7) IT (2017)-It was pretty good. Bill Skaarsgard found his own good way into Pennywise's skin, which was a pleasant surprise. That role will always belong to Tim Curry, but Skaarsgard did himself proud and held his own. The kids were all better than average American kid actors, particularly Finn Wolfhard. And the practical effects were better than the CGI, which was another nice surprise! The music was a nice walk down memory lane, too--I had forgotten about 'Dear God', and I LOVED that song at one time. I thought it was funny that as much as some people scoff at Mick Garris' King adaptations, they're raving about this movie in which SO many shots are Garris-style (lol).
What I didn't like:
1) the dark, dark scenes (what, are these people afraid of light?), except when the lights were flickering (hipster horror trope); 2) that they gave all Mike's best scenes/lines to Ben; 3) very little relationship development. It was difficult to see why these kids would risk their lives for each other. That could have been remedied easily and pretty economically reasonably with as little as a couple of minutes montage (80s chic--lol) of them doing ANYTHING together that would build trust and caring; 4) that they sexualized Bev AND made her a stereotypical damsel in distress. In the book she was the most badass of them all-this movie just made her an object to be rescued by the boys.
Still, it was a decent adaptation, and an okay movie. I'm curious what they'll do with the next part, that's for sure.
