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xp: he's got a french horn or something up here, right?

Also, love the phrase "complete fucking flannel".

Yeah the horn is hung on the wall! He also has some crazy chairs iirc and the headboard on his bed is adorned with i) pictures of pies and ii) the letter π

It's an amazing idea of what a hotshot architect's apartment might look like

Can't find a pic ☹️

Schwitterz makes compelling case itt folks

There's a chapter in the book that says

chapter x

Nothing much happened for the rest of the summer

In always liked that

it's a rip from a chapter in something wicked this way comes: "Nothing much else happened, all the rest of that night." king book v indebted to something wicked in general imo. needful things too prob.

I've never actually read the books, but I watched the 90s miniseries A LOT as a kid and still have a soft spot for it despite it being mostly terrible (I think I told this story on ILX before, about being around age 9 and climbing into the fridge to scare my younger cousins, right after we first watched it lol). I feel like kids today might feel the same way about this film eventually.

Anyway, Tim Curry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Skarsgard. And in both the film and the miniseries, the kid actors are the best (RIP Jonathan Brandis <3). Finn Wolfhard does seem like he's destined for a Seth Green-esque career, too.

I really hope not.

This thread title keeps making me think of Faith No More's "Epic"

wins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wXk1jqgHC4

I hadn't noticed the armadillo bolo tie before.

Haha so I kind of misremembered every detail (don't think I ever noticed the basketball net either)

ok this thread said almost everything I thought; except I found the kids all pretty irritating in this, particularly stranger things kid. also there is just no real sense of tension or foreboding doom, just jump scares (that aren't scary).

idk I never really expected major scares in this one, it's just as much a coming of age story.

clowns aren't that scary in 2018 also

Well just from the source material I was expecting more of an effort to be scary, since it is largely a novel about fear! It manifests as whatever your deepest-rooted fears are (pennywise himself is almost incidental and like a lot of king monsters talks too damn much to be very scary)

Recently, "Jesus-please-us" has become one of my go-to involuntary exclamations. A stupid imp from the recesses of my brain when simpler swears should suffice. I thought it was just something I had picked up from my mom, but it would be out of character for her to take the Lord's name in vain. Then it hit me:

"Lookit that gut!" Henry cried in amazed disgust. "Jesus-please-us!"
Victor and Belch laughed some more.

"How deep do you think we are, Eddie?" Richie asked.
"Quarter of a mile," Eddie said. "Maybe more."
"Jesus-please-us," Beverly said.

Per google, it pops up in half a dozen or so of King's other works as well.

That's one of the more tolerable of king's "colourful" twee minced oaths, also yes one that people actually say irl

Marginally better than "jeezum crow" I guess.

lisey's story is legit unbearable due to that shit, it's the epitome of king's "every character is Ned Flanders with Tourette's" dreadful babytalk dialogue (I haven't read in a while but I'm pretty sure misery is the only time this has ever worked). I guess you don't get to be Stephen King by having a sense of embarrassment but all the doodlycunt fartboogeroony stuff is difficult, difficult work to get through

finally let my daughter watch this movie after realizing it's just another stupid horror movie and not quite like the book, thank goodness. I think she was suitably disappointed by the generic jump scariness of it.

Marginally better than "jeezum crow" I guess.

Laws, yes!

Dying at doodlycunt fartboogeroony, btw

M-O-O-N that spells fuckdiddles

Hahaha

I really liked this and not just for contrarian reasons or bcz you guys are a bunch of buzzkills

I felt a lot of the genuine stomach-tightening fear that I remembered from reading the book as a kid. And I liked the dead-eyed “creature” style portrayal that Skarsgard brought - Curry’s Pennywise was great and an excellent choice for him as an actor but in terms of the book, I liked that this version had such an otherness about it that it never behaved like a fully-formed clown, but a thing’s idea of a clown. Idk.

