I snuck over to my best friends house to watch this when it first came out. I was terrified of bathrooms for ages, until my mom showed me a copy of Rocky Horror Picture Show. From then on, I just imagined pennywise in drag. And this is how Tim Curry was able to help me get over my crippling fear of Tim Curry.
Muppet treasure island was prob first time I noticed him than as got little bit older watched IT at about 8 yrs old and wouldn't go near drains for ages
Don't forget Eye of the Dinosaur, The Black Skyscraper series, Blue Violet, The Corspe(renamed Stand Next To Me for the movie), Bikes(renamed Minimum Underdrive), Gold Projectile, The Red Pathway, Doctor Nap, Deborah Claymore, and The Shankshaw Forgiveness.
@@LupineShadowOmega Someone needs to do an edit of that movie with dialogue from Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin playing every time we see that truck. It would glorious. ;)
@@BioGoji-zm5ph The one I would do if I were an editor is that scene with Alan Silvestri's "Soapdish" score during the awards clip of Sally Field "dying."
Director: Now, now Tim, remember you are suppose to be a scary clown. So I want you to be as creepy as possible. Tim Curry: ARE YOU MAD!? I am a clown, and a clown I shall be MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHHAHAAHA Director: Oh boy
If it were a better director who worked off of Tim's behavior it could have worked. He was manipulative and cruel; showing absolutely no trace of humanity in his actions they were prey to something enjoying the hunt. If they excised the bully, made it less of a crapsack world and didn't have any hints of the townspeople being aware of the creature, something that was allowed by the survivors forgetting about what they went through until the hunt began anew, then it would have been a lot more scary.
I like to think this is how it actually worked behind the scenes, director Tommy Lee Wallace asking Tim Curry to tone it down and go for a more subtle, creepy performance, only for Curry to insist that, since he's a clown, he should ham it up to the extreme, and then proceeded to laugh like a maniac. And the show is all the more memorable for it.
It's just so funny that Tim Curry's short screen time in relation to the three-hour duration of the mini-series can still support the whole thing so well. Not quite perfectly, but well enough.
he also is in it more than Pennywise is as the clown in the book if i recall. for example for those who haven't read the book Bev's husband in the book was the one who kidnapped Audra and honestly i prefer it to be Pennywise than Bev's douche of a husband
@@celestialstar5563You mean that part that everyone mentions whenever "it" is brought up. Yep. And yea what a shocker a underage gang b*ng wasn't in a made for TV movie..
"Sometimes your daddy issues come back.." 😄 "Didn't mean to include a scene from Unplanned." The Bye-Bye Man hellscape callback.. So glad I saw this on my bday. 💕😄
On the DVD commentary track, the actors and actresses note that Tim Curry's characterization of Pennywise was so creepy and realistic that everyone avoided him during the filming. In the novel, Beverly makes love to all of "The Lucky Seven", but Tommy Lee Wallace omitted it from this mini-series because it was just something that didn't ring true to him. Jonathan Brandis and John Ritter both died in 2003. Brandis hanged himself, while Ritter suffered an unexpected, fatal aortic dissection. Richard Masur only appeared in three scenes. This mini-series came out in 1990, the same year that Bill Skarsgård was born. Skarsgård played Pennywise in It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019). In the novel, the group is not referred to as "The Lucky Seven". They call themselves "The Losers' Club". John Ritter was a huge Stephen King fan. In the novel, Eddie Kaspbrak lives with his wife Myra, not his mother. The American rock band Pennywise took its name from the character. Harry Anderson (Richie Tozier) died on April 16, 2018, the same week Bill Hader entered talks to play Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two (2019). Tim Curry is not in the last fifteen minutes of this mini-series. All 7 actors portraying the adult versions of "The Losers' Club" have either been nominated for or won either an Emmy or a Golden Globe. Tom Rogan has a much bigger part in the novel. He chases Beverly to Derry where Pennywise tries to get him to kill "The Lucky Seven". He eventually dies from shock after seeing the Deadlights.
ANOTHER cool fact: Brandon Crane, young Ben from the miniseries, made a cameo as the executive guy from It Chapter 2. Mostly used to fool us into thinking that's Ben.
In the Novel, Pennywise's other forms include Frankenstein's Monster from the 1931 Universal classic, Bruce from *"JAWS",* Gill-Man from *"Creature from The Black Lagoon",* flying leeches, a giant bird mix between a crow and Rodan, The Mummy from the 1932 Universal classic, a Paul Bunyan statue, piranhas, Count Dracula (who looks like Kurt Barlow from "Salem's Lot" but with Gillete razor blades for teeth), and The Crawling Eye from the 1958 film of the same name.
In the book, It is said to appear every 27 years and wreck havoc in the town of Derry. And the new movie (Chapter 1) came out in 2017...exactly 27 years after this miniseries first aired.
I know, Brad used to make me laugh just as much as this scene with Pennywise always did, but this far, 6:36 into this video, I'm already laughing tears...
for those don't know those jokes as bad as they are were in the book actually. honestly this is the version i prefer yeah it can be a bit goofy and yeah some of it hasn't aged well i mean shit it was filmed fucking 30 years ago! but the one thing people hate i think about this version is the ending, and there's a good reason for it they ran out of money at the end and had to make do what they had. fuck even Tommy Lee Wallace didn't like the ending because of it. i am so glad he did this one i wonder if he'll do the part 1 of the remake? that's what i call it anyways.
