The back story of the clown and what his intentions were was cleverly shown through the children's experiences with the clown, which I thought was an awesome objective feature of the movie. Each child had a fear of something in particular, and the way each kid meets Pennywise on his return from the sewers is in a form of their fear. For example, one of the boys was afraid of this horrifying painting that was in his church. When Pennywise returned, the suspense built up of the boy in the church, and Pennywise brought the painting to life, traumatizing the boy. The one thing about the movie It that I wish was executed differently was the amount of unprofessional looking CGI rather than use of the creepy clown himself. There were moments that should have been scary, but the CGI just seemed to be done randomly, rather than with good reasoning and it was very obvious that it was fake. For example, when the painting came to life as Pennywise in the church, the CGI of the painting was extremely poor and was not as thrilling as it could have been. As I mentioned, the movie was more uncomfortable to watch rather than terrifying, which I think a lot of the advertisements and trailers don't make it out to be.
The movie had other well executed objective features such as character development because the change of the characters was clear from the beginning to the end of the film. In the beginning, all of the boys were innocent, happy individuals living their normal lives. Ever since Pennywise comes back to town, new sides of the boys are revealed. They were initially a band of brothers who lived their day to day lives together as a unit, until Pennywise's tactics tear that bond apart. The determination of Billy, the main character and older brother of Georgie, drove all the boys to blame him for their issues regarding the clown and getting them involved. As each of the boys become more involved in the case to try and defeat the clown, they begin to turn on each other and give up on the search, leaving Billy to feel as if they are abandoning him. As soon as the boys turn on each other, they realize that the only way to defeat the clown is to work together again, and that is exactly what they do. They come together and proceed with their journey to try and overcome their fear of the clown.
I thought the movie It, had a lot of objective features that were executed well, such as the plot and character development, however the CGI and other aspects were a little cheesy. Besides that, it was an enjoyable movie overall and I found it comedic in some ways, yet still interesting to watch the boys band together and try to overcome the clown along with how they do it.
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I do agree with the fact that the trailer made Pennywise look scarier but when watching the actual movie I didn't see it as scary. There trailer is also supposed to hook the audience to come watch so they would but the cheesy effects in it for them to watch. I did also like this movie and how they incorporated humor in it to relax the audience of the horror and thrill it is always nice to not be scared the whole movie. The group of kid actors were a good fit they seemed to get along very well on set and off set and they just bring humor when you hear a 12 year old curse. I disagree with the fact how you wish the clown wasn't there and just effects, but you can see the emotion and personality of a true actor and not an effect. There has to be a reason for the director to add the effects in so I don't believe that they would be added in randomly. Maybe it was budget who knows. I do like how the director changed the development of the children it really brought out what their fears were just as if we had fear when we were little. The director also did a good job of having the characters blaming each other and wanted to quick for the search., and at the end having them overcome their fears and working together; beautiful ending if I had to say.
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