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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

Originally Posted by DthRdrX
Balloons are more subtle IMO. Now if that was missing a bloody arm ....
Even creepier ... there was NOTHING inside!
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

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My wife absolutely refuses to watch this with me in the theater or at home. Looks like I'll be watching this one by myself.
Ditto.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

and someone is doing it in my town now lol. In front of local high school.

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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

Never posted this before but, I've got my tickets! Seeing it Friday.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

I've never seen the original, or read the book, and the new one comes out tomorrow. I'm kind of torn in which order I should proceed.

My friend is a huge King fan and convinced me not to watch the Dark Tower movie, at least until I read the books, which I think was probably solid advice. For "It" though, I dunno, reviews are pretty stellar. I guess I'll wait for more word of mouth before I decide.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

I'm in the same boat. Never saw the original (only parts of it) and haven't read the book. I like King stuff in general though and definitely plan to see this given the good reviews.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

The book is a pretty quick read. You should be able to pick it up and finish it before seeing the movie tomorrow.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
The book is a pretty quick read. You should be able to pick it up and finish it before seeing the movie tomorrow.


Well, for the film I guess you'd only have to read the first half of the novel. So what, about 600 pages or so to read? Ha-ha!
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We'll there's no telling how they split the film as the book isn't evenly split betwee kids/adult portions. The novel bounces back and forth through the entire thing.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

Never cared for the mini-series. Saw it back when it first came out. Generally, made-for-tv movies back then were shit because of tv's limitations. The adult stars were from tv. Special effects were cheap.

Stick with the new one.
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I thought this was amusing. Worth a look.


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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

no wonder why Kramer is afraid of clowns...

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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

Originally Posted by Hazel Motes
I've never seen the original, or read the book, and the new one comes out tomorrow. I'm kind of torn in which order I should proceed.

My friend is a huge King fan and convinced me not to watch the Dark Tower movie, at least until I read the books, which I think was probably solid advice. For "It" though, I dunno, reviews are pretty stellar. I guess I'll wait for more word of mouth before I decide.
I would go see this fresh. The less you know, the better. The miniseries isn't really a must, but the book will simmer better.

Better advice on Dark Tower would be "don't go see it until ... well, just don't go see it ever."
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The All Clown Premiere.

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^"All" clown premiere my ass. There are plenty of people in that pic that aren't dressed as clowns. There are also a lot of clowns in that pic that seemingly half-assed their costume.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

Yeah, kind of a letdown. That's just some people that slapped on some makeup just to get into that showing. There's probably only 3-4, what looks like, real clowns in that pic.
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Who are you to deny those who identify as clowns?
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

If this was posted before sorry - I found this
I wonder how different it would have been:

September 2015: Fukunaga explains his "quietly acrimonious" exit to Variety, saying "every little thing was being rejected and asked for changes":

“I was trying to make an unconventional horror film. It didn’t fit into the algorithm of what they knew they could spend and make money back on based on not offending their standard genre audience. ... They didn’t care about that. In the first movie, what I was trying to do was an elevated horror film with actual characters. They didn’t want any characters. They wanted archetypes and scares. I wrote the script. They wanted me to make a much more inoffensive, conventional script. But I don’t think you can do proper Stephen King and make it inoffensive. The main difference was making Pennywise more than just the clown. After 30 years of villains that could read the emotional minds of characters and scare them, trying to find really sadistic and intelligent ways he scares children, and also the children had real lives prior to being scared. And all that character work takes time. It’s a slow build, but it’s worth it, especially by the second film. But definitely even in the first film, it pays off. ... Every little thing was being rejected and asked for changes. ... We didn’t want to make the same movie. We’d already spent millions on pre-production. I certainly did not want to make a movie where I was being micro-managed all the way through production, so I couldn’t be free to actually make something good for them. I never desire to screw something up. I desire to make something as good as possible. We invested years and so much anecdotal storytelling in it. Chase and I both put our childhood in that story. So our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it. So I’m actually thankful that they are going to rewrite the script. I wouldn’t want them to stealing our childhood memories and using that. I mean, I’m not sure if the fans would have liked what I would had done. I was honoring King’s spirit of it, but I needed to update it. King saw an earlier draft and liked it.”
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

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^"All" clown premiere my ass. There are plenty of people in that pic that aren't dressed as clowns. There are also a lot of clowns in that pic that seemingly half-assed their costume.


Sorry they didn't meet your expectations of what a clown is.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

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Sorry they didn't meet your expectations of what a clown is.
Bah! With the exception of the colorful clown in the top right corner, I can't tell if that's a photo of the IT showing or an ICP concert!

I'm sorry I demand more from our clown community. Frankly after the clown scares throughout the country over the last couple of years, they should be held to a higher standard!

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O ... we would all be able to tell if it was an ICP concert.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

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Horror movie trailers usually have jump scares because they have to sell the movie in just two minutes. The movie itself may or may not rely on them.
Aaaaaannnnnddddd, it was nothing but jump scares.

Oh there were also really loud sound stings on the soundtrack.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

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O ... we would all be able to tell if it was an ICP concert.
Not everyone knows what ICP even means.
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Not everyone knows what ICP even means.
I bet you know how magnets work though.
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Re: Stephen King's IT (2017, D: Andrés Muschietti)

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
My wife absolutely refuses to watch this with me in the theater or at home. Looks like I'll be watching this one by myself.
My husband refuses to watch it with me

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