I prefer the new movie, but will always love and enjoy the miniseries; I think it had lots going for it, and as I saw it when it was new, the way it has aged doesn't bother me. I expect many younger people would react to it like my daughter, who found it cheesy and terrible (was 1990 really almost 30 years ago? Holy crap.)
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Did you see it when it first came out? Just curious if it is new to you now.Originally Posted by webstar1000
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I think the second part is so-so but I think the first part with the kids is genuinely good and did a better job capturing the characters than the new one did.
For example Seth Green to me is like Richie stepped right off the pages. Finn Wolfhard (again who I think is a good actor, love him on Stranger Things) felt more like your average kid making dick jokes.
Also a big difference between the two is I think the miniseries tried to be as faithful as they could to the book and most of the changes were a result of pragmatic adaptation reasons given the limits they had. The new film felt more like the writers felt they could actually improve on King's work(!) and made changes like "Bill thinks Georgie is still alive" or "Bev's father is sexually molesting her".
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I sure did. I read the book and then that came out soon after I did. I was scared and I liked it at the time.... it has just aged poorly for me.Did you see it when it first came out? Just curious if it is new to you now.
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The first time I saw the miniseries (when originally broadcast), I thought it was pretty good, but having read the novel, I wasn't surprised or scared the way someone new to it might have been. Then, I got up and went to the kitchen (the dark kitchen) to grab a snack or something, and fully expected to see Pennywise there waiting for me...
Funny how you can be taken by surprise by something you were expecting. Just like: the first time seeing the first trailer for the current movie, we see Georgie approach the drain, and it's all very familiar - sure, I know Pennywise will pop up in the drain - I've read the book 3 or 4 times and seen the miniseries probably more times than that - so how scary can it be? Then he pops up and I jerk involuntarily while making a funny noise...
In the current film, I totally failed to see that the
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and therefore was totally unprepared for, and shocked by,
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It's good to be shocked by something with which you're already very familiar.
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I'd agree with this -- it doesn't hold up well, although I thought it was decent at the time. Same thing with 'Salem's Lot -- it's hard to watch now, but it terrorized me at the time.I sure did. I read the book and then that came out soon after I did. I was scared and I liked it at the time.... it has just aged poorly for me.Did you see it when it first came out? Just curious if it is new to you now.
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Oops, didn't mean for it to come across that I thought that the mini-series was better. I more of meant that I personally enjoy both and that neither bests each other. I've read the book twice, listened to Steven Weber do the audiobook, watched the mini-series several times, and expect to watch the film several more times in the future.WOW... your the first one I heard say the mini series was better. I tried my best to watch it a month ago... and stopped after the first 30 mins. It is just cheesy and outdated. I couldn't do it;(
If I had to pick a favorite way to receive the story, it would be the audiobook. Steven Weber does an amazing job at it. He doesn't just read the book, he acts it out. When he's doing Pennywise, it's pretty creepy to imagine Weber recording those parts.
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Really? Where can you get that? I would love to listen to that on the way to work.Oops, didn't mean for it to come across that I thought that the mini-series was better. I more of meant that I personally enjoy both and that neither bests each other. I've read the book twice, listened to Steven Weber do the audiobook, watched the mini-series several times, and expect to watch the film several more times in the future.WOW... your the first one I heard say the mini series was better. I tried my best to watch it a month ago... and stopped after the first 30 mins. It is just cheesy and outdated. I couldn't do it;(
If I had to pick a favorite way to receive the story, it would be the audiobook. Steven Weber does an amazing job at it. He doesn't just read the book, he acts it out. When he's doing Pennywise, it's pretty creepy to imagine Weber recording those parts.
