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Post by clusium on Sept 24, 2017 5:10:10 GMT
I gave it an 8/10. It was pretty good, but, I definitely prefer the original 1990 version. Some scenes were definitely scary in this movie, however, the scare factor is predominantly from scenes where Pennywise jump out at the kids.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 20:58:57 GMT
Never seen the 90s one, but I did like this version. The kids did a good job.
I had a few quibbles. In the book I had the feeling that Pennywise was a fun-looking clown, which is why kids went to him. This Pennywise is just super-creepy from the start, so why would any kid go anywhere near him?
Plus I thought the movie could have done a better job of establishing that adults in Derry just can't or won't help the kids, at all, ever. They do a bit of that, but I'd liked to have seen a scene or two where the kids try to enlist adult help and the adults just refuse to take them seriously no matter what.
Also a bit less in the way of noisy jump scares, please.
But overall, I liked it. 8/10.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 16:48:39 GMT
Never seen the 90s one, but I did like this version. The kids did a good job. I had a few quibbles. In the book I had the feeling that Pennywise was a fun-looking clown, which is why kids went to him. This Pennywise is just super-creepy from the start, so why would any kid go anywhere near him?Plus I thought the movie could have done a better job of establishing that adults in Derry just can't or won't help the kids, at all, ever. They do a bit of that, but I'd liked to have seen a scene or two where the kids try to enlist adult help and the adults just refuse to take them seriously no matter what. Also a bit less in the way of noisy jump scares, please. But overall, I liked it. 8/10. This. I think Tim Curry did a better job as Pennywise. He looked like a real circus clown. He looked like someone a kid would walk up to and laugh at. Then he can do this 'creepy' smile when he's about to kill. |
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Post by Morgana on Dec 22, 2017 20:17:46 GMT
Never seen the 90s one, but I did like this version. The kids did a good job. I had a few quibbles. In the book I had the feeling that Pennywise was a fun-looking clown, which is why kids went to him. This Pennywise is just super-creepy from the start, so why would any kid go anywhere near him? Plus I thought the movie could have done a better job of establishing that adults in Derry just can't or won't help the kids, at all, ever. They do a bit of that, but I'd liked to have seen a scene or two where the kids try to enlist adult help and the adults just refuse to take them seriously no matter what. Also a bit less in the way of noisy jump scares, please. But overall, I liked it. 8/10. I give it 7/10, in part because of the points you make about the adults in the town, and the lack of any real scares. |
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