One of the best movies of 2017

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2017)

I didn't get to see a preview screening of IT but what influenced me to watch this movie was the constant good reviews by people and celebrities like The Rock posting an Instagram post praising the film, but also because I thought it was exciting bringing back a classic Stephen King adaption and upgrading it to a good length. The movie overall was brilliant and believe it or not it felt quite different to IT ( 1990 ). I went into the cinema with high expectations and it did meet them I have to say. In terms of it being scary and giving you nightmares may be a little over-exaggerated, sure the movie was scary especially if you imagine yourself as the children of Derry, but it wasn't cover your eyes scary if you know what I mean.
The actors were spectacular and I'm talking more about the main children cast and being probably the same age as them myself I would die to be a cast as one of the children in the losers club. The actors were so professional that you really feel as if they are friends and that they have a close bond. What really impressed me was Jaeden Lieberher's performance. He was probably one of the main characters but also he managed to take on stuttering for the whole movie which I thought turned out amazing considering him being about fourteen years old. Finn Wolfhard as Richie was probably my favorite character for introducing a comedic dialogue into the movie which kind of chilled out the cinema. Bill Skarsgård plays a good clown and all I could think was: next Joker. I thought the way he talked was very disturbing and the voice you could remember for a long time, I will always think of him as Pennywise The Dancing Clown.
There was a lot of special effects that the movie took advantage of because of the disadvantage the 1990 version had with lack of effects. I thought they used it in mostly a decent amount of times and ways which didn't spoil the movie.
The thing I liked about what the director did was express the name of the clown and the backstory, in IT ( 1990 ), Pennywise was barely said but in this 2017 version they introduce the clown as Pennywise The Dancing clown, and also they expressed how Pennywise returns to Derry every 27 years which I thought made the movie better. I thought the ending wasn't bad although I'm not gonna go into too much detail so I don't spoil the movie, I am going to say it is a must see and the movie deserves the credit it is getting when the amount of work that went into the movie and the marketing team was really smart when promoting the movie like putting red balloons in the sewers on the premiere night and putting Snapchat filters for the movie and all sorts of stuff, and I really like how a red balloon is now a symbol for the movie. I am glad I can call this movie a classic.