The Cinema Snob Reviewing the Original IT; “It’s about Damn Time!” 😉 Been waiting for you to take on IT for a Longtime, time to see if You Float or Not. 😅
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the funniest thing to me was how when they played the scene where grown up eddie said he was a virgin and grown up richie said he couldnt help him with that...in the Movie chapter 2 Richie woulda been able to help him and would have loved too at that.
@@jarrodedson5441 I can't remember the name, it just appeared in my recommended section yesterday. It was from like a month ago and he was talking about some of his roles. His voice was still slow and stilted but he definitely looked and sounded way better.
Tim Curry is one of the best things to happen to humanity in the history of ever. He alone makes this movie worth watching. If he ever dies, he will not just receive a state funeral, but a world funeral. The entire world population will be in mourning.
i really miss Made for TV movies and miniseries...Stephen King had several good ones and there were several others based on literary works or crime stories when you used to watch tv regularly, usually sitcoms or drama series, these were treated like special things, they were "events" and advertised as such, and they were, even if you didn't watch all of them or liked all of them, they were special and people would look forward to them, they usually were put in time slots where regular series were on hiatus or nearing the end of the season (Thanksgiving through Christmas and early spring were where i remember them most) we don't do things like this as much anymore, mostly due to the dying network tv, in the 80s and 90s (like before) people had their favourite shows they'd watch regularly, cable was for movies and obscure offerings, tv was network and "made for tv" movies were a special event
Tim Curry stole the show as the creepy Pennywise. But then Tim Curry is almost always borderline creepy. Having said that the first part of the mini-series was good. The second part sucked.
@@eartianwerewolf The biggest issue is that Stephen King can't write an ending for shit. I love his works but just about all his stories have the weakest endings you can imagine. IT is no different.
@@AngelofMusic04 Agreed but Tim Curry is always entertaining. And he was at his creepiest during the second part. That still isn't enough to make it as good, or better, than the first part.
One of those rare occasions where the child actors gave superior performances. I wonder how the film adaptation would have turned out if "Stranger Things" had never come about...
I'm in the middle of reading It. The amount of differences I've noticed so far between the book and the 90s miniseries is insane. Spoilers if you havent read the book or seen the movie(s) I especially noticed the scene of Ben before he left to return to Derry. Ben Hanscom in the book was at a bar before he left, he was an extremely popular architect. He was good friends with the bartender, and gave him his last three pure silver dollars, three of four, where the forth one was used to save his life as a child. He drank extremely heavily using a native american technique to down very strong alcohol with no trouble. The bartender and his wife(?) Were terribly worried, sorta freaking out about how weirdly Ben was acting before he left the bar and drove to the airport.
That's kinda why I think the 2017 and 2019 movies are far better. They keep so much from the book while changing enough that people familiar with the story can't predict what's gonna happen.
Grew-up watching this Made-For-TV/Mini-Series Movie. Still got fond memories of Tim Curry's performance, creepy scenes of past, present and telepathic contact gone haywire and asking my mom: 'why is she screaming at a tricycle?'
5:20 I remember seeing this for the first time right around the time they executed Gacy. And I actually got Gacy and Pennywise confused and thought they were the same thing. And to top it off, the prison where they housed Gacy before his execution isn't too far from here. So I'm a kid watching this thinking the State of Illinois is about to execute Pennywise but what if he comes back and starts haunting me?
@Honudes Gai Its not and if you try to keep them from it really it just makes them worse you just gotta let kids be kids and guide them the best you an honestly the stricter you are with a kid the worse it makes them in the end
Tim’s feels more like how your brain turns something innocuous into a phobia. Bill’s is more like a nightmare. It makes sense to be afraid of Bill, and in makes sense to be drawn in by Tim.
Tommy Lee Wallace is a underrated filmmaker. I love Halloween 3 Season of the Witch it’s probably my favorite horror film. Fright Night Part 2 is a really fun sequel. It (1990) is still an enjoyable miniseries
I couldnt have been the only one that used to think that older Ben was played by Al from Home Improvement. John Ritter has the beard and haircut in this movie
First Bev, yes. They were desperate into becoming adults so that the racial and homophobic barriers could finally be crossed. Then 30 years later, they fully explored their mutual “Derry Pairy” tendencies through the patrimony known as “Bike” inside the “Mill”. It was blissful oblivion.
Hey, when your scenes together get ushered in by "That Thing You Do!", seeing them in an interracial gay romance isn't that much of a stretch. It's certainly better than the needless orgy ending.
Sleepaway Camp series is gold 🙂 Then again, he's easily the most consistently well-written RUclipsr. The only thing that affects my enjoyment is which film he's reviewing.
Young Beverly Marsh was played by Emily Perkins, who would go on to star alongside Katharine Isbaelle. Grown up Beverly was played by Annette O'Toole, who years earlier played Lana Lang in Superman III.
