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IT - Official Trailer 1
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The void was awful
Astral Dog
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I still think pennywise looks off, he looks like a guy in makeup not Clown 🤔
More_Badass
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Isn't that what a clown is?
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Love it.Woah. From a TV spot:
The most terrifying moment in the original is still when they look are looking at the picture of the little town and pennywise comes out of nowhere and starts threatening the children.
BattleMonkey
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Nah, horror in general has been on a kick of setting itself in the 80's or trying to bring back the 80's feel now for years. The amount of 80's style posters and vhs like covers for horror films is getting kinda silly.
elrechazado
Banned
No, that's a person appropriating clown culture through superficial makeup. Clownface is not ok.
More_Badass
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il Diavolo
Banned
I think it's the giant noggin. Gives it an alien appearance.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I really do think it's going to work pretty well in the context of the film itself.
It's a possible Ledger-as-Joker situation, where people just dogmatically cling to the notion there is never going to be anything that compares to Nicholson and this decision is just tryhard and dumb and missing the point.
And then you see why those decisions were made as a means to support the larger film and it locks into place and you're like "oh. Oh shit, okay."
It's a possible Ledger-as-Joker situation, where people just dogmatically cling to the notion there is never going to be anything that compares to Nicholson and this decision is just tryhard and dumb and missing the point.
And then you see why those decisions were made as a means to support the larger film and it locks into place and you're like "oh. Oh shit, okay."
Discotheque
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i thought the new pennywise was pretty shit in both trailers but the tv spots have me a lot more positive about the new portrayal. liking the voice.
More_Badass
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Anyone else see a look of vacant hunger on It's face there? Kind of creepier than a wide smile or grin IMOAlso, a new piece of official promo art:
MagnaderAlpha
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That host lady's got the "80s mom-hair" down. You don't see many modern made movies/tv shows set in the 80s that actually get that sorta style right. I remember when I was kid, a lot of my teachers and friends' moms had hair like that.
DiipuSurotu
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I love how different Cara Buono looked in Stranger Things compared to real life. Hair and makeup make a such a huge difference.
Maybe it's just me, but from a distance, doesn't the face almost look like a skull? The dark colors around the eyes, nose, and mouth look skeletal from a distance.
Spieler Eins
Member
Getting cautiously hyped. Though the "Pennywise screaming and jumping" moments in each trailer still feel kind of like a red flag. That and the focus on that awful "you float too" delivery.
Please no messed up things my horror movies.
Haven't seen the show, but that pic is a perfect example of "80s hair" feeling fake. Way too shiny and smoothed. It needs to look slightly "messy" like in the gif.
Please no messed up things my horror movies.
I love how different Cara Buono looked in Stranger Things compared to real life. Hair and makeup make a such a huge difference.
Haven't seen the show, but that pic is a perfect example of "80s hair" feeling fake. Way too shiny and smoothed. It needs to look slightly "messy" like in the gif.
You should probably watch the show then, because it definitely does not look fake on there. Stranger Things does a great job overall of nailing 80s hairstyles.
Kyleripman
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This is cracking me up. I'm so glad they're embracing this aspect of the character.
IcyRhythms
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Astral Dog
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Yeah but IT is different
im not sure how to describe but it looks very goofy on that tv spot
Yeah the movie could use him in many interesting ways, hopefully 🎈
Saucycarpdog
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Now you're just reminding me of all the stupid internet jokes back then about Ledger's casting.
"Lol gay cowboy joker lol"
blitzwolf215
Member
Oh shit, expecting a delay for re-shoots.
I think they could just CGI that one out.
Nappuccino
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Get the guys removing Superman's mustache, and we'll be gold.
Saucycarpdog
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Little late on that one.
DiipuSurotu
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This was obviously done on purpose, to hint at the dark and unnatural powers that plague Derry, Maine.
It doesn't matter.
The Driver
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Lmao someone pointed this out in one of the IT threads already and was legit heated about it.
MagnaderAlpha
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It's not that bad, but could use a bit more frizz (even though Stranger Things gets the 80s look better than MOST other modern takes on the era). Watch The Goldbergs, they get it wrong. Stuff like that, the movies Take Me Home Tonight and Hot Tub Time Machine are just as bad.
