Good movie, especially when compared to the 1990 version

Rating: 7/10 (16 September 2017)

***May Contain Spoilers***
I liked IT. I read the book in the late 1980s and compared to some other inferior Stephen King book to film interpretations it was surprisingly good. For example, The Tommyknockers, was a truly poor movie, there are many other to discuss, but for for me this one was the worst. Obviously there are a few memorable movies such as the Shawshank Redemption, which for me was the best.
So why do the Stephen King book to film interpretations hit so issues and cause so many negative comments in the IMDb reviews? It is because the Stephen King books are very complex both in story and in character development - Hollywood are in "most" cases extremely poor when translating such stories and characters; preferring to keep things very simple (and predictable for the audience) and is so doing, heavily watering down the content until there is little or none of the original rich tapestry of the story and characters remaining.
I was surprised that a remake of "IT" was made considering how bad the original TV movie version was in 1990. It was a poor movie due to the reasons I have listed above.
But being an eternal optimist I went to see the movie, and I was pleasantly surprised. Was it perfect? Absolutely NOT - and parts of the story was omitted again due to the reasons listed above. Having said that the movie tried to remain faithful to the book, it least as much Hollywood would allow the film makers.
I am looking forward to 2nd part with some concern: The 1990 version completely destroyed the cross over between the teenage characters and the adult characters and I had to push myself to continue to watch through to the end. The end of the movie was just a total let down.
In the book, it revealed the true nature of IT and explained that what the adults saw, was only what the human mind could accept seeing I.E what IT actually was, was something truly terrible and beyond human comprehension
Therefore I am hoping that Part 2 of IT 2017, will be true to the book (well.....as much as Hollywood will allow).