I've had 24 hours to digest this movie, and here is my more in depth take. Sans spoilers obviously.
Let me preface this by saying, that I enjoyed viewing this movie. I really did, but that said. Is it good? No. Not at all. Will I ever see it again? Maybe. If I'm drinking with friends during a horror marathon at a Halloween party. Will I ever go out of my way to see it again by myself? Probably not, but it's not quite that special kind of bland I loathe to say no for certain. But is it entertaining? Yes. Hell yes.
My biggest gripe with this movie is that I don't think it knew what it wanted to be. imo anyway. It went over and above to try to be creepy//scary//disturbing, and to be fair, there were a few kinda creepy moments, that in and of themselves weren't all that bad, but afterwards left me looking over my shoulder and hearing things for a bit. I wouldn't say it was scary per say, but for example, I got spooked by a rabbit driving home that was just hanging out in the middle of the street. I live on a dark side street and turned a corner and had my high beams on and this rabbit was just there, and rather than just running away, stood there and stared at me for a few seconds in the middle of the street before finally moving out of the way. My skin crawled for a few seconds, so maybe the movie did get me a bit?
But it threw in so much random and unnecessarily bizarre comedic moments that I honestly laughed out loud more than I felt scared for the most part. I know what they were trying to do, but, for example, the kid in the glasses talking about his sexual prowess and the size of his penis every ten minutes was needlessly over the top and kinda pulled me out of it.
Below isn't *REALLY* a spoiler, it just talks about my feelings towards how they ended it. There are no actual spoilers, but you may be able to add 2 & 2 and get 5 from reading it.
[spoil]Also, as much as I hate the original, and I loathe the hell out of it, I almost felt cheated they chose to end it how they did. Not going to say anything else to avoid spoilers, but I just felt they changed things for the sake of changing them, and not for any real plot or story reason.[/spoil]
The Billy scene..
[spoil]where he meets pennywise was fantastic. Pennywise is drooling the whole time and when he genuinely starts to make Billy happy and laugh he shuts it down with that chilling evil dead stare, that in return makes Billy uncomfortable. Pennywise obviously feeds off fear and once Billy started to show signs of joy he went back into creepy clown mode. It was an awesome scene[/spoil]
Best part of the movie. I literally almost died
[spoil]Glasses kid when Billy tells them to leave him to die with Pennywise:
"Billy, I can't do this. You made me come down here, almost got me killed, there's no way out *casually and nonchalantly picks up baseball bat* and now I'm gonna have to kill this ****ing clown![/spoil]
