IT (2017)
Firstly... I'm not a fan of the original. I mean sure it's a great watch if you want a good laugh or a great drinking game that comes with the chance of death, but it just wasn't SCARY. King is supposed to be THE KING of horror, and the original is just stupidly silly... I mean just listen to Annette O'Toole question the clown's motives!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJX0zXvrgmU
There's just no chance of taking the movie seriously when one of the lines is asking why the guy trying to murder you is ''so mean''.
This is going to be rare for me so pay attention... I liked the remake BETTER, than the original! Now true I didn't finish the book, but from reading what chapters I did I can tell that this was a lot more on the money. Characters were fine, gore was great, CGI was a bit over used but whatever it's a modern day horror therefore movie makers are just helpless without it, BUT. What's most important is, it was actually SCARY!! I was actually disturbed by this movie! It was great! The best was Ben running from the headless kid in the basement of the library! Damn that was unsettling!
But then that leads us to our star... I can really take or leave this version of Pennywise... I don't think he was as fun as Curry, but he wasn't bad either. His signature ''run at you while having a seizure and screaming'' scare was more silly than scary, and it took away from just about every scare.
Also I'll point it out before someone else points out that I didn't point it out; There was no werewolf for Richie. I'm disappointed (it was only 73% of the reason I went to go see it...).
The Shallows
(This review is for you, Baron!)
I actually really wanted to see this in theaters originally. I'm glad now I didn't.
I'll list the pros as I saw them: eyegasmic scenery, and a dead whale that was a prop and not CGI.
...That's it really.
The characters were forgettable and/or shark bait, which lend to the effects that were garbage. The movie had a tendency to hold our hand through out it. *our lead looking on her phone at a picture of mom in the hospital and wearing a bald cap? The audience will never figure that out as cancer, we need to establish that in a call with her dad later where his head is in a random split screen box hovering over the fucking ocean in a comical manner, meanwhile we can actually SEE him on her phone in her hand.
There was of course CGI. Again. Modern movie, it'd be naked without it. There were times it was decent, and then there were horrible CGI dolphins. *shudders*
Story wise it was... fine. And had a tolerable ending
(despite the side I was rooting for losing), but it's going to really bother me that we never found out the name of the fucking beach and why her driver was so dodgy about revealing it.
Actually I take something back, there
was one good actor/character:
Steven Seagull.