I'm not afraid of clowns but i've seen this series in the early nineties and absolutely adore Tim Curry so your assessment of me liking it is absolutely correct!
I can’t wait to see how they interpret the bike scene in the new movie. To me that was the best scene in the second half, shows despite childhood trauma the good parts can heal what those traumas damage.
@@The_Chef2511 That book was published in 1986. Sai King was on pretty much every drug known to humanity at that point. Also he was so damn famous that apparently even his editors and the publisher didn't dare touch anything he wrote.
Didn't some of his other books have stuff about jerking off onto a turtle and another one about a Nazi rape wet dream? But of course we all know about the teddy bear man blowing a guy in The Shining.. King is a weird guy.
"Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to include a scene from Unplanned." LMFAO 13:29- And the coach is played by Gary "voice of Optimus Primal from Beast Wars" Chalk. I was wondering if the Nostalgia Critic's review would get referenced on here, and not obviously about the Stephen King Drinking Game. I totally called the Ghostbusters reference.
One thing I don't like about this movie is that if you watch it on the DVD (not sure about blu-ray), half way through you have to get up and flip the disc over to watch the rest. I guess it's bc it's a mini-series
Yeah DVDs didn’t have the memory capacity to hold the whole miniseries on one side so they put it on a two sided disc with the first part on one side and the second part on the other side. Blue Ray version has the whole series on a single one sided disc.
The thing I like about the mini series is that it understands that sorrow and loss is a big part of the novel. The newer movies were more, “scary clown is scary.”
Definitely. I can see a kid being drawn in by Curry-wise as he only gets scary when he's outwardly threatening you or going in for the kill. With the remake, that fucker is scary 24/7 and the kids have to be morons to not see this dead-eyed, drooling, serial-starer as something scary.
Loss...literally drives the plot of the movies. Hope that Georgie isn't dead is what drives Bill and when he discovers the truth, it leaves him a sobbing mess.
Very first horror movie i ever saw, when I was 6 years old, and been a Horror enthusiast ever since, I hardly watch anything else. Also Malcom McDowell as Pennywise is something I have to see, anybody who knows film sees Alex DeLarge or Caligula anytime Malcolms name is mentioned, he represents a style of film that can only be possible with a rated R, or NC-17, so he would be fn epic.
To be honest, part 1 of the miniseries is kinda enjoyable to watch (mainly for the child actors and the glorious Tim Curry) Part 2 has its ok moments, but aside from once again Tim Curry it's just not that great.
Brad sums up every Tim Curry intro in a movie so freaking well when Pennnywise shows up to Georgie. Tim Curry: Introduces himself as his character in a movie. Audience: No you're not. You're Tim Curry and you're being weird again! XD
Fun fact: The blonde child who gets killed in It went on to play characters in Final Destination 3 and Tucker & Dale Vs Evil! I found another favorite Snob episode :) Tim Curry will always be entertaining in It 👍🏻
The movie is mesmerizing in its oddity and weird switch of tones. The book is downright terrrifying and left me sleepless for weeks after I read it. And now Snob is reviewing one of Tim Curry's best performances ever. Mondays are great^^
whiterabbit75 I agree, but it was because of the Nostalgia Critic’s review that I even first learned about the IT mini-series since I never knew of it beforehand until I saw his review for the first time a few years ago. I like the Cinema Snob’s review better because he’s funnier than the Nostalgia Critic in my opinion. Especially in comparison to the Nostalgia Critic nowadays.
@@johnnyd3158 It's because of NC that I was introduced to all the other content creators, and his earlier reviews were pretty funny (I still love the one he did with Linkara and Spoony), but he's just not that great anymore.
Haven't seen this version of It in years. While I was watching this video a friend tapped me on the shoulder, I jumped. Even on a budget 22" computer monitor, Tim Curry as Pennywise still has IT! All is well, the commentary from The Cinema Snob brought me back to sanity.
Fun fact about the theatre scene, it took practically forever to do, so Curry did things like sing-a-longs with kids and played games, it was the first scene they filmed so the kids didn't who he was and assumed the studio had hired a clown to entertain them. Boy, it must've been weird when they were told they were meant to be scared.
Fun fact about the theatre scene, it took practically forever to do, so Curry did things like sing-a-longs with kids and played games, it was the first scene they filmed so the kids didn't who he was and assumed the studio had hired a clown to entertain them. Boy, it must've been weird when they were told they were meant to be scared.
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"I'm Pennywise the clown!" "No you're not, you're Tim Curry and you're being weird again!" Liked.
And it’s wonderful weirdness!
But he IS Pennywise! More than Skarsgard!
@@dubuyajay9964 Both were good imo.
I snuck over to my best friends house to watch this when it first came out. I was terrified of bathrooms for ages, until my mom showed me a copy of Rocky Horror Picture Show. From then on, I just imagined pennywise in drag. And this is how Tim Curry was able to help me get over my crippling fear of Tim Curry.
I had already seen him in Clue, Home Alone 2 and Rocky Horror. 🤷🏻♂️
I had a fear of clowns until I saw this movie. Strange.
Muppet treasure island was prob first time I noticed him than as got little bit older watched IT at about 8 yrs old and wouldn't go near drains for ages
I saw this movie after Rocky Horror and had a crush on Frankenfurter.
