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"IT" Returned After 27 Years and Reasons why I am calling it "SH-IT"

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Ever since "IT" was announced, "IT" was the talk of the town. People were really excited to see the infamous clown return after 27 years. This adaptation of Stephen king's novel was THE thing of 2017. "It is so scary that it will make your nights sleepless". When you hear these kinds of gossips about a movie, you start to think if you are going to need some medicine to sleep or not. But then, I saw the movie, and I AM DISAPPOINTED!! What do I think of "IT"? its "SH-IT". I had to sit in around 2 hours to that thing thinking all the while that I am wasting my time watching "IT". Oh god I cannot even start to explain how much I hated this movie. Now before you open your divine gates of hatred towards me, let me explain why those 2 hours for me were pure agony.

Why "SH-IT":

The main reason why "it" is receiving such a backlash from me is that it was trying so hard to adapt to today's standards that "it" forgot how it was 27 years ago originally. How do I prove my point? Well these days, we prefer every movie to have cocky teenagers with cockier dialogues. Well this movie has just that. We want every movie now-a-days to have a lot of teenage crush kinda scenes. Well, this movie has just that. What I am trying to say is that being a remake of a classic TV show, "it" has just lost that retro feel to it. Now don't come up with "Hey it's 2017 bro, that retro thing's long gone" because your point is absolutely invalid. Okay first on why this movie was a must to have a retro feel. For those of you who don't know, "it" is actually a remake of an american TV show which aired in 1990 and now "it" returned as a movie in 2017 exactly after 27 years (Yeah, just like the clown). So having a retro feel for it was a must. And if you are trying to say that kind of feel is just not possible these days, then you are wrong. Take "LA LA LAND" for example, it has that feel to it that most movies just don't have.
Other than that, this movie has a lot of plot holes. It's like a lot of mismatching pieces of a puzzle forcefully glued together. To explain what I mean, at the better half of the movie, the kids form a very personal suicide squad. When all the characters are squeezed together, they don't really form a match made in heaven, instead, they don't actually fit together. No I am not talking about how they meet its just how they are put together in the movie, the story is just fine. Its the filming that's the issue. I mean an abusive dad? an overprotective mom? a kid who mentions he doesn't belong here but doesn't explain why? a group of bullies hitting on everyone for no reason? a girl who is hated by everyone for no reason? a guy who killed his dad just because he found a knife? I mean c'mon! The list is just endless.    
And finally, It's just not scary at all. Throughout a 2 hour yawnathon there wasn't a single moment I truly was scared. Maybe its just that they are trying to make the clown a scary thing for so long that it is not scary anymore. The movie also has quite a light theme. Being the horror movie that it is, it made me laugh more than it made me scared (Which it failed to do so terribly).

The Final verdict

To many people, it was a super hit and to be honest it was (For reasons far beyond my understanding) a commercial success. I tried to like it I really did, but to vein. Had it been on my personal opinion, i would have given it a 0.5/10 but since we rate movies based on different categories including commercial success, it earns a 4/10 on Reviewlocity score. Yeap its quiet terrible. Don't watch it.
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  1. Schanza23 September 2017 at 23:39

    I enjoyed this review so much! The movie wasn't scary at all, rather annoying and disgusting. And the fact that they had to put the f-word after every 2 seconds was pathetic. Like okay, people use it, but not that deliberately.
    I tried to do a personality analysis of each character and that's the only thing that made IT interesting.

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    1. Yahya24 September 2017 at 09:18

      Agreed. Looked more like a teen movie than a scary movie

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