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Looks like everyone involved in the film have forgotten the faces of their fathers...
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower
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Looks like everyone involved in the film have forgotten the faces of their fathers...
Ridas
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It has been like 20 years since I read the books, but the trailer seems to be far removed from what I remember. Why are there orcs and why is the Gunslinger doing gang crime in Harlem? And I will be pissed if he doesnt kill an entire village like a killing robot.
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Faltigoth
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i'm cautiously optimistic. King gave himself an out with his horn picture so it is like he gave the hand wave, 'this is a sequel, not the story itself!' which admittedly is a cheap cop out but still.
I am not comfortable with Idris Elba for a character that is supposed to be Clint Eastwood but Idris Elba does not suck so there is hope. Matthew McConaughey does not suck either. Good actors can only do so much however if the material they have to work with is terrible.
I think I am too optimistic about movies and am going to end up drowning in bitter tears of disappointment when this comes out.
I am not comfortable with Idris Elba for a character that is supposed to be Clint Eastwood but Idris Elba does not suck so there is hope. Matthew McConaughey does not suck either. Good actors can only do so much however if the material they have to work with is terrible.
I think I am too optimistic about movies and am going to end up drowning in bitter tears of disappointment when this comes out.
Arbitrary
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What, you don't like "The Dark Tower the Witch and the Wardrobe Part 1 : The Search for the Golden Compass?"
The trailer is such a throwback to when book serieses were getting adapted left and right.
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well, considering how the books collapsed after somewhere around the middle of wolves of the calla, (probably because King had written the manuscript for that one when his mind and the material was still fresh so that book was still fairly OK) I'm going to give this a go. Even if they skip on Eddie and Susannah, if they can at least give the story a proper ending and do the crimson king justice, instead of the "EEEEEEE" implosion of the books and the ridiculous apology for the ending, I'll be satisfied.
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I believe a trilogy with a TV series in the works that focuses on backstory / Wizards and Glass type stuff (with someone else playing a young Roland).
Porkchop
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OMG garbage. I usually like Matthew McConaughey but my god he doesnt feel right for that part.
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Arbitrary
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Hey now, I'm well prepared to both dislike this film and continue my dislike of the later books.
If it makes a fuckstack of cash that's also fine with me. I want my Long Walk movie before I go into the ground. Maybe get a Pet Semetary rework. Start a second age of King adaptations that don't suck.
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Famm
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The tone and production seem far too Hollywood-ish/summer blockbuster. Basically what Arbitrary said already. I don't think its too much to ask for at least a minimal dedication to the source material these days given the improvements we've seen with bringing geek culture to the screen by HBO and Hollywood. Based on this trailer I'd say Logan probably had a better gunslinger feel than this will, and that was a damn MCU film.
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I've been swindled by trailers before so I'm not getting the pitchforks just yet but I hope it isn't as Narnia as it looks.
You could have done just the first book damn near verbatim for not a lot of cash and had a pretty cool little Weird West story but they instead cobbled together the first two books, deleted two or three main characters, and took the effects budget to the moon.
Might come out alright but I sure don't like that trailer.
You could have done just the first book damn near verbatim for not a lot of cash and had a pretty cool little Weird West story but they instead cobbled together the first two books, deleted two or three main characters, and took the effects budget to the moon.
Might come out alright but I sure don't like that trailer.
