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5. It Chapter Two
Adapting the bonkers finale of Stephen King's It is so damn tricky that they goofed it up twice.
In King's novel, Pennywise the Dancing Clown's final form is revealed to be a giant spider, which, in the defense of both It adaptations, is an innately tough concept to get right.
The 1990 It miniseries suffered immensely from its low budget, ensuring the spider prop looked comically unconvincing, but there was hope that Andy Muschietti's modern adaptation would use cutting-edge VFX to make Pennywise's (Bill Skarsgård) spider far more persuasive.
Ultimately, Muschietti proved to many that the Pennywise-spider might be too difficult to execute in live-action form, given that this version more-or-less amounted to a larger Pennywise with elongated, spider-like limbs. It looks better than the miniseries' prop, for sure, but it's still more silly than scary, suggesting that this is one of those concepts that might've been better off reworked into something else for a cinematic adaptation.