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Saw it only once, but I'll say 7/10. The miniseries is definitely better, but I liked a different take on it too. Excited for part 2
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I've only seen it once and that was in the theater. I absolutely loved it and gave it a 9/10. Ive been meaning to watch it again ever since the BR was released but i'm sort of afraid that I won't enjoy it as much as I did the first time so I keep holding back the rewatch.
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Better than the original mini-series in the sense that it doesn't derail in the second half, but it never really clicks either. It nails a terror-laden, unpleasant mood suiting Pennywise more than the mini-series, I'll concede. And Bill Skarsgard is more memorable than Tim Curry as the crazed demon. But apart from that, I didn't like it much. The kid actors are predictably so-so, the mandatory tomboy girl in particular, the script/plot progression feel more swampy and muddled than they ought to, the climax is kind of weak - again, not as bad as in the mini-series - feeling more like an anti-climax.......
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I doubt you could vouch for that as Curry didn't even figure into the mini-series nearly as much as 2017's Pennywise. But then you likely prefer the mini-series - talk about no accounting for taste - which is still crap and has a woeful second half.
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sharei'm fairly positive on it, though i don't think it really excelled at anything it did. it's not really a particularly frightening movie (certainly no more so than some of the popular horror films of the past few years like the conjuring series, insidious, sinister), and it's not really great as a coming of age story either (maybe it could have gained from shaving off a few of the kids to give the remaining ones more focus). but at the same time, i think it was good enough - there were some fairly effective scenes, the kids were all good, some great imo, & i was never bored or thinking 'get on with it already.'
it's a fairly average movie in many ways, i feel, but there's no shame in being average. 3/5
When I first watched it, I thought it was okay, maybe a 6/10. But after thinking on it a short while, it fell to a 5/10. A re-watch didn't help it in my eyes; it actually really bothered me and I don't know if I could even re-watch it a third time - fell down to a 3/10. I think it starts strong, but falls apart in the middle and gets more ridiculous as the film draws closer to the end.
Loved Tim Curry as Pennywise. Loathed Bill Skarsgård.
6/10
I think it was an improvement over the miniseries. Where I think it excelled the most was through the character of Pennywise. He was more believable as an alien life-form manifested into the shape of a clown. Tim Curry's version just seemed like a man dressed in a clown suit.
It's overuse of jump scares bring it down to a 6 though.