re: It(2017) Rotton Tomatoes score watch - currently 90%

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This is less an adaptation of the book and more a Cliff Notes version of the TV mini-series.

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“It” just jumps from scene to scares with no connection or coherence to thread them together other than the mere fact that they’ve been placed on top of one-another, like toys mixed up from different sets.

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Time has worked an odd switch on Stephen King. The recent TV series Stranger Things – a sort of illustrated essay on High Kingiana – tied the man to a period. He began writing in the 1970s. He is still writing effectively today. But that show framed his key tropes in endless 1980s ephemera. He now seems as much a signifier of the Reagan era as leg warmers or Pac-Man.

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The screenplay hacks the story apart with more ruthlessness than clarity.

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Those unfamiliar with the story will have greater trouble working out what the heck is going on.

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When all else fails, let’s have the mad clown jump loudly from the nearest large box.

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The final impression is of middle-ranking Kingiana sold and displayed by the yard. Have some kids on bicycles. Have a little New England gothic. Have some pop-cultural nostalgia.

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