Movie "IT"

I loved the first (made for TV) one and plan on going this week sometime. Anyone see it yet? If not, I'll give a non-spoiler review later...

 

I'll see it eventually. While I kinda liked the TV movie when it first came out, I felt like they had to hold back b/c of it being on TV, so this has the potential to be better, I think.

 

I saw it today. It's pretty good. The kids are the best part of it and they really act like kids actually act. There's some pretty cool effects in it as well.

 

This one definitely departs from the book and especially the part with the boys and the girl from the book. Although there is another undertone that's actually even more messed up though. It definitely earns the R rating because there's quite a bit of gore in it and tons of blood. The book will never be faithfully adapted though because it's just too big. Stephen King said he liked this version though. My favorite King movies are Misery, Shawshank, and The Shining and I'd put this one up there too. This one is also set in the 80's and there were tons of references in it for kids from my generation and some of them really cracked me up. There's a considerable amount of humor in it.

 

Wife and daughter went to it tonight, they loved it. Not my cup of tea though.

 

Huge Stephen King fan here. I even own, and read, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon". That being said, I can't imagine how they can do justice to "It" in only a couple of hours. I'll see it in the theatre though. I'm actually looking forward to it. When mentioning King movies, you can't forget "Stand By Me" (The Body) or "The Green Mile" I'd like to see someone remake "Pet Sematary"!!

 

I love Stand By Me but hated The Green Mile. Also when I was a kid I was so insanely freaked out by Pet Sematray freaked me ouuuuuuut! LOL! My buddy actually named his son Gauge because of that movie.

 

Outstanding! Too bad Fred Gwynne's not still around. He was the best part of the original movie. Ayuh!

 

The other day my little boy saw the dvd cover of The Munsters and said "Look daddy! Frankenstein!" and I was like "Welllll not exactly..." LOL! He thought The Munsters must have been something really scary.

 

I was never a fan of "the Munsters" except for the normal cousin! Shows how much I know. There's a guy here in town that still drives an "Eddie Munster" edition International Harvester! I didn't care for Fred Gwynne until I saw "The Cotton Club" He was so much more than Herman Munster.
Getting away from hijacking this thread, PENNYWISE!!!

 

I never was a big fan of The Munsters either. Also, speaking of Pennywise, the original IT is actually on right now on Spike Tv.

 

Yeah my buddy was actually pretty critical of how they used Pennywise in this one. He just felt like they didn't give him just enough dialog and relied too much on special fx with him and didn't just let him be naturally creepy. They've already got a director for part 2 and I'm sure it's gonna show the kids as adults. Honestly though I doubt they can get adults that can be as much fun to watch as the kids were in this one.

 

If I were to bet it the fun will be replaced with brutality when the kids are replaced with adults.

 

Oh this one was really brutal also. Tons of blood and gore.

 

Aren't we forgetting someone????????????????????????????


And we can't forget............

 

Cujo freaked me out the most, that was a good one...

 

And funny how that scary name became part of the English language as a noun and a verb - sort of like "Rambo" and "Postal".

 

except Cujo didn't follow the book.

 

Why has nobody mentioned Carrie? That movie is absolutely terrifying at the end. Her mom was so dang insane! LOL!