Yup that's what made the scene. How he just literally stopped and just stared. Made the whole encounter unsettling.
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Yup that's what made the scene. How he just literally stopped and just stared. Made the whole encounter unsettling.
Tricky I Shadow
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Wow, the sewer scene is perfect and will more than likely become pretty iconic. My interest in this movie has now doubled.
That's a pretty old clip actually.
Development
Member
Damn, this is gonna be good
Really?=O
Kind of, they showed most of it in a trailer a while ago but cut away to other scenes when the balloon popped.
ChubbyHuggs
Member
What... I ignore this thread for a few days and miss a 4 minute clip? D;
Kyleripman
Member
Yep.
psychotron
Member
At the end he says the you'll float too line and laughs.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
FUCK THAT
ChubbyHuggs
Member
Was it good?
Definitely, in fact most people here liked the clip!
That was pretty cool. Used my Gear VR. I'll be sure to show this to my friends, and probably jumpscare them when they take off the headset
ChubbyHuggs
Member
Just kept seeing people talk about drool.
Kyleripman
Member
Damn, wish I had any kind of VR. Still will have to check it out later.
They also liked the new Pennywise and how well done that scene was.
editing is kind of bad on this no ?
the Stranger Things kid magically moves 5 meters between 2 cuts to get closer to the one with the shoe
the kids sentences are way too close together, feels like gilmore girls or something
bad transition to the baloon cut...
maybe Im too old
The scene was very good. It was part of Georgie's interaction with Pennywise in the storm drain, which was really well acted and had a lot of nuance. It was our first real look at Pennywise, and the actor nails the feeling that there's something fundamentally off about him (other than him being in the storm drain) without going over the top, and the performance is filled with just barely veiled menace. The actor playing Georgie is great.
It also showed how true to the book the portrayal is. Dialogue is not word for word, but Pennywise (and Georgie) are strongly reminiscent of their portrayal in the novel. Huge confidence boost for the film in pretty much every way.
SuperStiltzkin
Member
These clips are usually truncated versions of the actual scenes in the movie to keep the clips short.
Yeah, thought so. Hope so.
Yeah, and I saw someone on reddit mention that the Pennywise/balloon clip at the end is most likely
from his run in with Patrick Hockstetter, not the main group of kids.
Patrick Hockstetter in the sewers about to get lit on fire.
Sent a PM, not sure how to do the invisable quote thing.
More_Badass
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Was watching a trailer I had missed and it showed a glimpse of the
. That quick look at that scene looks way more how I imagined it, compared to the miniseries version
http://i.imgur.com/UoU5F6w.gif
The miniseries version only last like a minute
rock fight
http://i.imgur.com/UoU5F6w.gif
The miniseries version only last like a minute
Thanks! I super appreciate it
Didn't it take place in like,
a gravel pit or quarry or something
ChubbyHuggs
Member
Oh, that's good. I really hope this turns out better than The Dark Tower did. Has it been mentioned if they included the gay couple being attacked in this one? That part always stuck out to me.
Can I get one too?
Spieler Eins
Member
Other than years of fear at nights as a kid afterwards, I have almost no memory of the original and hence can't really speak of nostalgia when watching clips of it. With that said, I just saw both Georgie scenes and I sadly gotta say that I find the original notably superior and creepier. Not only because of Curry, but also some of the details in how it plays out. Though I guess the kid is better in the new one.
It's probably going to be a much better coming off age story going by what people say about the original, but the monster is the main thing I care about, so ....pretty de-hyped for now.
It's probably going to be a much better coming off age story going by what people say about the original, but the monster is the main thing I care about, so ....pretty de-hyped for now.
Robot Pants
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In my opinion the sewer scene moves way too fast. It needs to be slowed down a bit to really have the full effect
SuperStiltzkin
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That's how these preview clips are. They're always edited down to be short.
I guarantee that's the case.
Any other way to watch this?
I believe that's true for a lot of clips, not to mention they cut out the best part.=p
Robot Pants
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Sorry I meant when Pennywise meets Georgie. Is that one edited down too? I hope so.
The clip with Pennywise meeting Georgie runs normally but they cut it short at the end to not give anything away.
SuperStiltzkin
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Oh, the full sewer drain scene I saw that got taken down on tumblr moved at a good pace. It was 3 minutes long? The one that was floating around on youtube a couple days ago was spliced up though and only like 1.5 minutes long and left out a lot of stuff.
More_Badass
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In what ways? Like I get different opinions and all, but I just don't see it. It's not even like when you see a horror movie you don't find scary but can see how others might find it scary; the miniseries scene moves way too so fast, Curry is both over the top and way too normal looking, and sounds like an old smoke-a-pack-a-day grandpa, and his Pennywise had none of the menace or otherworldly horror that makes the creature so memorable.
