Also I just read the plot summary of the book and even though it spoiled it for me, I'm a lot more interested in seeing this now. I never saw the original so I had no idea it was about way more than a killer clown
I'm not exactly a horror movie fan but it really wasn't that scary to me. The jump scares are pretty much the only things that got me but any movie can do that. That said the well house sequences were pretty effective, especially the first one
Where the movie really shined was the interactions between all of the Losers Club members, they cast this movie really well. Eddie was my fav
also I gotta say, as far as the opening scene goes I think the original was better. There was something more unsettling about Tim Curry's original Pennywise form cuz it actually did look fairly innocent with just a hint of being something sinister. That said I was not expecting to see that arm come off, that was fucking brutal
def looking forward to part 2. Should be fun to see who they cast
oof, echo a lot of Curtis' thoughts here. I didn't love the first one but thought it was pretty solid (mostly due to the kid actors, which was further reinforced here whenever they popped up - wayyy better than the adults), but this was mostly just pretty dull. All the overt winking at "that author really doesn't know how to end his stories huh ;) ;) " would've been better if...they actually ended this well
some of it was okay tho!
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Hader really was the bright spot of this movie, he nailed it. Not only was his performance great in a vacuum but he specifically nailed Finn Wolfhard's character like Curtis said. McAvoy and Chastain were p underwhelming next to him, not that they had nearly as much to work with. What a waste of a great cast
And yeah, this really wasn't scary at all - the first one wasn't that scary either but at least had some effective moments thanks to (normal-size) Pennywise. All the CGI monsters in this not only looked poor but felt more like something you'd see in Goosebumps, not an R-rated horror movie. Maybe I'm misremembering but I thought in the trailer when the old lady runs at Bev she's normal-sized? That was actually a fairly creepy sequence until the stupid oversized CGI creature came out. Honestly the only sequence to really bring out some dread in this was the bleachers scene (which was kinda like a lite version of the Georgie/boat scene)...which, again, is mostly thanks to the actual Pennywise being in it. Richie being deadlight'd was p spooky for a sec but ended too quickly/predictably
The scene with Eddie fighting the bully was maybe my fav of the movie? If for nothing else but the "...and cut your mullet, it's been like 30 years!" line
