Oh no don't get me wrong, I'm not disappointed, I don't find any horror movie to be particularly scary (especially not either of these IT movies). I brought it up in this case because it felt unusally unscary. Usually I can go "I don't find this scary but I can see how it would be for others and admire the craft behind it". I didn't think that for anything in this movie, the setpieces were mostly just fun time-fillers.
Got busy immediately after the movie ended so I couldn't delve into it as much right away. I didn't find a single thing in the whole movie even remotely scary or unnerving, and it didn't feel like anyone else in the theater did either. Horror was basically more of a style here than a genre. It's fun, funny, weird, poorly structured, not as epic as it seems to think it is, and Bill Hader is Oscar calibre.
My screening (in 4 hours) is completely packed. Usually there's at least a few seats in the corners that no one will take, but for this every single seat has been booked and paid for.
Oh I definitely don't think she's owed. But I agree, she was the best part of all her films which is a big reason why I'd want her back for what seems to be building up as a final hurrah for the franchise (another one lol). Obviously I don't want to force a character into the story just so she could play her, but if they had one I'd like to see her be around.
Of course she wouldn't come back as Jamie Lloyd, but she didn't come back as that character in the Rob Zombie movies either. But I don't think "that's just blatant fan service" works here when you're already bringing back several random actors & characters from the original film, and none of the other actors except possibly JLC are "owed" anything either. That's a really bizarre way to put it.
There is, but Ready Player One had a substantially stronger warrant for the certified fresh stamp at this point.
EDIT: and now IT 2's gone down to 74%.
It also depends on how strong the trajectory looks. If it looks like it's any second away from collapsing under 75 or 70, they hold off on making it certified. I don't think that'll be a problem here though, but we'll probably get to about 95-100 reviews in before we see it certified.