I have yet to see it.
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I have yet to see it.
Hurricanes are a bitch.
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
Looks like a director's cut is indeed coming:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...201741697.html
Hide the kids and break out the red balloons, It is getting supersized. Ringmaster Andy Muschietti has exclusively revealed to Yahoo Movies that he is working on an elongated director’s cut of his record-smashing, nightmare-inducing Stephen King adaptation that will be released with the home edition at the end of the year.
Muschietti and his producer/sister, Barbara Muschietti, broke the news about the It director’s cut on Thursday morning, noting that Warner Bros. had asked them to produce the new version shortly before they came to our studios to participate in a Facebook Live.
Asked if there were any scenes that he found difficult to trim (considering the novel weighed in at 1,000-plus pages), Andy Muschietti said there was one in particular that stood out. “There’s a great scene, it’s a bit of a payoff of the Stanley Uris plot which is the bar mitzvah, where he delivers a speech against all expectations… it’s basically blaming all the adults of Derry [for the town’s history of deadly “accidents” and child disappearances], and it has a great resolution. … Maybe it will be in the director’s cut!”
“Right, we are going to do a director’s cut. We were told this morning,” Barbara Muschietti chimed in.
Andy Muschietti said there would “probably [be] an extra 15 minutes for hardcore fans” in total, including a “very funny” extended version of the quarry scene, where the group of young protagonists who call themselves The Losers Club try to gin up the courage to jump off a cliff into the water below.
“After the spitting contest it escalates into something that is completely weird and irrelevant to the scene but is so funny. Jack Grazer, who plays Eddie, does something that is completely bonkers.”
The filmmaker had assembled longer cuts during the production process before ultimately trimming the film to 2 hours, 15 minutes for its theatrical release. Warner Bros. has not announced a specific release date for DVD/Blu-ray, but it is expected to arrive in time for the holidays, because nothing says Yuletide cheer like a demonic, children-devouring harlequin.
Meanwhile, the Muschiettis said that they are already outlining the story for It: Chapter 2, which will bring back the Losers as adults for a final, fateful confrontation with Pennywise. They said they hope to bring back the young cast in flashback (“before they all have beards”), as well as Bill Skarsgård as their clown adversary.
Andy Muschietti also said he’d love to do a new version of Pet Sematary, the first Stephen King novel the filmmaker read, or a screen adaptation of the short story “The Jaunt,” a sci-fi/horror tale about futuristic teleportation technology that allows people to “jaunt” across the universe from the author’s 1985 collection, Skeleton Crew.
First, however, the duo will be working on an adaptation based on the work of a different member of the King clan. They begin production next month on the series Locke and Key, based on the time-hopping supernatural comic book series written by Joe Hill, the pen name of Stephen King’s son Joe Hillstrom King. That series is slated to stream on Hulu in 2018.
I doubt they queued for hours at this particular screening.
I'm not saying you're both wrong mind. The thought "how do you know the reason they left" did occur to me as well. Then I thought maybe he knew them, as he did say he was there with a group of people.
Maybe he just saw a bunch leave and he came to his own conclusions. I didn't know him well, I'm just passing on what he said. He did come across as a friendly but slightly loud extrovert so yes, it might have been BS. I will reiterate: he loved the film himself, and I don't think he was trying to dis the film at all. Neither am I. I've yet to see it!
http://www.businessinsider.com/it-mo...-office-2017-9
It was the tale of two studios this weekend at the multiplex: Warner Bros. continued raking in the dough with its hit movie "It" while Paramount navigated the dreaded "F" CinemaScore for the Jennifer Lawrence dud "mother!"
Following its record-breaking opening weekend last week, "It" fed off the word-of-mouth as it took in an estimated $60 million this weekend to win the box office for a second-straight weekend, according to boxofficepro.com.
The movie is performing beyond anything Warner Bros. had hoped for the $35 million-budgeted adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel, as it had only a 51% drop in sales from its monster $123.4 million opening weekend.
"It" now has a total of $218.7 million at the domestic box office. That makes the horror the highest grossing September release of all time. It broke the record — 1986's "Crocodile Dundee," $174.8 million — in just two weeks!
