Even with all of the problems that the movie has - it's still one of the best Stephen King adaptations out there.

Rating: 6/10 (3 December 2019)

Everybody thinks that kids are immortal and in every story that involves children very rarely something disturbing and horrifying things happens to them and yet Stephen King wanted to do something new and interesting by breaking (or subverting) the tradition, while writing the book "It" and chose to start the story with the death of a kid and using that to introduce the most scariest antagonist in all fiction, so seeing that moment confirms and reinforces our anxiety moving forward and also breaking the illusion that the main characters are safe.
I have not read the book "It", so i don't know how accurate the 2017 movie "It" is, but after seeing the movie adaptation - i immediately want to get my hands on the books. It's a awesome coming-of-age story about kinds trying to overcome their fears and a unstoppable threat without the help of adults and also without knowledge of defending themselves.
To be honest - originally i didn't know what to expect from the movie. Some of Stephen King's adaptations are great, but there are also some that are far from great. "It" did receive positive reviews, but there were also some that didn't liked it all that much. It didn't got my attention at first, when it was showing at the cinema, since there were also other movies that i was more interested in and watching a horror movie with my mother is never a good idea. I saw the movie on digital in the beginning of 2018 and after seeing it for the first time: i thought it was great, but after seeing it again - i did notice flaws that i missed in my first viewing or didn't got my attention at that time and others that i do remember, but that doesn't mean that i didn't enjoy the experience.
There are many things that everyone can appreciate and relate to the movie and there are also things that it's hard to take very seriously. The story is the strongest aspect and seeing how the events play out is interesting. The first scene really does capture your attention and it does this successfully. The characters are very relatable, the dialogue is good (sometimes it can be bad, but i'll mention it later); the cinematography is great, the sound was very good, the acting is shockingly good (which is surprising, since nowadays we only see bad child performances, but there are two performances that i didn't like and i'll mention it later) with Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd being the one that stands out the most, who was fantastic and he was definitely the best part of the movie, but sadly this is where the praising ends and there are many flaws that keeps it from being a great movie.
Even though i praised the story - the first act of the movie is very weak. The way it starts (when they introduce Billy and Georgie) is great, but after that it does get uninteresting and when the second act starts - it gets you hooked to the events that play out and continues strongly to the end of the third act. The first act is the introduction of the characters and this is where i have problems. Many of them are introduced in a clichÃ© way and i'm like "Okay. I've seen this before.", so there's nothing new here for me. I don't know how it is in the book, but it's probably way better. I understand that it's important to do it like that, since the group that they created is called "The Losers" and they have to show that they are outsiders and they are bullied by Henry Bowers, but i still wanted to point that out.
Like i mentioned - the characters are relatable, but some of them are not. The movie focuses on some of the group and have way more development, unlike the other part of the group that are average at best. The characters that i mean are Richie Tozier, Stanley Uris and Mike Hanlon. I'm not saying that are badly written, but they could have been way better presented or they could have develop them more.
The movie does have strong dialogue, but it also had some weak dialogue as well and it wasn't all that convincing, especially Finn Wolfhard' dialogue (who plays Richie Tozier). Most of his lines of dialogue is just cursing and because of that Richie feels more like a kid that is from 2017 (or should i say the 2010s), instead of a kid that is from the 1980s. I think they did that on purpose, so that they can make the movie more edgy (or something, so i don't know) and they didn't even thought of just writing good and normal dialogue.
The visual effects were very fake and they do look very poor at times. There are some instances of good effects, but most of them are very average. The production value is here and you can tell - it's just the effects didn't show all that much of it.
The music is the aspect that i thought it was awful and I couldn't find any positive things that I can mention. It's very forgettable and just like all bad horror movies that we have today - the filmmakers were trying so hard to make it more horror, so what they did was they added jump scare sound or loud noise, because they thought it would make it more scary (aka jump scares) like the scene with Georgie and the introduction of "It" (aka Pennywise) in the sewer. That is a visually fantastic scene, but they ruined it with the loud noise that they put. When will Hollywood learn to stop using that trick? There are many scenes in the movie that could have been scary and worked on their own without the loud noise, but they add them and now they are not scary at all and makes the scares very predictable.
Overall i liked it. There are hints of a great horror movie and ideas that can make "It" very distinct from all horror movies that came before and the ones that we have today and can be also very unique, but sadly it missed the mark in some areas in some aspects. It does have huge potential where the rules of logic don't necessarily apply, when the main antagonist operates from a fantasy nightmare approach, so there are many possibilities of that concept and that's why A Nightmare on Elm Street works so well and "It" does have those ideas, but not fully embracing its potential. With all that said - i'm glad that the audience love the movie and giving it high scores, so like everyone else - i highly recommend it and i'll definitely see it again. For all of the positives and negatives that i listed - i'm giving "It" (2017) a 6.4/10.