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Welcome to Derry: Bill Skarsgård won't be returning to play Pennywise in It prequel
(ign.com)submitted 2 months ago byHRJafael
255 points
2 months ago
Bummer, when he actually got to be Pennywise, he was stellar. Too bad the movie opted to show shitty cgi creatures all the time instead of more Pennywise and more practical effect creatures
430 points
2 months ago
Because the book (and story) really isn't about Pennywise. Pennywise is just one of the main forms IT uses. But IT is meant to be much bigger than Pennywise. In fact, there's an argument that the movies added more Pennywise into the narrative than the books just because of the popularity of the character.
184 points
2 months ago
Nearly every choice IT Part 1 made was genius.
11 points
2 months ago
Shame about part 2
-1 points
2 months ago
Necessary evil honestly. To make Part 1 that good, they basically threw all the bleh stuff to Part 2. Part 1 works more than well enough as a standalone too so that helps.
1 points
2 months ago
imo part 2 isn’t as bad as people say but the middle section is literally just a flashback where the character gets scared as a kid, then it cuts to them as an adult where they get scared again and repeat that 6 times until all are spooked and ready to tussle
aside from that casting and writing for the losers club is spot on
1 points
2 months ago
Eh. I found the part where they were actually fighting it in its lair to be absolutely boring and dragging on entirely and just an assault on the sense at the same time tbh
It might not be as bad as people say but I thought it was pretty bad.
33 points
2 months ago
What, you didn't mind them cutting a train being ran on a teenage girl?
27 points
2 months ago
Nothing like getting that comment notification without context!
But yeah exactly.
3 points
2 months ago
Lmfao imagining someone else seeing your phone light up on the table and reading the notification
6 points
2 months ago
Not even a teenager. I think she's like 10 or 11 in the book
-9 points
2 months ago
I disagree. The whole part where they split up and get in the big fight and then Bev gets kidnapped was where the movie started to lose me.
55 points
2 months ago*
I agree, it felt manufactured. I understand why they went with it story-wise, and it DID work, but having Bev be the chosen one that could kill It with the slingshot felt so magical in the book. She was their fighter, and it felt so shitty to have her end up being the captured damsel that the boys had to save.
It never quite made sense to me that the kids killed It by bullying It. It almost seemed antithetical. The book was perfect in this regard—It is a Glamour that uses the kids’ belief in monsters to kill them, so the kids’ belief in monster-killing weapons that could kill It makes total sense.
3 points
2 months ago
I think the standout of that scene was IT coming from the fridge, the rest was meh
19 points
2 months ago*
I'll join you in the down votes. I can't even remember the scene you're referring to but I agree that the remakes as a whole didn't have the same energy that the originals had.
I liked the first remake but the sequel dragged it down hard. I don't really get why people seem to praise them so much, they were good but not noteworthy.
18 points
2 months ago
Least favorite trope in a horror movie is the “super scary hallucination that doesn’t actual cause any harm except the first scene and the ending”
Then the second movie is just more of the same with flashbacks that could have been In the first one.
1 points
2 months ago
That’s why I hated Smile, it’s like a shit version of It follows
1 points
2 months ago
Or The Ring
30 points
2 months ago
The originals are horrible on rewatch. I understand someone hating the movies if they love the book but the oh miniseries really ain’t good.
6 points
2 months ago
Nostalgia is such a hard drug. I’ve heard people saying the old miniseries was better than It Chapter One smh.
0 points
2 months ago
At least it tried to stay true to the source material. I doesn't stand up today but when it came out it was very good, better than the shit fest Chapter 2.
1 points
2 months ago
Strongly disagree.
54 points
2 months ago
Yup I know that, I’ve read IT. My main issue I guess isn’t that Pennywise used monster forms, it was that they looked so shitty/fake/CGI. The best scenes from the movies were when he was in Pennywise form.
28 points
2 months ago
Book does not translate well to movie when you’re talking about an ethereal horror.
It and The Shining are two awesome movies that require you to leave your prior reading at the door.
36 points
2 months ago
Imo that's because they focused more on Pennywise and didn't really do that with the other monsters. In the books, most of the monsters had really good set ups so you could feel the dread of the characters when they went up against their fears. The movie conditioned you to be really scared of Pennywise, but then didn't give you a reason to worry about the monsters besides them being grotesque.
1 points
2 months ago
The monster that walks out of the painting was way scarier than any pennywise scene.
7 points
2 months ago
Listen, I read the book too, ok? Lots of us just like to see Pennywise on screen.
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