Ceciley Noel

Boring, gory, and very low brow Pilot episode. I was excited for this show. I think some of the best most terrifying things about Pennywise are the subtle horrors. The way he draws you in and then feasts on your fear. The opening “scare” was just gross and bizarre. The acting felt very flat. I just don’t care about any of these characters and nothing grabbed me. Eventually we just turned it off. I doubt I’ll attempt to watch any more.

I’d say it’s a solid 3.5 ⭐️ but I’ll round up. Sufficiently spooky with enough creepy twists and turns to keep you interested and enough plot to drive the story. I feel like it could have landed a more solid ending, but you still get enough to not walk away dissatisfied. It definitely serves for a creepy Halloween watch.

A really poor representation of the book. Heavy-handed and rushed without a bit of the subtlety of Suzanne Collins’ world. The casting of Coriolanus Snow was pretty good though honestly he was more likable in the movie than the book. Rachel Ziegler, while a beautiful singer, didn’t play Lucy Gray at all as she was written. She was portrayed as volatile, hateful, and angry instead of clever, composed, and eternally charming. The dynamics between the capital students learning about their own humanity and the fact that the District children were people much like them was totally abandoned for overdramatic fight scenes that never happened in the book. The best possible choices this movie made was casting Peter Dinklage as Dean Highbottom and Viola Davis as Dr Gaul. They were both spectacular as always.

I started this series and was unimpressed with the first episode. The story is slow and the characters do not start out as particularly engaging. The visuals are beautiful and I love the costumes. The acting is not the best. After a couple of years I started it again and the series does get better. Nynaeve, Lan, and Rand shine particularly. I recommend giving it at least three episodes before making an ultimate decision.

I was really excited for this series. I adore Aldis Hodge. He is an extremely engaging actor. James Patterson novels are brilliant and full of twists and turns. Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider with Morgan Freeman were very good. Everything was lined up for this to be an exceptional adaptation. Unfortunately the writing was not engaging and the negative racist portrayal of cops was tiresome. Television and movies are meant to be escapism. I wanted a smart gripping mystery thriller not to be barraged with politics and agendas and hatred. I’ll skip this one.

Cheesy and underwhelming with a weird twist that doesn’t really make any sense. It never actually delivers on scares or feels and the story remains slow and the characters remain two-dimensional. The soundtrack and costumes are really the best part of the movie.

This movie was… strange. Very dark, a little confusing, and kind of anticlimactic. It was an interesting concept. There was something there, but it just kind of fell flat.

Brutal sad and intriguing. This has really excellent acting and keeps you engaged in the story. The young talent is especially exceptional. I can’t wait to finish the series.

Thriller seems like an exaggeration when referring to this movie. It takes three tried and true talented actors and gives them the most lifeless and generally uninteresting characters to play. The whole thing feels rather dark, aimless, pretentious, and meandering. I’m not sure what any single character’s reasoning or intentions are. For a more than two hour movie we might could have spent a little more time on character development or plot. But unto each their own.

This movie was so incredibly sinister and creepy. I absolutely loved it. A horror film with thought behind it. It’ll definitely be a horror staple from now on.