#itthemovie Instagram Page Is Weird

Every last detail coming out about this production is just weird.

I bothered to check out their Instagram page. It's an incredibly profuse amount of sometimes painstakingly retouched photos of the young actors -- not as their characters, but just hanging out doing random sht. And with a particular focus on the kid playing Richie Tozier for some reason. I get it, the photographer's got a throbbing red hairy wet jill-on for the kid, good for her.

I know it's a social media page, and it's expected that its content would be kind of frivolous and silly like most of them are. But this isn't, like, some twentysomething hairdresser's Twitter page about her cat, it's the official Instagram page for the movie!

It's got the feel of a doting female camp counselor who can't stop taking pictures of the kids in her care. It made me uncomfortable actually, like I'm getting to know the actors more than I'd like to. If I cared about them that much, I'd try to befriend them on their personal Facebook pages. I don't do that. Why? Don't give a sht.

It also makes plain that the kids... I dunno man, they just don't look right. The kid who plays Tozier, I at first couldn't tell if he was Beverley in one of the pictures. "Bev" looks masculine. "Stan" looks like... Some pissed-off ginger. These are CHARACTERS they are playing, and they all just look like a random bunch of kids (except "Ben").

Look I don't want to insult the actors, I'm sure they are all exceptionally talented. I just think they're miscast.

Yeah it looks well-produced, I'm sure the sets and props will be of the highest quality. But to say that is to miss the point. It may be high quality, but it's not Stephen King's "It." It's a well-produced thing that has a few things similar to "It."

So says the media clairvoyant. Heed my words peasants, and... gargle not of the diarrhea of mediocrity... duh.