You can read more about Lloyd on his website, or follow his Facebook page. Lloyd also holds fast to the belief that all of life's problems can be answered by The Simpsons, Star Wars, and/or The Lion King. It has also led to solicited requests for a movie review, a book review, and one celebrity interview, with Happy Days alum Donny Most. His time with Collider has allowed Lloyd's passion for writing to explode, with his favorite articles the ones that allow for his sense of humor to shine. Among Lloyd's TV and movie favorites are Jaws, Police Squad!, The Simpsons, and Return of the Killer Tomatoes, while interests off-screen include Funko Pops, Potato-Heads, and DC Comics, all of which bear witness to his rather eclectic pop-culture tastes. What can be said about this amazing - and humble - man that hasn't been said before? Or, more accurately, that can be said in public? Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Lloyd is a master of puns and a humorist, who has authored one pun book to date - Pun and Grimeish Mint - and working on a second. Lloyd 'Happy Trails' Farley: the man, the myth, the legend. His Pennywise also benefits from a larger budget, allowing for scenes like Beverly ( Jessica Chastain) being attacked by Pennywise as the CGI Mrs. Skarsgård doesn't use humor as much, but is constantly present in the background, in pictures and in people. He also has a penchant for being places one would not expect him to be, like in a graveyard gleefully digging holes. Curry adds humor to horror in his portrayal, like asking Richie ( Harry Anderson) "Say, do you have Prince Albert in a can?" while taunting him with a blood-filled library. Skarsgård's eyes carry more menace behind them, but then he adds this super creepy ability to make his eyes go in different directions. until the eyes turn red, and he goes in for the kill. We wanted someone who created a Pennywise character that would stand on its own and Bill came in and 's Joker created this character. Pennywise is staring at Georgie, but it almost looks like he's not seeing anything at all. This is most evident at the beginning, when Curry is talking to Georgie ( Tony Dakota). Curry's Pennywise has dead, lifeless eyes that are almost indescribable, staring ahead almost vacantly, but not. But I can guarantee I'll watch the new movie and upcoming sequel about ten times as often as I'll go back to the miniseries.Both actors play Pennywise's creepiness factor different, but effectively. Cutting down the source material into a little more than 3 hours of content that had to be suitable for network TV pretty much guaranteed that it wouldn't be great, and there were scenes that I did like. Given that they changed adult Richie into a comedian, maybe they could have actually made him funny either as a child or an adult? This to me was one of the biggest contrasts with the new movie.Īll that said, I didn't think it was terrible. I couldn't get past Bill's stupid ponytail and poor Beverly had the most cringe-inducing line with "why is It so mean?" The adults.well, I guess John Ritter and the actor who played Mike were okay. I thought young Bill, Beverly, and Ben were the best.in fact, I would rank Emily Perkins's Beverly very close to Sophia Lillis's performance in the new movie. (And I didn't see why his performance is considered to be so iconic, either). No offense at all to anyone who loves it, but how was this considered scary? I get the constraints of a made-for-TV movie and why the violence was minimized, but I didn't even find Tim Curry's Pennywise to be scary. I watched it alone and then watched it again with my wife. So I've read the book at least half a dozen times, saw the new movie in the theater four times, but never saw the miniseries until a couple weeks ago.
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