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Yeah, I've came across that sometimes. But then there is the Power Rangers movie. Trailers used some lame Kanye West song. The song was also in the movie. I hate Kanye West. I like rap though. I actually like ALL genres. It just comes down to the artist that I like/dislike.
It's common to hear sound effects or music (score) in trailers that isn't in the actual movie or part of the movie's score. I liked the music in the final trailer for The Dark Knight Rises (I think it was the final trailer, at least the final US trailer), but it was never part of the actual movie or included when purchasing the movie's soundtrack/score. That sound effect in the IT trailer was probably just made for the trailer/marketing. Actually, it kind of sounded like a sound effect I heard before (not sure where though) but was mixed with a few other sound effects and kind of a "remixed" version of a sound effect I heard before.
Hard not to miss it. I believe for like 2-3 seconds the camera focused on Tim Curry's Pennywise. I was reaching down for some popcorn out of the popcorn bucket and when I looked back up at the screen, there he was.
How could you NOT notice it? I looked down for a second because I was reaching for the popcorn bucket to get a handful of popcorn, and then when I looked up Tim Curry's Pennywise was right there and pretty much the main focus of the shot.
I would've liked it to stick to the 1950's also, but after what Stephen King said, I don't mind. Stephen King approved of the change in decade. All he cared about was that the plot stuck to the story he was trying to tell in his novel. Mostly with themes and the book's messages and all that. So if Stephen King approves, then I'll accept the change. Plus it still felt like I was was watching the book come to life on the big screen and follow the book's overall plot with some obvious changes. So I can see what Stephen King was talking about. It's no big deal overall to me, but it would've been nice to stick to the 1950's.
That sucks you had a terrible audience and movie going experience. The audience I was part of was a good one and why I like seeing a movie with a packed theater and when it's sold out. No one was really talking. There was some people on cell phones, but it wasn't too bad or too distracting. There were even kids in the audience, although they were there with parents. But the kids behaved themselves. I think they were getting scared throughout since one kid's parents were laughing at them afterwards because the kid thought he could handle the movie. But yeah. I was part of a pretty good audience/crowd and I had a good time with the movie. Too bad you couldn't have gone to the showing I was at.
Well, with all the amount terrorism going on in both the country and all over the world nowadays, you never know what they filled those balloons with, and the police don't want to risk it. Sure it's just a prank and unofficial marketing for the movie, and maybe harmless terrorism, but I can see why the police reacted the way they did. Actual terrorism has to run the fun. I'm sure that the police would allow it if WB gave the heads up and told them it was part of the marketing if WB decided to do something like that. They'd probably have officers watching the balloons being created and set up though. Never know. There could be that one WB worker that would do something messed up. Or someone would sneak into the company and impersonate a worker and sabotage the balloons.
Nope. This movie only focuses on the characters as kids. The adult stuff won't happen until the sequel. But during the fight, it was hinted they might do the spider thing again. IT does a lot of shape shifting, especially turning into what each of the kids is afraid of. One of the things he shapes into is a spider. Well, his arms shape into spider legs.
That's really not the final total. Don't know why all these news sites and even those reporting box officers numbers post around 10am-noon on Sunday what the weekend box office numbers were. Still over half a day to go and people are still seeing the movie.
But $117 million is good. The movie is making more than predicted. The last prediction I saw that the "experts" made was $103 million. Before that it was about $85 million. And before that it was $50-60 million. It bumped up to $85 million because of the critics giving it all kinds of positive reviews. Then it bumped up again after the numbers came in for how much the movie made Friday, which was $51 million. But the movie is breaking all kinds of records right now. Mostly for the month of September and those set by R-rated movies. Plus a couple just for the horror genre.
The movie probably would've made more. Maybe an extra $30-40 million, but Hurricane Irma is preventing people from seeing it and stuff. Mainly everywhere that is getting hit by the hurricane. So I'd estimate a loss of $30-40 million to IT's opening weekend box office numbers because of the hurricane. Unless some of those people evacuated early and took off well before the hurricane's arrival and saw the movie where they are staying until the hurricane is gone.
Would be nice, but WB would have to get permission to use the characters since they don't own the movie rights to the characters. Well, I don't think they own the movie rights to any of them. I know the main three have been bouncing between which company owns the movie rights to them.
