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The new Pennywise looks like an evil cartoon clown

posted 7 years ago by jmcd2007 (424)
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This new character seems very cartoonish, full of CGI and poorly designed to me. Not creepy at all.

[–] whynotwriteme (7720) 7 years ago

How about the constant "Kubrick Stare" the actor does to try to make the clown more menacing? It looks like you said, a cartoon evil clown from Scooby Doo.

[–] jmcd2007 (424) 7 years ago

Agreed. Speaking of which, Bill Skarsgard actually talked about that on a recent episode of "Conan." I believe he mentioned that his brother had some sort of inspiration behind it. This adaptation was still WAY too much of a cartoon based killer clown though. Completely laughable!

[–] Reaperscout (605) 7 years ago

Well, at least the new take is closer to the book. I read the novel and Tim Curry's take is more like something you'd see in an episode of Are You Afraid Of The Dark? or Goosebumps.

[–] Eddym123 (156) 7 years ago

No, not true. Simply by reading the part about Georgie and pennywise totally invalidates what you said. The clown in this movie looks like a villain from spawn or marvel comic book villain. What child would talk to a clown that looks like the one in the recent movie.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

If you read the book, you'll know that Pennywise isn't in it all that much. He comes up about 5 or 6 times and thats it.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7146) 7 years ago

Yeah the CGI was overkill and the silly Scooby voice truly ruined any chance of anyone being scared - including the kids in the movie.