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#talks about going back for the silver slugs and that small gesture indicating the grey in his hair…. he’s just really dignified and tired
neorxnawangs · 1 year
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every day i genuinely wish it 2019 had nothing to do with it 1986 because when you compare them there’s no contest. unfortunately it 2019 is the kind of movie that genuinely shreds my brain (shitty horror with fun characters and insane plot) so whenever i want to feel batshit about it i have to mentally separate it from the book.
#sorry for saying this often but sometimes it sucks that most people’s familiarity with the story and characters you love is soooo different#from the source material.#like i just saw really good art but it’s about the movie version of the characters! it’s just painful bc i love the book sm#but i also really enjoy james ransone dicking around and i love mr mustafa sooo much which sucks for me because i can’t help but recognize#them as shallower versions of themselves! like miniseries mike is visually so cool with his long trench coat and the scene where he and bill#ride around on silver is so good! you really respect that guy and all the effort he’s going thru and you can FEEL his suffering esp when he#talks about going back for the silver slugs and that small gesture indicating the grey in his hair…. he’s just really dignified and tired#and i really respect him. he’s book mike! but mr mustafa got a version of mike that you pity. he’s like a wet cat and kind of pathetic and#honestly completely different from himself as a child which is obviously neither of the actor’s faults but it makes me sad#so youre watching it 2019 and if you hadnt read the book you’re like wow this is so scary for mike he’s doing all this on the off chance and#you’re actually scared for him when pennywise calls him a madman. that was like really good line delivery btw it haunts me. so you watch the#movie and youre like jeez! i feel really bad for mike i understand if he went a lil crazy!#meanwhile book and miniseries mike and like really genuinely well put together people and theyre suffering from the fear and especially in#the book mike’s loss of his dad is absolutely heartwrenching but you can see all the effort he’s putting into logging this insane history of#derry (so much so that when the library floods at the end of the book and destroys the town records mike is the most knowledgeable source of#derry history at least until he forgets it) and it’s just. theyre completely different characters. and i like book mike the best :( so#also like the new stuff like canon bill hader crying over his miserable gay life would absolutely make it a top ten movie of all time for me#but the thing is I KNOW HE’S BETTER IN THE BOOK. it makes me insane#my post#stephen king#it#ben and beverly stay winning always tho which is why they’re the best#it still makes me sad to see richie and eddie and bill and MIKE and stan get mishandled#and btw i am absolutely not saying that people who like the movies over the miniseries and the book are wrong to! it’s definitely fair to#enjoy some movies that are genuinely really fun. but as someone who finds the book much more meaningful and the miniseries to be a solid#adaptation sometimes it just sucks that the most popular interpretation of one of my favorite books is so so different and just…#less compelling. ough i need to rewatch the miniseries STAT
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