What's the balance between scenes dealing with kid bullying and scenes dealing with IT? I know the former is the majority of the book but I never like seeing it.
Also do all the kid's catchphrases get annoying at all?
IT review thread (RT 91%)
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What's the balance between scenes dealing with kid bullying and scenes dealing with IT? I know the former is the majority of the book but I never like seeing it.
Also do all the kid's catchphrases get annoying at all?
Dropped to 98% with 39 fresh and 1 rotten
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
It's currently sitting on 98%.
40 fresh and so far 1 rotten.
40 fresh and so far 1 rotten.
Systemwarrior
Member
Im so hyped for this movie! Im shocked at the scores.
Davey Cakes
Member
I am legitimately surprised by the good reviews. Maybe I should stop being such a cynic.
Never would've thought this would be above 90% on RT.
Never would've thought this would be above 90% on RT.
More_Badass
Member
I felt that IT's "personality" and emotions came across in the same way that a male lion will kill cubs to take over a pride or dog will bear teeth and snarl aggrssively. There are emotions, but they're base, instinctive, animalistic, and inhuman, the emotions from the perspective of something that doesnt see the world like we do. Causing fear salts the meat, hunger drives it. If the prey isn't as fearful, if now hunting is disrupted, something is wrong, the predator reacts and remembers.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
You can only respond to what is being shown. They chose to put out shitty pictures of him looking like a try-hard super villain, and a lot of people didn't dig it. Of course, the moral is to not write off an entire movie based on some stills. But, there's also no problem with judging those stills at the time.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Holy fuck those are some great reviews! Can't wait for this! I'm already a sucker for the horror genre.
RumbleHumble
Banned
Gimme that sweet sweet crow.
Insane Metal
Member
Yesss
Nice
Nice
Lights and Waves
Member
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
The writers say whether it should be fresh or rotten.
RumbleHumble
Banned
If my memory's correct, the critics choose whether or not their review is considered rotten or fresh on RT. RT is only supposed to supply the tomato rating on their own when a critic doesn't get back to them in time.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Blew my expectations away, and they were pretty high to begin with. Definitely seeing this weekend
Bits N Pieces
Member
Ah man I love Grace, glad she liked it.
Ah...
Weird the same critic awarded the film 3/5. I'd consider that a reasonably ok score.
I think the problem is not having any middle ground.
Maybe have a 'slightly off but still edible' tomato score ....
Well are we talking about the adult or child segments? In the child segments, IT is definitely more bestial but it does have flashes of being a bit petty and calculating such as during Bev's segments (bathroom and final father chapter) and the short part that from IT's viewpoint.
In the adult parts, IT has an established personality. IT's also more talkative in the later years as well.
Lights and Waves
Member
Me too! She puts out so much good content/analyses. Though her opinions can be really whacky sometimes, I love how much thought she puts into stuff.
I'm definitely going to go see this Thursday night instead of waiting for the weekend.
darkstar0155
Member
Yeah Carrie isn't as good imo. I could see arguments for Misery, Dolores Clairborne, or Stand by Me to be included but that's it. A lot of the 80's movies that were made were good but not great (Dark Half, Firestarter, Cujo, etc)
If the original Carrie was timeless I don't think they would have made a remake. Its been probably 15 years since I have seen it though.
Shawshank will never be remade because i don't think you could do it any better, same with Green Mile.
Inferno313
Banned
Grace incited harassment towards other critics by propping up the "Marvel shills" narrative. fuck her.
Galactic Specter
Member
That's what I'm saying, people were quick to brush off this movie after seeing the first press images of Pennywise.
I agree, I think she's maybe a tad hyperbole sometimes but overall we have the same tastes, so I trust her.
I have to wait till tuesday
going with a group of 12 though, should be fun!darkstar0155
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Sorry, you seem to have misspelt Misery, Carrie and The Dead Zone there.
