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A mini-series/serial, took place in Latin America?
Great Portrayal of the Ventriloquist
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Yeah, not unexpected, but very sad news. He was always great in his role, he had such life, and he'll be missed.
Good question, I find it quite odd myself.
Nah, I don't think so. I did see it recently, and I don't recall one. It really was kind of pointless to make that random hit-man a well-known killer from the Batman mythos. Much like Gotham, I don't think they actually used him in a way that's much at all representative of the comics, though maybe Zsasz has changed New 52 up, as I'll admit a lacking of knowledge from era to now.
Well, I mean, it makes difference enough to the family, as I'm sure they'd much rather have their older relatives back in younger bodies over just having modern day slaves who wouldn't question anything (the more and more I think about it, the more annoyed with myself about not thinking there'd be a twist, when obviously that couldn't have been all it was).
I liked Chris' friend enough and the comedy relief, but he did what I always see in other media and went too far when talking to the police. It's very simple: a man who is currently missing has been located under odd circumstances, here's a picture, could you look into it? For all I know it's actually more realistic to try to explain everything in a case like that, no matter if it makes you sound insane, but if you're going that route, at least admit from the beginning that you know it'll sound unbelievable. I don't know, that scene really annoyed me, but yeah, I enjoyed the rest of the scenes he was in.
I honestly haven't followed the X-Men movie universe since the atrocious X-Men 3 (though I did see The Wolverine), and quite frankly nothing after it has caught my interest until the trailer for this one. Being a fan of both the New Mutants 80's comic series and horror movies, this looks extremely interesting, and I'm quite looking forward to it.
Or, you know, it could just be an interesting take on the superhero genre. The director said he wanted to make this a straight up psychological horror, and I'm quite interested to see how that'll turn out. But sure, just denigrate everyone who likes "dark" and "gritty" movies as "emos", I'm sure that works as well.
Quite the opposite, I how they do go for his origins (what we saw of it) from the book, as I quite enjoyed that aspect of things, the almost meta-physical Ritual of Chüd, and the smoke-hole scene, which would have been in this one except it supposedly cost too much. They won't do all of what I want them to show, but I liked that book origin, and would quite like it in the next part.
You say "only gotten" an 8.2. Yes, I think when the dust has settled, this will score in-between 7.7 and 8.3, but for a horror movie, that is a really damn good rating, in regards to IMDb scores. No, it's not the 8.5 of Psycho (1960) or Alien (1979), but I'd argue it's a really good rating considering everything. Hell, even if it takes a dive and ends up at 7, that's still actually a good rating for a horror movie. Not great, but a higher than the average of the horror that generally get released.
I have no thoughts on Fukunaga as a director. I don't think I've ever watched anything he's done, and maybe he would have done a movie better than the one we have, but from my point of view, with the ideas he wanted in the movie which I quoted, I can say I wouldn't have liked the movie as much, unless he did some amazing other things with the other parts of the film.
Obviously it comes down to personal choice, but from what I've read about the ideas he had for the movie, I much prefer the director who actually got the final job. To quote about the ideas from TVTropes:
"After several years working on the project Fukunaga ultimately left the project in 2015, citing Executive Meddling that clashed with his artistic vision. He had planned for some pretty strange changes, re-naming many of the characters: Bill became Willy, Henry became Travis, Belch became Snatch and Patrick Hockstetter became Patrick Hockstettler. His more extreme changes from the source material — which were included in subsequent drafts — included Henry Bowers having sex with a sheep, ejaculating on a birthday cake, and gave Pennywise backstory of sorts (the 2014 version had him trigger an attack at a bar in the 1800's for his own amusement while the 2015 version had made him a Wendigo-type figure who had been living around since Colonial Times). In addition, the script wouldn't have emphasized Pennywise's shapeshifting abilities as much, which is something that Andrés Muschietti wanted to change when they revised the script."
Again, it comes down to taste, but the final movie was much closer to the book then what it sounds like Cary's vision would have been, so I'm happy with the final product.
Well, the original setting for the novel would have been 1956, if we're talking about the children, and 1960 in the miniseries, again, for the children. They set this version in 1989 so it'd be able to capture some of the 80's feelings and nostalgia movies always try to seem to get, and so 27 years later it'd be around 2016, which is sufficiently up to date that I doubt people in 2019 will be concerned it's 3 years behind current time.
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