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Yeah... This is a watchable mediocrity. It picks up in the last half hour after blundering through what should have been a much lengthier and more believable buildup. Once it gets going, it's just a reasonably decent minor league horror film. I'm not wild about the original minseries and I haven't seen the other one but this one is truly nothing special and not worth comparing to the novel.
I'm going to give it another chance. Haven't seen it since it was released and wasn't wild about it... Like both musical scores, but prefer the one they went with, by Horner.
I'd never heard that. I think maybe the pacing change would help but it would be a pity to swap out the Horner score. I suppose the original cut might only work with the music that was written to it but, while I enjoy the Delerue score, I just prefer what Horner wrote.
I have to agree overall. This film does use a lot of elements of the original, and some of them are interesting. But... The main problems are weak dialog, poorly written characters and actors who are a mixed lot but with none that are outstanding.
It is also annoying that most of the deaths are attributable to terribly irresponsible and foolish actions by the designated hero.
I gotta wonder why you are upset at kids undressing to swim. It's kinda normal. But, you are right about the other elements. These kids live in a town where these sort of pedophilic things and all sorts of other evil (normal enough in the real world, unfortunately) are nurtured and encouraged by the perpetual presence of Pennywise. Icky is a correct response and it is just unfortunate that the films are not good enough to get across the sense of a dreadful low-level awfulness lurking beneath the surface of the town of Derry.
Hmm... I guess I am outside the loop. Am I a weirdo fan? I saw the first film and enjoyed it a lot. Obviously a bit derivative (The King of Comedy?) and likewise, not a good fit with Batman movies... But, as a one-off, riffing on a character from the comics, it was brilliant. And no multiverse nonsense, just an alternative view. -- A mad musical sequel seems like the very best imaginable follow-up.
OK, get your "but" out of here.
Enough comedy. The drama was also comedy of a different sort. AND. This is Deadpool - The 4th wall is basically porous and or extremely fragile.
Brilliant movie. I am getting very tired of the Multiverse but treat it like this and I could deal with it - ONE MORE TIME.
Well, the sands of time are nearly obscuring this... But. I saw it when it came out - free. Our local and beloved horror host (and I don't remember which it was -Bob Wilkins or John Stanley) and Creature Features gave out free tickets. And I can safely say the movie was cheap at twice the price. Kinda derivative with some nicely nasty gore and it pretty much got the job done. Didn't hate it then. Don't hate it now.
No! Please! Not another one!!!
I agree with everything you and namaGemo say. This movie is a complete mess and rather dull on top of everything else.
Amidst all else we have a new energy source which is implied to be nuclear (Well, so was Nemo's in the Disney 20,000 Leagues, so there's precident), the "projectile" is shown after it is launched to have rockets - never before mentioned and literally nothing about the flight in space makes any sense - As you said, the faulty science is probably a given, but in this case they abuse the privilege.
Interestingly, Verne "solved" the problem of how to keep the crew alive while accelerating them from 0 to escape velocity in a fraction of a second - Well, he didn't really, he came up with some nonsense using water and breakable partitions to form a sort of spring. Of course, in a novel full of mathematical calculations, there is none to support this.
I would actually say it is a fairly good sequel. The change is that in this, one images of She, from statues to flashbacks, are of the new actress rather than Ursula Andress. If you imagine this new woman as She in the first film, that's what they had in mind.
In this one we pick up about a century after the first film. At the end of the first film, She is dead and Kilikrates is immortal and waiting for her to reincarnate. That is the plot of this one. A woman with an uncertain past is haunted by dreams and being drawn to the lost city. Is she actually the reincarnation? That would qualify as a spoiler. I figure spoilers for the first one are pointless as She is one of the most filmed fantasy adventure stories ever - if you include versions of the more or less plagiarized French L'Atlantide.
I think you must mean the use of the Dies Irae. Look it up. Latin Gregorian chant. A motif that is used so often in movies, particularly horror movies, that I'd think everyone would recognize it by now.
Of course it's redundant on DVD... These things simply remain as artifacts or reminders of what the film originally was. And, if you don't want them, you just skip over them.
a) Such parties would be - Invitation Only.
b) Open display of swastikas is not uncommon in the USA and our American Nazi Party was in full swing by 1960. I can only assume that other countries, such as the South American ones where so many Nazis didn't require a lot more discretion.
Snagged a copy from a not-remotely-legal site. movieparadise dot org.
Yep. Just saw a wide screen HD copy and I'm kinda glad I never saw it before, cuz this is the way. It is a solid film.
This is interesting... 9 years ago it was a different world. Low definition copies, even VHS was still around. The funny thing is that now, it's getting to be kinda similar. Instead of big screens with crappy resolution people are now, often as not, viewing stuff on screens the resolution of which is not important as they are too tiny to see details anyway..
That said, the way the game works in the film is perfectly clear if you can see it decently and you can hear the scoring called out by the boy sitting by the target. There are four triangular targets spaced round the little circle. A perfect score ("quatro!") sets off all four impact sensitive targets. In the game described the first guy scored "Tres!" and the second scored "Quatro!".
Oh, but I can save this masterpiece of the cinematic art for you. Hard to see but I think Luthor cuts the metal wire that is wrapped round the upper and lower ends of the strand of hair. I suppose the hair was just too short to actually tie it off at each end, so that's how it was secured.
"well why don't you leave then and go on a quest for The Holy Grail or someting" ! He really says that !
Interesting that this may be a historical inaccuracy. King Arthur and the quest for the holy grail may not even have existed as stories in the 11th century... At least not in what we think of as France. All of the basic material was just Welsh folklore and such and even the big fake history of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth comes from the 12th century and later.
Really, I think it was mainly just an original take on the Arthurian stories with a Python's attitude, but I can't help thinking that Bresson's Lancelot du Lac had some influence.