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EP. 12 IT (2017)
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Nick and Gerald review the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King's IT
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Introduction and Gerald's Horror Journey
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Speaker
Hello and welcome to episode 12 of the two guys one screen podcast. My name is Nick and I'm Gerald and today we were reviewing The movie that started it it all for me it 2017 I'm very happy to say that I somehow convinced you all the way back then to see this movie in the theaters when you were pretty much a horror virgin and I was. I'd never seen this. Uh, we were in shadow at the Palisades mall. Shout out.
Reflecting on Watching 'It'
00:00:34
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Uh, and we went and saw this in a big ass AMC theater. I don't know if it was IMAX. I just remember how big the screen was and how big the auditorium was. I think it was a normal, normal sized theater. I don't think it was IMAX. And I do remember I was at in college at the time I drove back to my, uh,
00:00:55
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campus and I parked in my parking lot was like pretty far from my, my dorm and I fucking sprinted.
00:01:03
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um fuck is It's, it's crazy how your horror evolution has come to where it is now. Yeah. Now I'm watching like fucking terrifier. Yeah. Now you're just not afraid like to watch anything. Um,
00:01:21
Speaker
Yeah, so when we were deciding what movies to review for the month of October, this was like one of the first three we thought of. It just seemed obvious, right? Like we were obviously. Obviously, before we saw this movie together, we were friends, almost lifelong friends. ah Well, yeah, well, we'll call it lifelong. I think we've been alive more years as friends than not, huh? I think we've been alive more years as friends than not.
00:01:49
Speaker
Sure. So we'll say lifelong. um I'm not saying that this movie made us better friends, but there was an experience like it did. I feel like you probably hated me a little bit after this, but it's all right. No, I mean. I think because something happened before this where I was like, I might go see in theaters. And then you're like, let's just fucking do it.
00:02:16
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And we did. I don't think it was like a premiere night or anything. It was just out. We just went. Yeah, it was just out. A little plucky, pluggy. Plug it in.
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00:03:04
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Why do you say that? ah yeah I mean, you're not like, you're not crazy active on there. I log at least two movies a week now. Okay, but's fair that's I feel like that's more than the average person watches a movie, no? Two a week? Yeah. I don't know what the average person is anymore. I've lost sense of reality. Oh, dude, if I gave my dad a letterboxed account, he'd be, every five hours, he'd be logging a Hallmark movie.
00:03:33
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Which, let him live his truth. Yo, I might have to get him a letterboxed, dude. Fun fact, two two of the three Bumble dates I've won on recently, I either convinced to get a letterboxed or got a letterboxed. There you go. we're already I'm sorry, I already had a letterboxed, so. Shout out those girls that don't exist anymore. Yeah, actually, we're not gonna shout them out. Nevermind. Fuck you. I'm poor.
'It' as a Cultural Phenomenon
00:03:58
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So, yeah, we're reviewing it, 2017.
00:04:04
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Uh, this movie was maybe still is but iconic. I mean, it's for sure. One of the Stephen King adaptations remakes that, uh, really has done what we both love this movie. So yeah, it really grabbed the masses. If you're wondering Pennywise is now pop culture icon. Have you, have you seen the 1990 original?
00:04:33
Speaker
Yes. It's just it's just long. It's cringe. Yeah. Shout out Tim Curry. Oh, yeah. Tim Curry, the goat. Tim Scarsgard. Tim. I think it's Bill. Yeah, it is. Bill Scarsgard. Great. Arguably a more creepy Pennywise. Arguably what? More creepy. Oh, yeah. I mean, they really dig into that with this. Definitely makes my pee pee hard.
00:05:03
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whenever he's on the screen. Wow, okay. Okay. Very excited to see him as Nosferatu.
Pennywise Portrayals Compared
00:05:12
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Yeah, I'm actually, yeah, I'm super excited to see that. um That's like, I'm hyped for that movie. You gotta watch the OG. I do, and it's on, ah I just saw it on Prime last night, but I fell asleep because I was tired, not because I was trying to watch it. You might fall asleep watching it, I'm not gonna lie.
00:05:31
Speaker
Uh, no physical media pickups, unfortunately. Yeah. We both haven't really had time to go out or a desire. I've had a desire. I just haven't had time. Also, i like mine's time. So you didn't get the, the Walmart horse, the books that dropped. Oh, fuck. You fucking idiot. Why do I know?
00:05:55
Speaker
Yeah, you're right. All right. Yeah. So I got the Wolf Creek, uh, Walmart, Lionsgate steelbook. Oh, and in the clearance bin at Walmart, I found a 4k steelbook of the Robert Pattinson Batman movie. Oh, you didn't buy that, right? Yeah. Yeah. We've been, how many episodes have we been saying that snow pickups? Hey, it's all right, man. It's Wolf Creek. Good. Cause it's on prime and I thought about watching it.
00:06:22
Speaker
Fun fact, the only reason I bought it, I haven't seen it. ah But this is the first time it's ever been available on Blu-ray in the States. ah So I should probably get it. Yeah, probably. It's an Australian movie. And it was released on Blu-ray in Australia, but not US. It was only DVD. They have Aussies. ahusie Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. I love their Mad Max. Could I might? Bobby and such.
00:06:48
Speaker
So if you haven't seen it, 2017, which is possible. I mean, it's eight years old, but what are you doing? yeah It's yeah. Watch it. Gradually to see it. It's directed by Andy Moschetti, who also directed the the flash movie, which is just disgusting. I mean, I still haven't seen it. Is it bad? Like bad, bad.
Opening Scene Breakdown
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I've had a three and a half, but if I watched it again, I'd probably put it like a one. Dan Michael Keaton can't save it.
00:07:16
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Michael, there's a Michael Keaton scene in that movie that I think about often, but no. In a negative way? No, positive way. OK. How much is he in the movie? He's not in it till the last two acts. The first third, the first third, he's not in it. They do a lot of ah exposition setting stuff up before he gets in the movie, but he's once he's in it, he's in it. I'll buy it if it's ten dollars. Don't even stream it first. I don't. I just won't.
00:07:46
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It's on Netflix, yeah, stream it. Or it's on Mac, it's on one of those. ah Yeah, so Andy Machete directed this 2017 release, as we've said. Here is your cast. Jaden Martell plays but but but but but but Bill.
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ah Sophia Lillis plays Beverly Marsh. Jack Dylan Grazer plays Eddie. Finn Wolfhard that happens like twice in this movie. Uh, Finn Wolfhard plays Richie of stranger fame, straight. Wow. Of stranger things, stranger things fame. Jeremy Ray Taylor plays Ben Hanscom. Whatever. Uh, why, why Olaf play Stanley?
00:08:40
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chosen Jacobs. His name is chosen. And he was chosen by Pennywise plays Mike Hanlon. Bill Skarsgard as we mentioned plays Pennywise. Jackson Robert Scott plays Georgie.
00:08:53
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Nicholas Hamilton plays Henry Bowers. Look, can we take a minute? Nicholas Hamilton has a TikTok, social media account, whatever, where he makes like mixed drinks. It's very entertaining. Really? I enjoy it thoroughly. Yeah. That's awesome. I should follow him. um it is He's funny, and the drinks are interesting. Steven Bogart boger ah plays Mr. Marsh. Stuart Hughes plays Officer Bowers.
00:09:22
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And I'll shout out Jake Sim, who plays Belch Huggins. Yo, all time name. Oh, and then ah Katie Lyman plays Betty Ripsum. So there's that. And then ah that's basically your your main your main cast. So we'll get into it again. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert, we love this movie. We do also love this movie.
00:09:51
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Uh, the film opens in October of 1988. Bill and Georgie are hanging out in a bedroom. Bill's room. I don't know. Maybe they share it. It's not, they don't share it. It's Bill's room. Bill's room for sure. And Georgie wants to go outside and float this paper origami boat. Whoa. And Bill cannot go because he's sick. Sick. I'm pretty sure he's faking being sick.
