What the hell did i just watch? 3 hours of my life I'll never get back

Rating: 1/10 (1 January 2020)

I can't believe this movie had the same director as IT Chaper 1. This movie was absolutely dreadful. Bad acting, extremely far fetched, baseless story, 3 hours of utter nonsense. I know you really can't make comparisons to the original tv IT movie but there's no comparison on how good it was to this. The beginning jumps right in and if you haven't seen the first IT recently you may forget the characters a bit. It seems like they tried to shove in all of Mike's phone calls to the other 6 in a way too short period of time. In the original when Mike called them they all had flashbacks and you really saw what they were up to and how they remembered Derry. The way this movie did it felt rushed and half hazard. The whole thing with Mike's ridiculous ritual was really way out there and so unbelievable. Here Bill I just made you trip on this drug root I put in your drink to see how the ritual will be performed. Did they really have to add a hate crime to the beginning of this movie because I certainly don't remember that in the book? Also the part with the little girl under the bleachers made no sense either. If IT feeds off of fear and is powerless without fear how did he eat a little girl that was standing there smiling and happy to come closer if she seemingly had no fear of him? Plus all of the ridiculous far fetched characters like the old lady at bev's old apartment. Her fear was her father not some monster like old lady. The original when she goes back to the apartment was perfect with her drinking the blood in the tea and such. The part with Richie in the park and the paul bunyan like character chasing him in the park was so ridiculous. The fears just didn't match up properly. The end blew as well. I don't know I can go on and on but this but it was just poorly executed. Ben's character had no heart, the guy playing mike was dreadful, the guy playing Bowers was awful and that whole thing was also very poorly executed. I honestly can say I'm severely disappointed and am thrilled I only paid $6 to watch this on demand instead of in the movies.