I finally got to take my kid to see this tonight. As with Chapter 1, I was quite entertained. I thought the movies adequately captured the essence of King's massive book. I really liked both versions of the cast - as a guy married to a hot red-head, and no, I am not going to honor Rule #1, I can sit and watch Jessica Chastain in anything. For hours. But I digress.
I had no issue with the film's length. The three acts all worked well, although I will agree with earlier posts that the Bowers subplot was unnecessary. It has been a long time since I read the book, but I seem to remember more on that subplot although I don't recall the American Werewolf-like Hockstettler character.
I bought the hardcover when it was first published in the summer of 1986. I read maybe 200 pages before I had to start the fall semester at A&M. Once the semester was done and I was home for Christmas, I started reading again. I read roughly 900 pages on Christmas Eve - could not put it down, read all night and then went out for whatever our Christmas morning activities were that year. The book scared the crap out of me. Along with The Shining, it was the scariest book I've ever read.
So now I turn my attention to the 5+ hours of these movies. While I am a fan of both, neither were at all scary. Creepy, perhaps, but nothing that is ever going to cause me issues sleeping. To me, that is this two-part movie's only real failure. I was hoping for a scary outing, one that would join the relatively short list of movies that I consider to be scary (Alien, The Exorcist, Paranormal Activity, and Poltergeist, among others).
im seriously surprised no one mentioned Chapter 2's most awesome scene (IMO), a scene taken right out of John Carpenter's The Thing, when the Stanley? head grow giant spider legs and starts attacking, and the one guy mimics Palmer from The Thing when he says "you gotta be f'in kidding me!"
I had no issue with the film's length. The three acts all worked well, although I will agree with earlier posts that the Bowers subplot was unnecessary. It has been a long time since I read the book, but I seem to remember more on that subplot although I don't recall the American Werewolf-like Hockstettler character.
I bought the hardcover when it was first published in the summer of 1986. I read maybe 200 pages before I had to start the fall semester at A&M. Once the semester was done and I was home for Christmas, I started reading again. I read roughly 900 pages on Christmas Eve - could not put it down, read all night and then went out for whatever our Christmas morning activities were that year. The book scared the crap out of me. Along with The Shining, it was the scariest book I've ever read.
So now I turn my attention to the 5+ hours of these movies. While I am a fan of both, neither were at all scary. Creepy, perhaps, but nothing that is ever going to cause me issues sleeping. To me, that is this two-part movie's only real failure. I was hoping for a scary outing, one that would join the relatively short list of movies that I consider to be scary (Alien, The Exorcist, Paranormal Activity, and Poltergeist, among others).
im seriously surprised no one mentioned Chapter 2's most awesome scene (IMO), a scene taken right out of John Carpenter's The Thing, when the Stanley? head grow giant spider legs and starts attacking, and the one guy mimics Palmer from The Thing when he says "you gotta be f'in kidding me!"