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I suppose it is already posted....(my first post at B3ta, don´t be rude!!)

(smithyide, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 10:09, 22 replies)

This clown scared
the shit out of me, until I saw the ending.....I mean a spider, a cluking spider!!! Tim Curry plays Pennywise very well though.

Edit- King's a genius, it's a shame a number of his books have been ruined. Did anyone see Tommy Knockers on t.v the other day? almost laughable but I bet the book does it more justice.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 10:23, closed)

Try reading the book
honestly, if they'd put half the stuff into the film it would never have been released!
( Ultimate Cakes & Sweets Why,what are you planning to do - photosynthesize?, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 10:28, closed)

This!!!!
The book is fucking excellent but there's no way that Hollywood would have allowed them to beat Pennywise the first time round but having a gang bang.
Not only that but the book is a hell of a lot creepier than the film. The book is the only thing ever, in my adult life, that has made me leave a light on when I went to sleep.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 10:31, closed)

oh yes
on more than one occasion did i think I'd stop reading it.
( Ultimate Cakes & Sweets Why,what are you planning to do - photosynthesize?, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 10:39, closed)

The book...
I read it a few years ago...I think that I'am going to give it another try...
(smithyide, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:14, closed)

..
The book is AWESOME of Tommy knockers - but long!

Same with the film of 'Needful Things', loads missed out of the book that made more sense to it all!

all surpassed by 'The Langoliers' - great story but WTF with U.S. mini series?!?! it was on the horror channel the other night... low low budget
(TheManofScience, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:45, closed)

I read that when I was thirteen
Scared the bejeebus out of me.
My mate wouldn't believe that they all got to fuck Beverly in the sewer (as they don't in the film), so I read the passage out to him. He went red and got a boner. Nonce.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:11, closed)

This made me titter

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:47, closed)

The book
Scared the crap out of me, at one point i actually slammed it shut and threw it across the room in horror.
The creepiest thing about the film was waiting for certain things to happen that of course didnt
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 14:09, closed)

Like every Stephen King book since, I dunno, Carrie?
The Tommyknockers is overlong and really dull for the most part. You can read the first five chapters, then skip to the last five chapters and miss absolutely nothing of any importance.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 12:18, closed)

I disagree. We must have an internet fight to the death.
I think in many cases King writes the "long and dull" bits better than he writes the horror. It would be a pretty good book about growing up even if you took out all of the scary icky parts.

That said ... the bit with the snow tunnel and the shuffly anorak-clad ghostchild thing in The Shining gave me the terrible heebie jeebies and no mistake.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 12:31, closed)

Top 2 King films that have worked because of good directors -
The Shining
Shawshank redemption

There are others but these stand out.

Always thought that the 'IT' withouth the icky bits would be stand by me, another King book.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 13:48, closed)

I respectfully disagree, as one who's read through it lately.
Most of the Tommyknockers is just describing the ordinary day-to-day lives of the residents of Haven: card games, drinking, each of them has a terrible secret that they won't reveal to anyone else (usually to do with masturbating)...at one point he even breaks off from the narrative completely and starts writing a potted history of the town. Everything of import happens in the first few chapters and the last few chapters, the rest is mindless filler.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 14:28, closed)

Tsk. We'll have none of that respect rubbish here.
I have't read Tommyknockers and it's at least twenty years since I read It. But by your apparent criteria, a good 80 or 90% of War and Peace would be mindless filler. Nothing particularly momentous happens until Napoleon rolls up.

Not that I'm comparing King to Tolstoy or owt. But there's more to literature than just bang whallop action event action fright bang action!
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 15:18, closed)

Eh
those are the bits I like

if I wanted to read about ordinary people and their lives, I'd read Woman's Own
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 15:41, closed)

Agreed
Loved the bits in It that were about small town childhood, and even the scary parts with Pennywise the Clown were pretty scary and still atmospherically written.

Then it got all silly. Alien spiders my arse.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 14:46, closed)

Welcome to B3ta
The clown will make sure you never leave.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 10:33, closed)

THEY ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE!!!

(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:15, closed)

I was quite disappointed with the film
There was so much missing, and I don't mean the preteen gang-bang. There were 5 interludes in the book where someone is trying to piece together the history of the clown that appears every 30 years or so.

It may seem really hackneyed, but the book is superior, though a good 1000 pages long.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:49, closed)

I watched this when I was 8 years old...
...with my friend. Neither of us could sleep, bathe or go to to toilet alone for at least three months.

Then her mum called my mum to complain as we watched it at my house.

We need to watch it again soon I think, now that we're 17 years older!
( awayfromthenumbers, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 11:59, closed)

Funny really
This is what I always thought Dr Shambolic to look like. :-)
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 13:37, closed)

It's uncanny.
Just needs a beard.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 15:19, closed)