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So, I just got home from the cinema..There was myself and two others... They left at after half... I was on my own! Fucking loved it... The losers were great, Bev was unbelievable (unbelievable good). Pennywise is terrific. cannot wait for the next installment...
i haven't seen this yet but i may end up going on friday though to see it. i absoutely love the mini-series for what it is and like it's been said what their budget was and for what they were allowed to show at the time. i just watched it last week for like the 300th time. i have no idea how many times i've seen it i'm just throwing a random number out there so who knows what number i'm at. i do love the book, without seeing it the things i don't like about it is the timeline they needed to keep it in the 50's or the early 60's i'm sorry seeing Henry Bowers as a greaser is not only more truer to the book it's just more fitting and isn't as laughable as seeing him with a mullet. i hate it when writers thing that making a writers book better by changing shit. yes it at times can work like i really didn't think the godfather was that great of a novel but i love the novel. Salam's Lot' is a vast vast improvement over Carrie which i don't think is a good book to each their own who do.
but i think it's the ending that i don't like that ruins the book for me. what else? but i really do love the (1979) film the long version of it anyways. the remake from (2004) was fucking awful though. anyways back on topic for the tv movie some of the Special FX i think really came out good for what money they had. and some of them of course haven't aged well. i never did like the way the book ended for IT though where the memory loss... cause i want them as adults keep in contact and in the book i don't think they are able to. but than King hasn't put any of those characters other than Mike Hanlon in any other book he's done since so i dunno if i'm wrong or not. i wish that in another book of his say it's his next one Richie Tozier has a role in it.
Spoiler:What other book was Mike in? I don't recall that.
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i haven't seen this yet but i may end up going on friday though to see it. i absoutely love the mini-series for what it is and like it's been said what their budget was and for what they were allowed to show at the time. i just watched it last week for like the 300th time. i have no idea how many times i've seen it i'm just throwing a random number out there so who knows what number i'm at. i do love the book, without seeing it the things i don't like about it is the timeline they needed to keep it in the 50's or the early 60's i'm sorry seeing Henry Bowers as a greaser is not only more truer to the book it's just more fitting and isn't as laughable as seeing him with a mullet. i hate it when writers thing that making a writers book better by changing shit. yes it at times can work like i really didn't think the godfather was that great of a novel but i love the novel. Salam's Lot' is a vast vast improvement over Carrie which i don't think is a good book to each their own who do.
but i think it's the ending that i don't like that ruins the book for me. what else? but i really do love the (1979) film the long version of it anyways. the remake from (2004) was fucking awful though. anyways back on topic for the tv movie some of the Special FX i think really came out good for what money they had. and some of them of course haven't aged well. i never did like the way the book ended for IT though where the memory loss... cause i want them as adults keep in contact and in the book i don't think they are able to. but than King hasn't put any of those characters other than Mike Hanlon in any other book he's done since so i dunno if i'm wrong or not. i wish that in another book of his say it's his next one Richie Tozier has a role in it.
oh sorry for the double post if i did that, that wasn't intentional. he was in if i can spell this right Insomina where it takes place Derry and if my memory is right and bear in mind i haven't read in in years Ralph the lead i believe is his name, works at the libary. i'm about to go to bed so forgive my spelling, anyways, his boss is Mike Hanlon and in the book he's written like a prick if my memory is right, he's not in the book that much only here and there but that's the last one of the books i read that i recall. and i haven't read 11-22-63 yet to be fair. i just started this past week actually Mr. Mercedes i'm only 155 pages into it thus far
Gotcha. Been so long since I've read Insomnia that I completely forgot about that.
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Saw it today and loved it.
No way it is THE best King adaptation ever, though. It's no Shawshank, that's for sure. Brilliant in its own way though. I thought the kids were great as others have noted - and I loved the look and sound of Pennywise, particularly liked the fridge scene! Really glad the film is doing so well. It deserves to be. Would deffo recommend it as one to see.
Interesting the different way fans respond to SK audiobooks. Try as I may I couldn't listen to Steven Weber read It for the exact reason you like him: his acting out of the characters and overdramatizing of nearly every sentence drove me crazy. Same with Will Patton on the Mr. Mercedes trilogy. I'm always wary of actors who do audiobooks for that exact reason. When I learned that James Franco was reading the Dead Zone I feared that he would go the same route but he was very restrained and I thought he did a good job. My favorite SK audiobook readers are Ron McLarty, Frank Mueller, Craig Wasson and Stephen King himself.
Going to see IT again tonight at the drive in. Thought about dressing as a clown but remembered this is Texas and everyone is armed.
I guess I should try to give Shawshank another go some day because the one time I saw it, for me it was just ... meh.
Omg... you need to re watch Shawshank.. today.
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Yep. What Kris said.
No doubt! That's probably my most watched King based film ever.Omg... you need to re watch Shawshank.. today.
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