The Dark Tower - getting hammered in the early reviews

[SpursforSix]

Damn...I was looking forward to this movie. Will probably watch anyway but seems like it might be a dud.

[leemajors]

goooo sony! I hard both studios had veto power on various things and it was a clusterfuck, but I am gonna check it out.

[redzero]

lol a large book series doesn't get a tv series
lol it gets a movie instead
lol it's only 95 minutes long

Looks like a disaster, and I don't know the first thing about this series.

[UZER]

lol a large book series doesn't get a tv series
lol it gets a movie instead
lol it's only 95 minutes long

Looks like a disaster, and I don't know the first thing about this series.

You obviously know the first thing: it's a large book series.

[InRareForm]

i will wait for blu ray

[monosylab1k]

Looks like the McConnaissance is over. He'll be in another romcom with Kate Hudson before too long.

[Spur|n|Austin]

i will wait for blu ray

They still sell those?

[leemajors]

lol a large book series doesn't get a tv series
lol it gets a movie instead
lol it's only 95 minutes long

Looks like a disaster, and I don't know the first thing about this series.

they have a showrunner for the series now, and early info says it won't be connected to the movie as previously stated.

[leemajors]

It wasn't terrible, just not very good.

[Mitch]

Didn't look like it'd be that good from the trailer even, Idris is a decent actor though.

[Mark Celibate]

>black guy plays white character
>movie tanks
>every. time.

http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1433/78/1433783613564.jpg

[Chris]

It was a good book that he wrote while he was quite young (still in college I believe) I have no intentions of seeing the movie now after the reviews but it's typical of most of his adaptations and it's been consistent through the decades. Stand by Me and It being the rare exceptions. I can stomach The Stand as well but it's not in the same tier.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

It was a good book that he wrote while he was quite young (still in college I believe) I have no intentions of seeing the movie now after the reviews but it's typical of most of his adaptations and it's been consistent through the decades. Stand by Me and It being the rare exceptions. I can stomach The Stand as well but it's not in the same tier.

Pet Semetary and Christine are still pretty cool. Carrie is aiight.

[SpursforSix]

It was a good book that he wrote while he was quite young (still in college I believe) I have no intentions of seeing the movie now after the reviews but it's typical of most of his adaptations and it's been consistent through the decades. Stand by Me and It being the rare exceptions. I can stomach The Stand as well but it's not in the same tier.

Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Misery, 1408, The Shining, Dead Zone

There's plenty of good to great adaptations.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Crap...how could I forget Misery! Bates was so amazing in that

[Chris]

Pet Semetary and Christine are still pretty cool. Carrie is aiight.


Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Misery, 1408, The Shining, Dead Zone

There's plenty of good to great adaptations.


It was very late when I posted :lol Those are all good movies although I have not seen or read 1408.

[SpursforSix]

It was very late when I posted :lol Those are all good movies although I have not seen or read 1408.

:lol It's allright. Not everyone can be an expert movie reviewer.

[140]

Damn...I was looking forward to this movie. Will probably watch anyway but seems like it might be a dud.
You mean a pooper magee?

[SpursforSix]

You mean a pooper magee?

I hope not. I'm guessing it'll be a Picks on the Horizon.

[140]

I hope not. I'm guessing it'll be a Picks on the Horizon.
I'm expecting it to be at most a black toe sally, tbh.

[SpursforSix]

I'm expecting it to be at most a black toe sally, tbh.

well, I'll certainly be the judge of that

[Chinook]

I liked the Green Mile well enough. In the very least, it was a solid adaptation of the book.

[z0sa]

Dont go in expecting more than the loosest of adaptations and you should enjoy yourself.

[vy65]

I've read the whole series. The subject matter doesn't lend itself to a big blockbuster summer movie without losing a lot of the substance that makes the books what they are.

Apparently the tv series is still in the works, so maybe the series will eventually get the treatment it deserves

[leemajors]

I've read the whole series. The subject matter doesn't lend itself to a big blockbuster summer movie without losing a lot of the substance that makes the books what they are.

Apparently the tv series is still in the works, so maybe the series will eventually get the treatment it deserves

https://gizmodo.com/mike-flanagan-stephen-king-dark-tower-amazon-1849868950


In the wake of moving from an overall deal with Netflix to Amazon, writer/director Mike Flanagan and his longtime executive producer Trevor Macy have revealed that they have acquired the rights to a screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Flanagan said to Deadline in an interview that he’s already written a pilot script and season outlines for the show, and imagines a series that will run for five seasons and culminated by two self-contained feature films.

fingers crossed

[vy65]

Holy shit

[lefty]

ok I’m interested

[lefty20]

I really gotta pick up this series again. I read the first book like 4 years ago and it didn't really impress me all that much, so I moved onto other shit.