Where Bill Skarsgard puts on a wonderful perfomance as an evil clown.
IT (2017)
The town of Derry in Maine USA has a problem, and no it's not a killer clown. It's that people there are stupid and/or cruel, and everyone enjoys splitting up and doing ridiculously stupid things like... reaching into a sewer where there's a freaking creepy clown talking to you? Yep, the standard horror stupidity-fare then. That aside, we've got a bunch of kids, bonded together from being bullied by the same bullies, who decide to go up against this evil (because adults don't care enough I guess [or are complicit, but the film failed to that clearly]), and this unlikely quest is pretty freaking cool and gross at the same time. Other than people passing the idiot ball around I did quite like this flick. Thumbs up!
IT: Chapter 2 (2019)
The surviving heroes from last time are now all grown up and are called back to Derry to face the killer clown once again, only this time most of them forgot what happened last time and its kinda frustrating to see them make the same damn mistakes over the course of this film. Still good effects and evil clownliness, but it feels like they toned the horror down here and added comedy instead. A segment in the middle which adds a lot of runtime possibly could have been handled better and yeah, I'm feeling the first movie was much stronger than this one. Nice of them to get the kid versions of the heroes back in here though.
IT: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)
Set years before the first movie, we get to learn more about the town with a different group of heroes. I must admit the first episode had me doubting that it would be as good as the movies, until I got to the end of the episode that is. Then it just dials up and up and actually becomes on par if not better than the first flick! With gore and a decently high death count this gets a big thumbs up from me here, and I can't wait to see the next season.
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Sunday, 8 November 2026
IT (2017), IT: Chapter 2 (2019) and IT: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)
Monday, 22 July 2013
Total Annihilation
Part of my XCOM: Defenders of the Earth series!
Soldiers Lost in the Seventh Month: 4
Campaign Total: 25
The end of a combat heavy month saw me with another grade of "A" and with funding from all but one country (since they didn't have a satellite yet). Soon after a giant alien craft was detected over South America, the one place I didn't yet have a Firestorm (it was in transit). Still, I had my last Raven interceptor and its ace pilot Vince McCool so I sent him out to sortie. He lasted 2 seconds before being annihilated by the heavy weapons on alien craft. With not much else I could do about that I turned my attention to a terror strike in Osaka where I decided to send out a freshly hired squaddie team of Clown Face, Rocket Man, Party Girl, Badass, Elvis and Hot Momma to earn their stripes. This time they had the best gear, all wielding plasma weaponry and in titan suits. What could go wrong?
They landed at a tank factory (wtf?) and annihilated the first group (cyberdisk) they saw while Clown Face busily saved civvies in the AO. Then came a zombie horde with crazy chrysallids and a sectopod. Things got very hairy as Party Girl handled the zombies while Clown Face was alloy-cannoning (turns out it's not that good) sectopods and the rest of the team focused fire on the mecha. It wasn't enough to take down the mechanical horror which then made Hot Momma live up to her name by disintegrating her with its special beam cannon. Her horrible death shriek spurred the team on to eliminate the robot in the next round. Luckily the surviving chrysallids decided to flee/eat other things and left combat only to be replaced by a muton berserker squad.
Why didn't I think of that?
With no more explosives and unlucky shooting the berserker pummeled Clown Face's skull into a fine mist and even punched Elvis (only the second man to survive such a hit - the first being Hitler in an earlier mission) before being taken down. With a few rounds to regroup and reload the remaining mutons and chrysallids were not an issue. 4 out of 18 civilians saved. Mission complete!
Soldiers Lost in the Seventh Month: 4
Campaign Total: 25
The end of a combat heavy month saw me with another grade of "A" and with funding from all but one country (since they didn't have a satellite yet). Soon after a giant alien craft was detected over South America, the one place I didn't yet have a Firestorm (it was in transit). Still, I had my last Raven interceptor and its ace pilot Vince McCool so I sent him out to sortie. He lasted 2 seconds before being annihilated by the heavy weapons on alien craft. With not much else I could do about that I turned my attention to a terror strike in Osaka where I decided to send out a freshly hired squaddie team of Clown Face, Rocket Man, Party Girl, Badass, Elvis and Hot Momma to earn their stripes. This time they had the best gear, all wielding plasma weaponry and in titan suits. What could go wrong?
They landed at a tank factory (wtf?) and annihilated the first group (cyberdisk) they saw while Clown Face busily saved civvies in the AO. Then came a zombie horde with crazy chrysallids and a sectopod. Things got very hairy as Party Girl handled the zombies while Clown Face was alloy-cannoning (turns out it's not that good) sectopods and the rest of the team focused fire on the mecha. It wasn't enough to take down the mechanical horror which then made Hot Momma live up to her name by disintegrating her with its special beam cannon. Her horrible death shriek spurred the team on to eliminate the robot in the next round. Luckily the surviving chrysallids decided to flee/eat other things and left combat only to be replaced by a muton berserker squad.
Why didn't I think of that?
With no more explosives and unlucky shooting the berserker pummeled Clown Face's skull into a fine mist and even punched Elvis (only the second man to survive such a hit - the first being Hitler in an earlier mission) before being taken down. With a few rounds to regroup and reload the remaining mutons and chrysallids were not an issue. 4 out of 18 civilians saved. Mission complete!
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