It (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray) (4K Ultra HD) [4K UHD]

This is the updated 2017 live-action adaptation of Stephen King's novel, It, directed by Andy Muschietti. This is the first of two movies and is set in the late 1980s when the heroes are kids. The movie stars Jaeden Lieberher as the main protagonist Bill Denbrough, whose brother Georgie is killed by a monster at the beginning of the movie, setting Bill on a quest for revenge, and Bill Skarsgard as It/Pennywise, the ancient evil that terrorizes the town of Derry Maine every 27 years. The rest of the main cast includes Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Nicholas Hamilton. There are several differences between the movie and the book, one of the main differences being that the Children's part of the story is set in the late 1980s as opposed to the 1950s. Also, the book jumps back and forth between the story with the group as kids and as adults, which makes it very hard to follow, so the movie is much more streamlined in the storytelling. And, even by splitting the story into two movies, they could not include every element that was included in the book, so there are parts of the story that the movie takes out. The book has a lot of exposition and backstory that is honestly not needed in the movie, so I do not think anything that is left out of the movie is really missed. And, the movie does change the most controversial part of the book from something that could never be filmed to something that could. For those who get the 4K set, there are two discs, the UHD disc with just the movie itself, and the regular blu-ray which has the movie and the extra. The A/V quality of the UHD disc is fine, but not great. The movie was shot in 2k, so it is upscaled to 4k, and honestly does not look much different than the video quality of the regular blu-ray. The extras include trailers, about 15 minutes of deleted scenes, and three different behind-the-scenes featurettes, one on Pennywise, one on the cast of kids, and then one in which Stephen King is interviewed about this latest adaptation of the book. Overall, the movie is very good. It is still not overly gory, but it does get a bit gory toward the end. Still, it is more of a psychological thriller than a blood-and-guts horror movie. The acting is very good, which given the cast was made up of young, mostly unknown actors (Finn Wolfhard was probably the most well-known of the child actors), is kind of surprising. Bill Skarsgard is great as Pennywise, who is definitely the main attraction. He can switch from innocent, to creepy, to scary at the drop of a hat. Even if you are not a huge fan of the book, this is still worth watching, as it is one of the few times where I have found a movie to be better and more entertaining than the book. It is definitely a must-watch if you like horror movies.

Read the book when it came out in 1986 and reread it prior to watching this movie. Wise move by the producer & director to split the book into the kids' part (this movie) and the adult's part (coming out in 2019). In the book they are interwoven throughout the entire narrative. The book is 1,138 pages and obviously not all of this could be in the screenplays. The writer has to decide what is really essential to the plot and what is not, and how best to reveal the characters. The novel explores the characters and Derry itself in-depth, which is why it's so long, but also so good (this is my favorite of King's works and I've read just about all of them over the years, beginning with 'Salem's Lot). The writer and director made the decision to keep a fair amount from the novel; but, more controversial, to create a few completely new events not in the novel or previous movie that reveal character and push the plot forward. This new stuff is not the writer and director playing games; the new stuff fits very well and is true to spirit of the and the characters. At first surprised and then suspicious, I fairly quickly realized that this was the filmmakers' way of showing visually, quickly, what SK takes tens and hundreds of pages to get across. These events do their job well. The biggest chance they took was in how they brought this movie to a close, as it's very different from the novel. And I will be the first to say that what the filmmakers come up with for the climax and ending of this movie may actually be better than what SK actually wrote. So, kudos to them. My biggest complaint (perhaps disappointment is more apt) is the "shortening" of character, particularly for Stuttering Bill Denbrough and Richie Tozier. The actors do a great job with what they've been given, but what they were given has been so drastically reduced that these characters border on becoming flat. This is SO true for Ben and is my greatest complaint. Ben is probably, next to Bill, the most crucial and complex character among the kids. But the movie just makes him another kid who's a bit chunky. The surprise in the group is Beverly. The actress playing her, Sophia Lillis (sp?), is amazingly good at conveying emotions with a slight turn of the eyes, an upturned eyebrow, a frown, etc. And the camera work with her features this. In this version Beverly is the most complex and developed character. (By the way, SK develops ALL the kids in this depth in his novel, and as they are when they are adults. It's truly an amazing book.). The director (and writer) decided to move in this shortened-character direction, but I believe that with just a few additional scenes and some rewriting, both Bill and Ben could have been far more "fleshed" out. What this move is, is SK's IT cut way back, back, back, back to the essentials. yet without losing the flavor and spirit of the novel and keeping in the really crucial elements. We have to remember that a movie is not the book "acted" out. It's a completely different form, and the decisions made this time recognize this. The result is that along with "Stand By Me" and "The Green Mile" and possibly "Misery" (have not yet seen the Netflix version of "Gerald's Game" so cannot comment on this), this 2017 version of IT is a seriously good adaptation of Stephen King's most outstanding novel, and ranks with these movies in terms of quality film-making that faithfully adapts SK's work, without making a mess of the original material, turning it into a piece of crap that is mistakenly called a movie. (I'm looking at you, "Children of the Corn", and most others, but man, Children of the Corn, you SERIOUSLY suck!) Looking forward very much to Chapter Two, when the grown up kids return to Derry to take on IT for the last time.