And that is how Tim Curry made me attracted to clowns.
I have read many of Bill’s classic novels like Cassie, Kristen, Animal Burial Ground, Melancholy, The Shimmering, and The Tammyknockers.
Don't forget Eye of the Dinosaur, The Black Skyscraper series, Blue Violet, The Corspe(renamed Stand Next To Me for the movie), Bikes(renamed Minimum Underdrive), Gold Projectile, The Red Pathway, Doctor Nap, Deborah Claymore, and The Shankshaw Forgiveness.
Oh, and Shit Weasels, the comedy spoof of horror that everyone loves!
I hate that i love this.
What, no love for Useful Items?
@@CrutchCricket I actually dont get that one...
Rest In Peace, Jonathan Brandis, Harry Anderson, and John Ritter.
Yoooo! I didn’t know/forgot Brandis is dead!!
@Corey Thompson No, Tim Curry is still alive, just has had to retire from acting due to health problems. He had a stroke, I think.
@@erikwilliams1562 He hung himself in 2003 due to depression at his career going nowhere. He was 27. :/
@@Greendalewitch well that's awful
@@AnInsideJoke Yeah, he had a serious stroke and can barely speak now.
"why does it hate? why is it so mean?" someone just discovered the internet
"We MADE you. We MADE you...." the Maximum Overdrive aliens can't get here fast enough.
😆 lol
@@LupineShadowOmega Someone needs to do an edit of that movie with dialogue from Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin playing every time we see that truck. It would glorious. ;)
@@BioGoji-zm5ph it would be so good.
@@BioGoji-zm5ph The one I would do if I were an editor is that scene with Alan Silvestri's "Soapdish" score during the awards clip of Sally Field "dying."
Tim Curry could play a blank dictionary and STILL elevate ANY movie or TV show he's in! Tim is the GOAT!
Director: Now, now Tim, remember you are suppose to be a scary clown. So I want you to be as creepy as possible.
Tim Curry: ARE YOU MAD!? I am a clown, and a clown I shall be MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHHAHAAHA
Director: Oh boy
In my head the "oh boy" is in Peter Parker's voice.
I read that in Tim Curry's voice and burst out laughing.
If it were a better director who worked off of Tim's behavior it could have worked. He was manipulative and cruel; showing absolutely no trace of humanity in his actions they were prey to something enjoying the hunt. If they excised the bully, made it less of a crapsack world and didn't have any hints of the townspeople being aware of the creature, something that was allowed by the survivors forgetting about what they went through until the hunt began anew, then it would have been a lot more scary.
@@The_Chef2511 Nahh need more giant turtle deities.
I like to think this is how it actually worked behind the scenes, director Tommy Lee Wallace asking Tim Curry to tone it down and go for a more subtle, creepy performance, only for Curry to insist that, since he's a clown, he should ham it up to the extreme, and then proceeded to laugh like a maniac. And the show is all the more memorable for it.
If you're afraid of both clowns and Tim Curry, then you're gonna have a bad time.
I don't think there is anyone who is afraid of Tim curry
However, if you have a very specific fetish...
Also if you are afraid of spiders and turtles.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 I like turtles! I hate spiders.
Pizza French fry!
Gotta love *The Bye Bye Man* reference. At least we got a funny story and Brad Jones got free movie tickets.
That movie sucked ass uwu
@@anactualalpaca7016 At least we got a good Ralphthemoviemaker video out of it.
The buttercream gang being the bullies in this movie is the greatest crossover ever
It's just so funny that Tim Curry's short screen time in relation to the three-hour duration of the mini-series can still support the whole thing so well. Not quite perfectly, but well enough.
he also is in it more than Pennywise is as the clown in the book if i recall. for example for those who haven't read the book Bev's husband in the book was the one who kidnapped Audra and honestly i prefer it to be Pennywise than Bev's douche of a husband
"My God! I forgot about the fat shaming skeleton" 😂😂😂
I don't it's taken up camp in my closet
They also forgot when all the boys took turns on the girl but that's only in the novel
@@celestialstar5563 "And then they all fucked each other, the end" - stephen king
@@lemon93 yours too it gets around
@@celestialstar5563You mean that part that everyone mentions whenever "it" is brought up. Yep. And yea what a shocker a underage gang b*ng wasn't in a made for TV movie..
If there hadn't been a Buttercream Gang reference I would've been disappointed.
Me to
Balki, you’re scaring the little girl.
SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!
LADY!!!!!!!!
That one was so bad!😅
@@randalgraves6979 TAKE ME TO BOSTON!
The book IT is thick you could hit somebody over the head with it and knock them out. Hit them with The Stand you'll kill them.
The recut of The Stand is classified as a weapon of mass destruction.
there is for real a lady that sued the publisher that the hard-cover of IT fell off the table and killed her dog.
@@myu2k2 For real. I told my sister that book dangerous. Should've got that soft cover.
I thought you meant the character for a second
It ain't got shit on LOTR.
