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After another viewing.
Disliked
Read the book three times.
Saw the miniseries.
I don't think he wrote the misery or dark towers screenplay or had any part in casting those films.
Yes, his characters are completely believable when fleshed out in a novel but they become over the top when actors try to pull them off on screen.
There's not enough story for two more movies. They might try, but not if the next film fails. The meat of IT is the kids story, I think the filmmakers are going to run into the same problem the miniseries did, and they have to write the script on their own this time so I can't see the next film being good enough to warrant a sequel.
If they wanted a trilogy they should have structured the stories with two focusing on the kids part and the final one on the adults story. If I remember correctly the confrontation in the abandoned house "the novel" would be a good place to split the two early movies up.
Mediocracy is the best thing people can hope for these days. All a movie has to have in it now is a thorough spectacle that doesn't take more than a five minute lapse until the end credits.
"And now IT is a huge box office darling and, while I didn't hate it, I definitely didn't love it. Am I crazy?"
You should have found a theater with louder speakers. I think the loudness of the jump scares is what everyone is impressed with in this film.
Unfortunately the new Pennywise relies on a set of theater speakers and subs blasting your eardrums out in order to scare you.
I agree the kids parts were good even with the overthetop Henry Bowers in the miniseries.
"And the parts I think most deserve reconsideration came in Pt. II."
Wait until the sequel for this comes out. It will be the same exact problem because King's original narrative is mainly focused on the kids encounters with it. The adult parts are really just a rehash of what happened before and characters remembering what they forgot. Basically King gave a perfect blueprint for a horror movie with the main portion of IT. After that, good luck, even in the novel the adult encounters with IT are far less interesting.
I think many reviews will change when people see the film outside of the theater setting. Every jump scare was accompanied by deafening cannon blasts out of the speakers and subs that I think some reviewers may have just been shell shocked.
I think Lynch is going for another season. He setup so many different storylines and that is what a series that is planning on continuing does. The writers just give themselves something to work with in the future so they don't have to start from scratch in a new season.
People will complain that all these plot lines were left unresolved but if we were told there was going to be a season 4 from the beginning no-one would be complaining. However, reality does play a role just like it did in season 2 and if the numbers don't add up there won't be anymore episodes.
It is probably the eyes that make it feel the most manufactured. I understand what they were trying to achieve but in my opinion they look like they are on a layer above the film and motiontracked.
I'm still not crazy about it. The clown seems so manufactured in this film, very cgi even the voice. The kids stories will probably carry the film if they stayed close to the novel.
I didn't find that scary at all. The lines were just badly delivered. It would've been better if the lines sounded more distant at first with maybe the last "you'll float too" being sharp and near.
I believe that is already starting to happen naturally. The remake is hastily fading into obscruity.
Well hopefully that isn't the only thing he says to Georgie because if it is than I'm betting he isn't talking much in the film and will be the typical horror bad guy.
Her face is too small and she has no distinguishing features. She is plain without personality, in my opinion.
They need to make it look like something completely foreign to the human mind that loosely has characteristics of a spider. Like Alien did with their monster, it resembles a few things including a person but the xenomorph would not be mistaken as a person or an ape or a bug.
The kid parts are good and the photo album scene was good. But the scares seem to be jump scares. IT just splashing towards the camera or suddenly appearing in the sewer and then nothing. They're showing the clown in all the posters and set pictures and then they don't show him interacting in the trailer? He isn't Jason or Myers, or even Freddy It's more cunning and playful. I hope this isn't a jumpscare production.
"I still do not get it. Why do they all float? "
I think the clown just likes the innocence and non wickedness Georgie shows in that moment and It just continues using the quote throughout the story.
She did not respond well to whipping. Or at least she failed to evolve away from it.
That is a bad poster. I hate character shots in horror posters, it's just not creepy or mysterious. It's like they are trying to make the character cool instead of scary.