It chapter 2 picks up 27 years
after the first one ended this time the losers Club finds himself called back
to Derry once again when their old friend Mike who still lives there discovers
that Pennywise is back to his evil ways once more so the losers have to band
together once again to figure out how they can defeat that evil dancing clown
this was one of my most anticipated films of the whole year I thought the first
one was really good captured the spirit of part of the novel really well kid
performances were awesome direction was fantastic and since the whole team is
coming back for this one plus James McAvoy Bill Hader Jessica Chastain and all
these amazing talents my excitement was through the roof and there's a lot to
like about this movie and there are some things that I'd like to discuss that I
don't like much discussion has been made about the film's length two hours and
49 minutes it's a long long fucking movie and you can feel it there are scenes
that is boring and you're like Jesus Christ there's an hour left and you have
to acknowledge that there are parts of the movie where you're like wow this is
really long and that's a problem with pacing because other Stephen King
films like The GreenMile don't feel long to me because it's paced so well and
the characterization is done so brilliantly that I never really feel that
length while I'm watching it but here we bounce around so much between past and
present and characterization is kept to a minimum for these adults because we
know them when they were kids but 27 years have gone by now so obviously
they're completely different people and they keep that characterization to like
one scene each bill hader has an embarrassing stand-up act Jessica Chastain's
living in an abusive house they try to do their best to set up who these people
are now but they really want to get them to Derry and so it feels kind of
rushed at first and the nonce they're in Derry it feels like they're just kind
of dragging everything out for a long time but everyone in this movie is really
strong especially BillHader I think he probably has the best arc in the whole
film and so for that reason
I cared about his character than most he's also
very funny in the movie and early on once these characters all meet up to have
dinner you can really feel that camaraderie again and that chemistry between
these characters and they do a good job of making it feel like it's the people
that we saw before those kids they do a good job of really making it seem like
it's them this is really top-notch casting but just like the first film bill
skarsgård as penny wise to me is the real standout this is such a great role
for an actor, Tim Curry was amazing in the miniseries and skarsgårdis so creepy
as this character but similar to part two of that original 90sminiseries this the film is not as good as the first one it's very uneven since these characters do
have to split up the film doesn't have much of a narrative except that they're
all trying to look for the same thing and Pennywise is back and killing random kids
so that's not good so we have to go find some shit and then fight penny-wise and
when you actually break down what the movie is doing it's weird that it's as
long as it is because it's really just about getting these guys back to Derry I
got to find this thing and then they got to try to fight penny-wise and for
some reason it's three hours now look I fucking love Stephen King and the book
is phenomenal and very long but there are things that just don't have to be in
the movie there are sequences here that go on for too long there's a very strange the scene in an antique shop that was cool but like really on the nose and like
really long and just felt kind of unnecessary to me and I'm well aware of things
that are in the book that isn't in the movie and things that are in the book
that are in the movie and I understand that you know there's always an argument
to be made about well that's in the books that's why it's in the movie but
that's not how adaptations work you have to know what to cut and in the case of
this movie
I think they just put too much in I think the biggest reason that
this story from the perspective of a child has always been better to me than
when they're adults is because of the way a child would react to something like
Pennywise the clown that would be the scariest shit you have ever seen in your
life and from the perspective of a kid the movie is automatically a lot scarier
from the perspective of an adult sure some of the things that they in counter
is rather horrible but some of them are just copied and pasted from the same
fears they had as a kid, for instance, Eddie is still horrified by germs and so
the leper is still coming after him whereas other characters seemed to have
more adult fears that have manifested over time and gotten even worse some are
just still scared of the same shit from when they were like12 and so it doesn't
work as well from a perspective standpoint I'm not as scared when Pennywise
jumps out at James McAvoy because he's fucking James McAvoy and this film more
than any horror film I've seen recently has been a big reminder for me and that
is that the perspective that your film is told from is extremely important it's
the characters that you choose to let the audience in through can
drastically change how you feel about the movie because this is the same team
as last time making another one and it's just not as scary as before but the thing that took me out of the film the most was actually a technical choice
they had to de-age some of these kids through CGI because they just looked too
old now from the filming of the last movie particularly Finnwolfhard who I
guess got really tall and he has a lot of work done to him CGI was and it is
really distracting for me I saw this on a huge screen and
I couldn't help but notice
also, the other big thing is that it seems like they're using ADR or some sort
of post-processing pitch-wise with some of these kids voices to alter them and
some of them sounded like every single line they were saying had been processed
differently in the post really distracting and I could not get invested in those
scenes because it was just like assaulting me with this choice and I get that
had to happen some of these kids just don't look the same anymore and if it's
supposed to be the exact same time period it wouldn't work still what made the
film watchable to me was this cast the cast is really pitch-perfect everyone's
really good in the movie and you start to care about their characters because
they're just giving such good performances the scares are not as scary as the
first film some of that is due to a perspective shift some of that is due to
the fact that in the first film they hid Pennywise a lot more he'd be in the
shadows he'd be obscured or he'd be in another form and this film they kind of
just show him walking around in broad daylight sometimes and it loses the mystique nevertheless it chapter two I think is ok it's not as good as the first it's
about the way I feel about the second part of the miniseries I'm gonna give it
chapter 2 C-guys thank you very much as always for reading guys thank you so
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