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- Simone & George are reacting to It: Chapter One for the first time! Canadians React!
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00:00 - Intro
00:56 - It: Chapter One
38:02 - Discussion
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I love Simone's coping mechanism with being scared is to just laugh until she can't breathe lmao
The best thing about this movie is it came out 27 years after the original made for TV movie. Perfectly continuing the timeline
that's actually so cool!
Yup. 1990 and 2017. Considering how much goes into getting a film made, the fact that that timing happened is actually amazing. If it was on purpose, good on them for putting this together so perfectly on that specific timeline. If it was a coincidence, it's one helluva coincidence!
@@TSIRKLAND Just looked it up and unfortunately the timelines don't match, The originals being set in 1960s and 90s, while these being set in the 80s and 2010s, and pennywise only returns every 30 (27?) years
@@CatsinHatsBand But the release dates are 27 years apart. The in-movie timelines don't match up- but that doesn't matter, because they're telling the same story, not a continuation. But the release dates of the TV miniseries (1990) and the first part of the two-film set (2017) are 27 years apart, which is a fun coincidence (or possibly on purpose).
Pennywise is essentially a Lovecraftian parasitic psychic entity of immense age and power. In the books it’s explained or at least implied that he actually effects the town everyday and at all times. He preys on the children every 27 years, but he kind of slowly feeds on the town everyday. His presence and power is essentially effecting and enhancing ever negative feeling and instinct felt by everyone within Derry. So all of the variations of bad parents, creepy adults, and nearly psychotic youths are all made worse and nurtured by Pennywise’s presence. He usually doesn’t cause the initial issue or push people as directly as he does Bower in this part of the story, he just basically makes everyone feel worse to the point of hopelessness and despair.
That's really interesting I wish there was more of stuff like that in the movie or like some maturin stuff I get why they didn't but it would be cool
it's also not going for kills when it can because fear adds flavor
@@williamrosmer8381 Lol
@@tedbaker3846 lol he isn't even joking either. He uses fear to get flavor and that's why he goes after children. Their fears are more simple than an adults, which is more abstract. Like...you're going to take the form of taxes? Yeah, nope
@@Needler13 lol dude, chill
I know he isn't joking
I'm not a native english speaker, and i just find the phrase "fear adds flavour" kinda funny in a weird way.
And thats "It" ;)
"All adults in this movie are terrible"
Yep. That's Derry, Maine. Whenever I read a Stephen King novel and this town is mentioned, a cold shiver runs down my spine.
its the influence of the clown thats very clear
All of Maine is cursed in Stephen King stories
The kids did amazing in this. Its usually hard to watch a movie where most of the cast are young kids early in their careers but this group couldn't have done a better job.
Fun fact: Bill Skarsgard the actor playing Pennywise actually does the eye and lips stuff. It's not CGI. He can just do it. And a second fun fact: the kid playing Ritchie is Fin Wolfhard aka Mike from Stranger Things.
The lip thing is pretty unique to facial muscle but anyone can train the eyes. You just have to look beyond whats in focus so if your hand was in your face just have the hand in view but look though it at the wall so the hand is blurry . It's called divergent movement and it can be trained in a few fun ways
Also, the gross way Pennywise does his running thing is actually something Bill Skarsgard has been doing since he was a little kid to mess with his siblings LOL.
There are a few different interviews when he and his brothers talk about it, I definitely remember one with Alexander.
Rewatching this movie in th reaction, made me want watch their reaction to stranger things.
@@chrisferguson1911 nah he’s been unofficially drafted to appear in every ‘80s nostalgia thing forever
Yes we know that.. ..hes a phenomenal actor
King writes kids very well, and crazy adults. This holds most of his books together imo. Authentic non-Disney kids and disgustingly believable grown ups.
The director really captured lightning in a bottle in this movie. Very well done. He captures all the fears and concerns and vulnerabilities of a being a middle school kid being menaced by a multi-dimensional fear eating clown. Something we can all relate to at that age.
Agreed on this. Even with the narrative being held together with the thinnest of threads the movie is still fantastic. Pennywise shows up and does scary stuff to all of the kids over and over and we see a few kills, but when looking at it objectively it is just a series of scary situations and sets mashed together. The great acting, the dynamic between all of the Losers Club, and Bowers being so frightening is really the glue that sticks this movie together up until the final act.
"Derry used to be a beaver trapping colony."