I don't get what people see in his portrayal or his scenes in the miniseries, even more so after finishing the book a few days ago. If anything, after reading the book, his portrayal is like how Stallone's Dredd is compared to Urban's or the comics
MagnaderAlpha
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It DID, as did the mini-series depiction. In the novel, the rock fight doesn't happen in the Barrens.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
This is a good call
I'd also like to point out that while there's not a lot of music in the new version of the sewer scene, that's not necessarily a negative, whereas there's a lot of music in the miniseries version and it's really distracting and just overall not-good.
Like, as music.
There's a near 4 minute clip, but yeah I remember the sewer scene taking up most of that time.
SuperStiltzkin
Member
The original has a whole lot of circus music which is laying it on thicker than clown makeup.
Yeah the one on tumblr ran uninterrupted and started with Stephen King introducing it. The other one is shorter and cut up, probably because the person filming hid their phone.
MagnaderAlpha
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Related and might be spoilers if it is anyway accurate to how it is portrayed in the movie, but some people have footage of The "It" Experience's "Neibolt House" feature at Hollywood and Vine.
Spieler Eins
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The new one acts fairly over the top throughout, while Curry only gets melodramatic when he's already hooked the kid and prepares for attack. It's shorter but it actually builds up more. I prefer how
Curry answers "I shouldn't talk to strangers" relatively normal to ease in the kid like a kidnapper - just like the rest of the early dialogue -, while the new one is already in over the top mode shaking at the introduction of his name.
What stands out too is the introduction. In the old one
there's nothing in the sewers, yet looking away shortly and in a snip of a finger some clown appears talking - note, nothing to highlight his sudden appearance (excluding the overall soundtrack). Creepy.
New introduction: JUMPSCARE NOISE; GLOWING CGI EYES
New introduction: JUMPSCARE NOISE; GLOWING CGI EYES
Sometimes less is more.
More_Badass
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Eh. I find Curry's more silly and surreal than creepy.The new one acts fairly over the top throughout, while Curry only gets melodramatic when he's already hooked the kid and prepares for attack. It's shorter but it actually builds up more. I prefer howCurry answers "I shouldn't talk to strangers" relatively normal to ease in the kid like a kidnapper - just like the rest of the early dialogue -, while the new one is already in over the top mode shaking at the introduction of his name.
What stands out too is the introduction. In the old onethere's nothing in the sewers, yet looking away shortly and in a snip of a finger some clown appears talking - note, nothing to highlight his sudden appearance (excluding the overall soundtrack). Creepy.
New introduction: JUMPSCARE NOISE; GLOWING CGI EYES
Sometimes less is more.
And the new one emphasized the animalistic predator that is IT, acting like a thing wearing a clown skin suit, just barely being able to hide its otherworldly monstrous nature behind its facade. Of course, besides those hungry stares and salivation like an animal looking at a meal before snapping back its friendly clown disguise. The implications of those quirks and "glitches" in its appearance, like a thing just trying its best to play human, makes it unsettling.
Plus the whole eyes in the darkness is Pennywise and It as intended, complete with that guttural growl of its true form before emerging as the clown, compared to Curry's silly normal clown.
Plus the whole eyes in the darkness is Pennywise and It as intended, complete with that guttural growl of its true form before emerging as the clown, compared to Curry's silly normal clown.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
It always annoyed me that Pennywise had that cheap circus leitmotif in the miniseries.
It sounded terrible, and they played it literally every-time Pennywise appeared on the screen.
I'd never describe Curry's performance as a "silly normal clown". It's really not. That performance scared the living hell out of me as a kid, and I still find it unsettling. It is a pretty big deviation from the books, though. And while I still find it unsettling and interesting, it's not scary to grown-up me.
The new one, as seen in the clip, is scary as hell to me now, though. Maybe that's the difference. Curry's was a child's version of a scary clown. The new one is what an adult knows to be scared of, but would get past a young child. (Such as Georgie.) And as More_Badass said, it's much more nuanced and in line with the book.
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Like, I find that really creepy and effective.
The new one, as seen in the clip, is scary as hell to me now, though. Maybe that's the difference. Curry's was a child's version of a scary clown. The new one is what an adult knows to be scared of, but would get past a young child. (Such as Georgie.) And as More_Badass said, it's much more nuanced and in line with the book.
Edit:
Tell me about the Circus, George.
That was pretty freaky. I'm gonna miss Tim Curry's "They float" face.
It's like he's telling a kid with cancer that he's going to live.
New Pennywise's eyes though...I can't look away.
Like, I find that really creepy and effective.
DroneBrother
Banned
I really need to boycot this thread, hyped as hell for this film