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The Georgie scene was perfect because it shut everybody up in my theater when they realized it was going to that type of movie.  After that scene there was no talking and only laughing at appropriate parts, so I was super happy to have a good theater experience even with a whole bunch of young teenagers.
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When I saw the movie on opening night they carded me when they took my ticket at the door but the theater was still full of teenage girls. Not sure how that happened.
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Sep 19, 2017 21:52
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:When I saw the movie on opening night they carded me when they took my ticket at the door but the theater was still full of teenage girls. Not sure how that happened.  you look younger than a teenage girl
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Sep 19, 2017 21:54
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Usually a minor can get in to an r-rated movie as long as they're with an adult.
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Sep 19, 2017 22:30
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Some fucker took a baby to mine
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Sep 19, 2017 22:36
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Violator posted:The Georgie scene was perfect because it shut everybody up in my theater when they realized it was going to that type of movie. 17 is how old you have to be to see R rated films by yourself.
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Sep 19, 2017 22:40
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I usually don't talk or try to make any noises during movies, but I let a loud audible "FUUUUCK" when the door closes and Stanley gets separated from Bill and Richie when they're in the abandoned house. Luckily people weren't mad and a few people started nervously laughing along since it cut the tension.
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Sep 19, 2017 22:41
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CelticPredator posted:17 is how old you have to be to see R rated films by yourself. Yeah, I know, but every time I see a popular r-rated movie there are always young teenagers that appear to be without adults. I don't know if their parents are sitting elsewhere, but for IT I saw like four groups of teens without parents that looked super young and were really loud, joking around, and literally running around the theater before the movie started. Luckily they kept quiet during the movie itself, but it seems like I have 50/50 luck on whether I get a good or bad crowd. I've basically given up opening weekend and midnight showings because of it. I'm probably just old and cranky, but I gave up after I had a movie where the people two seats over pulled their phones out and started taking selfies (with flash!) and talking about how many likes they were getting during the movie. Argh. Get off my lawn.
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Sep 19, 2017 22:52
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Parent goes in with them, buys tickets for them and leaves. You just need an adult with you to buy the ticket, not to get to the actual seats. But yeah I was next to some giggling girls but after about 40 minutes they calmed down. Movie was so loud that it didn't really matter that much anyway.
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Sep 19, 2017 22:56
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I sat next to a girl who was maybe fourteen years old, with her mother in the next seat down. After every big scare the mother would lean over and whisper "You okay?". I wanted to roll my eyes at the bad parenting, but then I remembered my own dad taking me to see Total Recall in theaters when I was five, and drunkenly yelling out "WHAT THE poo poo" during Quatto's first appearance as I watched through my fingers.
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Sep 19, 2017 23:15
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I sat next to a couple girls who talked through the film, but it was a packed theater and I assumed them to be quite young. So their comments were amusing. They were actually mid 20's early 30's and one of them proclaimed she should've stayed home and watched stranger things.
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Sep 19, 2017 23:26
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The key moment for me was Georgie crawling away from the sewer and weeping, that was a splendid display of grotesque misery and was quite upsetting. I was impressed they actually showed something so graphic like that. Mainstream horror films from big studios usually rely on jump-scares instead. I think the opening scene was meant to immediately distance this film from that type of horror which is so ubiquitous in The Conjuring films. The last time a child died so graphically in a mainstream horror film was probably the hunter's son from a chestburster in AVP:R. The Georgie scene in the film is still mild compared to the deaths in the source material. In the book, King illustrates how the adults in Derry don't really give a poo poo about the murder and disappearance of children (whether at the hands of IT or murderers). I think it was his (weird) way of trying to trying to remind people, that yes, hosed up things happen to children on regular basis in this country.
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Sep 19, 2017 23:37
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The book is wonderfully grotesque and discomforting, for sure. I'll never forget the way one victim is described as having their ribcage opened as if someone had reached in with both hands and just pulled.
