STEPHEN KING'S IT WEEKEND THREAD | 117.15 Mill!....NO SPOILERS..NOT EVEN IN TAGS!

[DAR]

1 minute ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

If we're doing Kubrick hot takes, here's a hot one for ya: 2001 booooooooooooooooores the shit out of me. I have nothing but the utmost respect for it as a filmmaking accomplishment, as the father of sci-fi and as gigantic leap towards technical finesse in mainstream American cinema. But watching it as a movie...... Jesus. It's kinda painful. It's a beautiful looking movie, HAL-9000 is one of the greatest villains ever, it's very thought-provoking and great soundtrack (when you're not annoyed of listening to it loop over and over and over and over and over......... and over....................), but it's basically a spaceship display with loud bombastic music playing behind. It just doesn't entertain me.

Preach 

[CoolioD1]

lawrence kasdan, stephen king and william goldman all came together to make a movie about butt demons. inspiring really. shows you what you can get when great writers put their heads together.

[CoolioD1]

2 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

If we're doing Kubrick hot takes, here's a hot one for ya: 2001 booooooooooooooooores the shit out of me. I have nothing but the utmost respect for it as a filmmaking accomplishment, as the father of sci-fi and as gigantic leap towards technical finesse in mainstream American cinema. But watching it as a movie...... Jesus. It's kinda painful. It's a beautiful looking movie, HAL-9000 is one of the greatest villains ever, it's very thought-provoking and great soundtrack (when you're not annoyed of listening to it loop over and over and over and over and over......... and over....................), but it's basically a spaceship display with loud bombastic music playing behind. It just doesn't entertain me.

eh.

[4815162342]

8 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

Sony must be wondering what went wrong with The Dark Tower.

 

The people adapting it actually had no idea what they were doing and mashed elements of multiple novels together without a real plan or understanding of said elements and how they could actually function together.

[KJsooner]

Why did dark tower fail so miserably? 😂 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, KJsooner said:

Why did dark tower fail so miserably? 😂 

I dunno, but it definitely wasn't because it was an abomination of a film.

[Steele131]

IT is easily going to be the biggest movie until Justice League. That "IT over Gravity" club is looking very promising. 

[4815162342]

3 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

have yet to witness the glory

 

The movie that was Lawrence Kasdan committing directorial suicide

[Jake Gittes]

1 minute ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

If we're doing Kubrick hot takes, here's a hot one for ya: 2001 booooooooooooooooores the shit out of me. I have nothing but the utmost respect for it as a filmmaking accomplishment, as the father of sci-fi and as gigantic leap towards technical finesse in mainstream American cinema. But watching it as a movie...... Jesus. It's kinda painful. It's a beautiful looking movie, HAL-9000 is one of the greatest villains ever, it's very thought-provoking and great soundtrack (when you're not annoyed of listening to it loop over and over and over and over and over......... and over....................), but it's basically a spaceship display with loud bombastic music playing behind. It just doesn't entertain me.

 

I can see that sure. I myself struggled not to fall asleep throughout the entire second half on first viewing. It's grown on me quite a bit since then but I'm still not yet in the masterpiece camp. 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, Steele131 said:

IT is easily going to be the biggest movie until Justice League. That "IT over Gravity" club is looking very promising. 

*ahem*

 

[WrathOfHan]

2001 is a slow movie, yet I stayed focused during it. git gud scrubs

[John Marston]

1 hour ago, Boxofficerules said:

Remake Maximum Overdrive! That one could actually work with today's modern technology.

 

 

 

they did that already. No Green Goblin truck though

 

 

[YM!]

If It pulls off an $100M+ OW, I can see it, Thor and JL make $300M+ domestically.

[MCKillswitch123]

4 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

eh.

I don't eh you for liking Carrie - which is great, but not AS great - more than Shawshank 

[a2k]

What if Dark Tower was scheduled after IT and Sony marketed it as "from Stephen King, the author who gave you IT, comes THE DARK TOWER".

Would it have helped to come after IT?

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, a2knet said:

What if Dark Tower was scheduled after IT and Sony marketed it as "from Stephen King, the author who gave you IT, comes THE DARK TOWER".

Would it have helped to come after IT?

no.

[WrathOfHan]

The Dark Tower gets worse the longer it sits with me, and I fucking hated it upon leaving the theater! It's probably the worst non-Last Knight film of the year.

[Jake Gittes]

I see Dreamcatcher has The Olyphant in it too and that it's 133 minutes long and was shot by the cinematographer of Fury Road. 

 

[Tauren Warlock]

Can IT outgross The Sixth Sense to become the highest grossing horror film domestically?

[somebody85]

Wow, that's a huge preview number (not surprised though, my 5.1 Dolby showing was packed). I wonder if this is going to behave like the Harry Potter movies and be massively front loaded or if this is going to pull a Deadpool and be big all weekend. Huge OW very likely though.
 

Even with the Hurricane aiming at us, I'm probably going to go see it again (possibly tonight) because I really liked it but didn't love it...so curious how WOM is going to be. Seems really solid so far. I really want to watch this movie for what it is and not what I expected it to be.

Edited September 8, 2017 by somebody85