Half in the Bag Episode 131: IT (1990) and IT (2017)

age, you know, I was thinking with Bub getting his hair cut, yeah, it's probably in the I don't know. I don't think that's in the book, but I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, movie, TV, movie, the sink fills with blood and then I think, wait a minute. Blood will go everywhere won't it, it will be to the nth degree, it was comical and he was right, it's because yeah, it's actually a little creepy at first when the hair starts shooting up and it's like wrapping around your arm , crawling like a nightmare and, um, street.sequence or something, but voices in the, yeah, and that's the thing, the subtlety helps a lot to be creepy, but we have to all depend on, you know, so like blood sprouts everywhere and like in the book, all the children.

You decide, parents, either you don't see this or you pretend not to see it, we're going to help you clean it up and it's like it's all over the ceiling and all over the walls, the whole bathroom is covered in blood, so the idea of ​​them cleaning it up felt like nonsense, yes, raised, that's not good since the TV movie is the amount of blood, I think it's okay for what it's supposed to convey, we've taken seven hours to clean up that blood, yes, and there's I like this idea that dad is coming home Richie Tozier is sitting outside watching I think he was out there during the night I'm sure we've said it before, but a loud noise isn't scary, it's surprising, it might make you jump, but it won't.

It will leave no lasting impact and that's the movie, it's like a haunted house, literally, at one point they walk into the creepy old house that looks like there is no house, it actually looks like a horror movie house. and it's like, oh, they opened a door and there's a creep, the girl hanging from the ceiling, but your lower

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is missing and she leaves and then they close it and that's the room you walk into, a haunted house. Silences are underrated in these fools. horror movies, the scariest movie I've seen in years and it really gave me goosebumps several times as a movie called Lake Mungo from a few years ago doesn't have any jump scares and it's all just quiet sounds and pictures of creepy things mmm and it's incredibly disturbing, but you won't be able to release a movie like that to a wide audience.

You know, the irony is that this 9,000-page novel can be boiled down to a handful of scenes with creepy clowns that will satisfy. Today's audience has a short attention span and that's the frustrating part. I think with a couple of tweaks and just not playing, it's so broad with the horror stuff. I think this really could have been something special, since it's all kid stuff. It's nice to see that. It was adapted better than the television movie. I like the kids in the TV movie, but as far as the way they interact and even the acting and stuff, I really like all of that in this movie, but the horror stuff has spread so widely. .

Well, it's the perfect time, like I said, the perfect time, the perfect place for this material to bring it back if you brought it in ten years ago, I don't know, but it fits very well in a small place, it's the people who like it. those broad horror things now they like strong jump scares or jump scares and things like the creation of Annabelle that doll that stupid doll I'm more afraid of the Raggedy Ann doll, yes, than I am. I'm so scared, look at me. It's so scary, yeah, and those are these movies that won't stand the test of time and I mean, I just rewatched The Exorcist the other day and that's a movie that stays timeless because it's executed like it's a drama, It's not executed like a horror movie. horror movie, so there is a psychological element that this movie could have had.

I'm curious what it would have been like if Cary Fukunaga had done it because that first season, a real detective, is wonderful and I have a feeling that Might Have Been What ultimately led to him being Lee is that clash between the studio saying no. , you have to have creepy fears and him wanting to do something a little more intellectual than that. I don't know, but that's my guess, you know, but there are enough creepy clowns scattered throughout this to keep the popcorn entertained, it's almost like there's a repeat where it's almost like I don't know if it's like I know that at one point in one of the sequels to Friday the 13th the producers said that you had to kill every eight minutes and this movie has that feeling that you have to make the clown jump and make a loud noise every eight minutes, yeah, and that kind of worker feeling.

Yeah, the only part in this movie that I legitimately think made the hair on my arms stand up was when Ben is flipping through the town's history book and every page is like the same picture over and over again, but it gets closer and closer. and just That final image of a child's head exploding on a tree, yes it was creepy, but of course it's also accompanied by something like it would have been just as disturbing without it, then there's also a sequence where they are looking. the movie slides in, yeah, and then the movie slide projector takes over and then the mother's face turns into Pennywise and then it's like the look goes off or something great, yeah, instead , Pennywise Coming Out of the Wall is fine, so you and I thought that, while I don't really like the source material, I think it's a crazy bunch of ideas.

