IT Remake

My childhood sleep tremors don't think this remake could be that scary

I hope they change the god awful ending. It was great until that shitty spider bullshit.

^ this. Clown was terrifying. Spider seemed like a cop out to make all the traumatized kids fell better.

The spider is the form it takes at the end of the book.

cabbitcabbit_sl said:

The spider is the form it takes at the end of the book.

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That director should kill it. The only trouble is one-upping Tim Curry's amazeballs performance.

McCheese_sl said:

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My bad bro. I just assumed you've never read a book before.

pysek_sl said:

The spider bullshit made a lot more sense when read in the context of the Dark Tower. Also, cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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And then Dandelo shows up and there's a robot named Stuttering Bill and we are back to scratching our heads. Any time you need Word of God from the author to make sense of something the author fucked up.

Chanur_sl said:

This is my only concern. Tim Curry is amazing. I love his work.

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Maybe Curry will come back for the role? One can hope lol.

I doubt the studio would do that but it's not a terrible idea. Enough time has gone by from the original that his performance in a new story could have just as much weight as it did back in 1990 and bring it to a new audience. It would also add a level of surreality to the project and help get old timers who liked the original into the theater.

you really cant condense 1000 pages from IT into a 2 hour movie. there are simply too many character subplots. and they wont be able to do my favorite parts justice. all my favorite parts of the book were michael hanlon's side chapters on the clown popping up at certain "disasters". each of those chapters was were fleshed out and awesome.

i want to see the the story about the Fire At The Black spot
i want to see the bank robber gang massacre
i want to see the lumberjack bar slaughter
i want to see the kitchener ironworks story

and so on

^^^

One of my friends from High school was/is a big Stephen King fan and had read most of his books. So I had the experience of watching a few Stephen King movies with him. And he would always be left disappointed, mostly due to the amount of good stuff that had been so good in the book, but cut out of the movie.

I really, really like the book but it's a headcracker. You've got all this mufti-dimensional weirdness to take in and then some freaky sex shit every 20 pages. Bev's fucking everyone and there's a leper trying to suck cock and Bev's getting raped to orgasm by her husband and the bully is getting blown by a sociopath kid that kills animals while Bev's watching and thinking about how Bill has a weiner too and her dad wants to fuck her and Pennywise turns into her dad/witch and talks about eating her clit and he wanted to fuck her and at another point he wanted to check to see if she still had a hymen and Eddie married a carbon copy of his mom and Mike's dad tells him about getting a white whore and the gay kid at the start that gets killed talks about sucking cocks and there's a page on the local gay bar and the crazy shit the townspeople think happens there and I'm sure there is other stuff that I am forgetting. And most of that stuff is referenced multiple times.

And I agree with Chuk. The Interludes with Mike are probably the best parts. A cool way to do them in a film would be to make some of them into promotional webisodes. Something like The Fire at the Black Spot you could film pretty cheap and mostly dialogue driven.

It's absurd. You line it all up and it looks like some bad porno story King wrote about the pretty red haired girl he never got with.

If you read the book first (I didn't, I watched the movie first) I would think that the real disappointment is the second part. Part 1 is really, really good and holds most of the important stuff in place. Part 2 is just awful.

The Fire At The Black Spot could probably be made into a standalone film, its that good. i know they wont do it justice in IT, probably would only get a passing mention, reason being it changes the tone of the movie from a killer clown monster shapeshifter thing living in the sewers film to some weird kind of jim crow era drama. anyway. king really fucked up the "grownups" reunion parts and the second half really shows. you would think King would have an easier time writing dialogue for adults than he would for 12 yr old kids.

Arbitrary_sl said:

I really, really like the book but it's a headcracker. You've got all this mufti-dimensional weirdness to take in and then some freaky sex shit every 20 pages. Bev's fucking everyone and there's a leper trying to suck cock and Bev's getting raped to orgasm by her husband and the bully is getting blown by a sociopath kid that kills animals while Bev's watching and thinking about how Bill has a weiner too and her dad wants to fuck her and Pennywise turns into her dad/witch and talks about eating her clit and he wanted to fuck her and at another point he wanted to check to see if she still had a hymen and Eddie married a carbon copy of his mom and Mike's dad tells him about getting a white whore and the gay kid at the start that gets killed talks about sucking cocks and there's a page on the local gay bar and the crazy shit the townspeople think happens there and I'm sure there is other stuff that I am forgetting. And most of that stuff is referenced multiple times.

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You sure this isn't a Clive Barker book?

PS: Weaveworld and Imagika fucking rocked.