It (Muschietti, 2017) Movie • Page 14

Watching the movie I thought he was vintage King bully, corny and over the top, makes the bullies look really fucking stupid. My only problem was that it looked like (book and movie spoiler) he died? But I'm guessing not, I don't remember what happens to him as a kid in the book. I love his arc as an adult. The man in the moon is the best. I'll let you know if he bugs me on rewatch, that's entirely possible. They didn't come out and say it, but I took one look at his dad and I thought, yeah that guy's a racist, ha. Thought they did a good job of giving you at least a reason to feel bad for him and understand a little, I mean all the kids have abusive parents, but his was especially scary (or second scariest behind Bev's dad).

 

I feel like it was pretty clear he hated Mike and told him to get out of his town. that and him saying he wished he could've been the one to burn his parents. felt like that was a clear nod to him being racist haha

 

The in the book It frames Henry for all of the child murders and he gets sent to the insane asylum, which is still a possibility for the second part. I'm not sure how he could have survived falling down that well, but Pennywise may have saved him off screen.

 

Oh yeah, it was made for us, and that makes me so happy. In that King EW issue its brought up (maybe by Mike Flanagan, but I could be wrong) that all these upcoming King adaptations are being made by directors that grew up reading the books and if they fuck up the movies they're basically fucking up their childhoods so they're putting their hearts into it (a lot of paraphrasing). It definitely felt like that here, thought listening to Muschetti talk about it before they movie that seemed pretty clear.

 

Definitely.

 

Forgot he got blamed for the murders. Did he kill his dad in the book? I assumed he died but everyone I saw it with assumed he lived, so I don't know. Very possible that Pennywise saved him because he knows he'll need him. That would be a really strange change to make

 

Haha, noticed this too.

 

@Night Channels Also the Apocalyptic Rock Fight was perfect and that's like my all time favorite scene in literature.

 

Yeah, It leaves the switchblade in the mailbox for Henry to kill his dad. That scene was pretty great.

 

I remembered the switchblade in the mailbox but for some reason him killing his dad slipped my mind

 

The rock fight was super funny but felt out of place and tonally jarring for me. Like it should have happened earlier in the movie.

 

Did not like the execution (look/camera work/CGI/etc) for the rock fight scene, one of my main complaints actually.

 

$13.5 Million on Thursday

 

Bought my tix for Saturday. First horror film I'll be taking my wife to. Just recently got her into horror. She has attested time, and time again she doesn't want to see them in theatres. Mainly for the fact I can't point out when something scary is going to happen, and the jump scares might scare her more I think. Anyways super pumped.

 

Pennywise mocking Eddie was such an awesome scene. That was just perfectly done by Skarsgard and that was his first scene he filmed as Pennywise.

 

On my way to the theatre now!

 

Caving. Can't wait too Tuesday. Waiting for an answer from my girlfriend whether she wants to eat first or after.

 

You are giving me hope mine will be in the mail tonight!

 

Really loved this, but it took me a minute to get this out of my head after the opening scene.

 

Some more stuff that came to mind:

Weren't Mike's parents alive in the books? From the very first time he was on screen, it was just him and his grandfather.

Also I wanted a dam building scene. I feel like that was more crucial to Ben's character (foreshadowing his future career) than just the fact that he likes to read and preserve history related stuff.

Also also bummed we didn't see more of Patrick's creepiness with the fridge and everything. He was merely painted as just another bully.

 

Holy shit that was way more terrifying than I was expecting

This was excellent all around

 

I was surprised by how good this is. To me, it blows the original out of the water.

 

Really enjoyed It. Thought all the kids were great, enjoyed Pennywise. Agreed that the bullies were pretty over the top/one dimensional. It was cool that they actually showed both Georgie's arm getting bitten off, didn't expect them to show that kind of violence with such a young kid. And the Deadlights
I'm curious to see how this works with the adults now.

 

Went to lunch with a coworker earlier today and he was asking me all about the movie. We got into his car and I shit you not, look at the song he was listening to. He had no idea

 

Lol awesome. The door closing scene was such a great laugh.