wouldn't exist had the internet been around. He could have just emailed the damn thing. 😂
You mentioned it would be better if we had a more thorough backstory, now we are getting it with Castle Rock on Hulu, introducing Annie Wilkes in season 2
I think my ex-wife must have been Annie’s understudy.
Both James & Bates are great actors cause only great actors can play great serious roles and hilarious roles and nobody could’ve played them better in this move. Perfect movie 👍🏻
This movie is fucking terrifying.
Kathy is a BEAST. She chews every role she is in, kills it every time
I much prefer the hobbling, which is actually more horrific than a mere lobbing off of a foot with an axe.
Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf in a stage version of Misery? Sounds pretty fuckin cool to me.
And *intense* - seeing something on the screen is one thing but in live theater it's a completely different experience, you're immersed.
... unless they made Misery into a musical - that would be too weird.
Annie could have been easily played my sister.😎
No 'acting' lessons required.
GhostCity Shelton That's scary
@@caglep.1348 Hi Cagle !! It is no joke about my sister. While I was in the hospital when my mother was dieing she and her 2 grown 'kids' (A daughter and son...the son has lived with 'mommy' for years and years, lives in her basement ...Sis has a house with 3 bed rooms but makes him live in the celler.) were going though my mother's house taking anything not nailed down and stole the 'WILL & changed it & cut me out of it....she even stopped mom's funeral plans so she could save that money.
The son only worked 2 wks in his life, been in jail for a time and has lived with his booze drinking mom almost all his life. All three are the laziest things on 2 feet.
They went to visit mom when she was in a nursing home but my sister never made it to her room, she fell asleep in the lobby of the place!! I haven't spoken to them in 9 years come Aug 1st.
She made it possible for my step sister to steal my mother's ashes!!! My mom wanted to be burried with my real dad. Is that sick or what?!
I don't ever want to see them again. When my sister would talk about 'our' mother she would always refer to her as 'MY MOTHER' ..(meaning like I was an only child).like she didn't even think of having a mom. ...How sick is that?
People ask me if I'm ever afraid to ghost hunt...I say that I fear the living more than the dead.
My sister's👹 real middle name IS ...😈.ANN👺 !!! 😲😞 😩👻😨
You just blew me away w/ Cathy Bates character being a metaphor for addiction!!! WOW, I had NO idea yet it 1000% makes sense! I gotta sit down, great video!
I could totally see Dreyfuss or Hurt playing that role.
One of my favourite movies of all time.
in an alternate universe, after Sonny Corleone gave up crime, he went straight and wrote romance novels...
RavnerRavner Hah!
Great video man and just wanted you to know "I'm you're number one fan" sorry just had to do it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Classic horror...&the meatloaf dinner scene always mkes me hungry
Definitely one of my favorites of his work. I love that reference to The Shining in the book.
One of my favorite things (way before Dark Tower) was all the little easter eggs he'd toss in referencing other novels in his work for avid readers to find.
Who knew that Meathead had this much talent?
I'm impressed.
It's just something about Kathy Bates that's pure PERFECTION. She is GREAT!!!!!!!
who thumbs this stuff down? why?
do you have a stalker?
Nearly every video I post gets 5 thumbs down and I got a feeling it's the same 5 people lol
@@MintyComedicArts I thumbed your comment down for sheer irony. I'm a big fan of your work. Speaking of Bette Midler, could you do Drowning Mona. Anywho keep up the good work
Love your content Minty. Been binging out like crazy on your videos. You might even say, I’m your number one fan😅😮
7:07 so he was too hungover to lay in bed for filming?
I saw this in the theater on Christmas day 1990 with a few friends. Another good 10 Things. Keep up the good work Minty!
Bette Middler can't do evil? You should watch Hocus Pocus, it maybe a kids movie, but Middler plays the character of Witch Winnie Sanderson with gusto.