00:10:22
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um I Mean he did say didn't you see me throwing up? Before maybe he's sick. I think they made his nose like a little red. I think they made him look sick kind of okay Maybe he's just not a very good fake coffer. He goes. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Well, he's a great fake stutter Hey and Bill's like we need the wax to wax the boat wax on wax off, you know, I'm saying baby yeah on mr. Miyagi Shut up, baby. No money. that The songs good
00:10:54
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ah So Geordi goes downstairs and the mom in the background, like just playing the piano. Yeah. So there's this really, I really liked that score, like that song that's playing. It's really creepy sure um when the movie opens and turns out the mom's playing it on piano. Shout out that mom. So when you're seeing Geordi and Bill in the room, Geordi writes a smile on the, on the window, like in the fog or steam. Yeah.
00:11:23
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And that'll come to play a little bit. team Steve. Steve? Oh, and before he sends him downstairs, I guess Bill or Georgie has a walkie talkie. Yeah. He goes, hey I guess the I guess the no argument the music is nice. I just think it's fucking weird as fuck that she's just sitting there like going at it while he's walking down. It's just kind of weird to sing.
00:11:52
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I don't know. I didn't like it. Okay. And Georgie goes downstairs and started thinking it's my TV, but ah super fucking dark. I really couldn't make out anything. Really? No, i but it might be my TV. Maybe. Also, I watch this at night, so there really is no like glare. That's strange, because I was watching it this morning, um and it looked perfectly. I could see everything going on.
00:12:19
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Oh, it's just the basement part that was not like the whole movie. But there's a jump scare with Bill and the walkie talkie. And Georgie sees like two lights that look like eyeballs. And he's flashes the flashlight over there. And surprise, surprise, it's just light bulbs. A big boom of ah thunder hits and George is like, fuck this, I'm out.
00:12:49
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I don't blame you. Basements are fucking scary, dude. Yeah, they are a little overplayed, but you know, this is a remake. So they're seeing home alone. Yeah, a long time ago. Give me big home alone vibes because Kevin doesn't like going into the basement because their furnace make sounds and it like lights up and kind of looks like a face. Sure. I like I said, it's a little overplayed, but I get this is an older film takes place in the 80s and shit. Yeah. And.
00:13:20
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Jordy runs back upstairs. Bill gives him the wax, but cut that trying to wax his fucking cock. What's going on?
00:13:31
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ah Georgie brings the wax to Bill and Bill waxes the boat. And this is when you hear his ah his stutter. And Georgie goes off in the iconic yellow jacket. I mean, it's just oh, iconic.
00:13:49
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and uh, he puts the boat like along the Sidewalk where like the water from the rain is flowing and He's following it and following it and he ducks his public works fence gate john that uh He ducks one and then smacks his head another one fucking
Pennywise's First Attack
00:14:11
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idiot Well, he's a little kid a fucking idiot No, cuz when no listen, all right when he's running towards it he died All right, he dodges the first one Okay, and then he can clearly see the second one so motherfucker when you get dodged under the first one Just look up and dodge the next one. Yeah, but he's a dumb little kid. Yeah, fuck him. All right just do Go around it. You don't like Georgie Fuck him
00:14:39
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I didn't expect you to get so be so passionate about that. I thought there were other things you'd be passionate about, not this footage. It just bothered me. All right. So the ah now that boat goes down the drain into the sewer.
00:14:52
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And, uh, I mean, this was like, I had anxiety about watching this scene in the theater. It still creeped me the fuck out, even sitting in my own apartment, watching it. Really? Yeah. It just, I don't like this. Not don't like it. Like it's bad. Like it makes me uncomfortable, which is the point. And Pennywise is in the drain. Hiya, Georgie.
00:15:19
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And he offers him a balloon and George is like, well, you know, I shouldn't talk to strangers. And he's like, well, I'm Pennywise. Pennywise? Me, Georgie. Georgie? Pennywise.
00:15:37
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And oh boy, it's gonna be an episode. And now they're now they're introduced and they cut to ah a neighbor nearby with her cat that can see Georgia just like sticking his head in the drain. right And Pennywise tells Georgia the circus blew, the storm blew the circus and Pennywise away.
00:16:03
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And he's like, can you smell the circus? And he said, we've got we've got peanuts, cotton candy, hot dogs and popcorn. Yes, yes. Popcorn pop pop. And they're laughing about the popcorn. It kind of Pennywise just stops laughing out of the blue. This is fucking creepy. Just gives him like this look and he's like,
00:16:34
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Yeah.
00:16:38
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He's got his like he's got a overbite or underbite. Something mouth wide open and there's a drool dripping down. And he shows him the balloon, which what's more iconic, the balloon or the jacket? I think it's the balloon. Yeah, for sure. balloon And he's like trying to lure Georgie in.
Character Introductions
00:17:02
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With the boat to.
00:17:04
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And then you get the but scene I'll never forget. He just fucking opened his mouth like way more open than ever it should be. And he just bites Georgie's arm off. Shout out. John's gone. John's gone.
00:17:21
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Shout out ah the Star Wars franchise. We just cut everybody's arm off from that fucking those movies. Oh, true. And you see.
00:17:33
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George is like trying to crawl away and Pennywise's arm just extends out and sucks him back in. Mr. Fantastic to his ass. That's true. And the neighbor sees the blood in the street and then just nothing happens. But I think that's part of like the, you know, how like kids go missing in the town. Like nobody cares. Yeah. Cause Pennywise is like controlling the adults, right? I think so. Yeah.
00:18:02
Speaker
Well, they can't because well, because they can't see them because they're not afraid. Right. But also if I saw blood in the street, I'd be like, I'd be a little concerned. Yeah. But can they see that? Can they see the blood, though? We don't know. We don't know. We'll get to that later. We there's a cool the title cards pretty cool. It's like a camera going through the sewers and coming out into the light and you get the title card of it. And we cut to June of 1989.
00:18:32
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And there's a guy, murder and cheap, essentially he's, he's, hor he's hurting them into a ah gate, a gated area. And we meet Mike, who is a young person, a young African-American. And that's actually important. He's standing there.
00:18:55
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holding the gun to this sheep's head and he can't do it. And this man who's not his father because Mike says he's not his father. I think it's his uncle. Does it for him. And he says this line and he's like, you can be out here like us or be in there like them. And he's like, but if you're them, you won't know till it hits you. Eat or get eaten. at Damn straight. You can eat me, daddy. ah Not him. Oh.
00:19:26
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And, uh, we cut to school and it's, uh, Bill, we meet Bill Stan. We already met Bill. We meet Stan and Eddie e and Richie, who are talking about going to Stanley's Bar Mitzvah. And, uh, Richie's like the comic relief here. And, uh, Rich is like, so what actually happens? Like they cut the tip of your dick off.
00:19:53
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And then you're like, where's the meat?
00:19:58
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And Stanley explains to them he has to read from the Torah. And they walked by this group of bullies. And Richie mentions that one of them took a hot dump at his backpack in March.
00:20:14
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And we follow the the boy that bumped into them is a female. Her name is Greta. She ain't got nothing on Janice. Damn. Yo, they kind of looks like they could be like sisters. True. But Greta is way more fierce and mean to me. True. And she walks into the bathroom and we meet Beverly, who is in there having a cigarette. She's like 14. What are you doing? dude Yeah. And Greta is banging on the door, calling her a slut, calling her trash. And they her and her little gang of girls dumped some garbage on her, but Bev and those was coming and had like a book over her head to block it. And we cut to a sign that's in front of the school that says curfew at 7 p.m. We learned it's the last day of school because, ah you know, Bill, Stan, Ed, and Richie are dumping their books in the garbage.
00:21:14
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ah And Richie says he wants to spend his summer training on Street Fighter. And Eddie's like, that's really why how you want to spend it inside. And Richie's like better than spending it inside your mom. but Just funny. This movie definitely has our sense of humor. And right. yeah Absolutely.
Friendship and Fear in Derry
00:21:36
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Stanley ah wants to go to the quarry, but ah Bill's like the barons. And this is really interesting because The scene where we'll talk about where Bill builds that street model or of like the tube with the barons, he spells it on their B A R R O N S. And the subtitles is B A R R E N S. Huh? Make it your mind. So who spells it wrong? Bill? I'm guessing the people who distributed my copy of it probably did it wrong, huh? Warner Brothers. Yeah, sure. I don't know.