You can see the extra behind Tim curry trying not to smile during the library scene
How could u not😝😝😀😀
It would be impossible not to be cracking up at that if I were in Curry’s clown shoes. He’s so damn funny and scary at the same time
25:23? Oh yeah...dude tried
"Sometimes your daddy issues come back.." 😄
"Didn't mean to include a scene from Unplanned."
The Bye-Bye Man hellscape callback..
So glad I saw this on my bday. 💕😄
On the DVD commentary track, the actors and actresses note that Tim Curry's characterization of Pennywise was so creepy and realistic that everyone avoided him during the filming.
In the novel, Beverly makes love to all of "The Lucky Seven", but Tommy Lee Wallace omitted it from this mini-series because it was just something that didn't ring true to him.
Jonathan Brandis and John Ritter both died in 2003. Brandis hanged himself, while Ritter suffered an unexpected, fatal aortic dissection.
Richard Masur only appeared in three scenes.
This mini-series came out in 1990, the same year that Bill Skarsgård was born. Skarsgård played Pennywise in It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019).
In the novel, the group is not referred to as "The Lucky Seven". They call themselves "The Losers' Club".
John Ritter was a huge Stephen King fan.
In the novel, Eddie Kaspbrak lives with his wife Myra, not his mother.
The American rock band Pennywise took its name from the character.
Harry Anderson (Richie Tozier) died on April 16, 2018, the same week Bill Hader entered talks to play Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two (2019).
Tim Curry is not in the last fifteen minutes of this mini-series.
All 7 actors portraying the adult versions of "The Losers' Club" have either been nominated for or won either an Emmy or a Golden Globe.
Tom Rogan has a much bigger part in the novel. He chases Beverly to Derry where Pennywise tries to get him to kill "The Lucky Seven". He eventually dies from shock after seeing the Deadlights.
ANOTHER cool fact: Brandon Crane, young Ben from the miniseries, made a cameo as the executive guy from It Chapter 2. Mostly used to fool us into thinking that's Ben.
In the Novel, Pennywise's other forms include Frankenstein's Monster from the 1931 Universal classic, Bruce from *"JAWS",*
Gill-Man from *"Creature from The Black Lagoon",* flying leeches, a giant bird mix between a crow and Rodan, The Mummy from the 1932 Universal classic, a Paul Bunyan statue, piranhas, Count Dracula (who looks like Kurt Barlow from "Salem's Lot" but with Gillete razor blades for teeth), and The Crawling Eye from the 1958 film of the same name.
CGI played Pennyaise in most of the remake of "It"
Tim Curry is why I love this movie. Though McDowell would have been amazing. I kind of want to see his take on Pennywise.
Which McDowell? Roddy or Malcolm
@@victorm152 both. I would love to see them both
@Victor M... yes.
Andie Mcdowell 🤔
Use to see my cousin watch this film, it was pretty scary for me , but nowadays while Pennywise was still pretty freaky the movie is insanely goofy.
Laughing at the boogeyman is why it never bothers adults
"An insanely goofy movie" is a sequel this world dearly needs.
In the book, It is said to appear every 27 years and wreck havoc in the town of Derry. And the new movie (Chapter 1) came out in 2017...exactly 27 years after this miniseries first aired.
Man, this episode of 'Will IT Fit?' is different from what I expected.
Excuse me sir. Do you have prince Albert in a can? You do?! Well you better let the poor guy out!
WAHA! WAHA! WAHA!
I know, Brad used to make me laugh just as much as this scene with Pennywise always did, but this far, 6:36 into this video, I'm already laughing tears...
Excuse me, Ma'am. Is your refrigerator running? It IS ? Then you better go catch it ! WAHA WAHA WAHA WAHA !
for those don't know those jokes as bad as they are were in the book actually. honestly this is the version i prefer yeah it can be a bit goofy and yeah some of it hasn't aged well i mean shit it was filmed fucking 30 years ago! but the one thing people hate i think about this version is the ending, and there's a good reason for it they ran out of money at the end and had to make do what they had. fuck even Tommy Lee Wallace didn't like the ending because of it. i am so glad he did this one i wonder if he'll do the part 1 of the remake? that's what i call it anyways.
... I never really got this joke.
The Cinema Snob Reviewing the Original IT;
“It’s about Damn Time!” 😉
Been waiting for you to take on IT for a Longtime, time to see if You Float or Not. 😅
Too bad it doesn't have the Space Turtle.
Pennywise escaped to the one place not ruined by those pesky kids .......SPACE
We could learn a thing or two from him. 🚀
Better then
.....JAIL!!!! 😏
...well at least that was the case until he bumped into the damned Mass Effect 3 space child.
You misspelled ‘schpayaice!!!!’
Where he went to transexual where he transformed himself into franknfurter!!!!
-random internet user 2020
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the funniest thing to me was how when they played the scene where grown up eddie said he was a virgin and grown up richie said he couldnt help him with that...in the Movie chapter 2 Richie woulda been able to help him and would have loved too at that.
Man, looking at Tim Curry now will make you depressed especially after his devastating stroke.
Yeah he doesn't look in good shape
I watched a video yesterday with him in it and he looked to be doing better. Still a little rough around the edges but way better than before.