"It still is. Am I right boys?!"
🤣🤣🤣 My favorite line in the whole movie
My favorite was Stan's "That's not saying much"
Because when I was in the theater I thought that in response to Richie's "the list is longer than my wang" comment...and then it happened!
I was so happy.
Nice catch with the old lady at the library. That was Pennywise looking at him, you can see him placed in a lot of scenes if you really look, like he is part of the wall painting when they try to patch Ben's cut, and he's the clown on stage when they ask Richie what he fears.
IT also appears in the first scene. IT appears on the wallpaper in the cellar, and the lights that look like eyes that Georgie sees in the cellar are actually Pennywise’s eyes.
The wall is a representation of the gang that was gunned down and Pennywise was present at that moment. It's Derry's History.
I always told people that the book isn't a "horror book" it's a story about fear. And necessarily, to tell a story about fear, it has to be scary at some points. But the heart of this movie/book is the group of kids and that's why it works. And don't worry guys, in the book everyone gets the girl.
Oof
Your final sentence wins the internet today
In the book everyone gets the girl… I saw what you did there!
oh maaan! You were quicker than me, I tip my hat to you ;)
Still very much weird but yes.
38:21 "I'm glad there was a duality of the dangers in the real world with the parents and the bullies and in the supernatural sense" that's Stephen King for you. The real horror is facing the evil of people. I strongly recommend reading his novels. IT above all. and The Stand
Hey it’s time for Chapter 2 🎈
"I want a non-horror movie of this." It exists, it's called The Goonies.
But what sets those kids apart from the ones in It is their dialogue is way more realistic, kids in the ‘80s and even kids ever do not talk as they did in The Goonies
IT in the books is my favourite villain in fiction. The way King shows how it's just an Eldritch infection permeating the whole town is so great.
Can't say everything as you've Part 2 to go, but it's very hard to adapt to film, though this film does a decent job of it.
I love the image of each missing child poster getting pasted on top of the last one, as if there's a numbing, amnesia-like uncaring by the town that IT foments.
Those parts of the film I think it does really well. My only criticism is around it's overreliance on loud-noise jumpscares, as if it wasn't comfortable to sit in the creep factor for too long in any scene, but I think that creeping wrong-ness is where IT's strength truly lies. (e.g. the old librarian in the background is great, but that's not enough, we also need a big loud scare, so let's chase him screaming through the basement)
The kids are great though, they did a really good job in the casting.
Tim Curry original Pennywise had only round 20 min screen time , everyone remembers him from 1990 IT , rest of actors input is easy to forget .
@@pete_lind he was great, but the films focus very hard on the Pennywise aspect of IT, where it's really just one form it takes. I'm not knocking the films nor across for doing so, I just mean it's hard to portray the extent that IT has its tendrils infecting the entire town of Derry that's shown in the book.
Some of King’s novels are loosely connected by settings. Some of his novels are set in the town of Derry (the town in It), others are in Castlerock.
@@mynameisnotearl4383 IT is not the same as Krueger, other than the fear element. There's a lot more to the entity.
@@MarcosElMalo2 it's more than just setting. The Dark Tower series ties everything together with characters from other books, such as Randall Flagg, playing big parts
I knew Simone would be freaking out! I just didn’t think it would be in the title card. Love the reaction as always you two!
I would love to see them react to a proper 80's horror like Hellraiser.
But I think Simone would actually have a heart attack....
Was almost two decades since a horror film gave me the chills. This one did it. Such a great film in its pacing and build up.
Fun Fact: Finn WolfHard as Richie Tozier is also in Ghostbusters Afterlife as well.
He's much less annoying in Afterlife, I think. I didn't like the way Richie was portrayed in this version. He didn't come off like an aspiring comedian like in the book or the tv movie. He was just your run-of-the-mill jerk.
Great reaction as always. I love both of the IT movies. As for the "is that coincidental or intentional" question regarding the old lady standing there watching Ben, 100% intentional. There are loads of hidden scary bits. For example, that graffiti mural down the side of the alleyway at around 13:40 when they're helping Ben? Pennywise appears in it in some shots.
When this reaction came out I said "Cool, they'll probably do the second half within a week or so, I'll just wait".
Well, here we are...Finally. 🤨😁
I will always remember the original mini series with Tim Curry as the first movie the traumatized me as a kid. Now I just love the new ones too. I definitely have to read the book.
