Just saw it with my in laws who came up from Florida. They liked it and I liked it too, even though it was repetitive.
The fact that the movie contained so much child abuse and pedophilia is what made it an unappealing film, but there's no way around that. Georgie was just a little boy playing with a boat and they showed him getting his arm bitten off and dragged into the sewer while an old lady watched.
That old lady saw him talking to Pennywise and didn't do anything and then when she saw the trail of blood she still didnt do anything.
That right there let the audience know up front that there was no ex-machina coming to save the kids from IT for the rest of the movie.
That scene also showed how IT's eyes would not stay focused because it was trying to hold a shape, and couldn't even speak properly because it was hungry. The drooling was a fantastic touch because it showed how IT was just a hungry "thing" that wanted to eat a scared kid, but IT had to try to attract it so IT had to act like a clown. All that from the opening scene.
Beverly in the bathroom was a great scene when she was trying to explain the blood to her father, she couldn't even talk properly, whimpering in the corner, great acting.
and her father looked like he was in a trance. The man that's supposed to be there for her was abusing her and then ignored her greatest fears. Again, no ex-machina coming to save the kids from IT.
The fat kid got crapped on the whole movie, the bully carved his stomach up in front of the old folks in the car with the red balloon(no ex-machina
)and then out of all the kids in the house Pennywise decided to scratch him in his stomach again. He over acted right before he kissed Beverly at the end when he was screaming at the other kids "what's wrong with her". They should have re-shot that scene and told him to tone it down.
The black kid did look like a young Muhammad Ali. When Pennywise was hanging by the chain in his delivery slaughterhouse, that was a real creepy moment.
For everyone saying they didnt do the orgy, on the cast you could see "Losers" was changed to "Lovers". They just didnt show the orgy but that big ass red "V" was intended to let you know it went down, I can't believe nobody in here caught that.
Pennywise obviously had some scenes that were meant to be in 3d. A few times I thought damn I should've seen this in 3d
but then remembered there is no 3d so they must've just scrapped it. The painting lady CGI was not well done, very mushy looking, but it looked bad ass when it was eating that kids face. I thought the kid was dead but no he just had some scratches on his face even though 5 rows of teeth were chewing on him for 30 seconds.
The floating tower of dead kids was creepy too and they made it a point to show the power of the "lights" inside of Pennywises mouth, making Beverly float.
Pennywise coming out of the garage was insane, but he was scariest when he was holding Billy at the end and telling the other kids to leave he and Billy alone and it would all be over. You could see how small the kids were compared to Pennywise, even Billy's head fit in Pennywises hands. The group was down to beat IT's ass though.
The thing I liked the most was after they all beat up Pennywise, and I noticed that even all of his blood floated when they were stabing him which was cool, was when they back him to the well and he flipped over it and was holding on by his hands. They cut to a higher shot above him to show the inside of the well, but right before that they showed the front of the well with IT's head and eyes barely showing, and for like 3 seconds in the shot, you could see IT was scared.
Like for those few seconds you could see fear in IT's eyes and IT was really just a "thing" that was now afraid.
"this shyt ain't even scary, the original is better". If you re-watch the original as an adult it's fukking awful, outside of Tim Curry's performance....which wasn't even close to the book version of Pennywise.