Gusto... 😄 I love your comment
I saw a production of Misery in London's West End about 25 years ago with Bill Paterson and Sharon Gless. It was terrifyingly amazing! And yes, she chopped his foot off in that version although, to be honest, I remember squeezing my eyes firmly shut at that point.
Bette Midler too "smiley" to play Annie Wilkes?
Ever see "Drowning Mona" or "Ruthless People"?
Is "Ruthless People" where she says "I've been kidnapped by K-Mart!"
@@KutWrite Yes.
@Muff Diver I'm pretty sure Bette Midler could have pulled off Annie Wilkes crazy, but damn did Kathy Bates knock it out of the park.
Drowning Mona is freaking hilarious
@@jacobprice8048 yeah That movie is crazy. :)
I remember reading the book a couple years after it came out. I thought it depicted his suffering better than the movie - the sheer scale of the pain, waiting for her to come back from her long drives and give him food, water, meds, the absolute agony of being at her mercy. That said, I’m happy they did the movie like this - it was more horrifying in some parts (like the hobbling - cutting off his foot seems much more painful, but the hobbling is much darker, twisted) and it has more closure than the book.
Midler would of made a great annie imo.
Shes got a mean streak.
Lol at only knowing her for Beaches and subsequently type casting her.
i looove bette midler but i do not think this would of been the role for her , kathy bates cannot be topped in this
Just watched this recently. I don't remember any other movie which makes me so nervous! I love this one! Thanks, Minty! Greetings from Finland!
11 things actually: I did not know it was going to be that good of a movie.
A while back I suggested more Stephen King and you've not disappointed. You're honestly one of the only must watch channels for me on YT. Keep up the great work Minty.
To me, the sledgehammer was the best choice to go with over the axe. It was a very crange Worthy scene that most people recall when talking about the film. I loved how she explained why she was doing it and the little "history lesson" of the backstory of the ACT. It wasn't a pointless monologue or just an action taken out with no thought. It was very well premeditated. Also find it more realistic because someone like her would own a sledgehammer so, she would have those items and everything about the scene was very practical and believable. The axe would have been Overkill, IMO.
Yea good point I actually agree. Annie Wilkes should be sadistic but not brutal if that makes sense??
Minty Comedic Arts Totally. She wasn't a monster but, she was deeply Disturbed. Everything was justifiable in her mind. It makes sense if she was brutalized as a child and those books helped her cope. She may have felt threatened, like her protection would be gone if her favorite character would die. It was like trying to save a best friend from being murdered. More likely her only friend.
Her just chopping off his foot just doesn't fit with her character. I can see how it would work, in the book, but it doesn't fit the TV adoption. What she did do seems like something she would be capable of.
While I agree, she would also own an axe and other such tools for self sufficiency considering where she lived.
This was Kathy Bates "hanibal" role she scared the hell out of me to the point If I seen her I would not approach her for a autograph. It wasn't until her role in Titanic that I wasn't afraid of her anymore.
I really like this film but the Rob Reiner should have lead the audience in to a longer false sense of security Annie Wilks shows her true self too quickly.
Yes, I noticed this in the book as well. She goes from zero to crazy before you even have time to wonder about her.
I saw Misery in the theater when it came out. I went alone, and my attention was drawn to a college-aged guy a few seats ahead of me, as he was the only other person going solo. When the 'hobbling" scene happened, he was yelling "FUCK!...FUCK!" at the top of his lungs, and rocking backward and forward in his seat.....his popcorn spilling away from him willy-nilly.
I'll never forget that.
Maybe you don't know Bette Midler's filmography (being too young probably?). I remember it, because sadly I'm not too young. Anyway, as soon as you said that Midler was considered for the role of Annie, I instantly saw her in it and I think she would have been great!. She has a lot of edge believe it or not. Infact, I actually wonder if she could have acted innocent enough for the "nice" side of Annie's personality.
Yeah, if you want to see her edge watch a video of her talking about Pres. Trump!
I would have loved to have seen William Hurt in the role of the novelist, but, Caan gave his best performance ever, IMHO.