Go Ahead & Hate, But I Don't Like This One Or The Original

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2017)

It defies me this movie is at present an 8.0 (as in the rare territory of a classic like "Gone With The Wind"). True, I haven't read the book, but this isn't a book review and therefore no matter how excellent the book is it's simply not relevant.
What I have seen is the remake of the movie as well as the original. I'm wondering, first why remake this movie as it is pretty lame the first time, at least on-screen (just because the first screen version was lame doesn't mean two lame versions should exist)? Of course we know many paying viewers like it. plus an there's always someone else who wants to re-live something they liked again. Maybe King simply has a Faustian bargain?
So,"IT" get's remade. The new version is some better than the original movie even if it is surprisingly hardly different. The fans know who they are of courseand they will eat this up. I don't care one way or the other so I just call it like it appears to me. I don't think it is particularly scary, a good story, or even a compelling improvement over the lame original.
I am not a fan of this King movie. I don't like the story or the execution of it not once, but twice. I like Sci-Fi- and the paranormal but I am not particularly on-board with anything regarding IT. I'm left with one thought: the book must have been so good you can have not one but two movies based on it 27 years apart. That speaks well for Stephen King as most writers never get one story made into a movie let alone many stories made into many movies and now, it would seem, the same stories are being made into new movies all over again. Though I don't care for either IT movie I certainly am in deep respect of how King connects with an audience even when his tomes are devoid of palpable scares. This stuff is pure pablum and it quite silly to the point of boredom.