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Title: IT: CHAPTER TWO
Director: Andy Muschietti
Year: 2019
Reviewed: December 18, 2019
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Fast Food Meal-Third Highest Rating |
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I liked "It: Chapter Two".
Now, was it as good as the first chapter? Probably not. Did they stumble a little bit with character? Yes. Here's where the problem comes in as it regards the second half of the movie. The director decided to separate the flashbacks that constituted the kids journey and the journey of the kids as full-grown adults. In the book King, brilliantly, attaches each flashback to the proper character, thereby making us familiar with both the adults and their memories of childhood. The director focused entirely on the children in the first film and then switched and focused entirely on the adults in the second. You, and I, fall in love with the kids, but there is absolutely no connection to the adults. Therefore, when the second film drops we're presented with a bunch of adults we literally and figuratively have zero connection with. Which of course means we don't care about them, which inevitably leads to the failure of any and all horror movies. If you don't care about the protagonist, and or, protagonists, then the horror is meaningless.
I don't know. It wasn't bad. It followed the book... kinda. And it was a shit-ton better than any Ari Aster movie! I think it would have succeeded much better if they had followed the outline of the book and then made it a trilogy of movies. But what the fuck do I know?
I give it a FAST FOOD MEAL review. (I wouldn't mind seeing them in sequence. Who knows. Maybe I'll change my mind.)
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