00:22:14
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I don't know who it is. Yeah. And, uh, anyway, so it's the last day of school. They dumped their books in the trash and Betty, we meet Betty Ripsum's mom who is still standing outside waiting for a child. Like she's going to show up, but she's missing. Yeah. The kids talk about how she's missing and.
00:22:40
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Richie gets his backpack tug backwards and again he's like thrown into Stanley by is it Belcher or is it ah Henry it's Patrick Patrick tugs his backpack and They take, they take Richie's wallet. I think it's his wallet, right? No, it's, uh, it's a Stan's yarmulke. Oh, fuck. He takes Stan's yarmulke and he's like, nice frisbee flamer on a, on a, on a passing bus. And, uh,
00:23:23
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Belch burps right in Eddie's face. Hey, living up to his name.
00:23:30
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And, uh, Bill tries to talk some shit to Bowers, Henry Bowers, but he just can't get it out. Cause he's a stutter and they kind of get to a face to face, but Bowers season is peripheral, a cop pulling up who is his father. Uh, and instead just licks his hand and just puts it on Bill's face. Yeah. Uh, we cut to.
00:23:58
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Ben, who's a little tubby kid. It looks like me when I was young. And he's standing there with a paper mache of a landmark, I guess. Cause they actually show this in the movie, the actual like silo, whatever it is. And Bev's like, Hey kids, let's get out of my way. And he drives his art project. He's like a mess. And.
00:24:20
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she's like, oh, you know, I guess a bully is waiting for Ben somewhere and she sees that he's like a klutz and she's like, oh, you know, if you go this way, you'll avoid him. And Ben has some headphones on and he's listening to new kids on the block. Which is ironic because he is the new kid in school. He is the new kid on the block. Not the new kid on my cock. I don't think you want kids on your cock, dude.
00:24:51
Speaker
That'd be bad. So Bev listens to the new kids on the block and they kind of laugh about that. Not like laughing at them, but they laugh about it. And Bev signs Ben's yearbook, which has no signatures. I'm a fucking loser. And, uh, yeah. And, uh, she signs her name with a bunch of hearts. And then we follow Bill who is practicing speaking a certain phrase I didn't write down, but, uh, he can't stop stuttering and gets like pissed.
00:25:22
Speaker
And he walks into the garage where his dad's sanding some furniture. And the dad's like, fucking really, Bill? And we and we see that Bill's constructed like a ah replica model of like the sewers or the barons, I guess, is the sewer. Right. Yeah. He made it out of his poor hamsters, like tunnels. You ever have a hamster? Nah, you? No, never did. They're cute.
00:25:51
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, people put up their ass, right? That's gerbils, huh? Gerbils. Yeah. But I'm must pretty much the similar. I feel like if you want to like stretch your anus more, you'd probably go to a hamster to like, get a, if you want to stretch your hands you go to a guinea pig.
00:26:12
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And the dad's mad and Bill's trying to explain to him, like, You know, he must be over here. That's where he would have flushed. And he has like some water and he runs it through the the replica system. Yeah. He has like a little action figure he puts down the tube. That's Georgie. And the dad's like, he tries to be nice about it at first, but then he's like, dude, face it. He's dead. Yeah. And Bill's upset and he tells Bill to take them the model before his mother sees it. And the dad's like next to me, takes me from my office, ask, and he pulls this map down from the wall.
00:26:46
Speaker
I don't know what his father does that he has furniture and maps. Right? Is, are you a carpenter or are you like an architect worker for dairy? Also his mom is like just not in this movie. Like what happened to her? I never read the book. Sorry. She's just playing the piano. Don't read the book. It's probably a hot take. Yeah, probably, but it's so boring. We cut to Mike who delivers meat on his bicycle.
00:27:17
Speaker
Yo, is that a thing? I don't know. Drive drive by meat giver.
00:27:24
Speaker
And he sees Bowers and his little gang coming down the street. So he pulls off into a little alleyway. And there's this door to a building. I think it's a slaughterhouse. And smoke starts coming out of this door and hands start coming out of this door that'll like burn.
00:27:46
Speaker
charred and they're like calling his name. I wrote their burning and the door bus open and you see Pennywise through like these flaps of like a walk-in, right? And those flaps, if you're wondering, they keep the cold air in the hot air out, right? Who doesn't know that ah people don't work in a restaurant or a grocery store. Okay. Uh,
00:28:12
Speaker
Pennies, Pennywise is hanging there like, from a noose and he waves and his eyes light up and a car almost runs over Mike and Mike looks up and nothing ever happened. It's just a segment. It's yeah, it's Bowers and his goons and he Bowers flick something at him. us I figure, out right? Oh, okay. And then he's like, get the fuck out of my town. So that's where you learn Henry Bowers is racist.
00:28:44
Speaker
We cut to Stanley who's practicing his tour reading and he just can't do it. And ah the man there's like this man who's on a level above him listening to him read and he's like, yeah, you fucking suck, dude. He goes, go put the book back since you're not using it. And there's a creepy-ass painting in this, I guess he's a priest or whatever he is. Rabbi, right? Probably a rapist. What? Have you seen Spotlight? The fuck is that?
00:29:13
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It's a movie that exposed, uh, it's like, uh, was that a documentary? No, it's, um, but it's based on a true story. Uh, Mark Ruffalo is in it and it follows these writers that expose a ah pedophile church, rapey ring in the Boston area. It's very, very good.
00:29:32
Speaker
Oh yeah. Okay. I'll add, I'll add that to my watch list because anything, uh, deteriorating the name of the church I'm down with. but It's good. And he, for some reason is just like staring at it and then goes to adjust the painting, which he just makes it more crooked. And he walks away to put the book on the ship on the shelf and the painting falls off the wall.
00:30:00
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So then he ah walks over very slowly, proceeds to pick it back up, hangs it up, and the lady in the painting is gone. I hate this bitch, yo. This bitch scary as shit. She's creepy, man. She gives me the nun vibes. Oh, for sure. That movie sucks, but big nun vibes. I've never actually seen it. I just know it sucks. Don't. Yeah.
00:30:25
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ah
00:30:28
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The so he's like, what the fuck? And you hear the door creak and the lady is like right behind him. Yeah, it runs out of. Oh, she's playing a flute, by the way. That's
Stanley's Hallucination
00:30:40
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what that's what you hear. The door opens and then you're like. And then in the background, you see her. like Thank you. And then you see her drop her flute and then Stan turns around and she runs at him and then he gets the fuck up out of there.
00:30:55
Speaker
We're in, we cut to Eddie's house. Eddie, Eddie. If you're, oh, by the way, anybody that's wondering why we're doing that, if you haven't seen Venom, go watch Venom. Which we got in a pretty heated debate about Venom. That's true. But I'm, ah you were right. ah We're in Eddie's house who loves, I don't know if he loves his mom that much, but his he's very aware of his mom's rules. Yeah.
00:31:23
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And he tells Bill and Richie to take all the snacks, except for a particular one that his mom likes. and there they're going to the barons and Richie finds birth control and Eddie tells him he's saving him for Richie's sister. Which is funny. And they're on their way out the front door and when you pass, you know, it's like a hallway to the front door and there's a little room off to the left where you can see the front door and it's like the living room or the den, whatever. And Eddie's mom is sitting there and she's like, where are you going? And, you know,
00:31:58
Speaker
Eddie has nothing to say and Bill tries to tell him, Oh, you know, I got a new, and he's like, bet, bet, bet, bet, bet, bet, bet, bet. And then Richie's like, it's a new croquet set. And, uh, Eddie makes, or Eddie's mom makes him kiss her goodbye, which they make fun of him for. Eddie's like, can I have one too? Or Richie, Richie's like, can I have one too? And I was, and she warns him about allergies. Yeah. Don't roll in the grass, especially if it's been cut. Freshly cut grass.
00:32:29
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And we cut to the library where Ben is writing some poetry down on a card. Winter embers and whatever. whatever It's poetry is gay. Winter embers and January fucking things. I don't fucking know.
