Don't waste your money

Rating: 2/10 (8 September 2017)

I was really hoping they wouldn't mess this one up. There's soooo many things wrong with it. I could write a thesis on it. I will start by naming some of my favorite horror movies. The exorcist, Demon Knight, the Descent 1 and 2, the first Conjuring, Sinister, and some of the Saw movies. If you liked any of those you can trust me on this one.
First off, we all knew no one was going to do a better job at playing the character of "IT" then Tim Curry. His voice alone made the clown creepy as hell. I went to see the remake and as soon as the clown opened his mouth I put my head in my hands and was like are you serious. This actor actually tried to sound like Tim Curry instead of making "IT" his own. He came across sounding like he had a mental disability. At this point in the movie, which was pretty much the beginning, I knew it was going to be bad! It's like when they made a nightmare on elm st. without using Robert Englund. That guy is Freddy Krueger ! When you think of Freddy you see his face and hear his voice.
Maybe I'm completely desensitized but it was not scary at all. There was way too much CGI which I hate. I think it's better to not use it so much which is what made the first one so great. If you watch something like Demon Knight or the Descent and then watch this you'll see the difference.
There was one part where the clown says beep beep Richie. Now in the original there was a reason for it. Richie's friends would say that when they wanted him to stop joking around. In the remake his friends never say that to him so it doesn't make sense for the clown to say it at all. I really think they should have made a sequel as opposed to a remake. Don't remake something if you can't make it better than the original
Long story short, it was thrown together and they could have done a way better job. I have no idea why it's getting such high ratings.. I think the reason I don't like it is because I've seen the original way too many times and went in there with high expectation : ( Now a friend of mine offered to take me to see it again for FREE because they didn't see it. I said absolutely not. I'm not wasting another 2 hours of my life.