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MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

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geezer said:
I just learned it will be a two-part, with the sequel covering events in adulthood. Seems like a great way to cover the novel.
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Oh, Christ. This better be good.

I mean, on GPL, I have Pennywise as my avatar. Great villian. Stone. Cold.
 
Brenthoven said:
Just watched the trailer. Hell to the effing yes.
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I can see why this project got the Stephen King seal of approval. It appears they nailed the tone that I remember capturing me when I first read it... the awkward adolescent public loneliness, dark terror of IT underground... the kids' beautiful camaraderie, etc
It also seems kind of brilliant to move the setting to 1986. I was 12 then too, and I am exactly the target audience.
 
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geezer said:
I can see why this project got the Stephen King seal of approval. It appears they nailed the tone that I remember capturing me when I first read it... the awkward adolescent public loneliness, dark terror of IT underground... the kids' beautiful camaraderie, etc
It also seems kind of brilliant to move the setting to 1986. I was 12 then too, and I am exactly the target audience.
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Rare thing to get, given his past movies.....
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I never found IT that scary. I guess I just don't fear clowns?
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Pennywise is a fun character, but the horror setting of the novel is only incidental. It is basically the same story as Life of Pi etc, a meditation on the glory of a time in life when the big questions mattered more than anything. It's a beautiful nostalgic head trip about adolescence and the justified fear of the grind of adulthood. King is a solid novelist who happens to like horror.
If you want to mature, sooner or later you have to get down in the sewer and conquer the clown (or get up in the boat and tame the tiger). But doing so also removes many potentials. Doubt is what anchored faith, and fear was a sail for possibility. What's left to us as adults?
Or something.
 
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geezer said:
Pennywise is a fun character, but the horror setting of the novel is only incidental. It is basically the same story as Life of Pi etc, a meditation on the glory of a time in life when the big questions mattered more than anything. It's a beautiful nostalgic head trip about adolescence and the justified fear of the grind of adulthood. King is a solid novelist who happens to like horror.
If you want to mature, sooner or later you have to get down in the sewer and conquer the clown (or get up in the boat and tame the tiger). But doing so also removes many potentials. Doubt is what anchored faith, and fear was a sail for possibility. What's left to us as adults?
Or something.
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I still don't get it. If it's about conquering adolescence, then why does that stupid clown still target pre-teens and little kids ("Georgie" is what - 8 at most)? And why does he call the grown adults back to Derry for another confrontation? Is it because they hadn't "conquered their fears" yet? Didn't the fat kid grow up to become a wealthy womanizer?

So many plot holes...maybe I should actually read the book. :p
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
If it's about conquering adolescence, then why does that stupid clown still target pre-teens and little kids ("Georgie" is what - 8 at most)? :p
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Because the main character is Bill, not the clown. We only care about Georgie in how his death affects Bill, and why, and what results from that anger and helplessness of being prey. The clown's just going to keep doing whatever you let it do. IT is, most plainly, fear.
 
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If anyone gets the chance to watch Dig Two Graves, please let me know what you think. It was written and directed by a guy I went to shift a school with...I haven't had a chance yet as it was finally released in limited theaters on Friday.
 
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I saw Logan last night...outside of the directors need to put swear words into scenes for no reason it is an outstanding film! I would easily say it is one of the best cbms in this new wave of cbms and I would take it over almost all of them. (except the ones I am ridiculously biased towards) It has a better story than almost all them, the action is stellar and the characters have more depth than all of them. Mangold made a masterpiece and it is a fitting end to the Wolverine Saga. I never saw the other Wolverine films (just the X-Men movies) but this is the Wolverine I always wanted to see.
 
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Handyman said:
I saw Logan last night...outside of the directors need to put swear words into scenes for no reason it is an outstanding film! I would easily say it is one of the best cbms in this new wave of cbms and I would take it over almost all of them. (except the ones I am ridiculously biased towards) It has a better story than almost all them, the action is stellar and the characters have more depth than all of them. Mangold made a masterpiece and it is a fitting end to the Wolverine Saga. I never saw the other Wolverine films (just the X-Men movies) but this is the Wolverine I always wanted to see.
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"The Wolverine" was decent, where he goes to Japan for a few days of work. The Wolverine Origins movie was... not. Not at all.
 
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A Good Day to Die Hard is not good. I'm bored out of my mind.

Also, my favorite thing is Comcast gives one of the actress' birthplace as the USSR. Weird.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
A Good Day to Die Hard is not good. I'm bored out of my mind.

Also, my favorite thing is Comcast gives one of the actress' birthplace as the USSR. Weird.
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Why is that weird? If she was born prior to the late 80's, she would have been born in the USSR. A friend at work was born in Soviet Moscow, she'll occasionally make a passing reference to something something from that era as being in the USSR, and then she'll talk about that same place from a later date as being in Russia. Honestly, I think it's ingrained in people's heads from on how to refer to very events from the different eras within Russia.
 
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Yeah, not weird. Knew a Russian guy in college who always said he was born in the USSR, because he was. He was RUSSIAN if you asked him that, but if you asked where he was born, USSR.

Obviously not something we could identify with.
 
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Think of it this way, was George Washington born in the USA? No, he was born in the British Colonies.
 
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