@@seannoel8615 which video can I have link please
@@jarrodedson5441 I can't remember the name, it just appeared in my recommended section yesterday. It was from like a month ago and he was talking about some of his roles. His voice was still slow and stilted but he definitely looked and sounded way better.
@@seannoel8615 ah ok also I have a question for you
Tim Curry is one of the best things to happen to humanity in the history of ever. He alone makes this movie worth watching. If he ever dies, he will not just receive a state funeral, but a world funeral. The entire world population will be in mourning.
“The poem written in stutters” 😂. I had to stop the video and laugh for like five mins.
i really miss Made for TV movies and miniseries...Stephen King had several good ones and there were several others based on literary works or crime stories
when you used to watch tv regularly, usually sitcoms or drama series, these were treated like special things, they were "events" and advertised as such, and they were, even if you didn't watch all of them or liked all of them, they were special and people would look forward to them, they usually were put in time slots where regular series were on hiatus or nearing the end of the season (Thanksgiving through Christmas and early spring were where i remember them most)
we don't do things like this as much anymore, mostly due to the dying network tv, in the 80s and 90s (like before) people had their favourite shows they'd watch regularly, cable was for movies and obscure offerings, tv was network and "made for tv" movies were a special event
Tim Curry stole the show as the creepy Pennywise. But then Tim Curry is almost always borderline creepy.
Having said that the first part of the mini-series was good. The second part sucked.
The second part was awful, agreed. Watched in high school. Still some iconic moments.
@@eartianwerewolf The biggest issue is that Stephen King can't write an ending for shit. I love his works but just about all his stories have the weakest endings you can imagine. IT is no different.
I've watched this version of IT about 3 times.
I've watched the first half of this version of IT about 8 times.
But the second part has Pennywise at his best.
@@AngelofMusic04 Agreed but Tim Curry is always entertaining. And he was at his creepiest during the second part. That still isn't enough to make it as good, or better, than the first part.
One of those rare occasions where the child actors gave superior performances. I wonder how the film adaptation would have turned out if "Stranger Things" had never come about...
Tim Curry is a goddamn national treasure.
Agreed
I'm in the middle of reading It.
The amount of differences I've noticed so far between the book and the 90s miniseries is insane.
Spoilers if you havent read the book or seen the movie(s)
I especially noticed the scene of Ben before he left to return to Derry.
Ben Hanscom in the book was at a bar before he left, he was an extremely popular architect. He was good friends with the bartender, and gave him his last three pure silver dollars, three of four, where the forth one was used to save his life as a child. He drank extremely heavily using a native american technique to down very strong alcohol with no trouble. The bartender and his wife(?) Were terribly worried, sorta freaking out about how weirdly Ben was acting before he left the bar and drove to the airport.
Especially if you consider the fact that the miniseries didn't have the creepy ass house on Neibolt street.
That's kinda why I think the 2017 and 2019 movies are far better. They keep so much from the book while changing enough that people familiar with the story can't predict what's gonna happen.
@@sumspring4112 what you seen is faaare more scary if dont or use you forestiller danish
I laughed when the "Night Court" theme played after Harry Anderson's name showed up. Also RIP.
Grew-up watching this Made-For-TV/Mini-Series Movie. Still got fond memories of Tim Curry's performance, creepy scenes of past, present and telepathic contact gone haywire and asking my mom: 'why is she screaming at a tricycle?'
I loved Tim Curry, Harry Anderson and John Ritter, and being scared. I was in hog heaven.
I hope you're proud of yourself for all those Stephen King novel references, because you totally got me.
5:20 I remember seeing this for the first time right around the time they executed Gacy. And I actually got Gacy and Pennywise confused and thought they were the same thing. And to top it off, the prison where they housed Gacy before his execution isn't too far from here. So I'm a kid watching this thinking the State of Illinois is about to execute Pennywise but what if he comes back and starts haunting me?
"So we have a plan: we get drunk, and we get Pennywise so laid."
...brilliant idea gang!
"Just wait until I'm reincarnated into your future boyfriend."
Whenever I see that messed up scene, I will forever think of this joke.
When Pennywise monologues in the sewer saying "I am eternal" "I am eater of worlds." I thought Snob was going to say "I. Am. Darkwing Duck!"
I. Am. BATMAN!
I am the law!
I am inevitable
I am beyond strength.
@@mrcritical6751 And I... Am Iron Man.
"These days he would try to defeat Pennywise by cancelling him"
Lmao, that was good
Close, they bully him to death
@Simple Weirdo hah! You fools! He is Cthulhu! He is also every monster anyone was ever scared of!
I saw this when it originally premiered on tv when I was 7. . . Good job Mom and Dad.
Ah, late 80's and early 90's parenting. It's also how I, my grade school classmates, and most of our generation saw this.
My aunt tricked me into watching this when I was six.
I watched this was I was 10 or 11. Yer it still freaked me out, good job baby sitter.
@Honudes Gai
Its not and if you try to keep them from it really it just makes them worse you just gotta let kids be kids and guide them the best you an honestly the stricter you are with a kid the worse it makes them in the end
Tim and bill are both Fantastic Pennywise. But Tim’s seemed more subtle and friendly and not a drooling carnivore. Both do great jobs!
