Stephen King's It Remake 2017

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I'll say this, the original kids looked more memorable.

These new kids might be better actors, but they all look the same to me

 

[YoNoSe]

What scene? I've seen the movie like once.

It's from the book.

Spoiler

After the children defeat IT, they become lost in the sewers and start to lose the somewhat "magical" bond they shared. Beverly makes the decision to have sex - for real, I know it sounds crazy - with each of the boys in turn. As it's written it serves to empower Bev and solidify the group but it's one of those writer-y ideas that is super left field and creepy on the page, but you get it. It would never be anything but horrifying on film.

Though I do wonder if ***anawa left because of that scene or the gay stuff between Patrick and Henry. I only read that it was over sexual content.

Anyway, I think the trailer looked great! The kids look good and the photography looks nice. The house on Neibolt street looks super-gnarly!

 

[Snake Plissken]

It's from the book.

Spoiler

After the children defeat IT, they become lost in the sewers and start to lose the somewhat "magical" bond they shared. Beverly makes the decision to have sex - for real, I know it sounds crazy - with each of the boys in turn. As it's written it serves to empower Bev and solidify the group but it's one of those writer-y ideas that is super left field and creepy on the page, but you get it. It would never be anything but horrifying on film.

Though I do wonder if ***anawa left because of that scene or the gay stuff between Patrick and Henry. I only read that it was over sexual content.

What the ****... **** much Mr. King?

Kinda reminds me of Peter Benchley having Hooper **** Brody's wife in Jaws... like what was the value in that?

 

[YoNoSe]

I'll say this, the original kids looked more memorable.

These new kids might be better actors, but they all look the same to me

Well, give it a minute. I remember watching the trailer for Fellowship and the first time I saw the hobbits I thought, "I am never going to be able to tell these mother****ers apart."

 

[DinoDB1975]

Yeah, I read IT for the first time earlier this year and I was like "WTF?!?!?!? when I got to that part. Junkion did a great job explaining King's thought process about it, but still...

Though the fact that he has admitted he was coked up out of his mind while writing it sort of explains it...

 

[YoNoSe]

What the ****... **** much Mr. King?

Kinda reminds me of Peter Benchley having Hooper **** Brody's wife in Jaws... like what was the value in that?

Spoiler

Yeah, he got a lot of flack for it. But honestly the point of it is very apparent in the book. It's just a super weird way to get it across. There's a lot about sexuality in the book - he even makes particular note of the way kids refer to sex as doing "IT" - and it does make sense if you can get past the "holy**** this IS going where it looks like it's going" feeling (and many understandably can't). At least, it makes sense insomuch as you can see what he meant to do with it. I've read the book multiple times and just recently listened to the audiobook. I still really don't like that part, but I get it.

I never read Jaws but that's kind of hilarious out of context.

 

[ApeManRyan]

Looks great. Going to read the book in anticipation to the film and I do love the 90's tv film but it does have its problems and not fully accurate to the book king wrote. Like others I'll be curious what they add from the book and keep out like the Spoiler above. Little far fetched but you know that's stephen king for you.

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[Otomofan]

I read the book shortly after the TV movie aired, and I was about the same age as the kids in the book.

I didn't really understand the scene when I read it, but I remembered it. It just seemed really odd to me. But by that point in the book there was a giant Turtle or something, too, so none of it made any sense to me.

My brother read the book for the first time a year or two ago. He said he was enjoying it up until that part. He has little kids of his own, and he went on a furious rant about how sickening it was and how messed up King must be in the head.

Supposedly King was realllly hitting the booze and coke hard when he was finishing the book, so maybe that's why the last part of the book was so baffling.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Spoiler

Yeah, he got a lot of flack for it. But honestly the point of it is very apparent in the book. It's just a super weird way to get it across. There's a lot about sexuality in the book - he even makes particular note of the way kids refer to sex as doing "IT" - and it does make sense if you can get past the "holy**** this IS going where it looks like it's going" feeling (and many understandably can't). At least, it makes sense insomuch as you can see what he meant to do with it. I've read the book multiple times and just recently listened to the audiobook. I still really don't like that part, but I get it.

I never read Jaws but that's kind of hilarious out of context.

I didn't either, just some information I found out there. Apparently critics of Benchley say that he sticks in meaningless sex sub plots in all his novels.

 

[YoNoSe]

All totally understandable reactions. I think after IT he wrote Tommyknockers and then hit rehab, but I'm fuzzy on the timeline. I think he's said Tommyknockers is the absolute bottom of the barrel regarding his coke/booze-fueled writing.

I'm currently listening to 11/22/63 on audible (I have very little free time to read but can listen to whatever at work). Any IT fan should read it. I don't want to spoil anything but the first quarter of the book has a very strong relationship to IT.

 

[YoNoSe]

I didn't either, just some information I found out there. Apparently critics of Benchley say that he sticks in meaningless sex sub plots in all his novels.

I believe it. I mean, you can skip entire chapters of Moby **** because Melville was paid by the page as I understand it. We like to elevate the written word but really authors are just hungry weirdos like the rest of us.

 

[DinoDB1975]

11/22/63 is a DAMN good book. Haven't seen the Hulu series yet, but I know that there's no way that it'll be as good as the book.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I believe it. I mean, you can skip entire chapters of Moby **** because Melville was paid by the page as I understand it. We like to elevate the written word but really authors are just hungry weirdos like the rest of us.

Very true. I don't read too much but I read the American Psycho novel a few years back. Fun read, but holy **** do we need entire chapters about Bateman talking about Phil Collins? Apparently, we did.

 

[DiFabio]

Big fan of the original mini tv series. I thought the trailer for this looked great. I'll see it.

 

[crows]

I read that Tim curry was very afraid of clowns and agreed to do the character as long as there were no mirrors around or something

 

[DiFabio]

Tim Curry was the original voice of the Joker in Batman The Animated Series. He did a few episodes before Hamill replaced him.

 

[Otomofan]

Recorded them right? But they were never aired with his voice?

 

[DiFabio]

Correct, the episodes he did never aired.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I'd imagine he sounded like this.

This is basically a Batman and Joker scene.

 

[pturtle]

It doesn't look bad, but it looks like the exact same movie.


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