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Stephen King is the Master of Horror. Of course, anyone who's read his books also knows that he's the Master of Writing Books That Are About 400 Pages Longer Than They Need To Be. And anyone who's seen one of the many movie adaptations of his books knows that he's also the Master Of Adapting Great Works Of Fiction Into Barely Watchable Crap.
"Stephen King's IT" is the worst of the worst, a made-for-TV disaster starring Tim Curry, the kid from "The Neverending Story II", and just about every late 80's/early 90's sitcom star you can shake a stick at. And like the book, the movie-version is about twice as long as it really should have been.
Shawn and Keith of "Cinester Theater" take on 50% of this horrifying tale of terrible terror. The children of Derry, Maine are being hunted by a malevolent shape-shifting demon named Pennywise The Dancing Clown, the least successful movie monster of all time. When the body-count reaches an unacceptable ONE, its up to the Little Rascals... uh, I mean, the Goonies.... uh, I mean, The Losers Club... to save the day! With friendship! And silver ear-rings! And we can't even begin to explain how awful this movie is!
After watching this riff, be sure to head over our colleagues at Hor-RIFF-ic Productions for "Stephen King's IT: Part Two"!
Note: Due to technical problems, we left out most of the sync lines for this riff. We have one near the beginning of the movie- if that is synced properly, then you're good to go.
A very fun part 1!!
All around I enjoyed this greatly, no lack of laughs, some very quotable lines (including one AMAZING MST3K callback) all in all a solid 9 in my book, not perfect but definitely worth a purchase (and I used to find this movie to be SOO boring and slow this actually made it fun!).
My favorite Cinester Theater iRiff!
I've listened to just about all of Cinester Theater's iRiff releases, and this one has to be my favorite. If you've never given these guys a chance this is the one to try... The jokes are great the sound quality is their best yet, and I can't wait to see what they do next.
Another Hit
Another great riff guys. I seem to remember this mini-series being so much better when I watched it the first time. Much like the 80's itself, it did not age well.
Very solid effort and well worth the money.
I enjoyed the riffs calling out that Pennywise could not actually kill anyone and the directory kind of went for a Freddy rip-off rather than following anything in the book.
5/5 guys Great job. Well
5/5 guys Great job. Well done.
Practically nonstop LOLing
I am so glad that this came through as well as I hoped. As I've mentioned ad infinitum on the message boards, it seems, this mini hurt me so badly when I was younger, and I'm really REALLY happy that it got hurt back. Very minor quibble out of the way first: sometimes the plosives are a bit loud and could be toned down or re-recorded, perhaps, but it was a very minor thing. .....................................This honestly had me laughing out loud throughout the entire thing. Sometimes I'd go a few minutes, but I'd still be entertained, just not giggling like a schoolgirl ... merely ... chortling? I dunno. Also, WOW, it's now been long enough since I've read the book I think I can view this objectively and say, why does Pennywise come across as just UTTERLY impotent in this half, at least? Like, the only murders he actually ACHIEVES in this half are Belch and some off-screen children that we just have to assume mean something. As the guys point out multiple times, he really does just come across as a second-rate Freddy ripoff (that damn shower scene always annoyed me; it's not in the book, but it IS in Nightmare 2--why the HELL did they think that'd be a good idea?) who inexplicably, repeatedly lets our protagonists go. And dear god, the ending. Why is Pennywise a glowing turtle? Why do the kids believe falling down a hole and going 'argh!' = dead? Why is the Keifer-Sutherland-from-Stand-By-Me wannabe seducing Orville Reddenbacher? SO MANY THINGS JUST DON'T ADD UP. I am just AMAZED, though, that they literally fit about 300 pages of the book (which happens concurrently with the adult climactic battle) into about 11 minutes and even ALMOST make it coherent, though. I mean, honestly, credit where credit's due, I suppose. 'I am the destroyer of worlds, eater of children ... and sometimes I go RAWR and the shot changes so I have monster teef.' Go Pennywise. ............................................. I can't wait to get to part 2. Is it REALLY horrible of me that my only disappointment was that there were no jokes about Brandis/Ritter being dead? There must be something wrong with me. I think my favorite joke is a toss-up between (and the first one is totally not going to sound funny out of context, but I'm partial to these types of gags myself, and it just worked perfectly) "Days later..." during the Eddie/Bill/Ben meet-up scene, and during the apocalyptic rockfight, the "my baby!" line. Great job, guys. .............................................................
[p]Michael T Bradley
Ice on Mars
Float-tastic!
5 stars guys! Excellent riffing...now I'm off to watch part two :-)
Success!
We just finished listening, good job guys! You all get to live!!! Now what are we going to do with the afternoon? Can't believe we both made Princess Bride jokes, classic.