Horror Movie Review (9.5/10) “Phenomenal” (Non-spoiler) It Director: Andy Muschietti Writers: Chase Palmer (screenplay), Cary Fukunaga (screenplay) Starring: Jaeden Lieberher (Bill), Jeremy Ray Taylor (Ben), Sophia Lillis (Beverly), Finn Wolfhard (Richie), Chosen Jacobs (Mike), Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie), Wyatt Oleff (Stanley), Bill Skarsgård (Pennywise) Plot: A group of bullied kids band together when a shapeshifting demon, taking the appearance of a clown, hunts children. Review: This is a perfect storm of a movie: the right director, the right script, the right kids, and the right actor to play the villain, makes this the scariest movie of the year. I was blown away as the first five minutes of the movie sets the tone for the rest of the movie – and I will add that it is a dire, dark tone (sprinkled with some humor) that never really lets up. Something terrible happens to Bill’s brother Georgie, and the viewer realizes that the director is not afraid to push the elements involved in the movie. Adults are not only subject to violence – sometimes children get hurt brutally. Although, the movie doesn’t have a lot of blood or gore, Director Muschietti pushes the story forward with kinetic and unsettling visual medium that you can’t help but feel unsettled throughout the movie. First off Skarsgard pulls off one of the scariest villains of all time. Not only does he have that scary, eerie clown getup, but his acting is so mesmerizing as you see the subtleties and nuances in the way he does things to make you feel unsettled and make the clown more unpredictable. In the first five minutes of the movie immediately you see that Pennywise is an other-worldly villain and a force of nature rather than just a man and it is truly horrifying. I loved every one of the child actors and I felt that they really were a group rather than just a bunch of actors thrown in together and each character had his or her quark that made each of the characters stand out in the movie and this was only possible because each of the characters delivered such solid performances. Bill is the leader of the group whose soulful look made you believe something truly terrible happened to him; Ben was the heart of the group as his childlike, naïve performance made you fall in love with him; Beverly as the head strong girl of the group who doesn’t want to take crap from anybody despite problems at home; Richie is the troublemaker and fun guy of the group; Mike is the strong, silent one that will be there for his friends; Eddie is the anal kid who must overcome his fears; and Stanley is the rabbi’s kid who doesn’t like to dive into danger. My only gripe was that I felt that Mike was the least developed and I wanted to see more from him, but Jacobs still did a great job of portraying the character. This isn’t a faithful adaptation of the book or these things would pop everywhere: #childsexorgy #extradimensionalturtle. I felt the writers took a very realistic approach to the novel and made just enough touches of “other-worldiness” to make the movie unsettling enough. It is the subtleties that make this movie even better and truly terrifying. There are plenty of jump scares, but what really makes this movie terrifying is the psychological nature of the villain as the kids never know how Pennywise will try and attack them next. So good I am seeing it again tonight!

Definitely a scary movie but I wasn’t really scared for some reason. Maybe it’s all the clips I have already seen of the movie on YouTube shorts or insta. Love the characters! There acting is good. I’m not gonna lie though even though it’s a good movie I only give it a 4/5 because I was confused a few times during the film and some things didn’t really make sense to me. Definitely a classic though 🎈.