The only competition for "It" this weekend was "mother!," the latest WTF from Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream," "Black Swan").
So I finally saw it... some thoughts and spoilers.
I thought it was really good but aside from the obvious uptick in production values, the gore and a few extra scenes from the book (Henry killing his dad, the leper, etc) I think I preferred part 1 of the miniseries to this.
Skarsgard was great but Tim Curry is still the definitive Pennywise for me. Whenever I reread the book it's Tim Curry in my head and I don't think he's going to be replaced by this new one. Likewise I prefer the kids from the original. I think the approach the miniseries took with each segment focusing on one respective kid got us to know them better and they felt more fleshed out.
A number of the changes felt unnecessary. I.E. Bev's father sexually molesting her, Georgie being 'missing' as opposed to being found dead from the outright, Mr. Keene not being the one to tell Eddie about the placebos, etc. It's kind of funny that the miniseries was actually MORE faithful most of the time.
Again I liked it a lot, I had a good time watching it. I'd probably give it a B+.
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I managed to see It over the weekend and now make my return to this thread (thank you, thank you).
That pretty much captures it.
Some scenes were quite “amped up” in comparison with the type of thing they could get away with in the miniseries, particularly...
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As the San Francisco Chronicle said, “…medals of valor for every director or producer who threw a tantrum to keep the studio from changing the MPAA rating to PG-13."
Other great creepiness:
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Initially, although we’d been warned, I found the move from 1957 to 1989 jarring.
Also jarring (despite knowing): that so much of the novel had been left out. I think I’d gotten to thinking of all they could fit into this that they’d left out of the miniseries, and got carried away with it (I would’ve loved 10 minutes alone with Mike, wandering the Iron Works ruins, learning about the Black Spot, etc.).
Did any of the kids ever say “beep beep Richie” to Richie? I know Pennywise did, which wouldn’t make sense in the context of the movie if the other kids didn’t say it. Perhaps they did and I just don’t remember it.
I liked all the performances - all the kids, and Pennywise too. Henry came across as a true bastard (who suffered from being bullied himself).
I liked how
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Quibbles of a minor nature:
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Yes; that was good.
135 minutes is only an “unfriendly” running time when it doesn’t serve the material (I detest the notion that movies “should be” shorter than any particular cutoff time); the “wait, that’s it?” feeling proves this pretty clearly.
Same here. I hope the eventual DVD/Blu-Ray release contains a 200-minute director’s cut, and I suspect I’m not alone.
Yes!
But better than relegating her to the town pump, I’d say!
Not a bad idea at all.
I wonder if the notion of a bunch of kids playing in the middle of nowhere, where the town drains empty, just doesn’t fit with 1989.
Oh God please yes.
I’m glad they will include the kids for more than just a few reference-oriented flashbacks; the childhood scenes are the heart of the story.
They will need to act fast, so Ben doesn't look like Ben Roethlisberger.When they said how many dollars it would cost, I was amazed at how badly they'd overvalued it - then I realized they'd overvalued the dollars as well.
09-18-2017 10:09 AM #1110
Also, nice acting from those who played Bev and Henry's fathers - small roles as believably menacing fathers, but they nailed them.When they said how many dollars it would cost, I was amazed at how badly they'd overvalued it - then I realized they'd overvalued the dollars as well.
09-18-2017 11:55 AM #1111
I think one of the reason I was so pleased with the movie was the fact that I KNEW there was no way we would get every scene from the book. I think the ones we did get were amazing and I'm sure a few more will pop up in the second one. I also think the second one will be longer too. The studio won't care and give him a lot of control I'm sure. I just worry they will play the game and split the second one into 2 pieces A'LA final Harry Potter.
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09-18-2017 12:48 PM #1112
09-18-2017 01:49 PM #1113
09-18-2017 02:21 PM #1114
Stretching out the adult section into two parts would be a mistake imo. I don't think there's that much to warrant more than one movie and it would probably result in unnecessary padding.A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
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09-18-2017 02:25 PM #1115
I was either reading something from the director or listening to an interview with him, and he said that will definitely not happen. It was planned as just a two film series. Hopefully they stick with that because it would be weird to have more than another film. However I am not at all opposed to a little webisode or mini special that goes into the history of Derry or some of the missing a bit moreOnly the gentle are ever really strong.
