People Don't Seem To Get That This Was Terrible

Rating: 1/10 (16 October 2017)

I hated this movie.
I can't be arsed to go into too much detail. I'll just give my general impressions.
This movie was marketed as having been adapted from Stephen King's modern classic "It." It was about seven children who come together one summer to overcome both their unique personal challenges, and a supernatural monster in their town that feeds on kids every 27 years. It's a brilliant story, a passionate giant of a book.
This movie reduces it into a typical, clichÃ©-ridden, unintelligent, and very bland horror film.
Taken on its own, and without any expectations, it is a fairly decent throwaway popcorn-flick to entertain teenagers. The photography is good. The writing is extremely superficial but still has a thin arc. The special effects are okay. And the jump-scares are amusing for some people.
Taken as an adaptation of the novel, it's an abomination. There is so little character development that by the end of the movie, you can barely tell one character from another. You don't care about any of them because you don't get to know them. They are all contrived cardboard cutouts, and this very much includes the villain "Pennywise" who looks ridiculous, and is reduced to a one-dimensional boogeyman whose existence and motivation is never explained.
The jump scares never end. What the film calls "horror" is an extremely cheap bunch of sound-blasts along with startling close-ups of the handful of mediocre monsters.
The general feel of this movie was one that was written and directed by people who had no idea what the original story they'd adapted this from was about; they just cherry-picked a handful of superficial details (a very few of which I must admit they did right -- the Leper and Butch Bowers' murder) and then added in a bunch of their own ideas which were just weird and stupid (a pharmacist propositioning Beverly? Pennywise beat to death with metal pipes???).
There is a very strange phenomenon going on where people seem to love this movie. I don't fully understand this except that these people don't understand what makes good cinema, and resent anyone who tries to make them aware of this. it's weird, isn't it? it reminds me of feminism, this pig-headed denial of reality. I hazard a guess that it's some weird manifestation of people in America's discontent with a republican presidency.
(edit) never before in my life have I encountered a phenomenon like the almost rabid popular defense of terrible movies like "It 2017" or "Ghostbusters 2016."
Having a profound love of good art, I have had countless arguments with people who think I am wrong in hating these films. All of these arguments have ended in them hurling insults like petulant toddlers in a pram because their love for these rotting placental afterbirths are purely emotional.
What is going on?
Basically, this generation is not just getting more stupid, which is made apparent by their incapacity to recognize banal-assed filmmaking when they see it. they are also possessed of a certain narcissistic constellation of attitudes towards life that border on sociopathic. Their basic paradigm is that there is no right or wrong, and anyone who tries to force them to follow any rules at all is a bad person.
Like closet Nazis, they cling to anything that promotes these sick values with a hysterical fervor. Some more, some less.
That's why some people say they love these movies. Not because they are good movies, but because they promote a certain worldview of cynical selfishness and a disregard for truth and beauty. It's Leftist propaganda.