00:32:48
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Yeah. And this library is nice as fuck. He looks outside and there you see the little boys passing by on bikes and the librarian drops off a book and she makes it a point to be like, it's fucking weird that you're still here. You're not outside. It's summer. Also, I was thinking about that when I watched this again, they're in a small town. This library is like the size of our high school library. Maybe it's like I'm also a public library. Right. But maybe it's like a a double, a double decker.
00:33:18
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double-decker pecker record. That's what I thought you were gonna say. And she dropped off this book and Ben's flipping through and it's like the history of dairy, the town they're in, if you guys don't know that already. And it gets pretty dark. There's like the dairy works, iron explosion. There's a picture of a child hanging from a tree that like you don't see, like he's flipping these pages and adventures like kids had.
00:33:47
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And he slams his book shut. It's like, what the fuck? And when he closes the book, it pans to a newspaper that is talking about Betty Ripsom that she still hasn't been found. And then this random red balloon just floats through the library into like this lower level basement vibe. I wonder who the balloon belongs to.
00:34:09
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This fat fucking Twinkie follows it over there. ah kill And he sees an egg. ah That's like steaming. I don't know what this resembles. Why is there eggs? Oh, because when the explosion happened, it was their Easter egg hunt. All right. Well, I fucked that up. Sorry, dude. And he's following these eggs downstairs and.
00:34:38
Speaker
The little boy from the picture in the book walks down the stairs with no head. yeah and this is where and I don't know if this is iconic, but it is to me. You hear Pennywise, and it's Pennywise, and he starts chasing
Ben's Library Encounter
00:34:57
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Ben. and Ben slams right into a librarian.
00:35:01
Speaker
and uh beats out of school and bowers is waiting for him he goes where are you going tits it's pretty good and ben sees him and he keeps running but there's another bully right there that grabs him and this is fucking cruel man i mean this is some next level this is why i think the bullying in birch terabithia so god damn light because Yeah, there's bullying and then there's this there's assault. Yeah, they bring him by this bridge and One of the bullies I I don't have his name written somewhere that uh, he has like a lighter in some like Patrick or something Patrick
00:35:41
Speaker
Goes to like he's like spraying it like a flamethrower and They're like holding them down this car passes by this couple in it and they just look at him and they just keep going And as they pass by a balloon floats up in the back of the car you see in the rear view. Yeah Bowers punches the shit at it. I mean he just beats the fuck out of him poor kid, man ah And he goes to carve his name into this fat kid's stomach. and He's like I'm gonna carve my name into this cottage cheese And even his friends are like dude what the fuck you doing man, it's fucked up ah and Ben kicks him and rolls Like off the fence and down this hill and they're like go fucking chase him And as they're tumbling down the hill Bowers loses his knife and
00:36:34
Speaker
He mentions his father would be pissed. And he sends the other two, Patrick and whoever, to chase Ben. And little do we know, Ben is running like basically like into the barons essentially. Right.
00:36:50
Speaker
ah We cut to the the kids and Stanley is, they's they're standing at the barons and Stanley's saying, that's poison ivy and that's poison ivy and that's poison ivy. And Eddie is also because his mom's such a germaphobe, he's also a little spooked.
00:37:08
Speaker
And this is when Richie tells them that but Eddie's mom used to see me toilet paper as his mother's he probably has crabs ah Bill is like knee-deep into this tunnel and he finds Betty rips some shoe and they had you know, Bill and Richie are gonna go in there and they have this debate Eddie and Stanley don't want to go in and Stanley like, you know, it's a summer time. We're supposed to be having fun and be outside and And that's when, you know, they're they're kind of going at each other like arguing. And that's when Ben like stumbles in. So I do want to say ah one of my favorite lines in the movie, ah Eddie's talking and saying that ah they're stepping in gray water.
00:37:55
Speaker
And if you're in it, it can give you a staff infection. And then Richie grabs a giant stick and puts it where his dick and he's like, I'll show you a staff infection. Yeah, it's fucking good. Also what kid writes their names on the inside of their shoe?
00:38:11
Speaker
It's a different time, dude, I don't know. And Patrick, we cut to Patrick, who has a flamethrower, and that's the only source of light, so you kind of like see flashes of him. And he goes, I hear you tits. I'm trying to find Ben. And you hear these voices saying, you found us, Patrick. And the reveal is it's these dead missing kids. So it's like Betty rips them, and their faces are like mutilated.
00:38:40
Speaker
And he tries to escape. I believe he does a 180 and runs back the way he came. Yeah, but it leads to a dead end. Right. And this these mutilated children are getting closer to him.
Patrick's Fate
00:38:55
Speaker
And then a balloon appears and it spins and you read. I love dairy. I love that. And it pops and it's Pennywise. ah So he's dead. Yeah, I wrote Rip Patrick.
00:39:07
Speaker
Right. And because we cut back to the boys and because Ben is all carved up, they go to a first, they would to get first aid from like a CVS type beat. And it's a funny line here. Eddie's freaking out. and He's like, how do you amputate a waste? This old middle part out.
00:39:28
Speaker
And, uh, the boys go into the store, they they leave Ritchie with Ben and Ritchie says to Ben, I'm glad I got to meet you before you died. like don know Yeah. Richie's my favorite character. He is. He's so funny.
00:39:42
Speaker
Uh, and, uh, the, the boys are in this aisle and they have no money, but Eddie's mom has an account on file there. And I don't know. You probably already know this cause you're a little more into this than I am, but the pharmacist, I guess in the book is a pedophile, right? Yeah. Okay. And, uh, we cut to, to Bev who's looking for some tampons, which I'm guessing is embarrassing for girls to do.
00:40:10
Speaker
Yeah, this might be her first one or something. Who knows, you know, I equate to like when you gotta go buy condoms and you can't like you shelf checkout Yeah, I mean I did the bad thing and bought him off some kid at school. So that's right. Don't do that buying from school. I Bought mine a Haniford. Whoa Anyways, shout out Haniford. You're way too expensive, but whatever So Bev grabs these tampons and she goes to the next lane over over and the boys are standing there and they're like, hello. And she like hides her tampons cause she's embarrassed. Right. And they're like basically asking her to help them get this shit out. They're like, we got this guy out there who's pretty much dead, but we don't have enough money to buy all this stuff.
00:40:56
Speaker
And I think from this is the only thing the movie that I don't love is they make it very obvious from the jump that Bill is like over the moon in love with this girl. It's like love at first sight for him. But it's not love at first sight because they kissed in third grade when they were playing doing a play. Yeah, but maybe he's still harboring those feelings. Right. Who knows? Because they talk about that. You're right. It's probably of the next scene.
00:41:24
Speaker
ah But bill tries to offer bed like a crumpled dollar like a fall ah And we so Bev goes up to the pharmacist and she's like, I love your classes. You look like Clark Kent And she dropped she like pushed something off the desk like innocently and he turns around and go get it and the boys sneak out yeah, but before that like she he put like the Pharmacist puts the glasses on bev and like kind of like winks at her and is like you look like Lois Lane Yeah, that was it was fun fucking weird disgusting. Yeah ah The actor that plays that part plays it Well, he does a good job a little too. Well a little too. Well, yeah
00:42:11
Speaker
And we cut back outside to the to the gang. I don't know who says that. I think it's Richie, but he's like, you got to suck the womb before you bandage it. Because Eddie's the one giving him first aid. And ah Bill invites Bev to the quarry tomorrow. And I don't know why I wrote this book. Bev's rumor is that she's a slut. Yeah, that's a rumor that's going around. Yeah. So we follow Bev home. And she sneaks by her father, who is who was sleeping, but he sees her and she's holding a bag and he's like, what do you got? And she's like, he's like, tell me what it is. And he like touches her face and she's like terrified. Yeah, he's like almost crying. Yeah, he's like, ah tell me you're still my little girl. Yeah, that shit fucked up, just dark. Dark shit. Bev goes to the bathroom and cuts the hair off that he touched.
00:43:07
Speaker
She ain't having it. She was very upset. She's like long hair before this and then she had like basically a bob. Not quite a Bob Jason. Yeah, she rocks it. She rocks it. Uh. We cut to the boys at the quarry, like essentially cliff jumping and they're having a loogie contest. Yeah, see, that's where it works. Uh, they're all wearing tighty whities, which is interesting.