09-18-2017 02:57 PM #1116
So since people have now seen the film and are going into detail about the it, here are some of my thoughts. I'll spoiler it just in case for those that have yet to see it.
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As an adaptation I didn't care for it. Too much had been changed, and the book is perfection in my opinion. So I guess it was a given that I'd be disappointed in that respect. But as a horror film, I think it pulled it off. I'm hoping to see it again soon, so hopefully I can enjoy it for what it is, and just think of it as a separate entity.Only the gentle are ever really strong.
09-18-2017 04:34 PM #1117
09-19-2017 05:46 AM #1118
Yes, although the value of this would depend on them going to the limit with something I wanted them to do with part 2, and which they apparently are doing, at least to some extent: part 2 won't be 100% adults, and will include the kids for more than just quick flashbacks. I would want lots more with the kids, while still letting the adult "framing" portions breathe and not be shoehorned in for time.
The pedestrian worst case scenario of splitting part 2 into two parts: if part 2 was nearly all adult material, the first part could be the calls and the adult losers reacting to them, closing with Bev escaping her husband (I guess that would serve as dramatic tension). This would be mighty limp, not to mention very light on horror/Pennywise. This would be awful.
There is another way, however:
The adult portion of part 2 could focus on adult Mike in Derry before he makes the phone calls, built heavily on the Derry interludes, going into great depth on the mythology of Derry - we see all of his research, talking to old-timers, historical events such as the gang shootout, flashbacks to young Mike wandering the wreckage of the iron works, and then climaxing with finding Georgie's picture, seeing "COME HOME COME HOME COME HOME" (that part always gets me) and realizing It is back and he has no choice but to call the others back to Derry. Major problem - while I would absolutely love this breakdown (of part 2 into two parts), the general moviegoing public definitely would not, because, while it would be horror in a cerebral sense, it would have little horror action going for it. Well, I guess that's why we have books.When they said how many dollars it would cost, I was amazed at how badly they'd overvalued it - then I realized they'd overvalued the dollars as well.
09-19-2017 09:46 AM #1119
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http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...on-Stockerlone
Non-King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...rlone-Non-King
09-19-2017 11:19 AM #1120
09-19-2017 02:47 PM #1121
I haven't yet, but hoping to see it soon.A NEW GAME BEGINS
09-19-2017 05:27 PM #1122
Saw it today finally. Great. Fucking. Movie. I thought they nailed it, and made a perfect adaptation of the kid's part of the story. There was no way we were going to get everything, but what we did get was great. The kids did a great job nailing the characters, particularly the girl that played Bev. She did a fantastic job of playing that character, and captured the sass, toughness, and tenderness of the character in the book. The new Pennywise was fantastic, he was scary enough without over doing it. No he's not Tim Curry, but imo he made me forget about Tim Curry and love his version.
I understand that because they made a movie already, almost 30 years ago, there are going to be comparisons. But I wish people would stop it, and not think of this as a remake. This is a new adaptation of the book. And it does a wonderful job of that. The 1990 series was good for its time, yes. I watched it as it aired on tv as a freshman in college, and we all were into it. But this is a new movie, a new telling, not a remake. It's a fantastic movie, and I CANNOT wait for Chapter 2. I am interested to see what they do with the 2nd confrontation, it's going to be a bit more difficult to adapt.
Reading this:
made me happy because I love that short story and I think it does not get the attention it deserves.or a screen adaptation of the short story “The Jaunt,” a sci-fi/horror tale about futuristic teleportation technology that allows people to “jaunt” across the universe from the author’s 1985 collection, Skeleton Crew.
09-20-2017 05:24 AM #1123
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
09-20-2017 05:28 AM #1124
Watched It last night. Yep that was a pretty cool film. I'm not sure that it was better than the mini-series for me personally. I think they're both great in different ways. The mini-series is entertaining for the teenager in me. The movie is entertaining for the adult in me. Can't wait to watch the bluray with the deleted scenes."That which you think, becomes your world" Matheson
09-20-2017 05:33 AM #1125