the 1990 movie was what got me into Stephen king when I was a kid. I started reading the book around age 11 but it was too big and grown up for me. I have seen the movie 100 times and it’s lived I my mind rent free all these years.
I started the book recently after rewatching the new movies and its made me feel a whole lotta love for the script writers of the originally 90s picture.
i know it was clumsy and cheesy on the whole. it’s not going down in history as one of the best movies ever made but reading the book I can see so many direct pieces of dialogue taken from the pages and added to the movie. there are some direct quotes and indirect ones. It shows that the original writers really knew the story inside and out.
There was also a great deal of attention paid to small easter eggs that’s were either direct or indirect. even thought the movie couldn’t pull off the book—especially back then on a small budget—I think it encapsulates the overall feeling of the book so well now I’m reading it.
I’m loving the book so far. Henry bowers is more menacing than any movie can portray!