Tim’s feels more like how your brain turns something innocuous into a phobia. Bill’s is more like a nightmare. It makes sense to be afraid of Bill, and in makes sense to be drawn in by Tim.
Bill is much closer to the book, though.
Tommy Lee Wallace is a underrated filmmaker. I love Halloween 3 Season of the Witch it’s probably my favorite horror film. Fright Night Part 2 is a really fun sequel. It (1990) is still an enjoyable miniseries
34:40
"It's just like the clown in my husband's book: That".
😂
I couldnt have been the only one that used to think that older Ben was played by Al from Home Improvement. John Ritter has the beard and haircut in this movie
Wait... Bill + Mike... Bill + Mike = Bike... yep, they definitely banged. Probably in a mill.
you never read the book... did you?
No, but I know about the ending orgy.
No, in Beverly
First Bev, yes. They were desperate into becoming adults so that the racial and homophobic barriers could finally be crossed.
Then 30 years later, they fully explored their mutual “Derry Pairy” tendencies through the patrimony known as “Bike” inside the “Mill”. It was blissful oblivion.
Hey, when your scenes together get ushered in by "That Thing You Do!", seeing them in an interracial gay romance isn't that much of a stretch. It's certainly better than the needless orgy ending.
Spoke top soon on that “flu season” joke damn lol
My favorite Snob episode to date. The material in jokes were flawless
Facts 💯
Sleepaway Camp series is gold 🙂 Then again, he's easily the most consistently well-written RUclipsr. The only thing that affects my enjoyment is which film he's reviewing.
“Johnny McPureFlix Villain”
Young Beverly Marsh was played by Emily Perkins, who would go on to star alongside Katharine Isbaelle. Grown up Beverly was played by Annette O'Toole, who years earlier played Lana Lang in Superman III.
I always enjoyed the miniseries, yeah its not scary but it has a charm to it. I'll admit that the second part is the weakest.
It’s really the kids, Tim Curry’s more prominent role in the first half, and that 90s stink that sells it.
I'm not afraid of clowns but i've seen this series in the early nineties and absolutely adore Tim Curry so your assessment of me liking it is absolutely correct!
Oh man. That 'That' joke had me in stitches.
Well done, Snob!
I can’t wait to see how they interpret the bike scene in the new movie. To me that was the best scene in the second half, shows despite childhood trauma the good parts can heal what those traumas damage.
I still love IT (1990). One of my personal favorite King adaptations.
I'm a simple man, I come for the obligatory gangbang reference, I leave satisfied
Eddie likes the book a lot better because he didn't end up as a 40 year old virgin!
@@memorra Plus his first time wasnt with a woman who looked and sounded excatly like his mother.
You have to wonder just what the fuck King is on that let's him write books that size but think things like that are a good idea.
@@The_Chef2511 That book was published in 1986. Sai King was on pretty much every drug known to humanity at that point.
Also he was so damn famous that apparently even his editors and the publisher didn't dare touch anything he wrote.
Didn't some of his other books have stuff about jerking off onto a turtle and another one about a Nazi rape wet dream? But of course we all know about the teddy bear man blowing a guy in The Shining..
King is a weird guy.
Tim Currys performance also influenced Matt Borne when he was the heel version of Doink the Clown.
“Holy shit it’s Jon Peters!”
Heh, I understood that reference.
"Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to include a scene from Unplanned." LMFAO
13:29- And the coach is played by Gary "voice of Optimus Primal from Beast Wars" Chalk.
I was wondering if the Nostalgia Critic's review would get referenced on here, and not obviously about the Stephen King Drinking Game.
I totally called the Ghostbusters reference.
13:24 that's a supreme level reference right there...well done, sir
So great. I could watch Brad and Doug review Stephen King films all day
One thing I don't like about this movie is that if you watch it on the DVD (not sure about blu-ray), half way through you have to get up and flip the disc over to watch the rest. I guess it's bc it's a mini-series
Sounds like an old DVD release if it was a 2 sider
Yeah DVDs didn’t have the memory capacity to hold the whole miniseries on one side so they put it on a two sided disc with the first part on one side and the second part on the other side. Blue Ray version has the whole series on a single one sided disc.
I bought it from Wal-Mart like a yr ago I had no clue it was a two side DVD I was pissed thought they ripped me off..... I'm an idiot
I hate how they put both parts together and cut out Bill arriving at the hotel and most of the taxi ride for the DVD.
Hell... it took up two vhs tapes back in the day. So youd have to stop and rewind part one and then get up to change out the tapes.
The thing I like about the mini series is that it understands that sorrow and loss is a big part of the novel. The newer movies were more, “scary clown is scary.”
Definitely. I can see a kid being drawn in by Curry-wise as he only gets scary when he's outwardly threatening you or going in for the kill. With the remake, that fucker is scary 24/7 and the kids have to be morons to not see this dead-eyed, drooling, serial-starer as something scary.
There was more to the new movies than just scary clown. Did we watch the same thing?
Loss...literally drives the plot of the movies. Hope that Georgie isn't dead is what drives Bill and when he discovers the truth, it leaves him a sobbing mess.
spooky clowns SCARE ME!!!!!!