00:43:34
Speaker
It was the eighties. Yeah. And, uh, Bev shows up and like undresses and they're like, jaws dropped. Huh? Like I've never seen a girl ever. I've never seen a girl this undressed in my life. And she runs off the clip and jumps in first. And I think it's Richie. He's like, holy fuck.
00:43:59
Speaker
And, uh, they go swim around in the, the Corey Lake pond, whatever it is. and ah Bill and Bev share eye contact or something. And then they're all like getting dried off and they're just all staring at Bev laying out on this rock. Yeah. They're like, whoa. Yeah. And someone starts looking through Ben's stuff and they see all the newspaper clippings of the mass deaths. And Bev is actually interested in this, like when they start talking about this.
00:44:32
Speaker
And Ben shares that ah people in dairy disappear six times the national average. And it's even worse for kids. Right. Fuck them kids. Basically, it's just fuck them kids. Yeah, fuck them kids. Not in a sexual way. Never. And they decide, we're going to go to Ben's house to look at more shit. And he's got stuff hung up everywhere, like missing signs for Patrick, that flamethrower dude.
00:45:01
Speaker
And there's just clips of like all this stuff. He's like really digging into this This is This is Staff infection. I'm sad and write down. This is like my next favorite line after that ah Ben shares that dairy started as a beaver trapping camp and and Richie goes still is right boys that he puts his hand up for a high-five and nobody highfives them no one likes And that the 91 people that started in this beaver trapping camp all vanished. And ah all there was left was a trail of like bloody clothes to the well house.
00:45:39
Speaker
ah And then there's a ah second where Bev kind of walks away from them like in and she's just checking out Ben's room and she like closes his door. And there's the new kits on the block coaster. Yeah, and they like smile about that.
00:45:54
Speaker
So we cut to Eddie walking home solo. and He's playing like the flute. I don't know. He's like whistling. He's doing fucking something, man. And he passes by this run ass down house. That's like. On knee bolt street. Knee bolt. And this remember that animated movie? What is it called? Monster House? Monster House. Big Monster House vibes. Oh, for sure. And he is obviously creeped out by it.
00:46:25
Speaker
and his watch starts going off, which I guess means it's time to start taking his pills. And he spills his pillbox all over the ground and he picks up a couple of them and then a hand reaches down and picks up one and it's a ah leper, which I never really knew what a leper was until I watched this two days ago. It's like when you get leprosy. It's like a gross fucking human being. Yeah. The leprosy kind of like eats away at your flesh and shit.
00:46:54
Speaker
ah having weird ass things in like I think it's Africa ah but they the leper is completely a nice practical effect here yeah absolutely looks great and he chases him into this into the yard of the house and Eddie runs in like hits up not hits a fence like gets to a fence and he turns back and
Eddie's Fear
00:47:21
Speaker
it's Pennywise with a bunch of balloons ah And the iconic line of, you'll float down here too, we all do. We all float down here. And we cut back to Ben's place and he slipped that little poetry he wrote into ah Bev's backpack, which when Bev gets home, she goes into the bathroom, just like flop pops a squat on ah in the tub.
00:47:55
Speaker
Taking a shit. What's going on? Locks the door. And she starts reading it. Oh, I wrote down the poem. Should I read it? Sure. Your hair is winter fire. January embers. My heart burns there too. And she thinks it's ah very sweet. And she hears some i'm whispering. And it's coming from the sink. So.
00:48:22
Speaker
The sync scene here, ah way better than the sync scene in Fire to the 13th. It's true. It's true. And it's like a POV from the sync drain of her like sticking her face over it. And it's the voices of the missing kids. And they're telling her to help us help them. And they all float down there again. And she goes and grabs a tape measure.
00:48:49
Speaker
which she has to sneak by her sleeping father again. And I believe it goes down 24 feet. Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck is that? What that throat do. what And also what tape measure goes 24 feet? That was my question. Which one? I don't have that one. No, I got one that goes maybe like 12, right? how am i goodnna How am I going to measure my dick if I don't have a 24 foot measuring tape? Exactly.
00:49:19
Speaker
So she slowly retracts it and the tip, just the tip, has like blood and hair on it. And the hair grabs her, like by the arm at first and then like grabs her by the head and starts pulling her closer and closer to the sinkhole. Give me a hit. Give me a hit. And then it just starts shooting out blood and like a lot of blood, like Evil Dead 2013 blood.
00:49:47
Speaker
Right, which is very, you know. Telling because she well, scary, but because she was ah getting the tampons earlier, it kind of all connects. Sure, I didn't actually make that connection. That's a that's yeah, that makes a lot of sense. She's freaked the fuck out, starts screaming, wakes her dad up who comes upstairs and it becomes apparent to her that he does not see anything she's seeing.
00:50:12
Speaker
Right. Like I was saying earlier with the adults in dairy, she was saying, but look look at all the blood. And he's like, what blood? So none of the adults can see anything that Pennywise is doing. Yeah. And he's just upset that she cut her hair. She's like, Oh, you look like a boy. He walks away and we cut to Bill who's fallen asleep, but there's a drawing. He's drawing Bev.
00:50:44
Speaker
What? Fix your fucking roof, Bill. But this isn't a, this is made up. He's seeing this. It wasn't actually leaking. This is Pennywise making him up. Yeah, for sure. Water, it was raining when Georgie got fucking taken. It's not, I don't think it's, the roof is broken. I think it's just he, Pennywise is playing tricks. Okay. ah So Bill gets up and,
00:51:14
Speaker
he hears something in Georgie's room and he goes in there and he like has a moment in Georgie's room and he grabs this Lego turtle, John. like And he hears some or sees some footsteps and he follows it into the kitchen and it's ah he sees Georgie, which causes him to, you see like a slow mo of him like dropping this Lego and like shattering the floor. And this is actually one of my favorite scenes in the film.
00:51:43
Speaker
ah He goes down into the basement which now is flooded which is the work of Pennywise and Georgie's in the corner and he like slowly comes out he's wearing a hood These were the yellow coat obviously and he's like I i lost the the boat don't be mad and again you get hit with the come with me you'll float too and this fucking just demented laughter and
00:52:11
Speaker
Pennywise comes out of the water and you can make that your background on letterbox. Oh, that's sick, dude. It is so menacing. I just think that really what it comes down to is Pennywise looks so scary. Like the makeup work is just so good. Pennywise looks kind of cute here. No cap. Cute, huh? All right. A little wet hair. A little white white t-shirt contest. Oh, yeah, dude. Show me them clown titties.
00:52:40
Speaker
And, uh, all right.
00:52:45
Speaker
I think he, he chases him, right? Or bill just runs away. Bill runs up the stairs and Penny wise, like kind of like tries to grab him, but then he like falls and slithers deck back down into the water.
00:52:59
Speaker
We cut to bev who is sitting on like their fire
The Bloody Bathroom Scene
00:53:02
Speaker
escape, uh, traumatized boys get there and she's like, I want you guys to come see this. And Richie is again, left to wait outside. And, uh, Eddie's freaking out about like bacteria and fungi. He's not a fun guy. Although he is kind of funny.
00:53:27
Speaker
Yeah. ah Boys, the boys can see the blood and there's just like montage of them cleaning up all his fucking blood in her bathroom. And while they're like finishing cleaning up, Ben like just snoops over into Bev's room, which is fucking creepy. Yeah. Stop it, dude. And when he leaves, it leaves Bill and Bev in the bathroom together.
00:53:52
Speaker
And they're just standing there and she's like, you know, I'm not actually a slut. Yeah, I didn't actually suck all those dicks. They say I did. She doesn't say that. ah And she starts saying the poem and Bill's like, huh, I don't understand poetry.
00:54:13
Speaker
And so that's a little bit embarrassing.