When Stephen King's novel 'It' came out, a TV movie was made for it in 2 parts back in 1990 - the kids were depicted as living in the 60's.
The premise of the story was the same, the kids in the past and the adults in the present... fighting the threat of 'Pennywise the clown'. But the setup was better in the TV movie and actor Tim Curry ('Rocky Horror picture show') played 'Pennywise' ... It starts w/ the death of a little girl in Derry, Maine and Mike Hanlon, the town librarian, finds a picture at the crime scene that he recognizes from childhood - an old photo of George Denbrough. Suspecting that his past has come back, Mike starts calling his friends... each adult was traumatized and start remembering their encounters w/ Pennywise the clown in Derry... That was the first part.
The second part brought the adults back to Derry, and each encounter Pennywise once again...
It's required watching for sure.
Side note: Want to see a fun, little-known movie with Tim Curry & Bill Paxton? Check out "Pass The Ammo" (1987).
@@WolfHreda Definitely not a required watch, the portrayals of each film's respective Pennywise make them entirely different viewing experiences. The IT miniseries isn't even that good in its own right, it is easy to see that it hasn't aged well outside of Curry's performance. This is obviously due to being limited by strict TV censorship and a very low budget but nontheless, it is full of cheesy b-horror movie camp and an avalanche of amateur actors. It has some good creepy moments but it is almost a completely different tone from 2017's IT.
Years ago, I worked a graveyard shift as a security guard at a condo complex on one edge of a "swamp." In the middle of the swamp, on a little peninsula sort of thing, was an AM radio station that had few listeners, I was caller one and two for a contest one night. The calls were ten minutes apart. I sort of became friends with the DJ. He told me this story.
In the winter the water in the swampy area would make a thick fog. The radio station was the only thing on that little jut of land for maybe half a mile, and the broadcast booth was on the second floor with no windows, while the bathroom was on the ground floor. He was reading IT. His boss knew this and slipped in one night and filled the lower side of the stairs with a bunch of white balloons and one red one. The red one had a note that read "Pennywise knows you're alone."
That's a great story. My dad got his coworker to read Salem's Lot when he worked at Morton Salt back in the 1980s. They worked the graveyard shift and the guy read the book alone on the second floor of the plant and got really scared. I had a feeling my dad was messing with his coworker and got him all freaked out.
I agree with the critics who say that the music really undercuts a lot of the horror elements of the film by blaring "you should be scared now!" whenever anything happens. Probably the most effective scene for me was in the library, when the old woman is shown being increasingly creepy and menacing in the background, and there's *no* attention drawn to it.
Yeah it bums me out when the score tells you when to be scared.
Maybe because I am horror movie veteran but that old woman pic was as obvious as possible going to be creepy something happening. The upside is despite knowing this the cgi and movement stuff was still very unsettling to see. There was not much in movie that couldn't see coming. But projector was pretty good scare. It was homage to first movie that had similar thing but took it to next level so was not expecting the second part.
That bitch was pennywise
@@abc123tiktok I might misunderstand you, but I wasn't referring to a picture, but the out of focus old woman in the background of the scene.
@@Liesmith424 my bad I misread what your wrote. But that is a pretty good scene as well.
The lights in Pennywise’s mouth are called “The Deadlights”. TLDR is if you look into the deadlights they fill you with so much fear you either die or go insane.
Something people don’t know is that almost all of Stephen King’s books are connected. So if you wish to know more read The Dark Tower series *aka, the greatest book series of all time*
George asks if it's a haunted town and, yeah, that's pretty much it (heh). It has been there for a long time, feeding on death and disaster. Also, 'sewer clowns aren't real' might be the best line of the video.
The dark basement would have made sense in the 50's, when that scene is set in the books. Really old houses had lighting added much later, and it was expensive. So they tacked a wire to the ceiling and hung a light for a room they didn't use much. I'd have thought by the 1980s they'd have upgraded it.
So you've never seen or heard anything about IT... that always turns out to be the best reactions, I already love it, let's go!
This movie was filmed in the city just next to my town. I traveled over to Oshawa to see the *IT* house they had set up there for filming. Visiting it in person, it isn't as creepy as the movie made it out to be, but it was creepy nonetheless. Can't wait for the Part 2 reaction 🎈😱
The book is a long read but super worth reading. Also, you should check out the made for tv miniseries from the 90s, Tim Curry as Pennywise is iconic!
