IT's not perfect - but IT's close!

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2020)

Why so much dislike for this movie?
Have these people actually bothered reading the book?
Or have they just read a synopsis.
Everything of importance is there. With a little bit missed out, and a little bit added here and there. So what?
Of course the book is better.
Come on! - The book is always better!
But, as adaptations go, this movie does a good job.
So much complaint about the use of CGI. Why? For God's sake have you seen the CGI in movies recently - it's everywhere! And there's so much thats worse than this, (Marvel movies - yawn). I found it to be of high quality with just the right amount of Stephen King type surrealism in the visuals.
Don't forget that much of the horror is in the minds of the victims, using their childhood fears against them. Hence the sometimes comic visuals. Surrealism.
Conquer your fears - you conquer your IT.
Can you not get that?
Were you ever a child?
As for scares. The movie has plenty, but it seems to have become fashionable to NOT be scared these days. Its either lame bravado, or no imagination at all, or sad victims of a need for gross realism in horror movies.
And as for being too long - because so many people now have such a limited attention span, anything over 90 minutes is definitely gonna lose their interest. You sad poor people. Watch YouTube.
Or, wait for Netflix to put this film on with a speed-up option!
This movie is well told, exciting, mostly true to the book and well characterised by the actors. Don't listen to the nay-sayers. There's too many reviewers only writing for the sake of getting out a complaint these days.
And pay no attention to the 'woke' generation who think the end is lame.
Bullying indeed. Standing up to your aggressor is more like it.
Lighten up - enjoy the ride!
Enough said.