I did like that. That’s about the only sequence with It that I thought was really effective. Notice he didn't talk or do much.

No its not. Old people have Rush Limbaugh. And Fox. And Alex Jones. Nothing is worse than them. 

Richie being queer isn’t “new information”. I know not everyone has read the book and a lot of it is subtext but it is pretty clear, particularly in (spoilers!) the part where they have to leave Eddie behind. I had a lot of gripes with the first one as an adaptation and I’m sure I will with part two as well, but at…

Option 3: Don’t do Pennywise.

So true. I have an intense memory of being left in the car alone when I was under 4 when my mom went into the piano teacher’s house to get my brother. It felt like I was in the car alone for hours (couldn’t have been more than 5 minutes.) I was convinced the telephone poles were coming to get me, bending down towards…

The art direction and production design are both top notch and full of tactile detail, and the entomologically inspired creature design nods both to King’s novel and such imaginative influences as Jan Švankmajer, the Brothers Quay, and Rob Bottin’s special effects work on John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Even more so than Finn Wolfhard did as a young Richie in Chapter One, Hader picks up the whole movie, puts it in his pocket, and walks away with it.

Us is a movie that definitely had characters telling inappropriate jokes at the absolute worst moments. It was like they wrote a script, looked at it and said, “Every scene needs a joke whether that kills the tension or not.”

Shouldn’t it be ‘Despite a scene-stealing turn fro Bill Hader, It: Chapter Two sinks instead of floats’?

The town itself as the primary antagonist is what made the book so special. The film barely touches on that, opting for special effects and jump scares instead, and that’s why it fails.

I found the kids to be the worst part of It. It was like the movie was trying to imitate Stranger Things. Hell, they even cast one of the same actors.

King also captures in his young characters how terrifying the world is when you realize that your fears are real and no adult is going to rescue you.

I haven’t seen the first one yet (keep meaning to get around to it), but my first take was that this version of Pennywise goes too far into freakshow territory. Pennywise as described in the book looked like a clown to the point where he was able to walk around unremarked upon, but when you really looked at him was…

Us sucked in every way. 

Hereditary fucked me up.

It’s like the Watchmen adaptation. They took some scenes and faithfully recreated them but either didn’t get or simply didn’t care about the characters or the story.

As for Pennywise? Tim Curry was WAY scarier as a basically normal-looking clown. Skarsgaard is fine, but the character design is so over the top and…

Nobody wants to watch the latter if it’s all adults. What are you, some kind of sicko?

But is the turtle in it?

Alright Dad

My mom took me to see The Dark Crystal in the theatre, knowing nothing about it except that it was Jim Henson. She was terrified she’d scarred me for life but it’s actually one of my favourite movies I saw as a kid.