by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
One thing I noticed about the most recent IT movie is they used the old “use a glance to show relationships” technique. While obviously this is useful, at times it can be a bit ponderous.
I know why they did it — they wanted to compress a huge book down to something useable. But I would much rather they told a great story in movie form than insult viewers. Ok, we get it, you want to establish a love triangle really quick.
Meh. Give me character development. Instead of creating a choppy, muddled mess, write a screenplay “inspired by” a portion of IT. A lot of great movies are good movies first and attempt to tell the story of the original novel second.
Why is it so hard for people in Hollywood to stop being hacks and actually tell a good story?
