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Summary: What...?
Review: I first saw this movie when I was 9 or 10 and it scared me. Actually, it REALLY scared me. To this day I occasionally have nightmares and don't walk over manhole covers and stormdrains. However, I then read the book when I was a few years older and compared to the book, the movie is mere child's play (pun intended). In reality, this has to be one of the worse adaptations I have ever seen. Practically none of the gripping and scary scenes in the book are in the movie. Those scenes not in the movie being much more frightening, too. The movie still scares me however, due mostly to the infallible acting ability of Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. If the movie had been given its due time to develop and add in the REALLY scary stuff, much as "The Stand" was given a full 8 hours, it could have been the single greatest horror film of all time. As it is, its scary, but leaves something lacking. It is merely snapshots of the storyline in the book. The relationship between IT and Derry and the Losers is not developed very well and the nature of IT is not either. Basically, a good flick until you read the book. Then the cheesy bug-spider thing at the end and the loss of suspense in the second half just drive some of the joy out of the movie. Thanks be to Tim Curry, though, without whom "IT" would be nothing but a grade b flick without any style (because grade b flicks are good as long as they have style). Stephen King remade "The Shining" into a good movie, not scary by any stretch of the imagination, but a GOOD movie. Hopefully he will make "IT" into one as good as "The Shining" and "Storm of the Century" someday. I eagerly await such a day (provided Tim Curry remains Pennywise)!
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Summary: Did you see the secret?
Review: This is great movie for any horror movie fan. Anyway, in the library scene, there is a table of books that the guy has written. They are all parodys of Stephen King Novels! After watching this movie, I now have a fear of clowns. Watching "Storm of the Century" inspired me to see this movie.
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Summary: it is a cool movie, but the book is better of course
Review: i have to say, stephen king's it is the best book ever been written. i've read the book ( 948 pages!) 4 times or something. but i have to talk about the movie: first the performance of pennywise. this role was made for tim curry i think. that man can make you laugh and make you affraid at the same time. there are no real special effects in the movie but that doesn't mind me. it is just scarry without gore or something. i say to everyone reading this review: see the film first and the read the book. because the film is disapointing after you read the book. every horrorfan must see this movie, because i think there is nothing creepier than a evil clown with sharp teeth.
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Summary: Great!!
Review: A great horror story!!Really good made!
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Summary: THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER!
Review: This movie is the scariest Stephen King I have seen. Me and my brother saw this movie at a young age,a few years later I watched IT and it was still scary. I highly recomend this movie.
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Summary: This Movie scared the heck out of me!
Review: When I first saw this movie, I thought it would be another one of those boring scary movies. But when I saw Pennywise, I flipped! That clown is so scary, it's unbelievable!
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Summary: They did the best they could.
Review: That goes not only for the Losers' Club but also the people involved in converting this immensely complicated, long and intricate book into a movie. Of course they couldn't fit all of what makes the book so compelling into the film, and it shows; there is no mention of Stan Uris's dead boys in the Standpipe, no leper under the house at Neibolt Street, no mass-bonding orgy scene in the sewer. Henry Bowers, far from being huge and ugly, is rather attractive in a "Grease" sort of way; neither Beverly nor Bill have the red hair for which they are famous. But in the first part of the film, while the Losers' Club of 1958 (for King fans, this brings to mind the 1958 Plymouth Fury) are playing in the Barrens, the film definitely conveys the atmosphere and description of the book. My main caveat to the viewer is: don't expect a satisfactory ending. The book and the movie are about equally annoying on this point; it almost seems as if King had no idea how to finish his opus, and rather than trying to follow through with the style and air of the rest of the book he tacked on a vaguely comic-book-style ending complete with billows of green light and smoke. It's worth watching if only for the scenes of Henry and his disciples in the (oddly Gothic-chapel-like) pumping station, face to face with an It apparently made entirely out of white light. One cannot forget the extraordinary physical beauty of Jonathan Brandis, either. "It" wasn't scary, but then Stephen King doesn't scare me. Rather, it was interesting to see how the screenplay met the challenges of the interweaving times and memories which make the novel impossible to put down.
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Summary: WOW!!
Review: Steven King really out did himself with this story. His best, I believe. The book was even more horrifying than the movie. But the movie did capture most of the suspense, mystery, and scary timing points of this fantastic "stand-by-me-like" story. A must see for ANY movie watcher.
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Summary: SCARY, SCARY, SCARY. DON'T WATCH ALONE!
Review: I am an avid Stephen King fan. Actually, I am a SK fan of the old style. His first books were terrifying. But this book was VERY confusing because it kept going from when they were kids to when they were adults. I lost track often. The movie is so much better. My daughter saw it at age 14 and she couldn't take a shower for a month. She still won't watch it alone and she's 21. You shouldn't either. Dark room, cold soda, best friend. Can't beat it. I'm 49 and I still love this movie.
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Summary: Extremely scary!!!!
Review: I watched this movie when I was 4, and now, 8 years later, I have a complete fear of clowns! IT was one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. Tim Curry is truly terrifying as Pennywise The Clown. The first half was a million times better than the 2nd, but the 2nd part was still scary, except for the giant spider at the end!
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