I lOVE IT! NOT A REMAKE!

Rating: 10/10 (10 May 2019)

First of all let me make you all be aware...VERY aware since none of you seem to be...IT (2017) is NOT, I repeat NOT! a reboot! It is simply another film adaptation of the Stephen King book, this movie is not trying to be anything like the 1990 miniseries (which I must say aged very poorly and is hardly watchable for me anymore). However IT (2017) was a thrilling, entertaining, funny, and bloody ride! This film made you feel a variety of different emotions throughout the two hours! Happy, Sad, Silly, Scared, Disturbed, etc...And it all fits nicely together, not enough humor to make it a straight comedy, it's still a frightening film! Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise was by far the BEST casting I've ever seen!!! I can't think of anyone else who could have pulled off Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise!!! Even Tim Curry's Pennywise ain't got nothing on 2017 Pennywise!!!! Bill Skarsgard brought the character of Pennywise a HUGE fear factor rather than the 1990 movie did, In this film Pennywise is more intimidating and terrifying, yet still friendly looking and playful and I even got a hint of sweetness of Pennywise during the Georgie scene in the beginning! Pennywise made a terrifying attempt to connect with the boy and laugh with him and actually talk to him and kinda get to know him a bit...yet at the same time that's very disturbing because you KNOW what's about to come! It builds up the suspense and anticipation and before you know it, Pennywise's sharp fangs emerge from his mouth and he's biting Georige's arm off! This scene was terrifying especially since they showed Georgie crawling across the street with one arm and the other gushing blood! Very disturbing, sickening, frightening, and unsettling. That opening scene is one hell of a way to begin a horror film/novel and really PULLS the audience in right then and there. Bill Skarsgard A++++++++ for your acting of Pennywise!!! It was the absolute best!!!!
Now moving onto the kids in this film! O absolutely ADORE the new cast of the losers club! Way more than I did in the 1990 movie! They were all so annoying in the 90s version! Except for young Beverley Marsh of course. But I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE New Beverly Marsh played by the wonderfully talented and beautiful Sophia Lillis!! She did an amazing job as Beverly Marsh and her acting was through the roof!!! By far my FAVORITE of the 2017 Losers club! Then there's Bill Denbrough, played in this film by Jaeden Lieberher, who I thought was another amazing young actor who really NAILED the character of young Bill. The stuttering was perfect! Not too much, not too little either. Just right and he nailed it! When Bill had his mental breakdown scenes about Georgie you could actually FEEL his pain! His acting was so real I felt his pain of losing his little brother, feeling guilty about his death, and his parents becoming distant and strange after the tradgety. You can feel Bill's world turning completely upside down and on top of everything that happens in Bill's home life, he has to deal with a bully at school named Henry Bowers, as well as an evil shapeshifting demon clown picking off all the local children of Derry!!! Damn...rough life!. Last main character I want to mention in the losers Club is Ritchie Tozier played in this film by Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things)...Finn did an amazing job of Ritchie Tozier, he was definitely the funniest character of the lot and he's the legit reason why this movie was funnier than it should have been! But honestly in my opinion any scene that featured Pennywise was legit Terrifying!!!! Ritchie was funny yeah but when Pennywise was in frame it was nothing but FEAR!!.
Moving onto the CGI effects, a lot of the effects were good for the most part! There were some scenes throughout this film that relied just a tad too much on CGI and it killed certain scenes a little bit! Other than that I'd say 97% of the CGI effects for this film are pretty solid.
One last thing I wanted to touch on with this film is the soundtrack score!. The score was amazing! (Forgive me i cant remember the name of the man who composed this soundtrack) but he did an amazing job! The soundtrack really set the atmosphere of the film and setting! The score was many things, it was happy, heart warming, and terrifying and dark! The scene where the leper is chasing Eddie into the yard of the creepy house and the soundtrack that plays right there with the hardcore horror beats was amazing!!! Especially watching it in theaters!
Overall, IT (2017) truly is an amazing modern day horror film! Pennywise is back for the new generation and he's absolutely terrifying!!!! I highly recommend this movie to horror fans or movie goers in general! A great film you dont wanna skip out on rather you're skeptical about this movie or not (judging from the trailer). If you havent seen this movie yet even after a year of its release but have been debating on watching it...just do yourself a favor and watch it! Dont let the negative reviews scare you off! Over half of the negative reviews on here for this film are pathetic and give no REAL reason why this is a bad movie. This film really shouldn't receive anything below a 6.5. Also for people who keep saying this movie is nothing like the book...you too are also wrong! I wonder if half of the people saying that has even read the book themselves! This film is VERY accurate to the novel WAY more than the 1990 movie which took this story in it's own direction. The 2017 version of IT is seriously very accurate to the novel and Stephen King himself even said this film was truly amazing!. So argue with the author of the novel himself the next time you wanna say this movie isnt book accurate! This movie is accurate!!! And it's very good and scary! Definitely check it out!!!!! If you've actually read the book and paid attention to it then you SHOULD like this new adaptation!!!! You'll float too!!!
My rating for IT (2017): Solid 10 out of 10 (no exaggeration!)