With a content warning for *that* scene in the book.
Not as comic as Billy Boy!!!
I can't contain my love for this movie sometimes. It's just so good. I feel like in 20 years it will be thought of alongside film horror masterpieces.
Really loved y'alls reaction this! Felt like a ton of fun, great summertime popcorn flick to get all the spooks and laughs with a good friend! Thanks so much!
Simone’s reaction @ 12:46 KILLED me 😂😂😂😂
Such a good movie, chapter 2 complements the first really really well.
First - great reaction! I barely saw any of the movie for switching between George’s expressions and Simone’s defensive giggle that would devolve into “No, no, no..." before ramping back up into the giggle. Good stuff.😂 Can't wait for you to hit Chapter Two. I'd recommend you read the book or catch the unabridged audiobook to see what did and didn't make it into the movies. Thanks for a sadistic bunch of much-needed laughs at your expense and please hit the next chapter soon!
I haven't seen this remake but I've seen the miniseries, you guys should check it out, cool reaction as always Simone & George, you both take care and have a great weekend
When the made-for-tv adaption aired in 1990, Pennywise terrified me. While some aspects of that version were tame in comparison to this one, Tim Curry's portrayal of the character was amazing, despite not having a big budget or CGI to rely upon. The term "nightmare fuel" is used a lot these days, but IT (1990) was for me at age 11. It gave full grown adults nightmares, too. I didn't like the Pennywise in this one as much, but the effects made for some cool visuals, like the scene in the basement with dead Georgie or in the garage with the film projector. Neither version holds true enough to the source material but that's ok. I'd still recommend reading the book. I found myself actually sorry to finish it. Kinda like the Lord of the Rings, I wanted the story to keep going, like I was gonna miss these people.
The ©1990 TV mini-series was much better than this sexualized crap of a great story.
I'll say it again
Hollywood needs to STOP remaking everything that most certainly DOES NOT need to be remade.
(Like The Stand as the TV mini-series ©1994 was better than the remade film)
And to STOP adding things that
were not ever in the story to begin with...
@@James_Loveless That's Hollywood. It's all a business. I'll admit, though, that I was excited about this one when I heard it was in the works. I had been reading for years about a big screen adaption possibly in the works, but plans kept falling through. At one point, they even wanted to get Tim Curry to reprise the role, but that was long ago. After reading the book (which, by the way, has more sexualization than this movie), I wanted to see an R rated adaption on the screen.
I forgot they did another take on The Stand. I loved the tv version. All I know about the other version is that it's got Amber Heard in it, so that's a big NO from me.
This version of IT was good and quite scary, but as far as I'm concerned, Tim Curry's portrayal of Pennywise was far better. Tim Curry owned that role. In my humble opinion of course :-) But unfortunately, the original version does seem a bit dated, but still my favorite IT.
@@ThreadBomb I was going to say the same thing.
I saw the original movie on TV when I was 10, and it scared me more than anything I've seen before or since. For months afterward I'd imagine Tim Curry's Pennywise hiding behind every tree and car I walked by.
The problem with this movie, and most modern horror movies, is that they're not meant to truly scare you. They're made to have jump scares so the overall experience is fun. Books like "IT" aren't fun. They make you afraid of being alone in your house at night and they make you genuinely sad like the death of Eddie Corcoran; an abused child who felt safer sleeping in a public park under a pile of leaves than in a house with his abusive father.
I find it more disturbing than scary.
Yep, "blockbuster horror" movies are basically designed like amusement park thrill rides. meant to get the adrenaline pumping but at the same time you know you're safe. It rakes in more money than emotional "scarring"...
Agreed, this movie was just lame, and stupid. Wrote a comment above, but if you're not interested in finding it, it as basically just:
"Honestly, I didn't find this movie scary at all.... rather I found Pennywise to be ridiculous and stupid, in this. To me, I felt like this movie was great build-up to lame reveals and hokey jumpscares that become absurd goofy crap when you really have a second to think about it. The only part of the movie that made me feel like this was any good at all were the main cast and how they were potrayed. The performances and the writing in the NON "scary" parts are what save this movie for me. But in terms of being actual horror, it's a real let down for me.
That having been said, it's even worse with the even goofier and even dumber adaption done way back with the tv miniseries with Tim Curry. That was so stupid it's not even worth seeing, because the rest is awful. But I found this to be not very great.
