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red13n: 7

Red13n - Evil clown does the most generic villain thing ever by feasting on intangible fear. Or it actually feasts on kids. Or actually it just drags them down into the sewers and makes them float. It isn't entirely clear. But these kids live in a terrible town where everyone is abusive or a pedophile and none of their parents give them any supervision whatsoever. I think this made way more sense in the timeframe of the original, but in this more modern take, not so much. As usual, don't think about it. Unfortunately not all the kids are as fleshed out as they should have been, and by the 100th time the clown has the opportunity to kill the kids but stalls by talking or whatever you are going to realize he always makes the most common villain mistake. It only grows a little tiring by the end. But eventually you'll get to the point the kids realize it really is just a dumb clown and they can very satisfyingly beat the shit out of it.

Sheep007 posted...

I feel like Red may not like horror movies much.

Haha I somehow didn't notice this until just now. I had been reading his reviews and I was like "wow I wonder when we'll get to a movie he likes" but didn't realize we just got all the way to seven with a pretty resounding "MEH".

BetrayedTangy - Bill Skarsgard really just went and carried this movie up to my number 10 spot, didnt he

I was thinking of who my favorite male performance was from this list. I think you have a shortlist of the leads from the Lighthouse, one mystery actor from a movie I don't want to mention yet, James McAvoy, and Skarsgard and for me it is really a coin flip between those final two. Couple of other honorable mentions from some of my other higher ranked films, but this was a pretty definitive top four for me.

Plasmabeam - Better than the book its based on. No, really. I read the Stephen King novel in 2015 and found it to be a slog because it opens by showing the main characters as adults before flashing back to their childhood. I knew the kids couldnt die, so whenever they faced a deadly situation, I never truly feared for them.

I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but I 100% agree with this. The book was an absolute slog to get through partially for the reason you mentioned and partially because it felt like it desperately needed an editor to try and trim some of the more insane parts of King's coke fueled ramblings. It might not even be in my top ten of King novels, honestly. The movie does a much better job with things imho.

Thesmark - Its weird that the weakest parts of this horror film are mostly the horror elements, when it gets the coming of age story and the performances down as well as it does.

This is another take I agree with 100%. I loved how weird and creepy Derry itself was and I thought the segments focusing on the kids and their lives was fantastic. But beyond the opening scare which was great, everything else felt cheap. BOO I'M SCARY ok man we get it are you gonna kill these kids or not?