I feel like it can be a very good film that might be able to tell an old/new story in that medium. I just hope people give it a chance. I would love to see a trilogy or more films telling the complete story, but obviously this first film will have to do well for that to happen. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing The Dark Tower and the IT remake. Big year for Mr. King.
Doesn't make me think of the novels at all... I don't see anything that makes me want to see it.
But it's Stephen King!
It's not like they've made bad Stephen King novel movies before...
Definitely. But this one doesn't even seem to be Stephen King at all. Isn't it some sort of sequel or something?
It also seems like an action movie. At least I expected to see some of the mood of the novels.
I have to say that The Dark Tower novels aren't among my favorite ones from Stephen King as I find them too inconsistent in many things. But I expected at least a half accurate adaptation.
Also Stephen King has had very good novels but there are also some of them that I'd rather forget.
I read the first book, lost interest after that.
Haven't watched the trailer yet, as I hate watching stuff on my phone. :-)
The first book... it's too obvious that has been written by a young man without the skills that he'd have later. Then it gets better. Then the inconsistency appears in both narrative and style, and it kinda ruins the whole a bit.
Not bad, but not my favorite either.
So, I keep seeing the trailer as an ad before YouTube videos, and I immediately was reminded of something else.
From the perspective of someone who has read the books, I've heard it compared to the Lemony Snicket movie.
A summary of why fans of the books probably didn't like the movie:
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Novels: Richly-detailed world-building to put "Game of Thrones" to shame.
Movie: Generic our world/post-apocalypse world dichotomy.
Novels: Characters who start of as supporting staff/sidekicks are the ones who eventually save the world, whereas the starting superhero-guy quickly becomes outmoded except as a teacher. Especially critical because guns won't solve the real problems.
Movie: Indestructible action hero can solve everything by shooting at it.
Novels: 7,000 pages of genre-defying fiction going from traditional western to sci-fi to fantasy to nightmare fever dreams, intentionally subverting a lot of the genre tropes even while embracing them.
Movie: Quick hour-and-a-half chase scene followed by a shootout.
A summary of why fans of the books probably didn't like the movie:
---Novels: Richly-detailed world-building to put "Game of Thrones" to shame.
Movie: Generic our world/post-apocalypse world dichotomy.Novels: Characters who start of as supporting staff/sidekicks are the ones who eventually save the world, whereas the starting superhero-guy quickly becomes outmoded except as a teacher. Especially critical because guns won't solve the real problems.
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Movie: Indestructible action hero can solve everything by shooting at it.Novels: 7,000 pages of genre-defying fiction going from traditional western to sci-fi to fantasy to nightmare fever dreams, intentionally subverting a lot of the genre tropes even while embracing them.
Movie: Quick hour-and-a-half chase scene followed by a shootout.
Yeah Yeah I think that pretty well covers it. I personally never believed they could get that all into a single ore even trilogy of movies. Might work in a mini series format.
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I personally never believed they could get that all into a single ore even trilogy of movies. Might work in a mini series format.
It seemed like a near-ideal candidate for a GoT-style HBO show. (With GoT ending next year, it would have been perfect timing for them, too.)
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Do what their doing with american gods and a few other books.
You know what I want is a belgarad mini series.