I don't see a problem with it. He's something that doesn't really age like humans, especially since if I understood the history correctly of IT/Pennywise from the novel, he's been around since those 7 days God was creating Earth. Or something like that, but the pattern/record of him popping up and feeding on people (mainly children) only goes back a few hundred years. And Pennywise is just one of the forms the creature has. So when the kids get older, he can still appear young to them and be this young clown.
Well, since the book is set in the 50's and the movie was changed to be set in the 80's, the line was definitely written for the movie version and isn't in the book. I also read the book myself and the line wasn't in the book, and I don't recall Beverly flirting with the pharmacist to distract him so the boys could sneak out with the medical supplies. I'm pretty sure it was a reference to the Christopher Reeves Superman movie since the actor playing the pharmacist did look a little like an older Christopher Reeves (at least to me), and the Superman movie didn't come out in the 50's. It was a 70's or 80's movie.
The old lady didn't really say anything. She looked away and allowed IT/Pennywise to do his thing. Although I read it on Wikipedia, but the plot summary for the novel says that IT/Pennywise has control over the people of Derry, mainly adults, because of all the unsolved disappearances and violent tragedies throughout the years. Actually, the old lady may have said something, but Bill's parents and the other adults just shrugged it off and continued on like Georgie's disappearance never happened, explaining why Bill's dad doesn't want to go looking for Georgie's body like Bill does, although Bill doesn't think he's dead.
This is later shown again when Henry and his friends are ganging up on Ben and then Henry carves an "H" into Ben's stomach. Adults drive by, look straight at what's going on, but just continue on and don't help Ben. We then see a balloon pop up in the backseat indicating that IT/Pennywise has control over them and the adults of the town.
Beverly also points it out later on why the seven of them must be the ones to stop IT/Pennywise. The adults aren't going to do anything about it since they just keep looking away and that IT/Pennywise has control over them.
This is explained better in the book but could've been better explained in the movie. It's there though. You just have to "read between the lines." And IT/Pennywise doesn't really have control over the cat or animals unless he really wants to. Animals can't exactly communicate/talk to humans, so there is no need for IT/Pennywise to control them unless he wants to use them to go after someone. That explains why the cat is able to sense danger and the old lady doesn't really do anything.
Miniseries was awful compared to the book. The miniseries felt like an episode of Goosebumps or Are You Afraid Of The Dark? when comparing the miniseries and book to each other. Especially the character of IT/Pennywise. And the movie was WAY better than the miniseries.
And calling people an imbecile because they liked the movie more than the miniseries is screaming that you are a troll of some kind.
Also, I guess I better go sue WB and anyone involved with making the movie. I enjoyed the movie (and more than the miniseries, PLUS I read the book) and I'm not a reviewer or someone that WB paid off to say/type that. I'm just a regular moviegoer and fan of movies and had to pay to see the movie. Plus wait until the movie officially came out to see it, although I saw it at a Thursday night showing at 7:30pm EST, but that's common. Movie theaters have been doing that for a few decades now.
It just shows how messed up the adults are in Derry and that the adults will look away. And if I remember correctly from reading the book, IT/Pennywise has them under some spell or hypnosis or possessed them so they don't see what's really going on. They actually do this again later on when Henry is carving an "H" into Ben's stomach. A few adults drive by in a car and just keep driving and don't stop to help Ben, although they are looking right at them. We then see the red balloon pop up in the backseat of the car. So IT/Pennywise is manipulating them to not help out or do anything. They are just letting IT/Pennywise do his thing. Maybe someone else whose read the book a few times can explain this better but it's something like that. Oh and then there is also that Bev's dad can't see the blood all over the bathroom, so IT/Pennywise is manipulating him also.
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I believe that when the characters take on IT/Pennywise when they are adults and are actually killing him for good, they manage to snap all the adults and citizens of Derry out of whatever IT/Pennywsie is doing to them. Not sure if the sequel will go there though. But the sequel is supposed to explore the origin of IT/Pennywise.
