Misery | Lauren Bacall, Kathy Bates | ONE OF THE FEW KING STORIES THAT GETS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE...

Misery | Lauren Bacall, Kathy Bates | One of my worst nightmares

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Misery

	Misery Lauren Bacall, Kathy Bates MGM (Video & DVD), 2000 average customer review:based on 174 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

ONE OF THE FEW KING STORIES THAT GETS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE TREAMENT

So many of Kings stories are turned into really bad movies that when it's done right like The Dead Zone, Misery and The Shawshank Redemption( I know there are more good ones)you wonder what went wrong with the others. This is a high tension thriller that will keep you on the edge from beginning to end! Bates is incredible in her role as the Nut from Hell!

One of my worst nightmares

As a horror writer, this story creeped me out. The worst part is that it could happen...and probably has. No matter your profession or social involvements (ie, coaching little league), you could become the object of someone's obsession. Well created with a great introduction to Kathy Bates. But only watch it with someone you truly know and trust.
August 11, 2005

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Misery loves company. (SPOILERS)

Taken from the Stephen King novel by the same name, Misery is a very gripping and entertaining movie which holds your interest the entire time. There are moments of humor and horror. Kathy Bates is the star here, and she was royally rewarded for her performance by winning an Oscar.

I've always been intrigued by the differences between movies and the books they originate from. Misery is no exception. Since I need an angle for my review, why don't I just simply tell some of the differences between movie and novel for those interested. (SPOILERS)

Movie (M)--Paul gets in the accident because of the blizzard.
Book (B)--Paul gets in the accident because he is drunk and in a blizzard.

M-After Paul wakes up in Annie's care, he immediately asks about his loved ones and why he isn't in a hospital.
B-Paul is afraid to ask because he immediately knows something is mentally wrong with Annie Wilkes.

M--Paul is mentally and emotionally tough.
B--Paul is weak and cries constantly; but gets stronger toward the end.

M--Paul has quit smoking, but smokes one cigarette after finishing each book.
B--Paul is still an active smoker, but oddly never craves a cigarette the entire time.

M--Paul has 2 broken legs and a dislocated shoulder from the accident.
B--He has 2 broken legs and a pelvic injury.

M--Paul has written 8 Misery novels
B--Paul has written 4 Misery novels

M--Annie is allowed to read Paul's new manuscript because she saved his life.
B--Annie coerces Paul into allowing her to read the manuscript by implying she won't give him his pain medicine.

M--The manuscript doesn't have a title.
B--The name of the manuscript is Fast Cars.

M--Annie coerces Paul into burning his manuscript by pouring lighting fluid on his bed.
B--She threatens not feed him or give him his pills until he burns the manuscript.

M--A sheriff spends the entire movie trying to find Paul.
B--There is no old sheriff, but 3 cops come to the house.

M--Annie is crazy.
B--Annie is crazier.

M--Paul sneaks out of his room twice; once to find a phone, to possibly escape, and to get medicine; and the next to read her scrap book and get a knife.
B--He sneaks out of his room 3 times; once to find a phone and possibly escape; second to get food and medicine and to read her scrap book; third to get the knife.

M--Paul discovers by reading Annie's scrapbook that she has killed patients while working as a nurse.
B--Paul discovers that Annie has killed patients, as well as some of her neighbors, her college roommate, her father, and one of her boyfriends.

M--Annie leaves him for a few hours whenever she's angry.
B--Annie leaves him for days on end.

M--Annie can tell Paul's been out of his room by her ceramic penguin facing a different direction.
B--Annie notices her things rearranged and the marks in the doorway from Paul's wheelchair; then she starts leaving her hair over things to know where he's been snooping.

M--Annie breaks both of Paul's ankles to keep him from leaving.
B--Annie cuts off his left foot and his left thumb on 2 separate occasions.

M--Paul starts saving his pills and tries to drug Annie when they have dinner.
B--Paul is afraid to try this; and instead keeps the pills as a reserve in case she leaves him without any.

M--They have dinner together in her dining room.
B--They never have dinner together, but she does take him out to sit on her porch and to watch M.A.S.H.

M--Paul writes Misery's Return then burns it.
B--Paul enjoys writing Misery's Return and saves the manuscript while burning scrap paper to trick Annie.

M--In the final confrontation, Annie trips over Paul's leg and hits her head on the typewriter; then he eventually kills her with some kind of statue.
B--Annie trips over the typewriter and hits her head on the edge of the mantel. Paul locks himself in the bathroom and sleeps as Annie eventually escapes through the bedroom window and dies in the barn while getting a chainsaw.

M--At the end, Paul has written a new book that is receiving a lot of critical buzz.
B--Paul has writers' block, but finally begins writing a story that begins with a boy finding a skunk.

Bottom Line: Both movie and book are good.

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Great movie to watch over and over again!

I loved this movie! It's a great thriller!

Paul Sheldon, an author of a bestselling series, has decided to stop his series by killing off his main charactor. In his car one snowy night he has a car crash and is stranded. Luckily (or not so luckily) a lady finds him and brings him back to her house. The lady nurses him back to health and puts a cast on his broken leg. It turns out that the lady who found him is a crazy fan of his books and after reading his last book, and finding out that the main charactor dies, isn't so friendly (to put it mildly).

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Alan Bates. . .eat your friggin heart out

The character of Annie Wilkes has got to be the psycho to end all psycho's in movie cinema. Mostly because she is self restrained most of the time, without going overboard, in regards to her "home sweet home" demeanor, while hiding a carefully guarded skeleton in her demented closet. The biggest tip offs to her unstability is, of course, her outrageous temper tantrums, and her incredible sense of possesion for the things "she loves."
It's unfortunate for the man she saves, has now become one of her most prized possesions, while he's healing himself in her home thinking help is on the way, but can't due to current snowstorms. She never makes the call.
And while he is waiting, she discovers an awful secret of his. The man, who happens to be an author of her favorite literary fictional female character, has come to terms by ending his writing career by killing the female character off in his final book.
And that's when hell, breaks loose!

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