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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 23, 2019 22:30:09 GMT
What is normal per se?
None of these kids acted era contextual, they looked millennial, sounded millennial and the whole movie was about superficial dress up facade, with stupid shock scares to make up for its lack of originality and depth.
Normal as in she looks typical of most or many teenage girls, and calling her ugly was sort of a funny, bitchy 8th grade girl thing to say. Not sure what the rest of this has to do with anything that I said, but I'm not sure how you got 'millennial' from the movie. I'm not saying it's got the greatest period authenticity, but they were teenage kids dealing with their friends, dealing with bullies, dealing with their parents, etc. Like teenagers in movies always have. I didn't see any cell phones or kids saying that seeing Night of the Living Dead at the drive in would be 'lit.' I've said my piece above weeks ago, but I never argued it was great or anything. True that it didn't anything new, but I thought the familiar beats that it hit it hit pretty well. Just having an opinionated discussion on this film, which is the topic. I have given a straightforward take on how I saw the film and expanded on what you commented on.
Overall, the film did not work for me, for the reasons already explained. She sounded like a millennial actress, they acted poorly—I guess because they are millennial, but compare this to the kids in IT Chapter 2—it didn't even need to be set in 68' and I found it prosaic and ponderous in execution. The film was as superficial as they come and horrible is the only ideal adjective I can come too.
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Post by jamesbamesy on Oct 23, 2019 22:50:38 GMT
Normal as in she looks typical of most or many teenage girls, and calling her ugly was sort of a funny, bitchy 8th grade girl thing to say. Not sure what the rest of this has to do with anything that I said, but I'm not sure how you got 'millennial' from the movie. I'm not saying it's got the greatest period authenticity, but they were teenage kids dealing with their friends, dealing with bullies, dealing with their parents, etc. Like teenagers in movies always have. I didn't see any cell phones or kids saying that seeing Night of the Living Dead at the drive in would be 'lit.' I've said my piece above weeks ago, but I never argued it was great or anything. True that it didn't anything new, but I thought the familiar beats that it hit it hit pretty well. Just having an opinionated discussion on this film, which is the topic. I have given a straightforward take on how I saw the film and expanded on what you commented on.
Overall, the film did not work for me, for the reasons already explained. She sounded like a millennial actress, they acted poorly—I guess because they are millennial, but compare this to the kids in IT Chapter 2—it didn't even need to be set in 68' and I found it prosaic and ponderous in execution. The film was as superficial as they come and horrible is the only ideal adjective I can come too.
Mind if I ask, what did you think of It Ch. 2? |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 24, 2019 0:48:06 GMT
Just having an opinionated discussion on this film, which is the topic. I have given a straightforward take on how I saw the film and expanded on what you commented on.
Overall, the film did not work for me, for the reasons already explained. She sounded like a millennial actress, they acted poorly—I guess because they are millennial, but compare this to the kids in IT Chapter 2—it didn't even need to be set in 68' and I found it prosaic and ponderous in execution. The film was as superficial as they come and horrible is the only ideal adjective I can come too.
Mind if I ask, what did you think of It Ch. 2? I loved it. Seen it 3 times.
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Post by jamesbamesy on Oct 24, 2019 1:03:02 GMT
Mind if I ask, what did you think of It Ch. 2? I loved it. Seen it 3 times. That’s good. I enjoyed it myself, albeit not as much as the first chapter. I do think they kind of got repetitive with each scene of them getting their tokens and a new form of Pennywise attacks them (which made it predictable) and the runtime could’ve been minimized, but all the actors are great, the CGI works and it carries the tone and themes from the first movie quite well. |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 24, 2019 1:07:05 GMT
I loved it. Seen it 3 times. That’s good. I enjoyed it myself, albeit not as much as the first chapter. I do think they kind of got repetitive with each scene of them getting their tokens and a new form of Pennywise attacks them (which made it predictable) and the runtime could’ve been minimized, but all the actors are great, the CGI works and it carries the tone and themes from the first movie quite well. I wasn’t fond of the first as much. I found it lacked a bit of soul and was forced. The run time of the second instalment I thought would be daunting. It wasn’t and I liked pretty much all of it. Preferred it to Joker too.
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Post by jamesbamesy on Oct 24, 2019 1:14:10 GMT
That’s good. I enjoyed it myself, albeit not as much as the first chapter. I do think they kind of got repetitive with each scene of them getting their tokens and a new form of Pennywise attacks them (which made it predictable) and the runtime could’ve been minimized, but all the actors are great, the CGI works and it carries the tone and themes from the first movie quite well. I wasn’t fond of the first as much. I found it lacked a bit of soul and was forced. The run time of the second instalment I thought would be daunting. It wasn’t and I liked pretty much all of it. Preferred it to Joker too. I’ll admit that I wasn’t too agitated with the runtime while watching it and it felt quicker than I expected. Love the scene with Skarsgard and the little girl, it was pretty scary if for the way it was done rather than how expected it is. |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 24, 2019 10:19:34 GMT
I wasn’t fond of the first as much. I found it lacked a bit of soul and was forced. The run time of the second instalment I thought would be daunting. It wasn’t and I liked pretty much all of it. Preferred it to Joker too. I’ll admit that I wasn’t too agitated with the runtime while watching it and it felt quicker than I expected. Love the scene with Skarsgard and the little girl, it was pretty scary if for the way it was done rather than how expected it is. Yes, that was an excellent scene and really showcases the evil of Pennywise, especially since the girl had a physical feature that bothered her. Nice how it also tied in with Adrian's death from the carnival.
So much was happening in this film, even if it focused much of the runtime on them finding their past, but this was so expertly realized, it wasn't an issue with me and they all had something different they came across. I was very impressed. I don't think the film overdid the cgi either. It relied on effects, but they were all integral. Pennywise the giant spiderform was one surreal and freaky creature.
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Post by selfworth10 on Apr 23, 2020 10:55:05 GMT
It reminded me of a Stephen King novel with all the teenage kids and their bonding
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Post by jamesbamesy on Apr 23, 2020 20:45:56 GMT
It reminded me of a Stephen King novel with all the teenage kids and their bonding Certainly so. |
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Post by Vits on Apr 26, 2020 20:36:37 GMT
4/10
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