Well, this movie simplifies it. The film simplifies it as best it can. Eliminate all the things. the pot to make a good meal for everyone is added a little near the end of the second acts where the characters get angry at each other and go their separate ways, classic three act structure where they then have to come back together, everyone is in their lowest point, yes, and it seems that evil has won, but then they kidnap Bev, we have to go save her, which I didn't like either, by the way, now I do, if only Pennywise had a reason to attract them all. but he didn't do it right and then she's like the strongest and they make a line like he couldn't catch her he couldn't kill her because she's too strong once I go she's so strong so how could I attract her? first of all get one of those kids to get eddie casper close to casper so as it is she feels like a dumb damsel in distress yeah eddie's mom could have been oh eddie left and then , then they would say Let's go get him, lady, the lady who criticized all of us and told us we couldn't, we couldn't see Eddie anymore, we'll go save him and then sit his fat ass down.

I'm going to go save your son, they know where he is. I appreciated the ending of the movie. We didn't have our characters walk off into the sunset. Everything is quiet and then Pennywise jumps right off the screen. Cut the credits. They didn't do it. When I did that, I was so surprised that it was the only shocking thing about the movie. Good job, I was waiting for Bakul to appear on screen and they didn't, so kudos to them for that. I just finished the one moment. to restrict the entire movie maybe you know what we didn't stick around for the post credits oh oh do you think they had a Marvel post credits sequence setting up the sequel as just a shot of the sewer or whatever?

Well, oh yeah, man. something like that or just the eyes light up, yeah, as long as you don't do it right before the end credits start, yeah, the movie itself ended, we left the theater, we didn't see the stupid guy finish the movie and you stayed until the end. The credits tell us if there was anything stupid, so yes, it's a great idea, very confusing and confusing, and everywhere the ramblings of a madman were turned into a terrible TV movie and then refined into a marketable movie, which is the perfect way to describe. It will be successful, but it seems to have some of what makes the book work, but not all of it.

I think structurally the script is perfect for what it needs to be, it's really just the execution and the horror sequences are more unpleasant than scary. that's really what killed me because everything else I thought the cinematography was good, yeah that's true, yeah it had like, I don't know, a richer look than a lot of modern movies, it all seems so generic now among a hundred people. Jay, being included in this group 99, the speeding up screaming clown will scare you. You will be the only person who will be scared of boring old images. Okay, so bean counters and producers who are doing this know what they're doing.

Sorry to be so blind, wait what you're thinking, I mean if you're talking about it in terms of getting your money back on opening weekend, but I don't think this movie will be considered some kind of horror classic. In 25 years or so, there were a lot of stupid people in our cinema. I just felt it. I have senses like a spider. There's people coming in with pizzas and hot dogs and hot dogs and there were like Larry's, like wheelbarrows full of like junk food and and Fatso's going to smoke a kami cloud, you know, I mean, and that's what it is, yeah, I wish I could say , I wish I could be outraged that this brilliant novel was, you know, downplayed in creepy clown sequences, but I'm not.

I'm the novel's biggest fan from the beginning, so this is all just a big pile of garbage I'm digging my way through. It's frustrating for me because I have problems with the book, but I think The Concept is great and I think this could have been something special. I don't know, they're not friend requests, no, that's it, or I clicked unfriend and it won't let me unfriend the ghosts. I am friends with ghosts on Facebook. Why not? metaha tied the whole movie confronts us on Facebook they need to make it clearer so people understand what they're supposed to be afraid of life is a nightmare just keep hitting us with hurricanes until we're all gone just come on, keep coming Harvey Irma, Why isn't Hollywood hit by hurricanes?

Why is it America's armpit? Florida always gets hit by hurricanes they just hit, kick, hurricanes come over the Pacific side and constantly hit Hollywood with hurricanes one after another until it's nothing. put a pile of rubble and rubble one after another after another constantly hitting hollywood over and over again so they stop making movies thank you and good night