IT(2017) ***SPOILER THREAD***

The "Chapter One" nonsense was a little heavy handed.

They knocked it out of the park. fricking nailed it.

The kids were awesome. Richie and Eddie were funnier than in the books. The one-liners had the whole theater rolling.

"Derry was an old beaver trap.."

"Still is. Am I right boys!"

I liked it. Pennywise was ok, I still prefer Tim Curry's version. Everything else about the movie was better than the mini series.

Saw it last night. I liked it a lot. Thought there were definitely a few things I thought could have been better. But um yeah saw this on my drive later that night. Freaked me the frick out.

Loved it. I've never read the book and I saw the mini series years ago, so I didn't remember the details of the story. I thought it was kind of a mix of Stranger Things and Nightmare on Elm Street. Great characters and development. They did a good job establishing the group of kids and the comradery between them was great. A movie about a goofy clown could easily be a joke, but this was better than anything I could have expected. I'm sure a lot of credit is on Stephen King for the original story, but well done putting it on film. I can't wait for the sequel.

I saw it last night and loved it. It was a packed theater and some of those folks were really freaking out. I look forward to Chapter 2.

Just got out. Damn good movie.

saw it this weekend. it was okay, but nothing great. the kids were all awesome, especially Beverly and the "gazebo" kid well-made in most areas. loved the setting. the only bad actor was Bill's dad, that garage scene was horrible "He's DEAD, ALRIGHT? DEAD"

it just really didn't deliver on the scares. they were all predictable jump scares and they all whiffed. the georgie scene was easily the most horrifying given the armless writhing in the water.

did anyone else think the CGI sucked arse? like wtf. and there were a few things that were CGI that couldve easily been practical, like the balloon floating through teh library.

i wanted to cry when the fat kid had no signatures in his yearbook

Fukunaga's version would've been infinitely better.

From reddit:

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"I'm working on making the horror more about suspense than visualization of any creatures. I just don't think that's scary. What could be there, and the sounds and how it interacts with things, is scarier than actual monsters."

then later when he dropped: "I was trying to make an unconventional horror film. It didn't fit into the algorithm of what they knew they could spend and make money back on based on not offending their standard genre audience". Sounds way more interesting.

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just not sure muschietti was the guy for this. good camerawork and atmosphere, but 0 scares. the climax was terrible too. they take turns beating the clown, seriously?



3/5

I loved this fricking movie.

I wanted so badly for this movie to be scary, but I got nothing. Hell, there was a little kid laughing at all the scary parts in my theater. It was a good movie and the kids were great, but it wasn't scary. I was a bit disturbed when It bit off Georgie's arm though.