Stephen King's It Remake 2017

[EVILFACE]

The kiddie train? yea, that wasn't going to make it into any adaption.

 

[jye4ever]

Was thumbing through the "It" book at a bookstore after seeing this movie (had never read the book) and came across "that" scene with all the kids and the girl. Wow - Stephen King may be the scare-meister, but he is one deeply messed-up dude.

How that got past the publisher is a mystery - I guess he was a big enough name by then that no one could say no.

Because *** with children is a normal thing in Hollyweird going back to the start of the studios especially when no social media or internet existed.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Was thumbing through the "It" book at a bookstore after seeing this movie (had never read the book) and came across "that" scene with all the kids and the girl. Wow - Stephen King may be the scare-meister, but he is one deeply messed-up dude.

How that got past the publisher is a mystery - I guess he was a big enough name by then that no one could say no.

You should read the book first

The kiddie train? yea, that wasn't going to make it into any adaption.

Nope

 

[ironwez20]

Was thumbing through the "It" book at a bookstore after seeing this movie (had never read the book) and came across "that" scene with all the kids and the girl. Wow - Stephen King may be the scare-meister, but he is one deeply messed-up dude.

How that got past the publisher is a mystery - I guess he was a big enough name by then that no one could say no.

The fact that that is even a published book is crazy and it’s amazing people are now figuring this out. It’s freaking weird

 

[Chakor]

After re-watching that God-awful Pet Semetery flick for the first time in ten years, I think I'll give this movie a revisit just to remind myself that there can be half decent King adaptations.

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

I need to read the book.

 

[JacktheRipper]

The movie for me was just okay.

 

[TaliBane]

Because *** with children is a normal thing in Hollyweird going back to the start of the studios especially when no social media or internet existed.

The fact that that is even a published book is crazy and it’s amazing people are now figuring this out. It’s freaking weird

I just stood there skimming that chapter in disbelief. I kept picturing King sitting in a room alone, writing it, in that moment with those characters. Pretty sickening.

Horror is definitely about taboos, but that was so not-scary-or-cool-just-f'ked-up. And if you google it, it seems it's far from the only deeply disturbing sexual content in his books

In this era of #metoo and everything, you wonder how King gets away with it - I mean did anyone ever question/challenge him on it in an interview? If not, why?

I need to read the book.

Be careful.

 

[Brett Banner]

The movie for me was just okay.

Same here. Watched it last night for the first time and...it was alright. I was actually pretty bored for the entire first half of the movie as it was going a bit like clockwork with all the kids individually encountering Pennywise. The second half was much more engaging.

Overall, I thought it relied way too much on loud noises for the “scares” and, through no fault of the film, as I watched I started to realize that they had already shown all of the most interesting reveals of Pennywise in the trailers/commercials.

For me, It Follows is still the creepiest movie of the past few years.


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[crows]

I just stood there skimming that chapter in disbelief. I kept picturing King sitting in a room alone, writing it, in that moment with those characters. Pretty sickening.

Horror is definitely about taboos, but that was so not-scary-or-cool-just-f'ked-up. And if you google it, it seems it's far from the only deeply disturbing sexual content in his books

In this era of #metoo and everything, you wonder how King gets away with it - I mean did anyone ever question/challenge him on it in an interview? If not, why?



Be careful.

he was cocained out of his mind

 

[ironwez20]

Same here. Watched it last night for the first time and...it was alright. I was actually pretty bored for the entire first half of the movie as it was going a bit like clockwork with all the kids individually encountering Pennywise. The second half was much more engaging.

Overall, I thought it relied way too much on loud noises for the “scares” and, through no fault of the film, as I watched I started to realize that they had already shown all of the most interesting reveals of Pennywise in the trailers/commercials.

For me, It Follows is still the creepiest movie of the past few years.


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I think you gotta watch it in the theater to get s better impact . If you did then maybe it just wasn’t the movie for you but I felt the movies made it a better experience

 

[jye4ever]

Yeah second viewing of IT did not hold up for me the kid parts felt really forced and PW lost his scares as the movie dragged along.

 

[EVILFACE]

I need to read the book.

It's thicker than the Bible.

About as believable as well.

 

[TaliBane]

he was cocained out of his mind

Umm... wasn't he a schoolteacher at some point? Kinda the Walter White of English teachers.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

He was doped up for most of his books

 

[Bo Shrek]

Just finished watching. Did not see any trailers but did watch the original maybe six month back so although not "fresh" it was still in my mind. Right off the bat I did not like how CG (fake) PW eyes looked in the beginning sewer/boat scene. Took me right out. To glossy maybe? Then throughout the movie was not too much of a fan of the CG required for Pennywise. I thought the movie was OK, follow the same beats to the original. Great horror for early teens. It did however reveal how brilliant of horror movies the Conjuring, Insidious, Annabelle & Lights Out universe is. "IT" came across as amateur to those flicks!!

 

[Centurion]

Same here. Watched it last night for the first time and...it was alright. I was actually pretty bored for the entire first half of the movie as it was going a bit like clockwork with all the kids individually encountering Pennywise. The second half was much more engaging.

Overall, I thought it relied way too much on loud noises for the “scares” and, through no fault of the film, as I watched I started to realize that they had already shown all of the most interesting reveals of Pennywise in the trailers/commercials.

For me, It Follows is still the creepiest movie of the past few years.


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It Follows was a nice surprise for me. I enjoyed it too.
Have you already seen The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2?

 

[crows]

the music makes it follows what it is

 

[screamingmetal]

Saw IT, highly overrated.
Too many BS jump scares and no real suspense. I didn't feel this was all that scary.

Spoiler

I hadn't watched the miniseries in a very long time so I forgot that Pennywise needed to feed on the fear from the kids which was not established until the third act so I was a bit confused as to why he needed the clown disguise to lure them in but at the same time was trying to scare the S- out of them. It's still a dumb strategy.
Also why didn't the kids mention to one another that they were seeing strange creepy stuff earlier? I paused the movie when they started to open up about what they were seeing and it was half way through the movie. They should've built the suspense by having the kids try to figure out what was going on with the strange things they were seeing earlier on, it would've also established a much needed plot earlier.
That ending with the kids beating the Sh- out of Pennywise was rather stupid and I couldn't buy it. I get that their fearlessness in the face of Pennywise is what's really destroying him, but that wasn't well established at all, it just came across as a bunch of 13 y/o skinny weak nerds, a tiny girl, and one extremely out of shape kid beating up a giant supernatural monster with rebar and a bat. Hell, 6' 4" Bill Skarsgard could've taken on that group of wimpy nerds himself.
And the excessive swearing and insulting talk was really out of place for a bunch of nerds in 1989 and seemed really forced. If my friends said some of those screwing your mom comments to me, there would've been some fists flying (which did happen but those friends were anything but nerds).

Also I just couldn't stop laughing at the scene with the chubby kid just standing there emotionless and unaffected with his stomach torn open while that ridiculous looking Munchausen by proxy mom is furious over her son's broken arm. How could anyone on set at the time or in editing not mention how ridiculous this scene looked?

 

[ZaCHw117]

so not scary= bad movie?