00:54:19
Speaker
While they're so then after that they're on bikes and they're all biking down the street and Bill tells the group that he saw Georgie, but it wasn't actually Georgie, but he seemed so real And I think this is where they all kind of say I saw so I saw Well, not yet. Yeah, it is that is okay. I'll mention that they've all seen the clown and Rich is like I guess only virgins can see it but fuck up And they notice ah Belch Huggins car and Mike's bike like off to the side
00:55:02
Speaker
and Bev's like we have to go help him obviously and this scene was pretty cool, too. Yeah, I liked it they you know Bowers Belgian gang are beating the shit out of Mike and Mike kind of looks over. and He just he's penny wise chewing on a hand He uses the hand to like wave at him. It's so funny Yeah ah Henry gets on top of Mike pause and he's about to beat the shed with this rock, but he gets nailed in the head. And, uh, this starts a rock war. Right. Which I guess is iconic, huh? Yeah, it's pretty cool. Shout out Belch for wearing a Metallica shirt here. Shout out to him.
00:55:53
Speaker
They end up, the the kids end up winning the rock war. Mike is now with them on their side, obviously. And he tells Bowers a really funny line. ah Go blow your dad, you mullet-wearing asshole. We find out after this that another kid, Eddie Cochran, not Cochran, is missing. Yeah, it's ah I think it's 4th of July, right? They're having a 4th of July parade. And in the background, there's a movie theater and it's playing Batman from 1989.
00:56:24
Speaker
Good movie. Fucking phenomenal. And they point out that because now Eddie Cochran is missing, Betty Lipsman has just been forgotten. And I forgot what this means, but I wrote tuba. I think Richie's trying to play the tuba in the background. He steals some guy's tuba. It's just. And Ben starts going on this explanation and Bill like chimes in that these tragedies happen every 27 years.
00:56:52
Speaker
And Mike tells the group that his grandfather believes the town is cursed. And if this one thing entity, it feeds off of dairy. And I just started there. I was weird. Mike says it's all what they fear most. Come on.
00:57:12
Speaker
Oh, I might have to bleep that. Yeah. Stanley shared that he said a lady And Richie asked if she was hot. He was like, no, he's not fucking hot. ah And Mike shares that his parents, when he was younger, were trapped in a burning building. And they were banging on the door for him to save them. And he made it out. And they didn't. And this is where they asked Richie what his fear is. And his fear is clowns. And they turned to like a pavilion of like there's like some clown doing some kind of bullshit for this festival. And then this scene's also like,
00:57:52
Speaker
Iconic top five. Yeah, for sure. I just wrote the projector scene, but too it's so good. ah They're looking at the sewage maps on a projector, which remember those. Yeah, they used to have those in school. Right. And they determined that everything leads back to that creepy house on Neibolt Street. And Eddie shares that he was there and saw a leper ah And he's freaking the fuck out and they I think that it's like the map and they put the sewer over the map So you can like see the sewer lines as well, right? And then the projector just keeps going mind of its own Sound like you were sucking dick a little bit there And there's a picture of Bill's family and his mom who you don't you only see playing the piano m at one time ah Her hair is like blowing in the wind
00:58:49
Speaker
And as it blows back her, fit oh, it zooms in on Georgie as well. Her face turns into Pennywise, which is terrifying.
The Projector Scare
00:58:59
Speaker
Yeah. It looked really fucking scary. And Bev's like, turn the shit off and Mike kicks it, which in theory should have worked. Yeah. Those things must've been indestructible. And the projector keeps going and then like, all right, it's off.
00:59:16
Speaker
Well, like it stopped. It stopped. It ran on a film to put up and then Pennywise jump scare comes out of the projector. And this is fucking. Horrifying in the theater, dude, with the loud ass sound that shit hit. Dude, but in my fucking apartment, it hit. I was like, God damn. And the only way they get rid of them is they open the garage. And they're all petrified and fucking bill is like we have to go to that house now to find georgie that's why he wants to go to the house and they're all like are you fucking crazy man rich is like come on now it's summer and bill's like if you say it's summer one more fucking time so bill leaves like yeah if y'all ain't coming i'm just gonna go he goes and he here's the saying he's trying to recite he thrust his fist against the post and he just can't do it
01:00:11
Speaker
ah He gets to the house and the gang of kids end up like right behind him and he gives this speech like hey We got to go find Georgie and all I see when I go home is that Georgie's not there and He goes turn around and Richie points out that he didn't stutter once when he gives that little spiel
01:00:31
Speaker
So they they go in a little funny one-liner from Richie here. And he's like, I can't believe I pulled the short straw to go in this fucking blaze. And he's like, two of them are measuring dicks. And Eddie's freaking out, obviously, because it's all fucking dirty. And Richie gets pulled away and sees a missing poster with his face on it. And he freaks the fuck out. And Bill kind of has his whole jaw on already figured out and explains that like it's a trick. It's all fear.
01:01:01
Speaker
And this is a pretty intense scene. They hear a voice from upstairs, and they go upstairs, and they just see Betty's fate or like from her like chest up, like laying in the hallway. And she gets dragged. And obviously Pennywise is trying to divide and conquer here. So he pulls Eddie away. And the floor from beneath him gets like breaks, just like crumbles. So he falls.
01:01:32
Speaker
He has an inhaler too, I wrote that here for some reason. And like you say, he falls, he breaks his arm. Really nasty too. Yeah, when he wakes, when he comes back and his arm is like, ugh, yeah, it's gross. so ah The door closes, which separates them, and A sees the the leper which causes him to fall.
01:01:58
Speaker
or he he faints basically and falls through this floor. And there's the three doors, the not scary at all. Scary, very scary. Which one are you choosing? Well, I think the obvious answer is very scary because why would he put the not scary at all one? That's like a trick. I think they picked the wrong one. Absolutely. Richie like wanders off into this room.
01:02:20
Speaker
where he hears his name and that's a bunch of these statues. This is fucking crazy. And the door closes behind him and all the statues when he first looks at it, they're all covered. And when the door closes, he turns back around. They're all it's revealed. They're all clowns. And there's a coffin at the end of the room that says found blood. And the missing posters there. And there's a doll of Eddie in the coffin. He's like dead, dead doll, dead doll.
01:02:51
Speaker
Pennywise pops out he goes beep beep Richie. Yeah, so that's a reference to The book and the original movie. Yeah, so whenever Richie would say some stupid like stupid shit out of pocket They would tell him they would say beep beep Richie and that's basically telling them shut the fuck up. Oh I didnt know that's a little fact
01:03:15
Speaker
And, uh, so Bill's in the other room with the three doors and Eddie's head pops out of a mattress. He's like, you want to play Lugi? And there's just always like liquid blood goo just spills out of his mouth. It's all black and shit. It looks like tar. Yeah.
01:03:34
Speaker
And we cut to Eddie who was unconscious and he ah he wakes up and sits up and his arm is fucking broken. And Pennywise unfolds himself out of this closet. It's a fridge. Is it a fridge? Yeah, they're in the kitchen. And Eddie can't breathe. Because he's fucking like, it's Pennywise. He's having a panic attack.
01:03:59
Speaker
And he tries to smack Pennywise. And Pennywise is like, you smack me. And he like cra his hand and he like fakes like he's going to eat his hand. So Bill and Richie are open to not scary at all door. And it's Betty Ripson just cutting half chain to the the walls. She's like screaming. And Pennywise is literally about to eat Eddie.
01:04:29
Speaker
But Bill and Richie realize it's all fake and they open the door again. It's like it opens like the rest of the house. And they come downstairs to see Pennywise getting ready to snack on Eddie.
01:04:41
Speaker
And they're like, no, Pennywise charges that at them and Bev out of nowhere. You're stabbing through the fucking head. Yeah. Like a spear. I don't know what the fuck this was a metal spike. Uh, so it's at the walkway of the house. There's like these metal fence posts and that's what it is.
01:05:02
Speaker
And then I just feel like Ben got like the shortest end of the stick here. Like Pennywise is fucked up and he just slices Ben's stomach open. ah Yeah. Like why do you keep picking on this fucking kid? And he goes downstairs and Bill follows him. We see Pennywise going to a well. And after all this happens, Bill is still like, yo, we got to go. Like we got to go back and get him. And they're like, you're fucking crazy. So Fritchy tries to snap Eddie's arm back into place, which is like, the fuck you doing?
