IT review thread (RT 91%)

Miles X said:
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.
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I meant critical wise.=p

Though it will probably be a box office success if it does well this opening weekend.
 
Kenzodielocke said:
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Never bet against the amazon demigod and killer clown from outer space.
 
SilentRob said:
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
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...you seem upset.
 
On the one hand, my gf LOVES Stephen King. On the other, I am a HUGE coward when I watch horror movies. Looks like I'll be going on Saturday night and covering my eyes for half of it, haha.
 
Jarmel said:
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.
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Why do you think the Bev bathroom scene is revenge? I just re-read the book and didn't get that at all. That scene played out pretty exactly like all of the other initial attacks on the Losers.
 
I really dislike the original TV miniseries/movie except Tim Curry and have never read the book (only King book I have read is The Dark Tower 1) but maybe Ill see this. Seems like it could be a legit great time.
 
Regginator said:
I'm surprised too. I was ready for it to bomb, but damn, 98%... I loved the original IT, so I'm just now starting to get hyped for this.
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If you've been keeping up with the movie you would have known for quite a few weeks that it was going to be solid and no lower than a 7/10 type of movie.
 
Tricky I Shadow said:
If you've been keeping up with the movie you would have known for quite a few weeks that it was going to be solid and no lower than a 7/10 type of movie.
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That's the thing, I haven't. I knew they wanted to do another IT movie but the whole remake/reboot/re-imagining of movies usually gives me a flaccid one. Though I suppose the new IT is an exception. Really excited for it now.
 
CrichtonKicks said:
Why do you think the Bev bathroom scene is revenge? I just re-read the book and didn't get that at all. That scene played out pretty exactly like all of the other initial attacks on the Losers.
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If I'm understanding the timeline correctly, the bathroom scene happens almost immediately after the Neibolt encounter with Bill/Richie on Silver. IT then promptly brings up Bill (maybe Richie too, I can't check right now) and wants Bev to pass on a message to Bill about Georgie, seemingly wanting to gloat about it. I felt that IT was mad about not getting the two at Neibolt and goes through Bev to do so.
 
The original scared me to death as a child, I didn't want to take a bath for so long after watching it. Maybe I shouldn't have been allowed to watch it lol.
 
Regginator said:
That's the thing, I haven't. I knew they wanted to do another IT movie but the whole remake/reboot/re-imagining of movies usually gives me a flaccid one. Though I suppose the new IT is an exception. Really excited for it now.
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Well to be technical, there has never been an IT movie. This is the first cinematic adaptation. There was a TV miniseries but we don't usually consider movies of works that only had TV miniseries or TV movies as remakes. Like I don't imagine people are calling A Wrinkle In Time or The Lord of the Rings trilogy remakes even though there were a 2004 TV movie adaptation and 1978 adaptation respectively
 
Jarmel said:
If I'm understanding the timeline correctly, the bathroom scene happens almost immediately after the Neibolt encounter with Bill/Richie on Silver. IT then promptly brings up Bill (maybe Richie too, I can't check right now) and wants Bev to pass on a message to Bill about Georgie, seemingly wanting to gloat about it. I felt that IT was mad about not getting the two at Neibolt and goes through Bev to do so.
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The timeline is kind of muddy there because of how King presents the chapters. In the timeline the Bev bathroom scene happens before Rich/Bill on Neibolt street even though King tells the latter part first.

Bev/bathroom happens the night after going to the movies which is also the first day she becomes a Loser. Neibolt Street happens five days later. So Bev/bathroom can't be revenge for Neibolt St.
 
CrichtonKicks said:
The timeline is kind of muddy there because of how King presents the chapters. In the timeline the Bev bathroom scene happens before Rich/Bill on Neibolt street even though King tells the latter part first.

Bev/bathroom happens the night after going to the movies which is also the first day she becomes a Loser. Neibolt Street happens five days later. So Bev/bathroom can't be revenge for Neibolt St.
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Oh that's my mistake then.

IT does come up with plans though such as using Bev's father to kill her.
 
That Chicago Tribune review is pretty bad. He says the movie gets tiresome but I don't think he does a well enough job describing why other than scenes are set up similarly.
 
91% with a 7.5 average is still a fair bit higher than I was expecting. My understanding is that RT rating tends to drop off over time so it may end up in the 80s but that would still be a damn fine result for everyone involved.
 
Majora said:
91% with a 7.5 average is still a fair bit higher than I was expecting. My understanding is that RT rating tends to drop off over time so it may end up in the 80s but that would still be a damn fine result for everyone involved.
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Yeah, the enthusiast press tends to get out the gates with their reviews early (they're enthusiastic) which pushes it up early on. And there's usually a contrarian or two that waits for the consensus so they can run against it (Armond White).

I'm guessing this settles into the mid 80's a well when it's done. Though I was surprised at how fast it dropped with the last batch - I updated the title at 40 reviews which seemed safe-ish and at 50 it had dropped a lot. They're coming in lumpy.
 
Jarmel said:
That Chicago Tribune review is pretty bad. He says the movie gets tiresome but I don't think he does a well enough job describing why other than scenes are set up similarly.
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Yeah it's not good, I've read more insightful reviews on here frankly. I'm not even sure I agree with him about the similarity of the set-ups. Sure, you get a rhythm early on in the movie where you get scenes with the kids and then a scene of one of them encountering their fear, back to kids, back to a different one encountering their fear etc but I couldn't particularly say the set-ups themselves seemed overtly similar to me, nor do I think that's an inherently problematic narrative structure.
 
Majora said:
Yeah it's not good, I've read more insightful reviews on here frankly. I'm not even sure I agree with him about the similarity of the set-ups. Sure, you get a rhythm early on in the movie where you get scenes with the kids and then a scene of one of them encountering their fear, back to kids, back to a different one encountering their fear etc but I couldn't particularly say the set-ups themselves seemed overtly similar to me, nor do I think that's an inherently problematic narrative structure.
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You're going to get stuffy movie reviewers who will never rate anything 'low brow'. I think a lot of the time they rate and review entirely on their own personal likes and whether or not the movie is actually any good.
 
I'm curious to read some actual viewer reviews in regards to Pennywise's look and reliance on jump scares.

What I mean is that I basically wrote this off due to the trailers seemingly relegating Pennywise to a goofy, bright, louder-than-thou jump scare prop. That being said, I know how misleading added sound effects and trailer editing can be, so I'm curious to see what GAF fans will have to say on the matter.
 
Horror remakes/reboot are often worse than the original, and original to begin with has aged pretty poorly, so this surprises me. I'll have to check this one out.
 
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