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Sep 19, 2017 23:43
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Yaws posted:Got you a little excited, did it? The needless portrayal of a child in immense pain? Get a little blood flowin' down there? It's absolutely an unpleasant scene to watch, but I feel like it's necessary to the movie. It establishes stakes by showing what happens to a kid who Pennywise catches (they die very messily), and establishes that Pennywise is an actual threat and not just a creepy clown going OOGA-BOOGA at the kids; the old miniseries could get away with showing less because they had Tim Curry's performance to lean on, but this movie doesn't have Tim Curry so it has to go a little more in the brutal direction.
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Sep 20, 2017 00:35
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Fart City posted:There's a behind-the-scenes story about it that is pretty funny. Originally the effects gag was planned to be more subtle, with just a little bit of blood smearing on the roller. But one of the effects technicians overloaded the blood bag, which pretty much caused the kid to appear to explode. King basically shrugged and was like, "gently caress it, chalk that one up to a happy accident." I feel like that's the nice story he tells to cover that he was coked out of his mind and probably added the extra blood himself.
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Sep 20, 2017 00:37
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:It's absolutely an unpleasant scene to watch, but I feel like it's necessary to the movie. It establishes stakes by showing what happens to a kid who Pennywise catches (they die very messily), and establishes that Pennywise is an actual threat and not just a creepy clown going OOGA-BOOGA at the kids; the old miniseries could get away with showing less because they had Tim Curry's performance to lean on, but this movie doesn't have Tim Curry so it has to go a little more in the brutal direction. That and it was a TV movie on ABC. There's hardly any violence in the film, outside of some blood in and on things.
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joylessdivision posted:I feel like that's the nice story he tells to cover that he was coked out of his mind and probably added the extra blood himself. Hell, considering it was prime-era Stephen CoKing, there's a good chance he was off-camera, firing bloodbags at the cast with a t-shirt cannon.
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Sep 20, 2017 00:47
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Yaws posted:A whole bunch of bullshit I went to see an R rated horror movie about kids being murdered by a monster but was shocked to see a kid graphically murdered by monster. That was some bullshit. Getting all freaked out and all with a jarring scene that scared and unnerved me. Took me right out of the film. A newspaper clipping detailing what happened to Georgie would have scared me much more. Sorry if it was too much to for you but god drat dude. It's not like we're jacking off to it and even on the "gratuitous" scale it was by far the the most graphic thing in the flick. Croisquessein posted:Sewer lines. Correct. That's how they figure out where IT lives, the same way FBI catches serial killers by putting pushpins on a map. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 00:54
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Miike and New French Extremity broke me; that's what it takes to get me genuinely upset at a film, at which point I start yelling at the screen (at home) about how much I hate what I'm watching.
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Sep 20, 2017 00:57
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Yaws posted:I NEED GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF CHILDHOOD DISMEMBERMENT AND MURDER! god why couldn't it have been your posting arm Magic Hate Ball posted:This owns. Everything *about* Maximum Overdrive owns. It has Pat Hingle with a loving bazooka for christ's sake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GQg06SX90
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Sep 20, 2017 00:59
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Violator posted:The Georgie scene was perfect because it shut everybody up in my theater when they realized it was going to that type of movie. Lucky you. We had a woman talking during every suspenseful moment to say “no, get out, no one asked you to go in there, this just ain’t gon work for me, lord.”
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Sep 20, 2017 00:59
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Yaws posted:I NEED GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF CHILDHOOD DISMEMBERMENT AND MURDER! I know, right? And what was up with that Reagan girl in The Exorcist stabbing a crucifix in her vagina and making her mom lick her and then puking all that green vomit out on the nice priest right before she murdered him? And all those naughty words. Very unsubtle.
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Sep 20, 2017 01:04
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Wait do people think 14 is too young to watch this movie because I'd think they would be about the perfect age tbh.