01:05:31
Speaker
And Eddie's mom is already outside. And she even called, she's like, I don't want your your this dirty girl hanging out with my son. And she says all the kids are monsters.
01:05:44
Speaker
ah And those like all right, let's go. Let's go fucking let's go get this clown. They're like fucking nuts, dude And Ben is just like yeah, we have to go back in and get it. Yeah Richie's like Richie's like and look at Ben. He's a leaking hamburger helper Yeah, and Ben is not for going back in he's like in 27 years. I won't even fucking be here I'll be 40 and be gone and Richie mentions in conversation, looks like an argument that Georgie's dead and Bill's like, and like really pisses Bill off. And he tells him to take it back. And he doesn't. And then ah Bill punches him in the face.
01:06:27
Speaker
sure the schnas Everyone leaves, then there's just Bill and Bev standing there. And then it's like a that's like the gang kinda like is ah disassembled. And it just cuts like seeing what everybody's doing. And like Bev is sitting in her tub, playing like a keyboard. Stanley's at his bar mitzvah and Richie's there. And he's reciting his Torah. Ben's just reading books by himself. And Bill is at a dinner table pondering life.
01:06:54
Speaker
And Mike is like, I killed his sheep. No fucking problem. He's fucking shot that bitch, huh? That's it, dude. He's ready to go. Uh, the next scene is it's August now. And Henry's in his yard and he's shooting these bottles with his dad's gun. And he wants to shoot a cat and both like, are you sure? He's about to shoot it. And his dad cop is when you learn his dad is like the, his cop, the cop is his father. And, uh, Henry doesn't look at him.
01:07:23
Speaker
and uh the cops like you think you're big and big and tall with this and he shoots the ground around him and he points out to his friends like look how fucking scared he is a little bitch it's fucked up and he walks off and we cut to eddie the pharmacy uh with a cast on now because he broke his arm and he gets a refill on his meds and greta who is we learn is the pharmacist daughter tells Eddie his medicine's all placebo. And he's like, what's placebo mean? And she's like, they're like fucking sugar pills. Yeah, they're like, it's bullshit. ah And she goes, no one signed your cast, huh? And she signs his cast for him, which we don't find out what it says till later.
01:08:11
Speaker
We come back to Henry, who's like, they're just like all sitting by his car. And he hears kids laughing in the distance, and he just walks out over to his His mailbox has a balloon on it and he opens the mailbox and there's a ah box inside. What's in the box? What's in the box? Uh, he opens the box and it is the knife he lost when he was trying to carve his name into bed. So Henry goes into inside his dad's asleep on the couch and there's some like kids program on TV. Right.
01:08:46
Speaker
And this lady on the TV is like chanting, like, kill him. Walks over to his dad and like it's one of those knives where he pressed the button and it extends. So he has it up against his throat and he presses the button and stabs his dad right in the neck. Blood starts like squirting everywhere. And ah I like to think that this is the prequel to Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer.
01:09:10
Speaker
but okay it's a interesting that name is henry Yeah, it's a joke but then ah Pennywise is on the TV screen Right and he's like kill them all yeah We cut to bev who is trying to get out of the house again her dad catches her and the dad points out that she looks prettied up and that He's worried about her and he's hard to can run around these boys And she's like, are you he's like, are you doing womanly things with them in the woods? Which is crazy. They're like 13. And he's holding the poem that Ben wrote in the and he said he found it in her underwear drawer. She's like, why is it in that drawer specifically? I mean, ah of any place my dad would look, it'd probably be a underwear drawer, I'd imagine. But I guess your dad's a pervert. Do you have your underwear and socks in the same drawer? Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good.
01:10:09
Speaker
and he's like, tell me you're still daddy's girl, and she kicks him to nards, locks herself in the bathroom, and he kicks the door in, and he's like, all right, where's she gonna be? And he pulls back the shower curtain, and she smacks the shit out of him. I think it's the top of the toilet. Yeah, that little lid, John, on the toilet. Little John, and his head's cracked open, she's looking at him, and then there's a jump scare of Pennywise right behind her, and he just grabs her. Snatched.
01:10:39
Speaker
Snatched I actually do write snatches are right there. Here you go Bill ends up at a at Bev's house. I guess he's gonna go talk to her or something and he sees all the What went on just then and Pennywise left him a note in blood and he's like if you uh, if you you die if he tries what it says on her like across her ceiling and And Bill goes to see Richie, who's playing Street Fighter, as he said. And he's like, they got Bev. And Richie, at first, he's not on board. Then like he's like, all right, we got to go get her. Right.
01:11:20
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ah They call A. And this is when you realize that Greta signed Eddie's cast loser. But over the S, he puts a V for lover.
01:11:35
Speaker
And they're about to leave and the mom wants to know where Eddie's going. And that's when Eddie calls around her bullshit and he calls the placebos gazebos. Yeah. So basically what Eddie's mom has is called Munchausen by proxy. That's what happened to that girl. It was in the news like last year. Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
01:11:56
Speaker
Yeah. Shout out to her, I guess. Yeah, shout out. Even though she's on a fucking downward spiral. Anyway, Munchausen by Proxie is basically gaining attention by seeking medical help for exaggerated or made up symptoms of a child in their care. Sounds about right. Yep. I copy and paste it from Google. So he runs off and everybody's on a bikes. And this is when Eddie, ah I was trying to write Yeats, but it put Meats.
01:12:26
Speaker
He yeets his ah fanny pack like over the fence because in the beginning when they're ah patching up Ben, they point out that he has a two fanny packs and ah it it pans over to Bower. So they're at the house on knee bolt and if they're going in the house and it pans pans over to Bowers who's watching them going to the house.
01:12:47
Speaker
And ah they go before they go into the well, Bill's like, we have to stay together.
Confrontation with Henry Bowers
01:12:52
Speaker
That's the best way to do this. And they rappelled down this wall of like the well. And we cut to Bev, who is awoken by blood dripping on her face. And this is, I i guess, an iconic scene. I wrote that this was your favorite scene.
01:13:12
Speaker
because i yeah Because I remember when we first saw this, I sent you a gif of this upcoming part and you're like, oh, don't send that shit creeps me out. Oh, yeah. I mean, it still is kind of creepy, isn't it? Yeah. So when Bev wakes up, she sees like the Pennywise, the dancing clown signs, like it's like the circus. And there's a I wrote pile, but pile is not do it. Dush this. It's like a fucking tower. Yeah. Tower of all the snatched kids.
01:13:39
Speaker
ah Some are floating and she tries to escape but obviously can't get out. And this is when we hear like that circus-y music. do do really do do And it the these currents pull back or whatever and it's Pennywise doing that fucking weird-ass dance. yeah His head's not moving but his body is. And the music distorts which makes it all the more creepy.
01:14:05
Speaker
And he grabs her, and he opens his mouth. You see those little lights in the back of his throat? Yeah, dead lights. And her eyes go pretty blank, and she floats. And then we cut back to the kids who are rappelling on the well. And Mike is like going to be the last one down. He's like helping everybody in. And Henry comes out of nowhere and smacks the shit out of fucking Mike. Poor Mike, dude.
01:14:36
Speaker
ah This guy I'm texting About work Carlos who listens to the podcast. He just texted me. I'll suck you for five bucks behind an ExxonMobil Shout out to you Carlos. I'm gonna keep this in or not but He smacks a shit out of a at a mic and He kind of gets on top of him and you you see Henry's face. He's covered in blood, right? Oh And Henry's about to shoot him with the like gun that Mike uses to kill the sheep and Mike has some fucking reflexes man some really good anticipation and like pushes the gun as he shoots it and He smacks bows this fucking rock and he put me like spears. I'm almost down the well shadow edge shout out to edge on this day I
01:15:29
Speaker
And the the kids are in some hole, like within the well, it's like a tunnel. And they see Mike come back and Stanley gets separated and sees Pennywise. And Stan realizes or Eddie realizes Stan is missing. So they go looking for Stanley.