Very first horror movie i ever saw, when I was 6 years old, and been a Horror enthusiast ever since, I hardly watch anything else. Also Malcom McDowell as Pennywise is something I have to see, anybody who knows film sees Alex DeLarge or Caligula anytime Malcolms name is mentioned, he represents a style of film that can only be possible with a rated R, or NC-17, so he would be fn epic.
I've always thought these movies were hilarious... The new one was funny as well.
To be fair... the Tim Curry IT was a TV miniseries. You can only get away with so much at 8PM on NBC.
A 43 minute Snob review? JFC, Brad, you're spoiling us.
I’m a simple man just trying to make my way in the universe...I see a Cinema Snob review, I upvote.
I just watched the miniseries this morning.
Brad do streets of fire (1984). Perfect for musical March (in September)
21:12 I was wondering when you’d Reference that 😂😂😂😂😂 (32:30 also that was perfect 🤣 )
One of my favourites Cinema Snob movie reviews.
It's a good thing Stephen King's initials are SK as oppose to SH, because if they were it would make this SHIT.
To think how that George A Romero version of IT could have turned out... 🤔
I didn't know about that.
I still wonder what his Resident Evil would've been like. Couldn't have been worse than what Anderson did to the franchise.
Would love if they gunned down Pennywise with a Mashinegun in the End
I would pay to see that.
Nah, Dario Argento
@@jonathansefcik473 music by Goblin
This is definitely one of your best reviews.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space, please.
Dude I stumbled upon your channel. You’re funny AF. Smashed the sub button
Any McDowell will do? Andie MacDowell then!
34:44 It's the clown from my husband's book THAT. 😂
Buttercream Gang reference? 10/10.
You're much better than the Nostalgia Critic. You are less annoying and more informative!
Agree 💯
This is one of your best reviews. There were so many good jokes I can't even just point to one!
To be honest, part 1 of the miniseries is kinda enjoyable to watch (mainly for the child actors and the glorious Tim Curry)
Part 2 has its ok moments, but aside from once again Tim Curry it's just not that great.
Brad sums up every Tim Curry intro in a movie so freaking well when Pennnywise shows up to Georgie.
Tim Curry: Introduces himself as his character in a movie.
Audience: No you're not. You're Tim Curry and you're being weird again!
XD
The Glowing takes place at the Lookover Hotel
Fun fact: The blonde child who gets killed in It went on to play characters in Final Destination 3 and Tucker & Dale Vs Evil!
I found another favorite Snob episode :) Tim Curry will always be entertaining in It 👍🏻
Holy shit!
Yup, that’s Chelan Simmons! She played Ashley Freund in Final Destination 3 and Chloe in Tucker and Dale vs Evil. :)
So many people put this down, but actually it wasn’t horrible. Especially with Seth Green, Tim Curry, and John Ritter 😍
These people all had such depressing lives, being eaten by a clown wouldn't have been so bad.
I'm surprised none of them attempted or committed suicide sooner.
There is only one eater of worlds and it is Angron, not Pennywise
@@phreakazoith2237
What? People aren't worlds.
Or...Shit... is the lore even weirder than I thought?
made me realize how much i miss john ritter. that guy was awesome
The movie is mesmerizing in its oddity and weird switch of tones. The book is downright terrrifying and left me sleepless for weeks after I read it. And now Snob is reviewing one of Tim Curry's best performances ever. Mondays are great^^
This was way better than the Nostalgia Critic’s review of the mini-series.
Agreed
And of course snob referenced it anyway
Let's be fair. The Nostalgia Critic isn't as good as it used to be.
whiterabbit75 I agree, but it was because of the Nostalgia Critic’s review that I even first learned about the IT mini-series since I never knew of it beforehand until I saw his review for the first time a few years ago.
I like the Cinema Snob’s review better because he’s funnier than the Nostalgia Critic in my opinion. Especially in comparison to the Nostalgia Critic nowadays.
@@johnnyd3158
It's because of NC that I was introduced to all the other content creators, and his earlier reviews were pretty funny (I still love the one he did with Linkara and Spoony), but he's just not that great anymore.
and look, Bill Denborough wrote Smile, glad to see his work is still being adapted
*The cinema snob rewiewing the classic IT without anticipation*
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
Haven't seen this version of It in years. While I was watching this video a friend tapped me on the shoulder, I jumped. Even on a budget 22" computer monitor, Tim Curry as Pennywise still has IT! All is well, the commentary from The Cinema Snob brought me back to sanity.
Fun fact about the theatre scene, it took practically forever to do, so Curry did things like sing-a-longs with kids and played games, it was the first scene they filmed so the kids didn't who he was and assumed the studio had hired a clown to entertain them. Boy, it must've been weird when they were told they were meant to be scared.
Cinema snob is a hilarious and talented guy for real! All time funny review😅
Fun fact about the theatre scene, it took practically forever to do, so Curry did things like sing-a-longs with kids and played games, it was the first scene they filmed so the kids didn't who he was and assumed the studio had hired a clown to entertain them. Boy, it must've been weird when they were told they were meant to be scared.
Another reason that Tim Curry is amazing
Tim Curry is a national treasure