Just finished It. I'll say again I am protective of It, being my favorite novel and one I read at a very emotional, difficult, transitional period in my life. It's by no means the best novel I've ever read, or the best King novel for that matter. But it is the one that touched me the deepest. And my first impression of the film is that while it didn't necessarily get things wrong, it didn't seem to get things right either. And not just in a "faithful to the source material" way, which it is admittedly hard to watch without it being in mind. The film just wasn't that interesting to me. The narrative was scattered, and suffered from the kids not finding each other one at a time. How they came to become friends, encountered Pennywise, survived Bowers' gang, and eventually the Loser's Club, is the core of the 1958 period of the story. The point of the story too is that the 7, as adults, are forced to revisit the horrors they experienced as kids, and we, as the reader/viewer experience it along with them. So it isn't a story about 7 kids, it is a story about 7 adults and how their experiences as kids shaped who they became. There is a cut of the Godfathers 1 and 2 where the narrative is chronological, and it isn't nearly as good as if you watch them 1 and 2 as originally presented. I don't want to trash it, but it just wasn't that good.