IT
9/10
This
movie was awesome. Oh, there will be spoilers, ya big babies. H. and
I headed to the Arclight and got to check out IT. I have never read
the book and barely watched the first one because we watched it in
class. Yeah. That's the kind of school I went to. I say this to point
out that I have no emotional attachment to this movie and no concerns
whether or not it was as good as the first or if it stuck to the
source material of the book. I just wanted it to not suck and not
only did it not suck this was one of the best movies I've seen this
year.
This
takes place in 1988 in a very casual way I enjoyed. It didn't jam the
fact that it was in the past down my throat. It starts off with this
kid named Bill making a paper boat for his little brother Georgie.
Georgie ends up having it was down a storm drain. Suddenly a creepy
ass clown named Pennywise the Dancing Clown appears. Now, in my
childhood watching a boat or anything go down a drain means I just
lost it. But not Georgie. He chats it up with this scary ass thing
and just when he reaches for the boat he gets his arm ripped right
the fuck off! As he tries to crawl away a long ass arm reaches out
and snatches his little ass right down. This is before the damned
title screen!
Almost
a year later and Georgie is still missing. Bill and his friends whose
named I won't try recalling for this and will just typecast appear.
Richie the potty mouth, Eddie the hypochondriac, and Stanley the
Jewish kid. Bill thinks his brother may have washed up into a certain
area called the Barrens and wants to investigate it. His father is
like “He dead! Stop it!” Bill don't stop though. There is also a
new kid that loves New Kids On The Block named Ben. He the fat one.
And there's Bev the girl. The whole school thinks she is a slut and
her father is a super perv. Every time he is on screen my skin
crawled. There is also a bully named Bower who is a super dick. He
kicked the shit out of the fat kid who ends up finding the rest of
the group and joining them. Oh, and there's the Black kid named Mike.
He works in a slaughter house, is home schooled, and lost his parents
in a fire.
Each
of these kids start to have visions of Pennywise or something. The
Jewish kid has a scary ass painting come to life and chase him. Bev's
bathroom pisses blood. Potty mouth is scared of clowns so he is super
fucked. Black kid gets a glimpse of hell. Hypochondriac has a leper
chase him. Bill sees a rotted version of his little brother. Fat kid
is chased by a headless guy. Fuck that scene by the way. I'm sure H.
was tired of my ass by the time this movie ended because I was full
of “Nope!” “Why?!” and “Just run!” They finally decide to
share this information with each other and fat kid lets them know
he's been doing his homework on the time and the disappearance and
murder rate is higher than anywhere else in the country. Its pretty
much Chicago times two. When these kids confront Pennywise on
multiple occasions its full on WSHH beatdowns taking place. And just
when I thought he couldn't get more fucked up he did. He would find
new ways to fuck with my head to where I had to ask out loud “Why
is he being so damned spooky?!”
This
movie leaves itself wide open for a sequel and I am so happy about
that. The kids in this were funny, scared as hell, and were perfect
for their parts. Hell, even the bullies were full on bullies not that
bullshit we call bullying these days. One of them was a straight up
kid waiting to attempt murder. And Pennywise was fucking horrifying.
The main reason I did not give this a 10/10 is because at certain
times the kids attitudes lost some consistency and they would do dumb
shit just to push the story along. Otherwise this movie was really
good and you should check it out.
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