IT (2017)
Added 2024-10-04 09:20:15 +0000 UTC
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Stephen King was a major alcoholic and cokehead when he wrote the novel.
MSTORM
2024-10-13 02:59:03 +0000 UTClol love that
Chad Gloria
2024-10-07 02:36:34 +0000 UTCI sync'd yall up with Ashleigh Burton's reaction when I watched this. It was pretty fun. This movie's more enjoyable when watching it with people that get really scared of it.
Joe Blankenship
2024-10-06 22:30:55 +0000 UTCThey tell more of the lore in the second movie. I'm not sure they tell it very well.. I enjoy this first movie a lot but it when I watch it I always think a bully must have done something terrible to S. King growing up.
Melanie Roberts
2024-10-05 23:01:07 +0000 UTCOh, thats why I was confused about the battery acid thing not being in this movie. I could've sworn there was a scene where he melted Pennywise's face with his inhaler, but then it didnt appear while watching this reaction and I got confused. Side note: When I was in primary school, my friends and I always used to believe my asthma inhaler was just crushed up salt, which didnt help me one day when I was having an asthma attack at school and forgot to bring my inhaler, so my friends tried to help me by pouring salt packets in my mouth lol.
dylan s
2024-10-05 22:33:09 +0000 UTCI’ll say this much, I think the 90s version incorporated the adult storylines a lot better than It Chapter II does. As a fan of the book, I never considered IT to be a standalone movie (even though they tried to make it feel like one). The story would only be complete with Chapter II, and I don’t think they stuck the landing. The truth is, the adult and children’s stories were intended to be interwoven. You can extract the children’s timeline and it holds up pretty well on its own, but it leaves the adult’s movie severely lacking material and context. They try to fix this problem by incorporating flashbacks, but the flashbacks in the adult storyline were supposed to be *the first movie*, so instead we get a lot of flashback scenes that just seem unnecessary. In the book (and miniseries) the adults remember events as we experience them for the first time. In the movie, they remember events tangentially related to the ones we experienced two years ago. It just doesn’t work as well.
Eric Wall
2024-10-05 13:47:08 +0000 UTCI’ll never understand why they changed the inhaler being “battery acid” to the bolt gun. I always thought the inhaler/battery acid angle played really well into the power of myth among children. You believe so many ridiculous things when you’re a kid, but you believe them with your whole heart. The idea that It could be injured by a children’s urban legend really helped sell the idea that the kids and It are living in an entirely different world than the parents based purely in their belief systems.
Eric Wall
2024-10-05 13:34:05 +0000 UTCThis is a great movie and great reaction. Unfortunately the second movie kinda sucks.
Matthew
2024-10-05 08:11:12 +0000 UTCFor the book readers out there, did you snicker a little bit when they said, “So are all the boys in love with Beverly”? Jokes aside though, what you were saying after the film is very true. The story hits you with a lot of supernatural horrors, but it mixes in a lot of real world horrors as well (you’ll see that at the beginning of the second movie, and Patrick Hockstetter is MUCH, MUCH worse in the book). King did this intentionally because he wanted to stress how “It” is always that unspoken thing that everyone’s afraid or ashamed of. This is also why King included the infamous scene where the “Losers’ Club” basically conquer the other great “it” of puberty together (I think the cocaine may have helped his thinking along these lines as well). Also, the part where the bolt gun isn’t loaded but still works was meant to stress the power of “belief” in this setting. Bill didn’t know how the bolt gun worked, he “believed” it would fire, so Pennywise was bound to the rules of that belief.
Matthew Clark
2024-10-05 03:48:00 +0000 UTC“Harry and the Hendersons” influence, I’m sure.
Matthew Clark
2024-10-05 03:26:40 +0000 UTCI was born in 99
dylan s
2024-10-05 02:19:41 +0000 UTCGreat reaction btw
Athasin
2024-10-04 23:36:59 +0000 UTCI like that Maple describes Pennywise as possibly being ''Bigfoot but evil'', implying she's considered Bigfoot and come to the conclusion that he is a peaceful or even benevolent creature.
JD Sharpe
2024-10-04 23:29:10 +0000 UTCThe original was terrifying when I was a kid. Till this day I don't look at storm drains more than I have to.
Athasin
2024-10-04 21:56:27 +0000 UTCNobody born past 90s is going to think Tim Curry IT is better than this because he just looks silly.
sablo
2024-10-04 20:38:05 +0000 UTCTwo good movies on a friday lfg!
PubSub
2024-10-04 17:54:25 +0000 UTCIt's funny too because in the beginning he says "Bill's gonna kill you" and pennywise's actor is Bill Skarsgard so Bill did kill Georgie in the end just a diff Bill
Brian West
2024-10-04 17:37:27 +0000 UTCGreat reaction!
GaryJerryLarry
2024-10-04 16:43:20 +0000 UTCYup. Tim Curry is a phenomenal actor.
dylan s
2024-10-04 15:34:03 +0000 UTCCurry's Pennywise is absolutely underappreciated.
Bryan Erickson
2024-10-04 13:53:33 +0000 UTCAlso, the only thing I can think of whenever I see this movie is this video https://youtu.be/ztxEHtrgTRg?si=lXdk3vVtQe0xtgD9
dylan s
2024-10-04 13:07:49 +0000 UTCand maple saying she hates the flailing… i realized thats what i LOVE and think is so funny bc for what reason 😭😭
Bodhi
2024-10-04 12:28:28 +0000 UTCGood movie, but imo the original TV miniseries from 1990 is far better. Tim Curry was amazing as it in that version.
dylan s
2024-10-04 11:33:52 +0000 UTCdont get me wrong, parts are scary, but i think everything pennywise does is so funny 😭 like the choices bill made are soooooo good
Bodhi
2024-10-04 10:37:39 +0000 UTCso unexpected but im so HAPPY i think this movie is HILARIOUS but people like y’all find it scary HAHA
Bodhi
2024-10-04 10:33:49 +0000 UTCWOW, wasnt expecting this today or at all. Cant wait to watch along
Blkm44
2024-10-04 10:12:02 +0000 UTCI don't know why you would do this to yourselves but bless you I'm here for it
Brian West
2024-10-04 10:05:46 +0000 UTCoh what a loveley surprise
MarkyMark
2024-10-04 09:54:46 +0000 UTC
