gameoverman wrote:Only thing I didn't like is it felt long. It was not boring per se, but it's one of those movies that feels longer than it is. I might have liked it more if they didn't spend so much time on each individual kid's run in with Pennywise. That's the part that dragged a bit for me. I think that's one of those things that works better in book form. For a movie maybe just have them all see Pennywise together at once. For one thing, in the movie the 'he appears as what scares you most' thing doesn't really pay off. What scared Eddie most looks an awful lot like what scares Ben the most, and what scared Mike was kind of 'meh'. What scared Bill and Beverly the most was so obviously predictable did the movie really need to spend time on that? I think not.
I had the complete opposite reaction here. My one major complaint about the movie was that it was just too action-oriented. It felt like it moved from Pennywise to Bowers to Abusive Parent to Pennywise to Bowers, et cetera, with hardly any time to breathe and actually develop the characters. This had a two-pronged effect of making the children more difficult to sympathize with, while also making "It" less frightening, simply due to screen-time.
The only major scene in the entire movie that I can really recall that lacked menace was the swimming scene. I'm sure there were others (right? ...), but that was just the only one I could think of.
I have mixed feelings about how they handled the showdown at the end, but apart from those two things I did really enjoy it. I thought the opening sequence was just wonderful and perfectly set the tone for the rest of the film.
The second part of the original movie (as well as the novel) were decidedly worse in my opinion, but I'm still looking forward to the sequel here.