See It to believe It

Rating: 9/10 (14 September 2017)

I'm truly surprised by some of the negative reviews for this movie. Honestly the 1 star ratings are absolute nonsense and to be fair, anything below a 6 rating is questionable at best. Is this a perfect rendition of the novel...? Of course not. Of all the books I've read that made it to film, I cannot think of a single one that was spot on.
That being said, I've been a horror movie fan for over 30 years and to say I've seen a ton of horror films in that time is putting it mildly. There's no way that you can go into this with an open mind and come out saying it (IT) was a 1 star movie. It has genuinely creepy moments and some solid jump scares. And the CGI that everyone is whining about was rendered very well. Let's face it, practical FX are cool, but you can certainly tell it's rubber a lot of times so yes, sometimes CGI is obvious as well. But this movie has some of the best CGI I've seen aside from the massive budget super hero movies of late.
So if you are going to see this thinking it will be an exact telling of the novel,you'll be disappointed as you would with any film churned from a best selling novel. If you go in thinking it's going to be a remake of the TV series (which thankfully it's not because the only good thing about that was Tim Curry's performance, which could have been even better on the big screen)well you'll be disappointed as well. Me...I'm going to go see it again while it's still on the big screen.