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Sep 20, 2017 01:21
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Yaws posted:Imagine this. They cut to IT lunging at Gerogie and he screams. Later on, a character informs us that IT ripped off the kids arm. This but unironically
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Sep 20, 2017 01:24
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Everything *about* Maximum Overdrive owns. It has Pat Hingle with a loving bazooka for christ's sake. It was one of my fav horrors as a kid - just freaky enough to be a proper thrill, adult enough to be titillating, and silly enough to not be really scary.
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Sep 20, 2017 01:32
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I saw From Dusk Til Dawn when I was 9 ssssooooooo...
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Sep 20, 2017 01:48
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Blisster posted:It's not without flaws, but it's pretty impressive that it sets up like seven main characters, the town of Derry, and a murderous shapeshifting clown monster all in two hours. This can't be emphasized enough and is a great point. A few times, I was getting names mixed up or forgetting them but, yeah. Usually defining that many characters requires a closed setting like GlenGary Glen Ross , 12 Angry Men and a story more akin to a play or something like that.
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Sep 20, 2017 01:55
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You JUST read the book dude, you already knew the names.
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Sep 20, 2017 02:05
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It helps that they're very obvious characters (Black, Fat, Sick, Jewish, Girl, Funny, Dead Brother), which gives them some handy hooks for other quirks, tics, and identifiers.
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Sep 20, 2017 02:13
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I feel like this movie would've suffered terribly if Ritchie didn't absolutely nail those joke deliveries, and it makes me wonder if the kid is that talented or if it took a bunch of takes (as in, more than average for child actors).
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Sep 20, 2017 02:27
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He was one of the best parts of Stranger Things as well, so I think he's talented.
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Sep 20, 2017 02:31
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I thought Jonathan Brandis was a better Bill. Such a shame about the guy.
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Sep 20, 2017 02:42
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Harminoff posted:Wait do people think 14 is too young to watch this movie because I'd think they would be about the perfect age tbh. Almost all of Canada agrees with you, it has a 14A rating here except in Ontario (18A) and Quebec (13+). I guess we take vulgar language less seriously than the states?
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Sep 20, 2017 02:45
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I was sitting next to a father who took his teenage-ish daughters to the movie (the ages of the leads, come to think of it) and when I was leaving I asked them if they were scared, cuz even though I don't watch a ton of horror, I'm jaded. "I let my dad take me to this to get over being scared, and I think I missed like 85% of that movie." E: holy everloving christ I'm having an It Moment based on this movie. It took me two showings and that Pennywise Dances To Anything videos to remember a long-forgotten friend of mine (that looks uncannily like Sophia Lillis) that I haven't though about since junior high. But I can't remember anything about her other than her first name, and that's bugging/freaking me out. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 03:07
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If they don't have Modest Mouse's Float On at some point during Ch. 2, I will be a little disappointed.
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I no-joke created a playlist for the drive to the theater that included: Float On - Modest Mouse Up, Up, and Away - 5th Dimension Oooh Child - The Five Stairsteps 99 Luftbaloon - Nena My friend who had no prior knowledge about the film other than that it is about a evil clown and has kid main characters was a bit puzzled by Float On. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 03:45
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i think the rest of the movie is alright but i don't know if i'm ready to accept a 14 year old can deal with any scene between beverly and her dad (but i may just be overprotective of my niece) Georgie's actor is really good, i don't know where they got him and i hope he's not gonna grow up hosed up due to this movie. also may i just say the music of the first scene - these adventurous and swelling notes right until the boat goes down the drain, is really effective? i went with someone who had ZERO idea that georgie was doomed, and they were completely engrossed with the movie after that
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GoingPostal posted:If they don't have Modest Mouse's Float On at some point during Ch. 2, I will be a little disappointed. The correct choice is actually Epic by Faith No More.
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Sep 20, 2017 04:57
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I want the second half to be called Dancin' IT's On so badly.
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