But with its nearly three-hour run time, there were so many new flashes of Derry childhood that you had to question whether or not these films should have stuck to the novel’s back-and-forth structure in the first place.
IT was so unique when it came to telling the story of the novel, because it decided to exclusively tell the story of the group’s shared childhood, leaving IT Chapter Two to deal with the older half of the proceedings, presumably with flashbacks here and there to really drive the story home.