It: Chapter 2

[Angry Gorilla 1768]

17 hours ago, Mach 1 said:

Daughter said the kids were CGI'd since they've hit puberty and changed a lot since the first movie.  You could tell here and there, but they did a pretty good job of keeping them looking the same age.

I think I read somewhere that they filmed scenes for Chapter 2 with the kids while they filmed Chapter 1 so they would look the same.

[nolongerU2horn 765]

I thought it was pretty awful. 

[Junior Miller 1502]

The horror aspects were pretty good but the script felt like it was written by an ADHD kid on a full cocaine bender.

Don't understand the lunatic kid who murdered his father scenes. All the scenes with that guy were terrible. They had the whole Paul Bunyon scene talk about a "secret" but never revealed what the secret was. Just disjointed. 

Edited September 18, 2019 by Junior Miller

[Noah Fence 480]

7 minutes ago, Junior Miller said:

The horror aspects were pretty good but the script felt like it was written by an ADHD kid on a full cocaine bender.

Don't understand the lunatic kid who murdered his father scenes. All the scenes with that guy were terrible. They had the whole Paul Bunyon scene talk about a "secret" but never revealed what the secret was. Just disjointed. 

the secret was revealed at the end when he went back to where he carved the initials.

[Junior Miller 1502]

45 minutes ago, Noah Fence said:

the secret was revealed at the end when he went back to where he carved the initials.

Must have missed it. What was it? 

[Noah Fence 480]

17 minutes ago, Junior Miller said:

Must have missed it. What was it? 

Spoiler

R + E = ❤️ 

 

[DDD Dad 14339]

On 9/6/2019 at 12:43 PM, South Austin said:

Sure, if you don't mind your kid sleeping with you for two weeks after.

Or your mom?

[Deej 76797]

3 hours ago, Junior Miller said:

The horror aspects were pretty good but the script felt like it was written by an ADHD kid on a full cocaine bender.

Don't understand the lunatic kid who murdered his father scenes. All the scenes with that guy were terrible. They had the whole Paul Bunyon scene talk about a "secret" but never revealed what the secret was. Just disjointed. 

The book was written by a guy on a cocaine bender.

[bolverk 29683]

Enjoyed Chapter 1. As someone said above, they've should've shaved about 45 minutes from Chapter 2. It starts strong and entertaining but I was ready for the fucking thing to be over at the end.

[Larry Sellers 8]

Out of all the disturbing things in the movie, I thought the scene on the bridge at the beginning was the toughest to watch. That scene wasn’t in the 1990 miniseries but in the book

[Tom 2959]

14 hours ago, Junior Miller said:

The horror aspects were pretty good but the script felt like it was written by an ADHD kid on a full cocaine bender.

Don't understand the lunatic kid who murdered his father scenes. All the scenes with that guy were terrible. They had the whole Paul Bunyon scene talk about a "secret" but never revealed what the secret was. Just disjointed. 

 

Spoiler

Ritchie was gay and secretly in love with Eddie.  They somewhat foreshadowed it right before when Bowers was calling him a fag at the arcade.  They showed that Eddie's death hit him the hardest.  Confirmed it when he carved their initials into the fence at the end.  R + E = ❤️ 

Bowers was just a guy that represented the evil that permeated the town.  He was a psycho in the first mini-series and book too.

 

[4th&Five 41556]

Watching on HBO now. This is terrible. 

[victory88 5668]

Wow that was bad.  enjoyed the first one but chapter two was horrendous.

[Jerry Callo 8703]

Old Bowers reminded me too much of this guy from MIB:

Edited April 13, 2020 by Jerry Callo

[TrashMaster G 17557]

On 9/18/2019 at 1:58 PM, Junior Miller said:

The horror aspects were pretty good but the script felt like it was written by an ADHD kid on a full cocaine bender.

Don't understand the lunatic kid who murdered his father scenes. All the scenes with that guy were terrible. They had the whole Paul Bunyon scene talk about a "secret" but never revealed what the secret was. Just disjointed. 

 

On 9/18/2019 at 2:07 PM, Noah Fence said:

the secret was revealed at the end when he went back to where he carved the initials.

I thought that was all pretty obvious before he went back to carve the initials.

[Buzzrock 14921]

I think I read somewhere that they filmed scenes for Chapter 2 with the kids while they filmed Chapter 1 so they would look the same.

https://www.slashfilm.com/it-chapter-2-de-aging-visual-effects/

[Go Pokes 979]

On 4/12/2020 at 1:24 AM, victory88 said:

Wow that was bad.  enjoyed the first one but chapter two was horrendous.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts.  I didn't catch the secret at the end because I had pretty much checked out by then.  

[DaysOff 7951]

He was gay.

[4th&Five 41556]

what's the point of basing a movie on a book if you're not going to base the movie on the book?

[dcbc 14485]

Just did a rewatch of this over the last couple of days (hey, it's long).  A few thoughts.  The movie stuck to the book (the adult side and some of the kids side) really close for the first 1.5 hours.  Then, it gets off track for a bit, but the ending does a good job of hitting a lot of the bits at the end of the book.  What it mostly suffers from is being the adult half of the book.  But the kid aspects they added were pretty good (clubhouse, etc).  I've also decided they made the spider look way scarier than the miniseries (or even the book) did.  Yes, they changed some things and omitted some others, but it's a solid adaptation, even if it can't stand alone well without part 1 and, let's face it, nothing ever will touch the book.