Yeah, I got lazy here. Long story short, by the time we realized we were watching the second half first, I knew that 2 things were happening. 1. We wasn’t gonna stop it immediately go back and then pick up where we left off. 2. I wasn’t gonna go back to watch the first half after seeing the shitty ending. Just not gonna happen. With that being said, when this movie came out, it was scary as hell to kids. I LOVED it and it still holds a special place in my heart. I still want a Pennywise the Dancing Clown tattoo at some point in life. The flaw with this movie/story is how awful it ends, soooo fucking bad. The cast was pretty solid. Tim Curry was amazing as Pennywise, like this role and Dr. Frankenfurter were his penultimate roles. John Ritter of Three’s Company fame was here, as well as a dude from Night Court, Harry Anderson. Seth Green was in this as a kid, it’s funny to look back on him in this. Jonathan Brandis was also in this. My biggest complaint with the cast was the dude who played the older version of Bill. He pretty much sucked. I’m not entirely sure if this movie needs a remake, but I’m ok as long as it gets the time to tell the story, and the casting is solid. Another one of those movies I saw as a kid far too many damn times. And that’s not a bad thing.
The story is of an entity who haunts and torments kids in the town of Derry, Maine. Some things obviously more fucked up then others. When Pennywise gets Georgie, it is horror at it’s finest, well cheesiest. I want to give this my childhood rating, but I cannot, its no as scary anymore, very dated. Giving it a 7.2, deal with it.
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