Stephen King's IT

**Game Over** · 09-06-2017, 08:14 PM

I want to dress up our two year old as Pennywise for Halloween but my wife is having none of it

**abraham** · 09-06-2017, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by steepconcrete

I want to dress up our two year old as Pennywise for Halloween but my wife is having none of it

Do it in the morning or before bed and see how she responds

**FLS** · 09-06-2017, 08:24 PM

^ I was going to say, tell her you will meet her there.

**seano732** · 09-06-2017, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by FLS

Recent story, cops were called because red balloons were found tied to random storm drains (I'll try to find it).... Looking forward to Friday night!

Well that wouldn't be totally fucking creepy or anything.....😵

**FLS** · 09-06-2017, 09:16 PM

Found one...

Pennsylvania police not amused by prank inspired by the movie 'It'

http://www.chron.com/crime/article/Pennywise-clown-police-prank-red-balloons-It-movie-12177037.php

Police in a small southeast Pennsylvania town are unnerved after an unidentified prankster tied red balloons to a sewer grate.

Personally, I don't put too much faith in remakes, but then again, so am I.

**NoPostholio** · 09-07-2017, 05:36 AM

Maybe they hired DD for psy ops marketing

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**wyeaster** · 09-07-2017, 06:01 AM

i used to read everything by stephen king, sometimes in binges. and then i just totally lost interest. i can't even remember why exactly. i know why in retrospect, but i don't remember why it happened so suddenly at the time.

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**babybear** · 09-07-2017, 06:37 AM

IT was perhaps one of the scariest movies I recalled seeing in my youth.
I still can't f'ing step on a sewer grate to this day- If I can't avoid it altogether I hop over it
the funny thing is that I watched it as a kid with my grandparents lol

I saw the red balloon thing too- freaky
http://www.boredpanda.com/creepy-red...l-over-sydney/

**NoPostholio** · 09-09-2017, 08:24 PM

solid movie, good bordering on great. Curious what the non book readers will think about it. They did as well as they could by cherrypicking details, and it sets up for an even better second movie.

It should put up hudge numbers

**wyeaster** · 09-09-2017, 08:41 PM

i remember part of it. his sex scenes are horrible for a lot of reasons.

http://themuse.jezebel.com/about-the...e-i-1802676064

**detrusor** · 09-09-2017, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by b-bear

IT was perhaps one of the scariest movies I recalled seeing in my youth.
I still can't f'ing step on a sewer grate to this day- If I can't avoid it altogether I hop over it
the funny thing is that I watched it as a kid with my grandparents lol

I saw the red balloon thing too- freaky
http://www.boredpanda.com/creepy-red...l-over-sydney/

We had a whole game as kids to bunny hop all the grates. I don't step on them either.

**muted** · 09-09-2017, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by wyeaster

i used to read everything by stephen king, sometimes in binges. and then i just totally lost interest. i can't even remember why exactly. i know why in retrospect, but i don't remember why it happened so suddenly at the time.

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Fascinating.

**Flyoverland Captive** · 09-09-2017, 09:30 PM

**wyeaster** · 09-09-2017, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by muted

Fascinating.

indeed.

**funkendrenchman** · 09-11-2017, 10:37 PM

This was a miss for me. There was some good humor, but not really scary or suspenseful.

**Meanfruit** · 09-11-2017, 10:47 PM

I thought it was great. Tough to beat Tim Curry, but on almost every other point, miles better then the original movie. As far as scares, name one movie more freaky then It so far this year. IMO, better then Babadook( good), better then Lights Out,( ditto) better then Alien Covenant (meh). Watch it, it's great fun.

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**zion zig zag** · 09-12-2017, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by funkendrenchman

This was a miss for me. There was some good humor, but not really scary or suspenseful.

Agreed. Could be due to the fact that I read the book and knew what was coming?

**funkendrenchman** · 09-12-2017, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by Meanfruit

I thought it was great. Tough to beat Tim Curry, but on almost every other point, miles better then the original movie. As far as scares, name one movie more freaky then It so far this year. IMO, better then Babadook( good), better then Lights Out,( ditto) better then Alien Covenant (meh). Watch it, it's great fun.

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It's been a pretty bad year for movies. I thought Don't Breathe and 10 Cloverfield Lane were some of the better ones last year.

**Meanfruit** · 09-12-2017, 09:55 AM

Both those were ok. A meh year indeed

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**NoPostholio** · 09-18-2017, 10:41 PM

So no likes? Saw it again at a more modern theatre experience and it is a great movie - part 2 as good or better would be a box office juggalo.

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**Captain Awesome** · 09-19-2017, 02:55 AM

Saw it. Liked it a lot. (I read the book some years back, so I knew the story.)

Mrs. Awesome saw it with me, and went in knowing nothing at all about it, other than that there was a clown. The first appearance, she actually laughed, and said "wow, that clown is over-the-top" but by the end of the movie, it had grabbed her a bit. It's definitely not her sort of movie, but she enjoyed it and wants to see the next one.

Afterward, we were talking with friends, and one of them asked if they'd put "the scene" in the movie, and I had to explain it to her, and really just couldn't come up with anything that could make it a reasonable part of the story, other than it seems that Steven King runs out of decent material about 85% of the way through most of his books, and things get weird.

**reckless toboggan** · 09-19-2017, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by wyeaster

i used to read everything by stephen king, sometimes in binges. and then i just totally lost interest. i can't even remember why exactly. i know why in retrospect, but i don't remember why it happened so suddenly at the time.

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Sounds mysterious. Stephen King should write a book about that. I bet it ends with aliens.

**alias_rice** · 09-19-2017, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by reckless toboggan

Sounds mysterious. Stephen King should write a book about that. I bet it ends with aliens.

Or an eleven year old gang bang.

**reckless toboggan** · 09-19-2017, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

... Steven King runs out of decent material about 85% of the way through most of his books, and things get weird.

This is why I can't read Stephen King. Such good character development and detail, only to lamely Deus Ex Machina his way out of every novel.

**seano732** · 09-19-2017, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by NoPostholio

So no likes? Saw it again at a more modern theatre experience and it is a great movie - part 2 as good or better would be a box office juggalo.

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I thought it was great, wife and kids liked it too....And you called it, NoPost, it's smashing the box office revenues, bigly.