I finally saw
It: Chapter Two. The new films aren't my first experience of the story. I grew up on the original mini-series, and got it on DVD for Christmas when I was a child. Naturally Tim Curry was the one that made that adaptation (it also features Mozenrath's voice actor!). I was looking forward to
Chapter Two of the new version because the adult half of the mini-series is definitely the weaker one. I just didn't like a lot of the actors they got to play the children as adults and of course the technical limitations
really hampered the ending...
Chapter Two was everything I wanted really. I definitely enjoyed it more than the adult half of the mini-series and more than the first part of this new
It as well.
I thought all the actors they chose were pretty much perfect, particularly Jay Ryan, McAvoy, Chastain, and Bill Hader. My favorite part was probably the stop-motion (? or perhaps it only imitated stop-motion?) re-telling of the Native Americans' past with It. While the new actor for It was no Tim Curry, I never expected the new film could live up to that and I could enjoy this take for what it was. I definitely plan to get these two parts on Blu-ray in the future once the price has come down. The films came at a perfect moment in time, too, considering the theme about fear giving a monster its power. I will never forget the skit on SNL inspired by the first film; it's the one with Anderson Cooper looking into the sewer and It appears as first Kellyanne Conway, then Rachel Maddow and finally Hillary with her book to lure his hand in, then he wakes up on CNN with a balloon and It is Kellyanne Conway again doing that weird dance / jig. So, so funny, imo.
Hopefully this will trigger me to finally finish the book. Last summer I read around halfway, up to when Stanley kills himself. I also watched a film from last year called
Good Boys only because I recognized the name of the boy who's going to be voicing Flounder in the live-action
The Little Mermaid, Jacob Tremblay, in the info... I don't have much to say about it.

I thought it was very strange, although I did laugh quite a bit. There was lots of cursing and sex talk for a movie that features a cast primarily made up of 10 year-old's. Not that Flounder is a difficult role--he could be a plush doll for all it matters--but Tremblay is a perfect choice.