Flat out, I just don't think that "IT" works as anything other than a book. It's just un-adaptable, because the things that King writes and describes in the novel just can't help but come across as goofy and stupid when you see it cinematically."
It's like.... people have always said that Lord Of The Rings was "un-adaptable" until Peter Jackson, the madman, actually did it and did it well. But I think "It" is TRULY the un-adaptable work. Because Steven King's writing particularly with this book just does not and cannot translate well to film, unless it's almost completely and entirely re-worked, and more of an "in name only" adaptation and only the premise is used, while literally everything else is re-worked from square one, like The Shining.
King describes things with text that are creepy and scary because they are "the unknown" and "surreal and bizarre". But King's brand of "unknown, surreal and bizarre", when it's taken from your imagination and placed into a literal context for you to see, just looks and feels really REALLY stupid. Hence Pennywise and most of the kids's fears, when seen cinematically and divorced from your own interpretation and imagination look and feel REALLY STUPID.
This movie is "trying" to take King's ideas and goose them up to 11 in order to do that..... but most of it is just conveyed with lazy jumpscares to introduce very stupid looking things. The only parts that work, are honestly the non-horror scenes and the relationship with the kids when they show their character. It's the only thing in this movie that feels like it works as a movie. But the real "money shots", and the horror aspect? What anyone would come to this for? It's just a corny, stupid, ridiculous, dumb let down.
Modern horror movies are basically "startle movies". They exist to get the occasional jump out of you, but that's it.
@@the-NightStar I think it could be adapted for the screen successfully but the problem is that the story gets dumbed down to "oOOOoooOoo scary clown". Pennywise isn't a clown. It takes the form of a clown to attract smaller children and remnants of this form can be seen in the other forms it takes on when terrifying older victims so that it can "salt the meat". Pennywise the clown isn't MEANT to be scary. It's what he DOES that makes him scary. The rest of the time he appears as a giant black bird, a werewolf, a leper, dead baseball players, flying leeches, etc. And the movies adaptations are so terrible because they leave out the scenes that really matter and are actually scary. Like Ben walking home in the snow when he sees IT on the frozen river holding balloons that float against the wind.
This intro and the one where you say “we’re not pumpkins we’re ladies” from friends with benefits movie with Natalie and Ashton are my favorite. 😂😂😂 thank you.
These kids acted their hearts out
The original movie is one of my most beloved movies. And the "Pennywise pops out of the gutter" is still scary as hell to me... The book is also great :)
All the child actors are such great choices. I really loved Georgie, it broke my heart.
Still annoyed at this adaptation turning Mike into basically a sidekick. It's such B.S. and completely throws away a major opportunity for horror. IN A HORROR MOVIE. That decision by the filmmakers makes no sense.
I'd say the only character that wasn't depicted very well is Eddie the actor was fine just the way he was written.
@@zammmerjammer Agreed his scenes of him exploring and being told about the Black spot was among my favorite parts in the book.
So, I see some of the comments here, but let me share with you my tale. I was a sophomore in High School, reading this book. I'm a slow reader, I like to pace myself, only go as fast as I can speak, Anywho, I'm half way thru the book when they announce the mini-series. My dad did me the favor of recording all the episodes so I could watch them when I was done reading the book. The book was amazing and the feeling of disappointment from watching that original series, seeing only a third of the forms it takes playing out over 6 episodes. I was so excited when they announced this venture, with today's CGI there was so much they could do. Having said that, and having watched both movies. These are good action flicks, they do a good job of grasping the feeling from the book, but they can't replace the book. Until a movie takes the time to tell the whole story, and can find another enigmatic Pennywise, The book and my imagination are still the champs. 🏅
In the original cut
The bully was outside the creepy house looking at the kids when they go save Beverly
And he was in his car laughing with his dead friend's in the back...
Never saw a need to redo IT. The 1990 version was amazing and with an incredible cast. Just release that in theaters. I would go see IT. 🎈
I'm sure this movie scared a whole new generation just like the old miniseries did in the 90s! I was absolutely mentally broken after seeing that miniseries as a kid..
The book is even better tho! Stephen King is the king!
I'm still in the first ten minutes of your video and I can't tell you how happy I am that neither of you read the book or saw the original miniseries!
Simone: "I want the internet to know, this was my idea."
