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The Berzerker posted:There are empty raincoats with IT balloons on drat near every corner in downtown Toronto today. It only has one arm 
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Aug 30, 2017 18:58
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Panfilo posted:Thanks for the explanation. Yeah it seems like IT feeds off fear, apparently that's why it preys on children; their fears are tangible and stark, while adults fears are more rooted in reality. I'm rereading the book now in anticipation for the movie. As much as I love the Pennywise appearances, I REALLY love all the world building and setting Derry up like a real place, albeit one you would never ever want to live in.
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Aug 30, 2017 19:16
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Kevyn posted:It only has one arm They stole my idea. And added a raincoat.
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Aug 30, 2017 19:23
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A Fancy Hat posted:I'm rereading the book now in anticipation for the movie. As much as I love the Pennywise appearances, I REALLY love all the world building and setting Derry up like a real place, albeit one you would never ever want to live in. I reread The Gunslinger recently and am reading IT for the first time. Stephen King rightly gets a lot poo poo for the failings in his writing but those two books are reminders that when he was on, he was good goddamn writer.
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Aug 30, 2017 19:25
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A Fancy Hat posted:I'm rereading the book now in anticipation for the movie. As much as I love the Pennywise appearances, I REALLY love all the world building and setting Derry up like a real place, albeit one you would never ever want to live in. That's the stuff most book fans are hoping made it in, or at least if Part 1 is a hit maybe they can throw in for Part 2. None of it really moves the story forward, so typically it would be prime cutting room floor material, even if they did shoot it. But almost everyone who reads It says they love those portions.
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Aug 30, 2017 19:33
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1stGear posted:I reread The Gunslinger recently and am reading IT for the first time. Stephen King rightly gets a lot poo poo for the failings in his writing but those two books are reminders that when he was on, he was good goddamn writer. The Gunslinger is surprisingly good. I really enjoyed it and jumped into the second one a couple days ago
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Aug 30, 2017 19:34
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A Fancy Hat posted:It's all kind of related to how the kids forget their childhood when they move away. When you're in Derry, IT controls everything. IT's the same force that causes those disasters, makes people do awful things, and makes people ignore the awful events happening. I remember watching the Dreamcatcher movie (which actually scared me senseless, I guess something about toothy nemotodes exploding out of your rear end will do that  ) and noting that the finale of the story took place in Derry. It made me think that either Derry, Maine is some sort of epicenter of interdimensional bullshittery or just a really crappy town.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:41
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It’s both, really.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:54
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clockworx posted:Probably not spoiler but just in case:This is the first I've seen Bev with long hair. It's short in all the official promo materials. Wonder if the haircut itself is a plot point, probably from her crazy dad or Henry's gang? This was a few pages ago, but I'm re-reading the book and in chapter three Bev's hair is waist-length with her husband and he calls it "whore's hair." So there's definitely something about it.
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Aug 30, 2017 23:05
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Basebf555 posted:That's the stuff most book fans are hoping made it in, or at least if Part 1 is a hit maybe they can throw in for Part 2. None of it really moves the story forward, so typically it would be prime cutting room floor material, even if they did shoot it. But almost everyone who reads It says they love those portions. Apparently the black spot and the bradley gang at least have already been shot and are currently on the cutting room floor.
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Aug 30, 2017 23:46
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Tom Guycot posted:Apparently the black spot and the bradley gang at least have already been shot and are currently on the cutting room floor. Ffs, the Black Spot spooked the poo poo out of me. Watched the TV movie the other week and there's a bird for Mike at dinner, so nice little nod.
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Aug 30, 2017 23:49
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Tom Guycot posted:Apparently the black spot and the bradley gang at least have already been shot and are currently on the cutting room floor. Here's hoping for a Director's Cut or an Extended Version on DVD?
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Aug 31, 2017 00:18
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GoingPostal posted:Here's hoping for a Director's Cut or an Extended Version on DVD? Maybe, but the director had specifically said he was hoping to use them in part 2.
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Aug 31, 2017 00:35
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davidspackage posted:I noticed a shot in the trailer of one of the kids floating in what looked like Its lair. I hope we get a full on ritual of Chüd, I imagine it as mostly blackness with the kids' voices and Its voice talking, maybe some sounds and flashes to indicate It is tossing their consciousness around. Can't wait. I literally came in here to talk about this. I really think they can blow people's minds open just with the description of the discovery of that in the library book. Seriously, I've always been disappointed that the ritual itself is almost certainly not real or based in something that is because  the insane balls it would take to do something like that irl. I mean, just imagine a kid hearing about that and see it with a kid's imagination. The idea of that was always really awesome to me.Same thing with it-rodan. Look at it with kid's eyes and poo poo bricks. That could be an amazingly intense scene. I wonder if they're gonna do anything about that scene near the end when Ben iirc realizes It is getting ready to have her babies
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Aug 31, 2017 01:59
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Basebf555 posted:That's the stuff most book fans are hoping made it in, or at least if Part 1 is a hit maybe they can throw in for Part 2. None of it really moves the story forward, so typically it would be prime cutting room floor material, even if they did shoot it. But almost everyone who reads It says they love those portions.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:19
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1stGear posted:I reread The Gunslinger recently and am reading IT for the first time. Stephen King rightly gets a lot poo poo for the failings in his writing but those two books are reminders that when he was on, he was good goddamn writer. I'd say he's on 85% of the time. Even when he's off, his command of the language, his rhythm, his pace and his structure I usually find to be absolutely masterful. He's one of those writers that can write a weather forecast and still make it compelling and his skill, I find, is one of the greatest living testaments to the sheer value of hard work and practicing at something.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:04
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Yeah, his style makes him a very quick, engaging read. Even his books that suck I don't regret reading because they're rarely a huge time-sink.
