Stephen King’s It (the first of 2 reboots) released today in USA and hopefully soon elsewhere. I’m going to wait till DVD though. Still I’m looking forward to it!
This is going to be interesting. Hopefully it will be better than the 90’s tv movie which had its strengths but reached nowhere near the depth and style, imagination and violent awesomeness of the book. The first movie (2017) has a mostly all-child cast; there are no grownup protagonists. So I’m guessing that’s how they’re doing the two movies – taking the storyline of them as kids in the first movie, then the return to Derry about 30yrs later when they’re all grown up in the sequel. I think this is a good concept, hopefully it works. And I know most people think it’s good that Beverly’s orgy scene and other choice sequences aren’t in the movie because there is probably no way they could do that (it could be done, but not by Hollywood) without being exploitative, but I do hope the sociopath sub-plot of the bullies will be in the movie. They have said that they are putting alot of the darker stuff in that was avoided in the TV movie (which was also in two parts, remember.)
My favourite scene in the book has to be the sociopath sequence with the fridge at the dump. That and the time the Losers Club fought back with stones – which was in the TV Tim Curry as Pennywise version. But it didn’t have alot of weight to it. In my opinion, one of the coolest things about the book was killing off a main character at the start of the book then pivoting away and telling an epic story of murder, love, spirit, faith and growing up.
I hope this won’t be another Ender’s Game scenario. Fans of Card’s book will know what I mean here.
on the subject of looking forward, in November in the USA Thor: Ragnarok will be released
I’m surprising myself by being more excited about this movie than I am the JLA movie. And I’m a DC fan to the core – Clayface, Green Lantern, 90’s Flash, JSA, Plastic Man, the list goes on.. I love their characters, worlds and stories. However, the teaser for Ragnarok looks like something a bit different. Whereas the teaser for the JLA movie just looks like more of the same. I’m going with different on this one, because to me that brings up other words like original and unique – two of my favourite character assets.
the joy of eating and the folly of thinking 