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The remake trailer looks good, hope ending isn't silly.


A spider? Please

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I think that special effects have come a long ways, but I'll just hold my breath when the moment comes and hope they made the right decision.

I admit, what has me the most nervous is how they choose to handle the sexual aspects of the climax (no pun intended).

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In the remake you mean?

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Yes. I don't know how that will be done, and it's always been a scene that seemed divisive among fans of the book. It will be interesting to learn how they choose to handle that.

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I read the novel kind of recently so I have a clear memory of the very end. It plays out in a way where it's one of those endings that would be hard to translate into a movie. I hope they try to convey this as well as possible. I am talking about the very last two pages or so of the book. Up to this point it shows how everyone has lost most memory of what happened as children and are in the process of forgetting each other. Anyway the last paragraph I believe indicates this has happened to Bill too. The last few sentences says something regarding how Bill would sometimes wake up presumably from a dream and almost remember his childhood. I found this last sentence very moving for some reason. This could be conveyed into film I believe. Bill dreams of his friends and when he wakes up and starts to tell the dream he pauses when he is about to say his friends names. Just a bunch of kids that for some dumb reason seemed familiar. I thought the whole forgetting of the events and of each other was a deep part of the ending.

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Lasteven- It wasn't cause of the technology but the budget, Many TV shows that had spiders that were animatronics or CGI or both looked more realistic than that spider in this Mini-Series

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Missnat84-The spider was not it's true form This is however, not It's "true form," it is simply the closest the human mind can come to approximating it. -It's natural form exists in a realm beyond the physical, which It calls the "deadlights" (described as writhing, destructive orange lights). Coming face to face with the deadlights drives any living being instantly insane. Bill comes dangerously close to seeing the deadlights; after looking into It's eyes, he saw the shape behind the shape for a brief moment. He described the sight as an endless, crawling hairy creature made of orange light.

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Well, I just watched the remake, and the ending was still silly. It was just silly in a different way. Basically, the losers made Pennywise vulnerable and defeated it by being mean to it and calling it names.

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