Anticipating this more than DT, but I'm hoping like hell both land as best they can.
I happened across it last night flipping channels. Let's just say TV has progressed a wee bit from the late 80s.WelchAg said:
So I just finished the book and started watching the original movie. Maybe it's because times have changed but the movie is kind of rough so far. Acting is subpar, to say the least. Is it just me?
In my opinion, that chapter is King's single best piece of writing.LisaMarie said:
There's a part in the trailer that shows Pennywise crawling out of a refrigerator (upside down) which I can only imagine is part of Patricks scene(s). Agree that Patrick Hocksetter chapter is one of the most disturbing I've ever read, mostly because there are actually people like him walking around our planet. Every time i get to his chapter I have to set the book aside and read it another day.
I am looking at this like some did with Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Some said that Nicholson was too obvious to play a guy who goes crazy. By a similar token, this representation of the clown looks a bit too creepy, whereas I always thought the clown should appear a completely friendly clown (as Tim Curry portrayed) - this clown would never lure any kid to him since he looks freakish.redass89 said:
Eh I'm not sure if I'm sold on this interpretation of pennywise
you're right. early on (maybe even in this thread) I made some comments that Pennywise used his clown form to lure kids over to him, but I recently re-read for the first time in awhile, and really the scene with Georgie is the only scene in which he uses the clown/circus aspect to earn trust. everything else is him just standing around being a weird ass clown in a weird ass place, and the kids wondering why there was a clown there.Quote:
I just finished the book again, but it being as long as it is my memory doesn't serve me greatly. The description I typically remember of Pennywise is simply "out of place". He wasn't scary looking, and for the most part really didn't lure kids in that form (aside from the Georgie scene). His whole thing is that he feeds off of fear, so he was more apt to take on the illusion of something scary then to actually trick a child into getting close.
It was never "oh that nice funny clown over there" it was more of a "what was a clown doing there?"
john32f said:
Does anyone know if this is going to include the adult portions of the book or entirely take place as kids?
Dr. Watson said:
The kids portion of the book is definitely the creepiest. Maybe it's just how vulnerable kids are in general, but it didn't have the same stakes in my mind when the adults faced It. So I'm curious to see how they handle the adult storylines.
WelchAg said:Dr. Watson said:
The kids portion of the book is definitely the creepiest. Maybe it's just how vulnerable kids are in general, but it didn't have the same stakes in my mind when the adults faced It. So I'm curious to see how they handle the adult storylines.
The Bev chapter where she goes back to her house as an adult was one of the creepier chapters in the book for me.
free_mhayden said:
Critic embargo until late Wednesday night.
Goddamit -- the UCLA game and now is this movie gonna suck too?