Discuss It Chapter Two
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Horrific padding to create two full-length features
posted by volkstraumSTAFFMOD on October 30, 2019 at 11:55 PM
For a film billed as smart horror, it seems this was an endless parade of spoken dialogue, filmed in safe "shot-reverse shot" manner. That's how the director chose to unpack the story. With a jump scare added in every fifteen minutes, hitting the required beats. The trailer promised intensity, insanity and gore. The film did not deliver any of these. It simply was not there.
Quick-cuts in this sequel with the 'young' charaters also covered all plot points from the original... making the first film basically irrelevant.
Reply by VHS-VANDAL
on October 31, 2019 at 12:20 AM
PEOPLE SHOULD READ THE SOURCE MATERIAL BEFORE COMPLAINING THAT AN ADAPTATION IS ANYTHING EXCEPT CORRECTLY DONE.
Reply by volkstraum
on November 3, 2019 at 4:57 AM
How is it "correctly done" if I stated the second movie retreaded through all the flashback scenes so much so that the original film was not needed??? Did Stephen King write a pair of books titled** IT**, and the second retreaded through the plot of the first???
Reply by znexyish
on November 3, 2019 at 6:49 AM
It's called cashing in on a sure bet. Maybe you had higher expectations than you would have had if it just played or streamed on television. Trailers often portray movies as something other than they are. I wouldn't expect intensity insanity and gore as Steven Kings main points But if you didn't like it you didn't like it. King has lots of stories and books that could have been made into movies instead. Is IT3 coming next? Now that's scary.
Reply by VHS-VANDAL
on November 3, 2019 at 7:04 AM
HEY VOLKSTAIN.I KNOW WHAT YOU STATED....DOESNT MEAN ITS RIGHT....BOTH MOVIES ARE GOOD IF NOT GREAT.AS WITH THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES,THE FIRST HALF IS THE BEST AND THIS ONE DIDNT MAKE THE ORIGINALS MISTAKE AND LEAVE US ADRIFT WITH A BUNCH OF OLD DIPSHITS.
Reply by cpheonix
on December 30, 2019 at 9:44 PM
I actually couldn't remember Chapter One too much so @volkstraum is right, in that it wasn't really necessary given how much flashback scenes there were in this one.
I did prefer Chapter Two though over the first one.
Reply by Steve
on April 6, 2020 at 1:12 AM
I also thin the first is a legit great film. Shame all the talent in the second one didn’t result in even a good film. Major disappointment
Reply by Nexus71
on August 8, 2020 at 12:50 AM
I think it would have benefited both movies if they had stuck to the original structure of the miniseries and should have put like in the miniseries the older versions of our main characters receiving the call and having the flashbacks in the first movie this would also make the movies feel more connected plus the impact of certain things would be bigger as well as building up more Tension the final scene after our main characters defeat It for the first time and the resurfacing of Henry Bowers (from Chapter Two) should be Stan getting the phone call and writing It on the bathroom wall as cliffhanger.But I understand why they went the way they did they first had to prove that an It movie would be financial viable before getting the funding for Chapter 2 so they focussed on making the two halves more separate stories.