DerekOfTheDykes
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Thank you, someone else who gets it.
Plus as I already said back when the thread was made other than Curry the miniseries wasn't all that good and (granted it's because of budget and network standards) not a very accurate adaption.
People need to realize it's not a remake but a new adaption of the same source material.
Yeah, there's basically a 0% chance anybody was going to be able to do Tim Curry nearly as well as Tim Curry, so judging this as "not Tim Curry" is basically saying that nobody is ever allowed to remake a pretty crappy made-for-TV miniseries. Don't get me wrong, Skarsgard could absolutely blow it for one reason or another. But so far, what I've seen from this movie is a desire to make something far more true to the book, and a lot of the updates from the director show a genuine familiarity with the source material. So I'm going to withhold judgment until we get trailers at the least.
To me, the costume is the giveaway. The description of the outfit as silvery with orange pomfs is a small detail from the book that is often repeated through many of Its forms, like the tongue on the bird. It pops up multiple times in the book, but probably wouldn't be mentioned in any synopsis or Wiki page. It just goes to show how few people read the book, or if they did how heavily the book was overwritten by the crap miniseries.
I don't see why anyone would say people thinking It is good is a joke, other than trying to sound edgy. The miniseries is good if only for Tim Curry's performance, and many people think the book is great on its own. It's a fucking tome, and there's one small part of it with questionable content (which is still weird, but less weird in context) that everyone cites as a reason for why the whole book is bad. It's fine to not like the book, but to only cite the preteen sex in the sewers just makes it seem like you heard about it second hand or read something off of wikipedia.
The book is a little inconsistent in quality, but when it's on point It is ON FUCKING POINT. I still remember the passage about the father talking about beating his son to death with a hammer, and how he didn't mean to KILL him, just make him shut up. "Did he stop crying?" "... Eventually." The book was chilling, not because of the movie monsters It transformed into, but because of how deeply it touched on the scummy side of human nature and how easy it is for evils to go ignored in rural areas.