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Originally Posted by Blindside_137
I wasn't too impressed.
Overall I enjoyed the movie though. Some of the things I didn't like are below.
I love stranger things, but I didn't like having one of the stars from that show playing almost the exact same character in IT. Someone said, "hey let's throw some binoculars on his face and maybe people won't recognize him"... lol
Also, the banter with the kids was great. However, it is literally a carbon copy of stranger things. So again, my love for that series made me confused on what I'm watching. Is it stranger things or am I watching IT? Regardless, it felt like a rip off.
What I can not stand is that most scary movies use the same cookie cutter method of getting the audience scared. Let's have some loud shrill noises as the monster races towards the camera. This happened way too much. I wanted more of the slow burning creepy stuff like the opening scenes where we are wondering if IT is in the basement or not when he grabs the wax. Or wondering what on earth is going to happen when the boat falls into the drain. Those scenes made my stomach turn upside down with how it literally made me scare myself, wondering what is going to happen.
My favorite scene was the whole 3 minutes of the boat going down the drain. So it was a bummer to have the same excitement not be replicated the entire remainder of the movie.
Again I thought it was entertaining but could have been much better. And I wish it had its own identity more than feeling like stranger things season 2.
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Something tells me you've never seen the original.