I can see some people liking Misery more, its a different tone of a movie. Carrie though... I don't see how anyone can think that it is as timeless and stands up as quality as well as Shawshank or the Green Mile, or even Misery.
I've actually never seen TDZ so I cant comment on that one. I thought the book was just OK but its been 16ish years when I read it around when I was 18ish.
Edsmells12345
Member
This may seem petty; but could we keep the review scores out of the thread title?
I was hoping to go into the movie without any expectations but the thread title kind of ruined that.
I was hoping to go into the movie without any expectations but the thread title kind of ruined that.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I watch a lot of her videos and I really love how enthusiastic she is, but her opinion means very little to me. Her taste is pretty terrible.
Bits N Pieces
Member
Hah, no worries. I was only really pulling your leg. The three you mentioned really are timeless classics and will hold up for decades to come. I just think that King movies get a hard time in general, I could rhyme off loads that I've loved. Although there are loads of stinkers too!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
you're in control of your own expectations though.
You haven't even read any of the reviews.
Its just a number.
SomedayTheFire
Member
Yooooo
I mean ... you don't want to know if it's good or not? Seems a bit odd.
Hoping for something like 190/10 ratio for a final 95% rating.
47/2 atm.
What in the flying fuck is that video composition. Her low-quality 30$-webcam-footage is floating awkwardly in the middle of the right side, random pictures of the movie are overlayed at different parts of the picture without any rhyme or reason while there is a weird, useless static picture in the lower right with weirdly overlayed picture of a baloon on top.
You have up to 100K views per video. At least put some effort into your videos, jesus.
If you consider "the movie's good" a spoiler, then whoooo boy, I'm afraid you're already lost.
It won't be updated with every tick and twitch, but it's a relevant piece of information that a large hunk of people are interested in that also fits in the title.
Sorry, but "It's getting good reviews" is not a spoiler. Personally, while I read a half dozen blurbs on RT, I'm not going to read any reviews until after I've seen it. And within that selection of blurbs, they disagreed about what the film's strengths and weaknesses were. All the number tells you is, people generally recommend seeing it. They don't even agree on why.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Damn I want to see this so bad. Going to have to rewatch the original first.
darkstar0155
Member
Ha I feel ya. King movies do get a bad rap at times but I think a lot of it is due to them being known more for the stinkers than the good ones. Almost no one outside of King fans even realize that Shawshank and Green Mile are even King movies, same with Stand by Me, Misery and Dolores to a smaller extent.
Fancyarcher
Member
Nice reviews, it'll probably drop thanks to that 72 metacritic score, but this has a chance of opening to 70m+. I'm officially on the hype train.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
96%
48 fresh. 2 rotten.
Critic Consensus: Well-acted and fiendishly frightening with an emotionally affecting story at its core, It amplifies the horror in Stephen King's classic story without losing touch with its heart.
48 fresh. 2 rotten.
Critic Consensus: Well-acted and fiendishly frightening with an emotionally affecting story at its core, It amplifies the horror in Stephen King's classic story without losing touch with its heart.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Sooooo happy this is reviewing well!! I'll be seeing this multiple times in the theater. This is going to go down as a classic
The Broken Ska Record
Member
Didn't expect the movie to get good ratings. I was thinking it was going to be heading into the trash.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
So should I read the book before watching this? I really don't have to see it in the theater, or do I.
We're not there yet.
$65m OW and $175m lifetime please.
Not sure what the rewatchability is for horror movies but I think it'll be high for this one.
plagiarize
Banned
Never skip any horror movie that gets rated fresh.
Loads of great horror movies fail to get rated fresh, so don't write anything off that fails to meet that bar, but whatever you do, no matter the film, if a horror movie hits fresh, you have to go see it.
This has never let me down.
Loads of great horror movies fail to get rated fresh, so don't write anything off that fails to meet that bar, but whatever you do, no matter the film, if a horror movie hits fresh, you have to go see it.
This has never let me down.