Oh, you sweet summer child
As a fan of the book I can safely say no adaptation has got it right. With the size of the source material I would have thought a series would be the better option to fully appreciate... It
Really I've never read the book so can u tell me stuff that git cut out from I'm really curious
@@kkkk-tu5tr it's a long book. I couldn't possibly condense it
@@A-small-amount-of-peas I forgot abt this comment lol
This is so fitting because I literally finished this movie last night and started the 2nd one. Great reaction!!
The look of abject terror on Simone's face at the twitchy clown runs is great lol
Love you're channel! Been watching for a while. This is the first time I have been forsed to say something about what George just said!
He just lost a child nothing more traumatic than losing a child!
Love the show
Keep on keepin on!
Are you guys ever gonna do Chapter 2? You do know you can do horror movies year round and still have enough left for October and Halloween, right?
I think you’ll be happy to know that Sophia Lillis portrayed Nancy Drew in the recent movie (maybe 3 year ago) So you can in fact watch one of these ‘kids’ solve a Scooby Doo like mystery ^_^
Simone's expressions while watching IT : "Aww Ah! Aww Ah! Aww Ah!" What a masochist. 😄
35:02 it's called "The Deadlights," a recurring theme in Stephen King books.
Simone's "nononononono" dance was amazing
This is based on my favorite book of all time. The book is over 1000 pages long so even with a two-part film it would be impossible to translate everything over to the big screen, not to mention a lot of the book is just too strange or metaphysical to be adapted to the screen. This movie does a fair job adapting it.
The book jumps time periods between 1958 and 1985. This film and its sequel advance the timeline about 30 years to the 1980s and the 2010s, but I think that still works. There is a made-for-TV version from 1990 that preserves the original timeline and stars Tim Curry as Pennywise. It hasn’t aged that well but is also worth a watch sometime. Some of it sticks a little closer to the novel while other parts veer off pretty significantly. It does preserve more of the back-and-forth time jumping that’s present in the novel.
it works in the sense that it's functional, however i think it works better in the original timeline with some of the minor social interactions making more sense
"Screaming in cosmic turtle"
Based on my all time favourite book.
In the book the battles with It are more psychological/metaphysical.
On the left: oooommmmmgggg, omg, omg, omg…. I can’t deal with the twitching to the camera s@@t.
On the right: this is great
😂love watching ur movie reviews… I love reliving the films I already know through ur eyes. Makes me laugh every time. Glorious!
I love how Simone is grimacing and creeped out literally three seconds into the film.
The “school bully” were just like these in 70’s/80’s. They were brutal and mostly psychos and adults for the most part did nothing. Yes, I’ve had and seen multiple rock wars or snowball fights with rock in the middle.
I always hate when current day folks try and say that bullying ain't so bad and there should be more of it going on cause everyone is so soft in their eyes. They always completely overlook that bullies are like that for a reason and it's not cause they want some quite nerdy kid to toughen up and be a cool kid. It's almost always because of some serious toxic issues that are going on beyond public eyes.
I even spoke against the similar practice of hazing when I was in the military. I noticed that all the guys that hazed new guys were the ones that internally hated what they've seen or done and they refuse to truly face that so new guys are just soft in their eyes, their still clean and that spotlights that they aren't so clean.
It was always my argument that if some one thinks someone isn't cutting it than it takes a leader/mentor to show them the path up and not a person rooted to pain in the past trying to equalize suffering.
Yep - went through some rock wars when I was that age, plus some encounters with older kids where I thought I was going to die before my friends swooped into the rescue. The craziest thing I witnessed (in hindsight) were high-school kids waiting outside my school (some with switchblades) to ambush a classmate who had offended one of them. And this was in a small-town in Canada! I can't imagine anything like that happening nowadays without the police being called, but when I was a kid, it was handled by my teacher going outside and giving the high-school kids a good talking-to. As this teacher was a hippy-chick, back before the term hippy-chick was even coined.
stand by me ( 1983 ) and dreamcatcher ( 2003 ) are two other stephen king movies starring a group of kids . Both are good . in fact stand by me is one of the best movies I've ever seen .
I'll just say that there's a certain scene in Chapter 2 that was really worth going to the theatre for.
The bass was awesome, it shook the chairs we were sitting in lol.
After the second movie, you should read the book - it's basically similar but some key things are changed in the movies (at over 1000 pages, they couldn't film it all). I first read the book when it came out in the 80's and I agree they did a great job - the kids are the key to the movie - if they're not convincing, the movie wouldn't work. Beep Beep, Richie.