01:15:50
Speaker
Stan is in this fucking room and the lady from the picture makes an appearance. And this is fucking creepy. Yeah. When the boys get to him, he Stanley is getting sucked by this chick. His face, not his cock. Right. We should, we should clarify that. Absolutely. Uh, I did want to shout out when like right before the lady grabs him, uh, I did like the way this was shot, the way it's like a POV from Stanley's holding the flashlight, like looking around like first person. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Pennywise flashes his face while they're like consoling Stan.
01:16:28
Speaker
and Bill sees Georgie and stands like, you guys fucking left me. He's crying like a little fucking pussy. And George runs off, Georgie. Bill runs off solo to go see Georgie, which again, he literally just said, we gotta stay together and he runs out. And the next part is a little messy for me, but. I agree. ah Bill finds Bev and she's floating.
01:16:59
Speaker
And, uh, he sees Georgia again. He keeps following Georgie and then it cuts back to the kids looking for bill and Eddie trips in some water, which they point out as gray water gross. And the, the heads of dead people who just start popping up and it's like, all right, maybe there's going to like be a struggle here, but nothing ever comes of it. They just end up in the room. You don't get to see how they get into the room or whatever. Just a cut. Yeah.
01:17:29
Speaker
And this movie is two and a half hours. Maybe they, they trimmed it a bit. Sure. Ben. Uh, so they all see Bev floating and Ben, uh, Ben is freaking out that she's not waking up. And it's fucking weird as hell that he kisses on the lips. It was no longer true. Love's first kiss, like wakes her up or some bullshit. You know, I don't like that. Me either. Uh, Bev awakens and they like recite the poem, which is gay.
01:17:58
Speaker
she realizes it was Ben that wrote the poem. Or copied it down, I don't know. Little group hug. And Bill starts talking to this fake Georgie, and Georgie wants to go home. And Georgie's really like Pennywise is pulling out all the stops to tug on the heartstrings there. And ah Bill knows it's not Georgie, and he shoots him with Mike's gun. And he turns into Pennywise, obviously. And when Pennywise gets up,
01:18:28
Speaker
Bill like has it, uh, they got like to his head to Pennywise's head and Mike's trying to tell him like, it's an empty gun, dude. Yeah. nothing fucked In there. Cock it, lock it, load it. I didn't do any of those. All I did was cock it and I pulled trigger. It's obviously blank and there's a cool fight scene. This is cool the way they filmed this. Uh, but Pennywise ends up grabbing Bill and he's like, look, if you kids leave, I'll just eat Bill. I don't bother y'all.
01:18:58
Speaker
Right. And Richie's like. I fucking told you, Bill, and ah he grabs this fucking bat from something. It's like, let's kill a fucking clown. And he hits he hits Pennywise with the welcome to the Losers Club asshole, which they don't lean to that enough that they're that like they're the Losers Club. I agree. they They lean into that a lot in the book, though. Right.
01:19:26
Speaker
ah Ben stabs Pennywise in the gut and they're just all taking turns beating the shit out of him. So Pennywise is transforming into everybody's fear like ah when he's attacking Bev it turns into her dad a spider for some reason when it's attacking um one of them and the reference that I really like was when it's attacking Ben he turns into a mummy and Now, in the book, Ben is obsessed and afraid with all the universal monsters. Oh, really? Yeah. Uh, so one of his fears was the mummy. Yeah. And like you were saying, he, uh, he throws up on Eddie too. Yeah, throws up on Eddie. And then when attacking Stanley, it turns into the woman from the painting.
Sewer Scene and Blood Pact
01:20:16
Speaker
Right. And, but basically they ended up beating the shit out of him and he throws himself into a sewer.
01:20:24
Speaker
Uh, he just says fear and he just falls down this hole and, uh, all the kids start to float down and, uh, Bill finds Georgie's coat, which is, they're all, he's sad about it and they all like console him. Uh, and it cuts to September and there, the kids are asking Bev what it was like when she was floating.
01:20:52
Speaker
And she doesn't remember anything besides like being afraid and she thought she was dead. And then I think everybody like knows this part about like the blood packed. Yeah. They all, uh, bills, like whenever it comes back, we have to all come back together and trying to feed it. So he takes like a glass bottle, a broken glass bottle and cuts everybody's palms and they all join in on a blood packed.
Ending Discussion and Sequel Hints
01:21:22
Speaker
Right, which obviously. It chapter two follows this, which is mid. Yeah, unlike the book where in the book they all have a big ass orgy instead of a blood packed. That's what I heard about. So Bill and Bev kiss at the end and she goes to live with her aunt or something.
01:21:42
Speaker
ah And the movie end and I thought it was interesting did was this movie marketed as it chapter one or just it just it because at the end It says the title card one.
'Welcome to Derry' Series Discussion
01:21:53
Speaker
Yeah, so one of those like a reveal like hey, by the way, we're gonna make a second one now Probably because everybody knows that at least part. Yeah that there's a second part um because the original movie was actually a TV miniseries that was broken the two parts when they were kids and then when they were adults and
01:22:15
Speaker
Right. And there's a series now, right? It's like Welcome to Dairy. Yeah, it's going to be coming. And it's directed by ah Andy Moschetti. Oh, that's good. I trust him with ah the IT franchise, as we're going to call it. Yeah, it's going to be on HBO Max.
Film Rating and Friendship Ties
01:22:36
Speaker
Yeah, so ah I'm at a four out of five. I was honestly hoping to make it a four and a half, but A lot of parts hit, i I don't know what's missing. Something's missing to push it to the next level, you know? Yeah, I'm also out of four on this one. ah But very enjoyable, iconic, an iconic film for sure. ah And like we said, as far as our friendship goes, this was the start of a lot of things.
Podcast and Movie Recommendations
01:23:07
Speaker
Yeah, definitely a lot of things, especially our talks with horror now. Right.
01:23:13
Speaker
As you guys may have noticed, uh, Friday, last week we dropped reanimator on y'all. And, uh, this coming Friday, your next episode will be inside. o That fucking movie. Talk about a rip that movie be fucking rips. If you've never seen inside, I recommend seeing it before a review. It's from 2007, I want to say.
01:23:38
Speaker
We are a 2007 podcast. Right. It's a French movie, so if you don't like subtitles, I don't know what to tell you, but... Here's my thing. You don't need to know what they're saying to watch this movie. um Until, like, the end. I agree with that, yeah. you You don't need to know. And if you don't like gore, don't watch that movie. If you really enjoyed the pregnancy scene in The First Omen, and you want more of that, but worse, watch a... This is a movie to watch.
01:24:07
Speaker
Not worse is in bad, worse is in like gore. Yeah, you really you see everything. Yeah. ah That was a movie that on first watch I gave a five star. It's pretty fucking good. And I just wanted to take the time now to call out second sight films. Give us a region free release. Yes, please. we i don't want to invest in this yeah I don't want to invest in a ah region free Blu-ray player. Like put it out on 4K, that way it's region free.
01:24:35
Speaker
Give the people what they want. Maybe it's only us that want it, but I, I'm a, I'm a very big
Upcoming Reviews and Anticipations
01:24:42
Speaker
fan. I'm happy that you and I are able to decide on putting this one in the locked October horror review. Oh, absolutely. Because I feel like it's not one and one of those movies that like mainstream people know about. You definitely got to dig a little. No. And it took me doing some digging to find that movie. Yeah.
01:25:02
Speaker
Yeah. So we will have, uh, inside for you, uh, Friday. And then next week, a review on Terrifier three. My boy, Damien Leone, big part clown. I am so excited. I just hope it's not longer than the, I don't think it is. I think it's only like two hours and like 10 minutes instead of two hours and like 30 minutes. Thank God. It's too long. I agree. Hopefully it's my favorite Christmas movie of all time.
01:25:32
Speaker
That's gonna be hard to beat. That's true.
Listener Engagement and Farewell
01:25:36
Speaker
By the way, while we're here, if you guys have any horror films that you want us to put on the docket for next year, send us an email. Yes, please. Or, you know, comment on Spotify or whatever you're listening on. We'll look at it. Which our email is two guys one screen pod at gmail dot.com. Follow us on Instagram. Two guys one screen pod and Follow us on Letterboxed. Link in the description. Yeah. ah Follow us. We will see you guys Friday for a little bonus episode. Toodles. Fuck you, Mark.