It (Muschietti, 2017) Movie • Page 16

I personally thought this topped the original in every way. I loved it.

Ritchie was hilarious. The clown was legitimately scary in this and seeing it actually eating people made everything that much scarier. I liked how they would go from a scary scene to a scene that was light and jokey, and then rip you right back into the scary. Well done. I would be interested in seeing a movie about the original settlers and how they disappeared.

 

This was awesome, totally exceeded my expectations. Probably my favorite scare was when Pennywise came out from the wall with the projector light on him. Really hope they line up a solid cast for the adults in the sequel.

 

The cast is too good. They should just Boyhood it and film chapter two in twenty years

 

Holy shit, already $51m opening day

Adaptation of Stephen King's 'It' Targets Fall Opening Weekend Record - Box Office Mojo

 

Have we already done a "who would you cast as the adults" activity?

 

There was definitely like a 5 and 7 year old sitting behind me at my showing. At first they were really scared but they were actually cheering and stuff at the end.

 

Beverley looked just like a young Amy Adams to me, but I'd like Jessica Chastain.

 

Every adult is played by Christian Bale

 

Some of these are actually really good.

 

The cast picked their dream choices for adult roles...

Finn Wolfhard (Richie Tozier) says Bill Hader
Sophia Lillis (Beverly Marsh) says Jessica Chastain
Chosen Jacobs (Mike Hanlon) says Chadwick Boseman
Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie Kaspbrak) says Jake Gyllenhaal
Wyatt Oleff (Stanley Uris) says Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Jeremy Ray Taylor (Ben Hanscom) says Chris Pratt
Jaeden Lieberher (Bill Denbrough) says Christian Bale.

 

For what it's worth, I saw this for a second time today, and regarding Beverly's father: He's definitely alive. He lets out audible groans after Beverly hits him, and again when Bill shows up at the apartment.

 

I knew he wasn't dead on impact but I thought those sounds were unsettling and meant he was on his way out

 

Henry kills Mike's dog in the book. He ties it to a tree and poisons it and watches it die, after gaining the dog's trust over time. I think he also named the dog the n-word, which he called Mike multiple times in the book

 

It definitely didn't look good, haha. I guess we're just meant to believe he survived and some arrangement was worked out, considering Beverly isn't in some kind of home.

 

This was amazing

 

For book readers: Was the part with the discovery of Easter egg hunt explosion/heads in the tree, which led to the headless boy. Was that in the book? That part was pretty creepy, and the smoldering eggs.

 

That would be a great cast but the budget just for those actors alone would be quite large.

 

I'd be willing to work for scale

 

I think the budget would be manageable if not for Chris Pratt and Christian Bale. Those are also the two I'm not sold on so I'm all for casting them differently

 

The Easter explosion is definitely a part of Derry's history, I want to say the headless boy was in it too, but I'm not 100% on that

 

I haven't read the book and have almost zero memory of the original miniseries, but wasn't Ben's experience a Werewolf in the basement? I vividly remember that scene from the miniseries but now I'm wondering if I made it up

 

My favorite part was when the kid threw down the pills and says "these are gazebos!" "It means they're bullshit!" Haha.

Really enjoyed this though. The cinematography was beautiful. The scene in the garage was probably the creepiest scene in the whole movie.

 

In the book they used a bunch of classic movie monsters since the kids were growing up the in 50's like the wolfman and frankensteins monster and stuff. Muschietti said he was updating all of that stuff (and pulled from his own fears). Smart change imo.

 

In the miniseries that was Richie's experience, in part because the loser's club went and saw the movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf at the movie theater. Also, Ben was haunted by the image of his dead father, who was killed in the Korean War... I'd thought they'd change that for the new film and his dad would have been killed in Vietnam but there was no mention of him.