I like Simone's review, "That movie is so good at what it does. It was a horror movie. And it did the things." I'd watch that. I mean, if I hadn't already. And the original is horrifying as well. Because Tim Curry. I'd also love to watch the edited reaction of just Simone's and George's noises and faces, because that was very entertaining.
"Friendship is the treasure that we learned along the way", I'll take that to my life.
Cus is funny
This is one of my favorite movies, I’m so glad you reacted to it!! Love you two!
i think the movie added a lot of idiosyncrasies by changing the setting from the 50s to the 80s. like i get -why- they did it, but some of the social stuff i think reads better if you look at it being in the original time period
Yeah they kinda made things a lot more difficult for themselves by changing the time period. I think a lot of the characters especially the townsfolk of Derry, work better in a 50s setting than an 80s one and in part 2 putting them in modern times also brings its problems with it, like modern technology getting in the way of writing a story for a society where not everyone had a smartphone for example, or the internet not existing.
Urgh I can't, I just can't, can't, can't, but I'll like and let it roll in the background for support. And maybe read the book.
Here's my best Simone impression tho:
What the f***, what the f***, f*** this, eewwww NOOOO, what the f***, f*** this movie.
The book is one of the only books to get under my skin and creep me out back when I read it as a teen. It's not easier going than the movie if that's what you're hoping on.
@@kevtb874 I can personally handle horror in books much better than in films. Thanks for the heads-up tho!
You’ll float too. 😂 love you guys reactions. It 2 is pretty good as well. Great older actors who resembles the younger characters.
The little boy that plays the baby brother, Georgie, is such a GOOD actor. I highly recommend the Netflix series he's in, Locke & Key.
This was such a fun reaction and I can't wait for Chapter 2.
Also if you haven't seen, you should do The Shining and Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining and ties in to IT and what Pennywise/IT is.
The novel also has quite a bit of mystical stuff in it. It's really hard to explain without spoiling stuff. I think this film did about as good a job of adapting the work as could be done. But they cut lots of stuff out, because again, the novel is HUGE. Over 1,000 pages.
Edit: Also, in the novel they are kids in the 1950s and adults in the 1980s.
In the film they made them kids in the 1980s and adults in present day.
Well there's never gonna be an adaptation that includes... that.
@@30noir Well yeah. But I meant lots of other bits as well. That one part shouldn't be included.
I love this channel no commercials have told you what the movie is so the whole thing is a surprise. thank you for sharing this experience.
George, the correct answer to the question "What's Pogo?" (4:38) is "He's the clown stood behind you right now".
You guys have the best movie reactions. The perfect duo. I'd like to watch your reaction to good boys (2019).
Could you watch Bram Stokers Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola?
Regarding how to grieve and whether adults would handle it better than a kid, everyone grieves differently and there are significant differences in grieving the loss of a son vs loss of a brother, especially when one involves some amount of guilt.
Watching George mentally process Simone's singing intro before laughing was hilarious. Never change, you guys, your intros are my favourite part.
Let's all take a moment to appreciate the fact that the Loser's Club doesn't get out of the sewer the same way as in the book.
One of the rare instances where not staying true to the source material is a blessing.
How do they get out of the sewer in the book? Is it a child orgy? Please tell me it's not a child orgy.
Yeah well, if it had that part of the story then the movie along with everyone involved with it would have been arrested.
@@harley4230 Holy poop... I've never read the book and was being sarcastic. That's how they actually get out of the sewer in the book? TF?
@@nonyabussiness6920 They decide that they need to become "adults" to protect themselves and then Stephen King wrote a scene that should have had him investigated by the police. To repeat what another commenter said, in the book... they ALL get the girl. Completely ruined what was a great book to me up until that point.
Simone's scared laughter is the best thing I've heard in a long time! LoL It was fantastic haha Can't wait for more scary movies to bring that out of her.
The nervous giggling from Simone. 😂
Any chance you’ll watch the sequel anytime soon? Can’t wait to see your reaction
On the creepiness of children singing:
I and 30 classmates in high school traveled from south Texas to Missouri for our orchestra field trip(no, I don't know why we went there).
Imagine the amount of discomfort and unease when we awake one day to more than 2 dozen school children singing church hymns in the hotel lobby.