The kids were great, Beverly and Bill especially. Also liked the music choices - Anthrax rock fight was \m/

I did feel that the story got too rote after a while and it does suffer without the back and forth but it wasn’t a bad or unenjoyable movie at all by any means.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=61&v=cuBn9FRuFcI

Try again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBn9FRuFcI

for all the praise Skarsgård got there's really no competition over which performance will be remembered as scarier or more iconic, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmOLwrvH-Ag

RIP but my god he was terrible in that

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38118951_2219592884722411_5784712939256676352_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=d3dbfbbbaba034cdfdb62311215563a6&oe=5BC5AA50

First image of the grownups, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqUopiAYdRg

lol I posted in the stephen kind s/d thread, because I could not find this one and it isn't very search-friendly

another excellent trailer for another movie i don't expect much from

Huh, I thought the trailer was ... not excellent. The question is, given my kid and her friends were goaded into seeing the first one by the kid cast, will they have any interest in these grown up actors? I have no idea.

It's kind of a fatal narrative flaw which hobbled the original adaptation, as well (although drawing much of the adult cast from the world of MOR primetime TV probably didn't help).

idk i'm pretty easy to please as a horror fan but its focus on the tension developing over the course of a single scene + the traditional vague collage of the rest of the movie stood out

i only plan to review these movies as trailers btw

i think it's a very good trailer, it really effectively uses that scene w/Chastain. If you're into horror i mean that's the type of thing that will hook you.

A single cliched "GET OUT!" scene. I love horror, but from the little kid skittering in the background to the weird old lady to the flies to the ... I dunno, it was pretty cliched.

"When my dad moved here ... he got a job ... at the circus ... as a CLOWN! HAHAHAHHHHAHH!"

snooze

Now I'm trying to cast the 1990 miniseries using popular stars from 1990: Schwarzenegger as Ben, Robin Williams as Richie...

it looks as if they will be employing some flashbacks as well maybe unless all that was just for the trailer and being used to link the adult characters w/their childhood and the first film.

"When my dad moved here ... he got a job ... at the circus ... as a CLOWN! HAHAHAHHHHAHH!"

I mean, that's not too far from what happens in the book.

the line is actually "he joined the circus" and then we see the photo, the word clown is never in there, and then she says she was his favorite little girl and asks Beverly if she's still her daddy's favorite. when you consider Beverly's background it's actually much creepier.

"That cedar chest in particular is a wonderful piece."

"An antique, that one!" Mrs Kersh said, and laughed. "Very old," Mrs Kersh reminisced over her empty cup, looking slyly at Beverly from her yellowed eyes. Her snaggle teeth showed in that repulsive, almost leering grin. "From home with me it came. The RG carved into it? You noticed?"

"Yes." Her voice came from far away, and a part of her brain yammered If she doesn't know you've seen the change perhaps you're still all right, if she doesn't know, doesn't see -

'My father," she said, pronouncing it fodder, and Beverly saw that her dress had also changed. It had become a scabrous, peeling black. The cameo was a skull, its jaw hung in a diseased gape. "His name was Robert Gray, better known as Bob Gray, better known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Although that was not his name, either. But he did love his joke, my fadder."

I p much hate trailers so haven’t seen but I’ll be amazed if this is any good, both for the reason given upthread - that they put all the kid stuff in the first half AGAIN - and because chapter one was a total damp squib and the whole world went wow yes please more of this

The fact that the kid actors are returning doesn’t reassure me either, prob means we’re due a 3-hour mess

oh they have ziggy sobotka playing adult eddie, that's kinda perfect

What? That's awesome!

dlh’s inland empire comparison got me to give in and watch the trailer. Unsurprisingly it’s a good call - pretty great scene up to the comic reveal that mrs kirsh’s dad was Jack Nicholson

idk I’m going to see this so I hope it is good but after the first one I’m def calibrating my expectations more towards “cgi stuff runs at the camera” and the last bit of the trailer suggests I’m right

lol I posted in the stephen kind s/d thread, because I could not find this one and it isn't very search-friendly