Hey, Y'all Are Forgetting A Whole Lot of History To Film

Rating: 2/10 (7 June 2020)

I haven't read every review here, but I agree if the whole crux of the movies rests on the Losers 27 years ago and in the present, it is like trying to make a meal out of a bag of potato chips--it is mostly air trapped in a big wind-bag of a few tasty morsels. I am an author so I always pay more attention to the book than the movie. Everybody is focusing on the Losers, then and now. But IT, in all its forms, is just as much of a character as Derry is because it has shaped the town for centuries to meet its needs.
IT comes to feed every 27 years for roughly a one year period. Its cycle starts with a particularly gruesome killing, and ends its cycle with a bloodbath. In Stephen King's book, some of the bombshells that closed out IT's season was a lumberjack going mad and chopping men up inside of a barroom like he was in a trance; the shooting massacre in the main street of Derry, Bonny and Clyde style, of a minor gang in the 1920s who were just passing through when they had car trouble; an Easter egg hunt for all of the kids of the town held out by a factory that exploded during the festivities and killed tens of children and adults; and my favorite recounting, the burning of The Black Spot, a club the black enlisted men at the army base in Derry built with the approval of their superiors because they weren't allowed to go to the whites' only club on base, circa WWII. IT didn't just feed on children; IT also fed on the root of adult fears too.
I think if the above had been included, IT could've been made into THREE movies that tied up all loose ends that are left hanging. Beverly's backstory could've been carried out to its conclusion with the death of her control freak husband. Bill finding and buying Silver would actually have a point instead of just being a throw-away cameo (which makes me wonder if Stephen King really has that accent since he has lived most of his life in Maine?) There's no reason to find Silver again except for the appearence of Bill's wife.
The one thing I LOVED about the movie was how Ben and Beverly saved each other from their respective fears which were about to kill them. Ben knew Beverly thought Bill wrote the poem from an earlier conversation, and had it hidden in him that he would always be known as the fat kid who never got the girl. But he whipped out that poem that gave her the strength to beat the trap she was in, so that she could save him.
The clown is sparingly used, as are the other incarnations used to scare the Losers. In the book, they aren't Mentally CGI'd on steroids. It is the simplest things in life that are the scariest. The rest is ridiculous.
Anyway, my thoughts that are definitely different because I want more of what I think are the most interesting parts of the story.