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I finally watched It 2 and I'm mixed on it. It's definitely better than the original series' second part. The movie also goes for the scares out the gate and has a really good volume of horror moments, a lot of movies feel like they go plot exposition and then a scare and then exposition and then scare and so on; but this one blends the two really well. But the killer for me was the damned CGI. Everything else was working for me! They'd be drip feeding you revelations in a scene that's also got this building unease about what IT is going to do or show up as and then he'd pop up as a blatant CGI creature that wasn't scary because it looked too fake. We're going on 2020 and green screen horror still almost never hits for me (respect to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for being an outlier).
My other complaint is that the characters are supposed to win by being together but felt isolated from each other the whole way through. I get why that happens but I don't think they did a convincing enough job drawing the characters back together or sharing the memories...basically, that's one thing the classic series did better for me. It really built up the connections between some of the characters in a way that I thought this new joint whiffed on. Here's an example, super corny 90's stuff, but it plays up that these are adults reviving their memories of being childhood friends and it even has an It appearance to ruin the fun.
I mark out for that ish right there. Didn't feel like the nostalgia was captured half as well in the new version, but the new version did a much better job on tension building. To put it another way; my favorite moments from any It movie (past or present) still mostly reside in the classics thanks to the payoffs not being killed by CGI. But the classics have huge gaps between those standout points whereas the new version is consistently tense and threatening but ruins its best moments by doing things like the CGI grandma (wrecking what was otherwise my favorite scene in the new series).
My other complaint is that the characters are supposed to win by being together but felt isolated from each other the whole way through. I get why that happens but I don't think they did a convincing enough job drawing the characters back together or sharing the memories...basically, that's one thing the classic series did better for me. It really built up the connections between some of the characters in a way that I thought this new joint whiffed on. Here's an example, super corny 90's stuff, but it plays up that these are adults reviving their memories of being childhood friends and it even has an It appearance to ruin the fun.
I mark out for that ish right there. Didn't feel like the nostalgia was captured half as well in the new version, but the new version did a much better job on tension building. To put it another way; my favorite moments from any It movie (past or present) still mostly reside in the classics thanks to the payoffs not being killed by CGI. But the classics have huge gaps between those standout points whereas the new version is consistently tense and threatening but ruins its best moments by doing things like the CGI grandma (wrecking what was otherwise my favorite scene in the new series).
