So far sounds like the other major King adaptation this year has slammed the ball toward the parking lot!
Non-spoiler reviews for a book that's Lord how many years old now? YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION I DON'T REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH OLDER I AM THAN THIS BOOK!!
As expected, this film is about the kid-half of the story; and plays as a standalone, with an option to go for the adult side later.
One spoiler from the reviews, which is worth spoiling: like the classic TV miniseries, the writers decided to jettison the... um... way that the kids ultimately escape from the sewers. By become adults. If you've read the book or have read much about it, you'll know what I mean.
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 06, 2017, 08:16:07 AM
As expected, this film is about the kid-half of the story; and plays as a standalone, with an option to go for the adult side later.
That's a really smart move.
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 06, 2017, 08:16:07 AM
One spoiler from the reviews, which is worth spoiling: like the classic TV miniseries, the writers decided to jettison the... um... way that the kids ultimately escape from the sewers. By become adults. If you've read the book or have read much about it, you'll know what I mean.
Also smart. I'm not sure how you'd work that into a film and it's not a great plot point in the book anyway.
I kind of get what King was going for, but it's still very WTF, figuratively and literally. ???
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 08, 2017, 04:01:11 PM
it's still very WTF, figuratively and literally. ???
Heh. Yeah.
He's doing okay with the $$
Oh, hah! -- I hadn't even realized, the new film arrives 27 years after the original mini-series adaptation.
That's nifty, not because OMG THE AGE IT BURRRNNNNSSSS MMEEEEEEE, but because 27 years is It's feeding cycle in the book.
I don't know if that's accidental, or planned, but if that was planned then that's some super-fan levels of production! O0
It crushed it
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/movies/it-breaks-september-records-supercharging-the-box-office.html
https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/907347037968105477
Came expecting 45 minutes of black silence after a few minutes of silent drinking.
Was not disappointed! -- but for other reasons.
If you haven't seen their prior ep on Annabelle: Creation, their opening joke might not make much sense. So, a good chunk of their ep last time was devoted to the super-scammy contest being run by the producers: make your own short 2 minute film about the doll, and if you win the contest Warner Bros will pay you $100 for all rights to make works from your work and to use your work, in perpetuity, with no further money or rights ever coming back to you -- and you might possibly get to meet with executives behind the Annabelle series (or whatever) but they reserve the right to send an assistant secretary or something to meet you, or just not send anyone at all.
It sounds like satire, but apparently it isn't?! -- so their joke is that Stephen King won the contest.
Edited to add:
my joke at the top, is a reference to their extended joke on/for their fans about Transformers 5, where all three of their main review shows (Half in the Bag, re:View, and Plinkett), devoted shows at the same time for TF5 -- where people we've never seen before, subbing in for Mike and Jay, "reviewed" the film by drinking themselves into a blackout after five minutes (the Plinkett review wasn't even that much) and then the rest of the runtime is just a silent black screen. I thought it was a genius joke, but a
lot of the fans were torqued.
One amusing side-note from the reviewers I've heard / read so far: they'll talk about the origins of It being a cosmic horror from beyond the universe etc., but so far (including Mutt and Jeff here ;) ) every one of them talks about "It" having crash landed on Earth "centuries ago" or "thousands of years ago".
In the book, It's arrival was responsible for the final extinction of the dinosaurs. That's kind of literally where "It" gets its name or nickname of "It": the impression of semi-conscious dinos in horror as It is falling from the sky.
Jay is surely correct, however, that the co-author of this book was cocaine. <:-)
chalk art from SparkCon today
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21463069_10210076533805206_2108156318977258497_n.jpg?oh=b211f62f259054b6ad08464ed0dcbe6a&oe=5A5274F2)
I hear the Joker is very jealous.
My wife and I saw this one last week and it wasn't half bad. We both enjoyed it but found it not really scary and kind of predictable but it was done very well. The Goonies meets Freddy Kruger kind of thing. Good summer movie.
Heard on the radio while passing by yesterday that It is now the top grossing R-rated movie of all time. And looks to catch up with The Sixth Sense.
That seems un-possible? :o
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 26, 2017, 08:06:43 AM
Heard on the radio while passing by yesterday that It is now the top grossing R-rated movie of all time. And looks to catch up with The Sixth Sense.
That seems un-possible? :o
it should totally be
Deadpool!!!!!
Quote from: mirth on September 06, 2017, 08:25:41 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 06, 2017, 08:16:07 AM
One spoiler from the reviews, which is worth spoiling: like the classic TV miniseries, the writers decided to jettison the... um... way that the kids ultimately escape from the sewers. By become adults. If you've read the book or have read much about it, you'll know what I mean.
Also smart. I'm not sure how you'd work that into a film and it's not a great plot point in the book anyway.
Just wouldn't fly in this PC world of today--although if my memory serves right the scene was tastefully done in the book. In today's world you'd have to write out the girl and make it a group homo scene---only then would it be accepted.
Quote from: ghostryder on September 29, 2017, 09:33:05 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 06, 2017, 08:25:41 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on September 06, 2017, 08:16:07 AM
One spoiler from the reviews, which is worth spoiling: like the classic TV miniseries, the writers decided to jettison the... um... way that the kids ultimately escape from the sewers. By become adults. If you've read the book or have read much about it, you'll know what I mean.
Also smart. I'm not sure how you'd work that into a film and it's not a great plot point in the book anyway.
Just wouldn't fly in this PC world of today--although if my memory serves right the scene was tastefully tactilely done in the book. In today's world you'd have to write out the girl and make it a group homo scene---only then would it be accepted.
Tastefully, maybe. But he goes into tactile detail, to some extent.
You have to remember King is a far leftist--it's why every religious character in his books is portrayed as a gook---be it carrie's mom or comparing religion to an insurance scam, which he has done in interviews. So it goes without saying in his mind a boy becomes a man only after he gets laid - In the novel Beverly is a fierce independent girl, in the new film, she ends up as just another of Pennywise's victims, hanging in midair in the clown's lair like a pinata until the boys rescue her, reviving her with a kiss like Sleeping Beauty. Sigh. You may perfer it but I don't--it forces her into a damsel in distress - it would be like Ripley in Alien huddled down waiting to be rescued---and changing it is an obvious bend to PC censcorship.
And when you take her character in mind the rewrite is far more sexist than the original. Her strong fierce independance helped the boys become men in that scene--that's how it was written. Now what do you got? A weak girl waiting to be recued by a "man".