Yeah, they definitely are into jumpscares. I tore apart the latest IT trailer, mainly because of the jumpscares. Everyone then flipped out on me. You CAN NOT say ANYTHING bad about that movie. You can only say positive stuff about it. People were attacking me to the point that I would receive random private messages from random people calling me an inbred for not liking the trailer and saying I'll wait for Blu-Ray for IT. I enjoy 70's and 80's horror and they don't rely on jumpscares. There is more to horror than just that. Oh, and it wasn't even Facebook friends private messaging me. I commented in the comment sections to a movie site's FB page that posted the trailer. Everyone was responding to the comment and flipping out on me. And they took it to the point of private messaging me and calling me an inbred. Yeah, well, my parents come from two COMPLETELY separate families, so no way I'm an inbred. I ended up deleting the comment to stop receiving notifications that someone replied to my comment. I already got enough negativity in my life. From both family and friends. Plus I was one of the most hated kids in K-12. Classmates I never had any classes with, knew me, or that I knew I graduated from high school with hated me just because. Plus I was also the "shut up" kid. If I spoke, someone told me to shut up. Even if a teacher called on me to answer a question or read. Heck, sometimes the teachers would call on me just to tell me to shut up themselves. So yeah. I deleted that comment. I got enough negativity in my life.
Hey now. I'm almost 30 and I still watch Fast & Furious. But I notice a lot of errors in the timeline. Pretty sure that a few years went by between the events of the 6th and 7th movie, so I don't know how in the 8th that Vin Diesel's character can have a son with the woman he was with at the end of 5 and beginning of 6, especially when the son/baby is less than a year old. Unless they SORAS'd Paul Walker's character's son in 7. But even when The Rock was explaining Jason Statham's character's background in 7 and mentioning Statham's brother, it sounded like 3-4 years went by. PLUS Paul Walker's character's son is born at the start of 6, aged a few months when we see the baby next later on in the movie, and then in 7 Paul Walker is taking him to school. The kid is even speaking and walking around and looks to be 4-6 age range.
Also, when I went to see Fast & Furious 8, most of the other people in the theater were my age and older. Definitely quite a few over the age of 50, maybe 60. So it's not teens going to see these movies still. And teens are NOT the ones making up a majority of those watching them.
Well, we probably won't see Pennywise shape shift into anything else but the clown form. Been reading reports and stuff saying he remains a clown throughout the entire movie.
It would be nice to see a little more realism in them, I guess. I would like to see the characters get injured and stuff. I cheer more for characters that get pretty banged up by the end but are still successful and will be able to recover from their injuries. Plus have to deal with injuries throughout and what they got earlier in the movie instead of insta-healing a scene or two later. I remember Vin being shot in 6 and early in the movie, but he didn't act injured throughout the rest of the movie.
But what I like about the movie is that even with how ridiculous and "unrealistic" some of the stuff is, they were actually done with practical effects. The whole thing in 7 with them parachuting out of the plane was actually shot and no green screen. Only green screen in that sequence is when it cuts to an actor in a car and they say some dialogue. But they are pretty good at keeping things practical.
Only time I ever called BS on something was in 6 and during the tank battle. I didn't like how Dom caught Letty and then they landed on a car. They should've both smacked into each other and dropped to their deaths instead of Dom catching her and then landing on a car twenty feet away. He wasn't thrown with enough force either to jump that far either.
Everyone complains about the airport scene, but I understood what was going on. The scene was slowed down to show everyone's POV. If the scene was edited differently, a lot of it was happening at the same time. But the scene probably would've lasted 2-3 minutes if they didn't show everyone's POV.
It's actually common to "slow down" things to show everything. Like with countdowns. We see a 30-second countdown but it takes 5-10 minutes of the movie's runtime to get from 30 seconds remaining to 1 second. That's how I view the airport scene in Fast & Furious 6. The runway was no 30 miles like everyone thinks.
The trailer was good when there wasn't jumpscares. I liked everything about the trailer and I'm very interested in the movie. The jumpscares just annoyed me and were the "bad" parts of the trailer. And I'm really hoping that Pennywise/IT does more than jump out at the kids and scare them through jumpscares. I've read the novel too, so I know what Pennywise is capable of and actually does. But Beverly turning around and Pennywise is standing there? Come on. That's not the Pennywise I know. Hopefully there is more to this movie. Plus I want to see him transform into what the kids are afraid of like in the Tim Curry movie/miniseries. I don't want him to just take on the shape of a scary clown the whole movie. I'm still pretty excited/interested in the movie, but I'm just hoping the trailer is misleading and there is going to be other scares and creepy stuff than jumpscares. Would be nice if the trailers gave away all the jumpscares and all the good stuff is being saved. I wouldn't mind one or two more unseen jumpscares, but I don't want them to be the only thing that makes this movie scary.