-95 minute runtime
-Roland was NOT the focus,the kid was
-Tried to cram all the book references into one movie
I see why it got 18 % on RT..
The Dark Tower was straight-up ass..
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-95 minute runtime
-Roland was NOT the focus,the kid was
-Tried to cram all the book references into one movie
I see why it got 18 % on RT..
Thanks for telling me. I can save my money
Funny, when you think about it only Frank Darabont has a perfect track record when turning the great Stephen King's novels into movies.
Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and the Mist. The Mist was slept on and wasn't as big a hit as the other two, but it was still a goddamn good movie. For some reason, Stephen King books just don't seem to make good movies
Funny, when you think about it only Frank Darabont has a perfect track record when turning the great Stephen King's novels into movies.
Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and the Mist. The Mist was slept on and wasn't as big a hit as the other two, but it was still a goddamn good movie. For some reason, Stephen King books just don't seem to make good movies
I think a lot of his stories rely on the terror generated in the mind's eye. When you make a monster or thing "real", it takes some of the polish off of the apple, so to speak. Of those three movies you named, two were grounded mostly in reality, and one dealt mostly with people surrounded by the unknown.
I had a feeling it would be too focused on the kid and not Idris Elba's character.
I keep getting the same feeling every time I see the trailer for that Bruce Lee movie. Like the whole movie is going to be about the white boy and Bruce is just going to be a background character.
I keep getting the same feeling every time I see the trailer for that Bruce Lee movie. Like the whole movie is going to be about the white boy and Bruce is just going to be a background character.
Sadly, only ethnic movie characters can be second tier in their own flicks.....Hollyweird strikes again.
Bruce Lee movie..?
directors don't know how to adapt king's novel to movie well. kubrick did his version of the shining which was great. darabont did great too. the mist was a dope film. that ending fucked me up. certain king novels are better for series or limited series events. dark tower should of been an series with a set number of seasons in mind to fully flesh out the source material.
It was really different from the books. I give it 10% accuracy.
Thanks for the heads up on The Dark Tower. I was planning on checking it out today. Still might, just to support.
Damn...
-95 minute runtime
-Roland was NOT the focus,the kid was
-Tried to cram all the book references into one movie
I see why it got 18 % on RT..
Agreed. The Mist ending was unexpected and crazy af.
Damn ,wanted to see Idris win
The Mist was 100% on point!!!
You didn't like Pet Semetary, Cujo, Christine, Stand by Me, It, Cats Eye?
man a person has to be a true SK fan to feel his on screen adaptations...
What about needful things, storm of the century, Delores Claiborne, Misery? Those were all the shit!
Didn't Bruce beat the fuck out of this dude in minutes?
Agreed, especially since I was familiar with the cast. (TWD) Good twist on the book ending, too.
Darabont wrote that ending himself,SK was cool with it..
Shit, the ending of the Mist fucked me up for real... You know why, but. Damn. If you haven't seen it go see it. I'm not going to fuck it up for you, even though the movie is old as hell
I was looking forward to this..BGOL cinema it is
Just came from seeing it.
It wasn't so bad if you never read any of the novels or had any idea of how the Dark Tower connects everything.
If you have & expected the Stephen King version of the Lord Of The Ring movie trilogy....well, you will be sadly & sorely disappointed.
The plot was formulaic (very Hollywood, which means that you've seen it almost every movie nowadays) & the director obviously standardized the book into enough to make a movie.
Idris & McConanghy are the saving graces of this movie. I see this movie a lot like the first IT TV show. A star that eclipsed the movie, an interesting first half & a substandard second.
It might have helped if they would have explained beforehand that this movie is basically the continuation of the last Dark Tower novel (if you are a Constant Reader, you'll get it...if not, you won't)...but that would have killed sales.
Apparently, the TV series will be a prequel explaining the background, which is probably why they didn't do too much of it in the movie.
But it could have been & should have been a lot better.
3/10 for me. Extremely disappointed.
You get to see a lot of the SK universe in the movie though. Thinnys, portals, the shine, low men, breakers, etc. They even showed Dandelo & foreshadowed the insane train (once again, Constant Readers know what I'm talking about).
But still, this should be the modern day version of the LOTR trilogy.
It wasn't so bad if you never read any of the novels or had any idea of how the Dark Tower connects everything.
If you have & expected the Stephen King version of the Lord Of The Ring movie trilogy....well, you will be sadly & sorely disappointed.
The plot was formulaic (very Hollywood, which means that you've seen it almost every movie nowadays) & the director obviously standardized the book into enough to make a movie.
Idris & McConanghy are the saving graces of this movie. I see this movie a lot like the first IT TV show. A star that eclipsed the movie, an interesting first half & a substandard second.
It might have helped if they would have explained beforehand that this movie is basically the continuation of the last Dark Tower novel (if you are a Constant Reader, you'll get it...if not, you won't)...but that would have killed sales.
Apparently, the TV series will be a prequel explaining the background, which is probably why they didn't do too much of it in the movie.
But it could have been & should have been a lot better.
3/10 for me. Extremely disappointed.
You get to see a lot of the SK universe in the movie though. Thinnys, portals, the shine, low men, breakers, etc. They even showed Dandelo & foreshadowed the insane train (once again, Constant Readers know what I'm talking about).
But still, this should be the modern day version of the LOTR trilogy.
I was hoping it would mainly focus on Book 1 but they tried to cram the whole series into one movie?
Forgoing the dark and grit for family friendly?
Not the moves
That's how potential franchises get fucked
Ahhh well
Forgoing the dark and grit for family friendly?
Not the moves
That's how potential franchises get fucked
Ahhh well
I'm a fan of Stephen King books and the fact that one of his books being turned into a movie is a selling point. The problem is, most directors don't know what the fuc they're doing with the source material and it ends up falling flat
Someone said that Darabont changed the ending to the mist and Stephen King was good with it. you got to have the mind of Stephen King to make a good Stephen King book into the movie (Silver Bullet was also another good one)
Welp, I guess the wife won't like it. If you looked at our bookshelf, you'd think it was an SK museum. She has ALL of his books, and sometimes, she's a stickler for details when it comes to movies about his books. If it's an entertaining flick, she'll roll with it.
i heard mccounahay(sp) was only on set for 4 days. How much was he in the movie when it's headlined as Idris and him?
-95 minute runtime
-Roland was NOT the focus,the kid was
-Tried to cram all the book references into one movie
I see why it got 18 % on RT..
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