Current Events > I just finished watching the new IT movie...

(+) Yeah! (+)

So, this had almost absolutely nothing to do with the books? I mean, they got the characters, and the history of Derry right, but almost everything else was brand new. It's more like a movie of the idea of IT.
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The losers club
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Congratulations on watching your first book to movie adaptation tc
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Now watch the Super Mario Bros Movie.
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I Like Toast posted...

Congratulations on watching your first book to movie adaptation tc

I Like Toast posted...

Congratulations on watching your first book to movie adaptation tc

However, unlike other adaptations, this one has people saying that it is somehow more faithful to the books.
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lostoutlawnb posted...

I Like Toast posted...

Congratulations on watching your first book to movie adaptation tc

He just mad the kids didn't run a train on Beverly in the sewer

Zurkon posted...

There were a lot of little references to the book throughout the movie. Also, the book has so much content I couldn't imagine them fitting it all into just two movies. I liked the movie and thought the way they did it was great.

Little references without the context. It wasn't a bad movie by any means, but I'd call it IT inspired rather than an adaptation. The tv miniseries was a much more faithful adaptation.
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COVxy posted...

I Like Toast posted...

Congratulations on watching your first book to movie adaptation tc

However, unlike other adaptations, this one has people saying that it is somehow more faithful to the books.

This. Everyone was hyping it up to be just like the book, and it turns out the 1990 miniseries was more faithful. I mean, it was still a good movie, but there's a lot more new stuff than things that were in the book.
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Watching it again, and knowing it's a loose interpretation beforehand makes it much better.
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2017 IT was more faithful in tone than the miniseries, but not in content. It was more an "updated adaptation," and it worked spectacularly.
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TrevorBlack79 posted...

2017 IT was more faithful in tone than the miniseries

I don't even agree with that. It misses a large part of the tone completely.
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COVxy posted...

TrevorBlack79 posted...

2017 IT was more faithful in tone than the miniseries

I don't even agree with that. It misses a large part of the tone completely.

Can you elaborate? 2017 IT was a legitimate horror story with Stand By Me style character bonding (which is exactly what the book was). Miniseries was just pure cheese with a not-so-scary series of monsters and bad acting.
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TrevorBlack79 posted...

COVxy posted...

TrevorBlack79 posted...

2017 IT was more faithful in tone than the miniseries

I don't even agree with that. It misses a large part of the tone completely.

Can you elaborate? 2017 IT was a legitimate horror story with Stand By Me style character bonding (which is exactly what the book was). Miniseries was just pure cheese with a not-so-scary series of monsters and bad acting.

That cheese is cheese from the books. Pennywise acts deliberately cheesy, because the entire point is that he's playing off of children's fears, and as they are adults bringing it back. The book wasn't exactly constantly dark and brooding like people seem to think it was. The whole "it seems darker and therefore the tone must match more" is just a really bad inference.

The character development and coming of age, and the return of nostalgia are all minimized in the new movie, and you kind of just rush from one encounter with Pennywise to the next.
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TrevorBlack79 posted...

COVxy posted...

TrevorBlack79 posted...

2017 IT was more faithful in tone than the miniseries

I don't even agree with that. It misses a large part of the tone completely.

Can you elaborate? 2017 IT was a legitimate horror story with Stand By Me style character bonding (which is exactly what the book was). Miniseries was just pure cheese with a not-so-scary series of monsters and bad acting.

In style, yes, it was maximum cheese. But it's a fact it was more true to the book than the new IT.
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COVxy posted...

The book wasn't exactly constantly dark and brooding like people seem to think it was.

No, but the horror elements were legitimately terrifying, and the miniseries had exactly none of that.

COVxy posted...

The character development and coming of age, and the return of nostalgia are all minimized in the new movie, and you kind of just rush from one encounter with Pennywise to the next.

This I can agree with. If I had to sum up my main complaint about the new movie, it's that it felt rushed.

SlashmanSG posted...

In style, yes, it was maximum cheese. But it's a fact it was more true to the book than the new IT.

In directly adapted content, absolutely.
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