Really good movie I have seen it twice goddamnit

Good movie

Quality horror movies are hard to come by, and taken on its own, IT is one of the better ones out there. That said, as one of Stephen King's Constant Readers for almost 40 years, I was disappointed. Of course, I don't expect a four or five hour movie to completely cover a 1000+ page book, but I really hate when they change things that don't need to be changed. Mike was the group historian - not Ben. Mike's parents were alive and he did NOT work in a slaughterhouse. Bill was 10 years old when Georgie was killed, so when the main action of the book took place, the "Losers" were only about 11. No one was old enough to drive, and Beverly didn't have a reputation as a slut. She was considered a loser because she was poor. The kids melted down silver dollars into ball bearings and used a slingshot to shoot them at Pennywise - I'm not sure why they decided to use a bolt gun, of all things, in this movie. I also hated that they used Beverly as bait to get the boys to come rescue her. That didn't happen. In fact, Beverly was the one who was the best shot with the slingshot. The other thing I hated was that they changed how IT appeared to the children. They got Eddie's leper right and Beverly's blood from the drain - but Ben saw a mummy, Bill saw Georgie's picture move and bleed, Stan saw drowned dead boys, and Mike saw a giant bird. All in all, I prefer the 1990s mini-series because it is truer to the spirit of the book. People have complained that that version wasn't scary and that the special effects were cheesy - but what do you want from a made-for-television movie from 1990? This version is scarier. The special effects are better. But so much is different that shouldn't be. I really hope that IT gets turned into a TV series on a premium network. That is the only way film will come close to doing this book justice.

I've read IT once a year for the past 15 years. I'm (cough) a fan of Stephen King. I've read all his major books and his various assemblages of short stories and even his autobiography. He inspired me to become a writer all those years ago but with The Stand and The Shining. IT, however, made me rethink my choices. IT is dark, twisty, invasive, dangerous, and amazing. IT made me realize that to become a writer in even the same league as Mr. King would take such incredible discipline. Discipline that I just don't have. I'm still a writer but I'm Little League to King's Cooperstown prestige. So, now that you know my credentials, this get this started, shall we? This movie is a travesty in only one key way: the time period. King grew up in the 1950s in Maine. He grew up across the street from an area that inspired him to write the Barrows. IT is eerily similar to King's own childhood, minus the terrifying demon masquerading as a clown and terrorizing his town. In this movie, the time period is set to the 80s. Because who doesn't like the 80s, amiright? The 80s is closer to a greater demographic of living people than the 50s. More people would readily identify with the decade than the 50s. While I yearned to see a modern-day movie set in the 1950s based on one of my favorite books, I was thrilled to see they updated the time period. So relax people. The kids who play Richie and Eddie are fantastic. Those kids have serious futures in the acting business. And if by some random happenstance they read this review, stay in school until at least college. But seriously, you kids have talent. The boys who played Stanley, Bill and Ben were also excellent and the stand-out star is the young lady who Beverly. Only but a fraction of what had happened to Beverly in the book could be shown in the movie. There's some seriously, seriously messed up stuff that happens to her. This movie did an excellent job of insinuating all the truly dark things that happened to her while leaving in some of the more grotesque, unnerving scenes. I'll never look at a bathroom sink the same way again. Who the heck is Bill Skarsgård? I mean, his claim to fame is the fact that he has a famous family. He's been in a handful of notable movies but with bit roles. So why on Earth did they pick this guy to play Pennywise the Dancing Clown? Three reasons: he dressed up as a clown for his audition, the thing with the lazy eye and the lip are not CGI but Bill's own doing, and his voice. People seemed to be compelled to compare his performance to that of Tim Curry. It's like comparing Heath Ledger's Joker to Jack Nicholson's or Cesar Romero. Just because they played the same character doesn't mean they are the same character. What is important is that they float. They all float down here. And you'll float too. You'll float too. You'll float too. You all float TOO!

Non ho interesse nel recensire il film che può soggettivamente piacere o meno. Sono una fan del libro e della precedente mini serie quindi dovevo assolutamente prendere anche questo. Il dvd è in ottime condizioni,nero con la scritta "IT" sopra, la custodia è come quella che trovi nei dvd in offerta stracciata nei negozi di elettronica, di poche pretese insomma. Il film è in ottima qualità e sono state aggiunte delle scene tagliate come bonus track da guardare a parte, si non sono niente di eccezionale, ma comunque una cosa in più.

Dal romanzo di s.king ottima trasportazione, ottimo 4k, HDR da favola sgasgard ottimo attore che si afferma all’altezza del padre!

Buen imagen y excelente audio

Excelente Película y de obligada compra para fanáticos del buen terror.... No puede faltar en tu colección personal y privada.

Forse alcuni puristi del romanzo giustamente storceranno il naso, ma tra questo è quello del 1990 la differenza è che con questo film si è realmente catapultati nella Derry descritta da Stephen King nel romanzo, ma soprattutto mette veramente quella paura ed adrenalina che risce a mettere quel romanzo! Prodotto arrivato integro e la spedizione è stata perfetta!