Why? Why? Why?

If anything, a bad remake can make the original look much better than it is. If there are two It movies and one sucks, you're most likely going to mentally compare against the other movie before you compare it to anything else. If there is only one It movie, you have no choice but to compare it to other horror movies, and most likely you will be comparing it to other good horror movies.

If people are really that worried, they should look at all the other horror franchises out there with crappy remakes. People generally just forget about the remake if it turns out to be a downgrade.

To answer why it bothers so many of us, when they do a remake and it sucks, is because, when they do so, and the younger generation, that has no idea what the original looked like, won't have the idea, to even go and watch the original, because they lose the enticement of watching it all together.

Hardly a pedophile little girl, the boys are the same age.

They could just skip it the same way this version did? Its been awhile since I read the book, but wasn't it some sort of "bonding" thing that they did to gain the courage to fight It? That scene didn't directly lead to any plot events, so cutting it could go unnoticed.

THANK YOU! I don't understand the hype about this piece of *beep* I think people are looking at it through their nostalgia glasses.

I absolutely love this movie but more for nostalgic reasons than anything. Its not terrible but it certainly isnt brilliant and it does have scope to do better. I'm actually for a remake to see what they can do 25 years later but I'll always stay faithful to the original and I cannot see anyone doing a better job than Curry as Pennywise.

It's hardly a classic I would say. It's a good Stephen King movie but that's that.
Tim Curry is probably the only reason to see It and they focus the movie on that, but that's not what It is about at all. Rather it's abut how adults are the real monsters, the power and importance of friendship and that's what the book focuses on. Pennywise is important but he's not the main focus, he's merely an manifestation of all the evil surrounding the Losers and Derry.

I hope a new version focuses on this aspect rather than Pennywise aspect, but for that matter without losing Pennywise completely. Cause he makes the book scary.
I think it would work really great with a two-part movie that catches the essence of It. But it seems like the project is stalled?
I haven't heard anything new about it for a while. Is it still a project?