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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

I've just seen the first one - sad clown face. I can understand how the big execs might think that cosmic horror, macroverse tortoises, 12 year old kids getting high and the ritual of chöad might not play well in the multiplexes, but it's pretty obvious that if you take that out all you're left with is a bunch of kids beating up a clown at the bottom of a sewer.

And even the bunch of kids beating up the clown in the sewer was handled better in the shonky 90s miniseries! Can’t be said enough that “Henry bowers falls down a thing or whatever and then the kids literally just hit it with sticks” is a lamer half-arsed ending than anything Stephen king ever came up with

Saw the new one, it’s bad

3 hours too. i'm seeing it tonight at a dine-in place and not drinking alcohol wah wahhh

three hours??? my god

Booooo

They screwed this one up, should've shot it and done a Kill Bill / LOTR shot & release of restructuring the story.

absolutely no reason you couldn't smartly condense the whole story to that length

Certainly when all the cgi monsters look exactly the same you don’t need to waste hours ticking off encounters with them

I mean I didn’t like the first one, these films were kinda doomed to mediocrity from the moment they chose to open with “eerie” kids singing bells of st clements, but the decisions being made in this one are just baffling. Just one example, they essentially do away with the presentation of the town itself as evil, but keep the Adrian Mellon prologue just for shits. They clearly had no idea what to do with this one and constantly fall back on spoofery, which is exhausting. And the final stretch is excruciating - worse than hitting the clown with sticks, worse than the ending of Gerald’s game, you honestly have to see it to believe it.

It’s a shame as there are a few scenes I really liked. This “Easter egg” shite gets worse all the time but I actually enjoyed the scene in the secondhand rose shop

I saw this and yeah, three freakin’ hours. What really adds to the bloat is that there are several scenes and plot threads carried over from the book that don’t make sense here at all. They just sort of happen and are forgotten about. It’s a bit irritating.

Just one example, they essentially do away with the presentation of the town itself as evil, but keep the Adrian Mellon prologue just for shits.

Yeah that pissed me off. So tone deaf. The Henry Bowers subplot doesn’t really have any reason to be in this version of the story, either.

There was no way I was going to see this after the first one. "Three hours" seals the deal. I'm curious but not that curious.

It's a new golden age of bloated three-hour Hollywood epics.

The way they handle the Ritual of Chud basically means thirty minutes of wasted subplot in this

Also agree on the final stretch. Very disappointed

also feel like they gave Mike back the 'history' aspect of his character, which makes you wonder why they took it away from him in the first one.

Honestly they fucked the setup “chapter” so badly that when he calls everyone & says “it’s mike hanlon from Derry” & they all go “...who?” you’re like, well yeah exactly