There was apparently a choir competition happening and they were there as a part of it but still... It was seriously freaky.
@9:48 That wasn't no "lady" my friend... That's always been one of my favorite subtle moments in this movie. Pennywise in disguise as an old lady in the background out of focus and still the creepiest fucking smile you've ever seen.
You need to read the book. Only a series could cover the whole book, which is fantastic.
Fun fact: the clown room has a *Tim Curry* Pennywise in it!
I have a fan theory that Pennywise is a minion of *Randall Flagg.*
Randall Flagg has appeared in at least *nine* of King's novels.
Described as "an accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark".
He uses children as projectiles against *the dark tower.*
I think that the clown abducts kids and prepares them for his dark lord.
I've lost count of the times I've read this book. While it had questionable moments (if you know, you know), I just adore the characters, the setting, the nostalgia of it all. But when I was a kid, before I read it, I LOVED the 1990 mini series. It didn't scare me (I was a horror kid) but again, the characters and nostalgic feel got me.
I did enjoy this film. And the sequel. I thought they did well even with all the changes, but jump scare horror is cheap as shit and it relied far too heavily on that for me. Great casting though and a valiant effort.
i agree, the tim curry version wasnt terribly scary but if youre unlucky to get sick and have a delerious fever-dream with tim curry clown fresh in your mind youre gonna be in for a bad time. speaking from experience haha
He’s hard to recognize but Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things is in this. He plays Richie and his glasses will throw you off.
What a masterpiece of a book this is.
My one complaint about this movie, is that it loses something by moving the kid and adult timelines into separate movies. For me, the inter-cutting of past (kids) and present (adults) and how they complemented each other is what really elevated IT beyond a simple horror novel to something more.
Exactly my thought about the movie. As a reader I developed the whole past of the story together with the main characters piece by piece, while at the same time in the present each one has to take his own journey home after the phone calls. And that's what made it so amazing to read.
Be realistic child
There's too much in that book they did it perfectly stay quiet
@@rHamUK Great speech. Anything objective to offer?
@@strogaa Who tf spoke to u child? Stay quiet cow
Glad you enjoyed it, now watch part 2, THEN read the book, the movies aren’t bad but could only do about 75-80 of what’s in the book. There’s a lot that was cut, most notably the turtle, and the full ritual of chud. Again, read the book and it makes much more sense.
A lot of the posts do a pretty good job describing IT so I’ll strip it to the basics. IT is THE destroyer, the turtle is the creator and in the story they’ve been battling it out since the turtle birthed the first galaxy. They mislead the age of IT/ Pennywise in the movie IT has been around since the very beginning of the universe. Again, where one creates the other destroys.
After one such battle with the turtle IT crashed into earth “pre” dinosaurs and has been recovering ever since. Yes, IT is in a weakened state in the book and movies compared to just how insanely powerful IT truly is.
To help with perspective of IT we’ll go comic books for a moment IT/ Pennywise/ the dead lights is a fundamental part of the universe. Think Galactus or the endless. IT and the turtle are opposite sides of the same coin so to say IT is supernatural is downplaying IT by practically infinity. IT is a fundamental aspect of the universe who just happens to be taking a sick day ( hundreds of millions of years) on earth.
Again, read the book, King explains IT better than any of us ever could
Human balloons… 😳😬
Simone, I think you predicted that one a lot closer than you probably thought. lol
The reason why the mom is playing the piano in the dark is because the power went out in the book. It's a little wink and odd to the source material by keeping it consistent that the fact that the power was out but they don't represent in any dialect in the movie
Just fyi, when yall get the chance to watch "Tremors" it's nowhere near this scary
Tremors is amazing, seconded! And funny, too.
I second Tremors. It's a spectacular movie.
The 2nd one was not as good as this one imho, just like the originals. King's biggest issue, he was always bad at writing good endings.
Also, soooo many hints and little extras of pw, like a drawing of him on the wall in an alley appearing.
Excellent adaptation of King's ginormous novel - that's why you have 2 films - you also need to see the Made-For-TV 1990 miniseries as well just to bathe in Tim Curry's luxuriantly evil turn as Pennywise (Bill does a fine job here as well so there you have .... It....) ;D Great job guys!
If I recall, that was Pennywise in the Library...
"It's too Early to kill a kid" HA
Not the most popular thing to say, for many fans out there, but I think Bill Skarsgard really owned Tim Curry as Pennywise!