Hello everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige today we're going to be talking about the horror thriller

Misery that was unleashed on an unsuspecting audience back in November 30th 1990., that's right, 30 years of misery have we endured on this planet.

Of course, this was directed by Rob Reiner, based on a screenplay by William Goldman, they're teeming back up after Princess

Bride and many, many other fruitful endeavors, and also based on a novel misery by Stephen King stars James Kahn

Kathy Bates this is like kind of her debut role

and Lord McCall

taking a role again as James Kahn's literary agent because this is essentially Stephen King, the worst fear. Jim, what's your relationship with misery and what's you think of it this time around?

I've definitely seen it before, I just don't remember how many times and it surprised me

because I thought I remembered more of this movie than I did and I really the only scene that stuck out in my head is that hobbling scene.

Right. Which I think is like the film defining scene. It's what everybody remembers.

But I love it. I think it holds up just as well. It's just as terrifying. Kathy Bates is just as amazing now as she was in 1990.

Yeah, I was still thoroughly impressed with this movie going back to it 30 years later.

How about you?

I have never seen this movie before.

And of course I've ever, I know, but I knew about the hobbling scene that's something

that like you know you gets out in pop culture and it's like man is it going to be

now is it going to be now is it going to be now. And I really liked it. I thought like the

tension really holds up. I think some of the filmmaking looks kind of

creaky or basic and I wonder if that's because they were doing like Rob Reiner is intentionally

imitating like a 1970s kind of aesthetic to make it feel like it's a little bit of a throwback

or to make it feel like a little bit of a throwback or to make it feel like a little bit of a period piece, but also the 90s are right on that.

They're like a threshold, you know, decade like the 70s were where it's like not you're not entirely 80s or

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