razna08 Anyone who reviewed this movie as being good are trolling you.They want you to see it so you can get angry and dissapointed as they did when they saw it.This is the only rational reason why someone would recommend this garbage.Either that or they are easily impressed and and should never be allowed to rate or review another movie again. The book is a masterpiece but this, this is just garbage, pure garbage.It had such great potential, but they botched it big time.I won't say more because i don't want to spend another second thinking about this waste of time.I woulda gave it 0 stars but 1 star is the minimum rating. Do yourself a favor and skip this piece of ****.You're better off watching the 2017 version.It's actually great and quite scary. And the acting is top notch !!!

Foreverisacastironmess I never saw this on TV as the two part mini series back in the day, I always saw it as just one big movie on a vhs tape, so that's what I've always just thought of it as. This picture has unfortunately been getting a lot of fresh hate recently because of the uh, 're-imagining,' but that's not really fair to compare two movies that are almost thirty years apart like that. That new film did have some strengths that this doesn't but the door swings both ways and I'll tell you one thing, for all its flash that movie sure didn't have the heart and depth that this patchy old 'uncool' mini-series from way back in 1990 did. Maybe I feel that way because like the majority of its fans, I grew up watching "IT" and have a strong nostalgic connection to and a big soft spot for it, so frigging what, the rose-tinted glasses will only take you so far you know! It is big nostalgia trip for me, just hearing the opening music theme alone makes me recall how I felt seeing it as a kid, nostalgia is built into the fabric of the story, which is mostly about adults remembering their friends and childhood. I do love It but I can admit that this movie would have probably been largely forgotten were it not for the brilliance of Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The new guy was decent in a completely different way but he had to hop around like a mad frog and rush at the camera to make himself halfway scary, whereas Curry could chill you with a mere look and you never forget those eyes. Just the idea of him attacking is scary enough. He cuts such a fantastic iconic figure of horror pop culture as that clown. He looks and acts so silly but there's a definite sinister quality that's always there as well. He could easily make you laugh or scream, and the performance is one that sticks with you for life! The scene of young Georgie's death is one of the all time great moments in all of horrordom to me. It's so fantastically done, the bright whiteness of Pennywise's face against the pitch black of the drain with the water running down it, and the slyness in his eyes as he appears kindly and harmless enough to entice a happy-go-lucky little boy with offerings of balloons to get close enough to join him and die... That excellent scene is why you're afraid of clowns! The rest of it doesn't totally stand up to the bar that Curry sets though, and it's him and the child actors and their chemistry together as well as they're whole first part of the film that is what's best about it. Occasionally the dialogue can be so horribly corny, especially in the second part with the adults, things go into melodrama territory a lot. The ending is a letdown yes, but it's not like Stephen King himself didn't manage to screw up the ending of the book, if memory serves me right.. The ending in this though really doesn't pay off what is an effective buildup, that spider is way too goofy and ill-fitting with its googly crossed eyes and little T-Rex arms.. And it's so weirdly blunt how after wounding it with a silver piece from a slingshot, which makes no sense as it's meant to be a living creature and shouldn't be effected by the childhood mumbo-jumbo, they all just basically go "let's get him!" and run over and tip it like a cow and beat it to death with their bare hands! The real reason things fall a bit flat is because you've spent the better part of the three hours watching the creepy magic of Tim Curry in all his righteous clown glory, and then it ends with this ponderous silly puppet that comes out of nowhere! I do like the closing sequence though where Bill takes his wife Audra on a rather hazardous bike ride to try and wake her from the coma that the dreaded dead lights left her in, I found it poignant. A little light at the end of the tunnel as it were. I had a new appreciation for this the last time I watched if, I think it has way more good points and qualities than it's given credit for, IT was above average for its day, it's kind of all over the place but it's still a very enjoyable, entertaining, and engrossing viewing experience that has its dumb sillier elements but it also has it's legit scary ones too, as well as, hammy and annoying as some of them can frequently be, characters you can actually tell apart and do actually care about, and faults and all it will always be a classic to me. "See you in your dreams!"

bsmith5552 "It" is a two part movie adaptation of a Stephen King story that, in my opinion leaves many unanswered questions. It is the story of an evil force which appears every thirty years in the small town of Derry, Maine to terrorize and murder little children. The evil takes the form of a sinister clown, Pennywise (Tim Curry) who can get inside the heads of his victims.The story opens with the principals now enjoying the good life,, Bill Denbrough (Richard Thomas), Richie Taylor (Harry Anderson), Stan Uris (Richard Masur), Beverly March (Annette O'Toole), Eddie Kasprat (Dennis Christopher) and Ben Hanscom (John Ritter) being summoned by Mike Hanlon (Tim Reid) to return to Derry as "It" has returned and the murders have resumed. The rest of this first part is told in flashbacks to each of the "gang of seven's" childhood thirty years before and their then experiences with Pennywise.The second part of the story picks up with each of the gang's arrival in Derry except for Stan who's fear has got the better of him. The remaining members decide that they must put an end to the evil. They had discovered as children that the evil spirit was hiding in an old sewage plant and thought that they had destroyed Pennywise. Not so. At that time they promised each other to return if the evil ever returned. It did.They gang returns to the underground sewage plant to destroy the evil. Apparently the evil spirit must take on a living form every so often in order to survive. They encounter the living monster and.................As I said earlier, there are many unanswered questions. For example, where did this evil spirit come from? Why does it only manifest itself every thirty years? How could a monster so horrible be dispatched with only an asthma spray and two silver nuggets? And the final climatic slaying of the monster? Come on. And the living monster at the climax? Where did that come from?In spite of the drawbacks, there are some genuinely scary moments. In particular, the luring of the young children by Pennywise. To this end, Tim Curry as Pennywise gives a terrifying performance. The principals, (the 80s all-stars), particular Reid and Thomas, stand out. The younger cast of Seth Green (Richie), Adam Faraizi (Eddie), Ben Heller (Stan), Emily Perkins (Beverly), Marlon Taylor (Mike), Brendon Crane (Ben) and Jonathan Brandis (Bill) handle their roles well. Also of note is Jarred Blancard as the bully Henry Bowers who grows up to be Michael Cole. Olivia Hussey has a nice bit as Audra Denbrough as well.

Rainey Dawn IT is a pretty good made for TV film. I have not read the book but from my understanding the novel's ending is quite different. From what I gather, the TV film ending has cut out more about the kids - something they do not want aired on national TV.I love the casting for this one, it's an all-star adult cast - faces you will recognize from other films. I like the story for this TV version, sometimes funny, would be scary if it was really happening in reality.IT comes to the kids as a clown. IT's not a demon, not a poltergeist, nor is IT an alien, IT's not even a nightmare. IT is was IT is, whatever IT is. And IT's a good watch.7.5/10