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Omnikin posted:It's because It IS Derry. He crash landed millions of years ago and when people settled they were tainted by his powers. Everyone there is slowly being brainwashed or something to that effect- they're all hosed up in base ways that don't require active intervention from IT to take over/convince them to turn a blind eye. The kids are right about the age to be able to percieve It as Lavos during the final showdown as adults... 
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Aug 31, 2017 10:21
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The audiobook for It is currently £2.99 on Audible.co.uk. Without a membership it's usually £29.99. No idea how long it'll be on offer for so check it out.
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Aug 31, 2017 11:34
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We listened to that over the course of 4 8-hour trips from IL to NE and back, the reader is quite good but drat it's a long one.
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Aug 31, 2017 12:17
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Electromax posted:We listened to that over the course of 4 8-hour trips from IL to NE and back, the reader is quite good but drat it's a long one. I have the Steven Weber audiobook of IT. I like to pretend Norman Osborn is reading it to me.
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Aug 31, 2017 21:53
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Hodgepodge posted:The kids are right about the age to be able to percieve It as Lavos during the final showdown as adults... Adults aren't afraid of Lavos lmao
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Aug 31, 2017 21:55
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Mantis42 posted:Adults aren't afraid of Lavos lmao *Lavos Screaming Intensifies*
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Hodgepodge posted:The kids are right about the age to be able to percieve It as Lavos during the final showdown as adults... I assume you meant Gygas.
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Aug 31, 2017 22:49
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The Berzerker posted:There are empty raincoats with IT balloons on drat near every corner in downtown Toronto today. When I first saw one of these I was walking behind it and when I turned around to see nobody in the raincoat I almost stopped breathing.
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Sep 1, 2017 03:16
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That would make a good yard decoration for Halloween.
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I still haven't seen that Part 2 is official yet (although it's practically guaranteed the way this movie is tracking) but the director is already talking about it here. Sounds like they're saving the more cosmic weirdness for the next one. I'd be shocked if they don't do a little teaser at the end of this movie with a cameo by at least one grown up character.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:21
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Oooh. The stinger is adult Mike Hanlon putting down his notebook and getting his phone.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:26
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Mike needs to be phoning people or talking about an Adrian Mellon-type murder at the end. I loved that part of the book. "The guy in the clown suit," Chris Unwin said, and shuddered. "The guy with the balloons. It's nearly ten years since I read the book. Finished on 18th February 2008. Should I wait another 18 years for a re-read?
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/1/16028300/stephen-king-it-movie-adaptation-book-recap-horror-summer This was a good idea for an article.
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GoingPostal posted:Oooh. The stinger is adult Mike Hanlon putting down his notebook and getting his phone. It'll be this. Or Stan's suicide. Good call.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:50
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BiggerBoat posted:It'll be this. Or Stan's suicide. Good call. Stans suicide would be the perfect way to end it IMO, but if they don't it would make a great introduction scene to part 2 too
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Sep 1, 2017 23:01
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I've had dreams about that loving clown since I started the book. Like legit nonstop. Thankfully Pennywise and clowns aren't creepy to me in the slightest. It's just weird that fucker is inside my head almost every night.
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I said it way early in the thread, but I'm super expecting the suicide to be a stinger after the credits. And I'm kind of expecting adult Stan to be played by someone of unexpected note, to sort of set the stage for more prestige actors to sign on for the sequel.
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CelticPredator posted:I've had dreams about that loving clown since I started the book. Like legit nonstop. You're being tenderized. Sucks, cause I like your posts and will miss you when you're floating.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:24
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Pennywise is a bitch. I'll bop him on his nose if that my tried to float me.
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The only clown I dream about is Homie the Clown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QhuBIkPXn0
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We play that. We all play that. And when you're down here...you'll play that, too!
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I just bought the last two tickets for the 7 PM Alamo Drafthouse screening in Brooklyn next Friday. All the Thursday night shows are booked. I feel like this movie is about to do really, really well. One question is this: Say the movie does well, they do a sequel, it does well. They announce they're making a prequel that takes place in colinial Derry. ya'll down or no?
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