Welcome to America, everything is huge!
My husband and I signed up for the Movie Pass a few weeks ago. It’s a card that you pay $9.95/month and you can go to basically any movie theater and see any movie you want. In the information we got it says you can only go see one movie per day, but the cashier girl yesterday said that she had some teenagers who saw like 4 movies in one day, so I don’t know. But it’s a great deal either way!
So last night was our first time to use the card. You need to sign in through their app before and then have your card scanned by the cashier person, and that’s it, now you have a movie ticket. We wanted to go see the new IT movie on Friday night (since it was the 13th), but it was a good thing we didn’t go then, cause everybody else, aka tons of teenagers, thought the same thing and the place had been packed. We went on the 10:10pm showing last night and we were maybe 8 people there.
IT was the first real scary movie I watched as a kid. I wasn’t allowed to watch scary movies at home yet, but my best friend at the time had an older brother who let us watch scary movies in his room. I remember that I didn’t think the movie was so scary while I watched it, but when I had to bike through the dark forest to get home that night, omg, I have probably never biked that fast ever before or after. The scene with the balloon in the sink has been haunting me many times in my life too, even as an adult especially since the pipes in NYC always makes weird noises, haha.
At first when I heard of a new IT movie coming out, I didn’t want to see it, cause I don’t usually like re-makes. But when I found out it’s a Swedish guy playing IT, I thought it could be fun and I was excited. Well, can’t say I liked it very much. Maybe because I knew what was gonna happen and I kept comparing to the old movie. But also, I haven’t really enjoyed scary movies made after like the early 90s. They are just not good. The Saw movies are ok cause they are kinda creepy, and American Psycho is the freakiest shit I’ve ever watched, but they are not scary. The movie was definitely ok and if you haven’t seen the first one, then it’s probably great. Except for that they had a “creepy house” where IT lived that looked just like any other scary movie houses, and that made the whole movie suck. Sorry, but that’s just a bad choice.
I could be nice and give the movie 3,5 stars of 5. I base that on that the “chubby kid” was an awesome actor, the scene with the girl in the bathroom was pretty well made (even though we were disappointed there was no balloon) and the Swedish guy seems like he can be a great actor too, if he just gets a better role.