And I think it could have been really good. You're supposed to be building tension and it kind of gets ruined when he opens his mouth to make a joke about period blood or whatever. I just wish the writers had laid off from the jokes some of the times. ![]() Finn Wolfhard (from Stranger Things) plays Richie who is meant to be the jokester of the group. I also want to give a shoutout to Nicholas Hamilton (who played Henry) for managing to make me feel empathy for a bully. In particular Jaeden Lieberher (who played Bill) and Sophia Lillis (who played Bev) were the standouts. But those were always going to be big shoes to fill. However, he does lack the charm that Tim Curry had. I mean, really? You're going to fall for that? I think what does save this film are the performances. Knows this all "isn't real" and yet will wander off by one of the missing kids going "Come here". Its just kind of silly when they've already been scared by Pennywise many times. ![]() The other dumb thing I want to mention is that sometimes the characters fell into predictable horror movie tropes. And I think that's a big reason why I just wasn't very scared. There was quite a bit of special effects that just were not very good. And I liked that updated aspect, but nothing particularly shocked me. ![]() Admittedly, one of the jump scares worked on me but otherwise I never felt any dread looming in the pit of my stomach. I think the film was good, but didn't really live up to expectations.
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