Now that the dust has settled...

Now that the dust has settled, can we all agree that this was a pretty weak jump scare movie apart from the painting that came alive which was actually somewhat creepy. The original script by Fukunaga would have been better because that actually resembled an R Rated movie. This did not feel R Rated at all but a mere stronger PG 13. The only thing that made it R was the language and the blood. I guess they knew lots of fans of Stranger Things and younger kids would go see this so they made sure it wasn't too horrific but then as they say: WHAT IS THE POINT OF GOING TO SEE A MOVIE IF IT DOESN'T CHALLENGE YOUR VIEW ON THE WORLD?

It's incredibly overrated and the painting was just another example of how CGI does not work. It was laughable shit. It shouldn't have been made at all. It strayed too far from the source material. The fucking made for TV adaptation was more true to the book than this pile.

The kid actors were exceptional though and you really got the impression they're actual friends.

Richie was the only serviceable character, even though they over did the levity and made his character 1 dimensional.
Bev was supposed to be a good girl dealing with untrue rumors. She acted like a whore from the beginning, verifying the rumors. The actress was unremarkable.
Bill and Stan were interchangeable in both attitude and looks.
Eddie was Richie lite. Unremarkable and homogeneous.
Ben's main purpose was to spoon feed plot points and background information during out of place monologues.
Mike was the most underdeveloped and pointless of them all, which is sad considering he's supposed to be the one who stays behind and becomes the orator of their pasts and the history of Derry.

That was just the main characters. The bullies were handled even worse than them. Maybe the actors could have done better with better writing, but the material they had to work with was so poor that anyone who is a fan of the book and the previous adaptation were left disappointed.

>thinks Richie was serviceable
>thinks Eddie is unremarkable and homogeneous when he was clearly best boy in both character and acting

Your opinion is shit.

In regards to the sickly and panicked Eddie spaghetti from the source material? He is absolutely misused and the same as the other characters. Pointlessness. There was a glaring lack of depth when it came to fleshing out these individual characters.

Of course it's a shitty movie, we needed the underage gang bang to complete it.

>He is absolutely misused and the same as the other characters

What are you even on about, the kid playing Eddie managed to come across as an incredibly anxious yet still capable firecracker, which is what Eddie is. I've never seen a child actor prattle on in panic so convincingly before.

Eddie is supposed to be a coward. You have no idea what you're talking about. Half of the child actors were interchangeable.

>Eddie is supposed to be a coward

No he isn't. Read the book, you dumb nigger.

I have. Twice. He's been brainwashed by his mother to think he's sick his entire childhood. He fears his mother and everything else, which makes his sudden burst of courage when protecting Stan with his inhaler during the confrontation with IT that much more satisfying. It's called character development and proper storytelling. The book got it right, the TV movie got it right, and the reboot utterly failed on all fronts.

It's the sound design that ruins it. When a fan edit reworks all the LOUD NOISES, the movie will improve significantly. Save a few of them in the second act, when IT was really stressing the kids out, but all of the ones in the build-up have to go. This is not just parroting RLM- it's just so fucking obvious.

Finn Wolfhard made It from a 6/10 to a 8/10

What gang bang?

He was the shittiest thing in the movie.

>a pretty weak jump scare movie
I mean, yeah, it was. I don't know if Fukunaga's script would've resulted in a better finished film but it was honestly more in tune with King's style of writing, for what it's worth.

Fukuanaga's script was so different from the book that it should have been made under a different title.

>expecting slow, meticulous character development in a 2 hour movie with 7 main characters based on a thousand page book

And for how little time they got, Eddie's arc stood out well. And your complaints have nothing to do with the kid's acting, you're just being an anal "b-but muh book!!" faggot.

Also, the miniseries did nothing right beyond young Bill.

That’s not Bev

>miniseries did nothing right beyond young Bill

And Pennywise. Don't forget one of the most iconic performances and characters in all of horror. Tim Curry was a true gift to this undeserving world.

yeah, it was shit, but the projector scene was pretty cool. other than that, it was nothing but '80s platitudes and cookie-cutter characters.