It's kinda like a horror podcast I like listening to where they were talking about Stranger Things and mentioned there's a difference between actually TRYING to capture the era's look from "just modern people pretending to be from the 80s". I liken it to the difference of doing research on the actual era (the folks behind Stranger Things actually looked through era-specific yearbooks and such to get a better idea of how the kids looked and dressed so they could come off as believable to the early 80s) and just relying on popular trends (basically, binging VH1's I Love the 80s and thinking that's all you need to make a good 80s-movie/tv show).
The thing with THIS movie (It), they seem to have gotten the 80s look down like Stranger Things did. This sorta route should be the "go to" route for movie-makers that decide to set their movies in the 1980s. Do research, get a good feel of the era. Use your memories, but don't ONLY rely on your memories. Don't rely on pop culture as a crutch.
Question is, do you want your movie/tv show to look genuine to the era...
... or do you want you movie/tv show to look like one of those 80s-themed parties.
EDIT: the Lego thing don't matter to me. I was fine with the Rubix cube thing in Super 8, so yeah.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I think GLOW is a little bit better at 80s-era aesthetic accuracy than even Stranger Things is. Both of them manage to bridge the uncanny valley that separates "pretending to be from that era" to "being mistaken for being FROM that era" though.
Spiritual_Chaos
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When I was watching Stranger Things I was watching people "playing the 80s". But maybe that had more to do with all the references and such, and not the look.
When I watched GLOW it felt more like watching something made in the 80s. I got flashbacks to the feel of watching the Friday the 13th movies. So GLOW did it really good. I thought.
Tender Joe
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I can't believe this project most likely turned out well/great after the behind-the-scenes drama.
IT was one of the first adult novels I ever read (11 or 12. Probably a bit too young...) and remains one of my favorites.
I can't stand the miniseries and everything looks tonally perfect.
Super excited!
IT was one of the first adult novels I ever read (11 or 12. Probably a bit too young...) and remains one of my favorites.
I can't stand the miniseries and everything looks tonally perfect.
Super excited!
JaseMath
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Which actually really works to the book's credit
since Pennywise is not from Earth.
The shower scene still scares me in real life to this day. I'm always weary of shower drains that looked like the one in the movie.
Scary scene, but hasn't held up nearly as well thanks to the effect they used (stop-motion / clay?) when Pennywise rips open the drainage pipe.
Scariest for me is probably either when Ben sees his Dad across the pond and you slowly start learning it's Pennywise (then grabbing Ben by the feet is some skeleton monster), or when Beverly goes home, finds the nice old Lady there, and she turns into ... a lot of shit.
eso76
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Came here to say a couple random things.
- first thing I noticed is those Lego bricks and colours didn't exist back then. Maybe unofficial bricks ?
-Visually, it looks an impressive lot like how I imagined it when reading the book. Even though I've seen the older TV adaptation (twice) that hasn't overwritten my idea of how characters and settings should look.
Except John Ritter as Ben. When I read the book again, Ben was Ritter.
- the kids look absolutely perfect. Beverly looks exactly the way I always imagined her, it's almost scary.
- As many have said, Pennywise looks too menacing for someone that's supposed to lure in kids.
- I have no idea what King was thinking when he wrote that scene. I just..I don't know I'm still in disbelief after like 25 years.
Wasn't there a thread with adults casting suggestions/hopes and dreams ?
- first thing I noticed is those Lego bricks and colours didn't exist back then. Maybe unofficial bricks ?
-Visually, it looks an impressive lot like how I imagined it when reading the book. Even though I've seen the older TV adaptation (twice) that hasn't overwritten my idea of how characters and settings should look.
Except John Ritter as Ben. When I read the book again, Ben was Ritter.
- the kids look absolutely perfect. Beverly looks exactly the way I always imagined her, it's almost scary.
- As many have said, Pennywise looks too menacing for someone that's supposed to lure in kids.
- I have no idea what King was thinking when he wrote that scene. I just..I don't know I'm still in disbelief after like 25 years.
Wasn't there a thread with adults casting suggestions/hopes and dreams ?
I mean it's not like Texas Chainsaw 3D where we're supposed to believe that the main character is a 39 year old woman
DiipuSurotu
Banned
They did that so the second film with the adults can be set "in the modern day" like the novel was when it was published in 1986.
Astral Dog
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Just think when the 90s is going to be the "old" age for TV shows
Astral Dog
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Spooky