Stephen King's Epic "The Dark Tower" - Part 1

[Rowsdower!]

I guess those pirate zombies are taheen or can-toi, maybe?

 

[Boom]

Ugh.

Someone let me know when the actual Dark Tower books get an HBO series (God willing).

 

[TheVileOne]

Idris Elba is...The Last Action Hero.

You said it...not me.

 

[Rowsdower!]

LOL. Now I wish they just cast Arnold Schwarzenegger as Roland and made the movie a big joke. At least I might have laughed at that.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Hmm decent but I don't know , not feeling it much.

 

[FunkMiller]

...
Westworld looks more like TDT than this "Roland jumps off rooftops like Batman" nonsense.
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That's the exact same thought I had. Looked like a cheap knock off of Batman jumping off the building in The Narrows after talking to Rachel.

And how about Walter O'Dimm's new found magic powers, eh?

Or the super Sci-Fi doorway in Dutch Hill Mansion?

Ugh. I've watched the trailer a few more times and it gets worse every repeat viewing.

This is The Dark Tower done via Disney and Paul W. Anderson.

 

[Rowsdower!]

That's the exact same thought I had. Looked like a cheap knock off of Batman jumping off the building in The Narrows after talking to Rachel.

And how about Walter O'Dimm's new found magic powers, eh?

Or the super Sci-Fi doorway in Dutch Hill Mansion?

Ugh. I've watched the trailer a few more times and it gets worse every repeat viewing.

This is The Dark Tower done via Disney and Paul W. Anderson.

Yes!! That's it! It's the same shot. Thanks, I was having troubling pinpointing exactly which scene in Nolan's Batman films that was lifted from but that was the one.

"It's not who I am underneath, Jake... it's who I shoot that defines me!"

And yeah, the doorways look really stupid. The effects don't even look good.

 

[green]

Well that looked pretty darn generic.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Not feeling this at all. It looks generic and doesn't have the tone of the first few books that I can remember.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

You said it...not me.

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Sony's got some serious spin money going on. In the last hour alone, I've seen a **** ton of articles trying to defend this mess.

 

[The Infernal]

Y'know, when I saw the teaser for the trailer yesterday with Idris loading the revolvers as though he was in The Matrix, I just felt that was so goofy.

Maybe I'm the wrong person to judge. I'm sure I read the first book, but scarcely recall any details and tried to read one of the other books in which he lost his fingers and tried to train up his sidekicks to handle guns and thought "screw it. I'm not enjoying this". But does this feel like a Dark Tower movie to fans or just some weird fan fiction?

 

[Filmfan93]

For someone who has neither read the books or being familiar with the storyline, I actually liked the trailer. It looks good, at least aesthetically. Besides, Elba and McConaughey in the same movie? I am sold.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Maybe it will turn out like World War Z in that it will be an okay movie but just a lousy adaptation. But I feel like this book DESERVES a good adaptation if you're going to do one.

 

[titansupes]

Haven't read the books, but I did not like anything about this trailer.

 

[FunkMiller]

Maybe it will turn out like World War Z in that it will be an okay movie but just a lousy adaptation. But I feel like this book DESERVES a good adaptation if you're going to do one.

Problem is, The Dark Tower isn't an easily accessible story. To do it properly on screen requires a lot of bravery, creativity and originality. None of these things are readily apparent in Hollywood these days.

So, instead of a slow moving, somber, epic dark fantasy about obsession, loss, desperation, and the linchpin of existence under threat, we get a standard sci-fi action flick that dumps all the nuance in favour of 'guns!' 'explosions!' 'cool cgi!'.

This will do half the business at the box office that I.T does, and will not get a sequel. I'll eat my billy bumbler if I'm wrong.

 

[Ipodman]

I know it's supposedly a sequel to the book series, but this movies seems to be book 1+2?

 

[FunkMiller]

I know it's supposedly a sequel to the book series, but this movies seems to be book 1+2?

+3+4+5+6+7...

There are elements cribbed from all seven main storyline books.

 

[DeadStroke]

 

[The Apocalypse]

I know it's supposedly a sequel to the book series, but this movies seems to be book 1+2?

They're trying to cram things from every book into one movie. Roland's journey to the Tower could have been played out so well on screen if they just took their time. Instead we're getting this cheap money grab of a movie.

 

[Mysteryman]

I think that for me, since I am going to see this film, It is a good thing that I never read The Dark Tower.

 

[Stringer]

Looks good to me.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Credit where it's due, Elba seems good as Roland, and I didn't like his casting for the role personally.

But the rest, eh, doorways are now portals, the house coming alive to stop Jake going through the door seems to be gone, not to mention no Susannah in the scene means no Mordred being conceived. On top of that we actually see the tower in the first movie? And Walter has Chronicle powers now? Ugh, this just does not look good.

 

[TheVileOne]

You know what's crazy? Seven years ago, the plan was to do to a ton of movies and also TV spinoffs.

Now did that seem unrealistic? Yes, but it seems that idea changed a lot.

 

[Victarion]

The doorway looks like something from North Central Positronics. I think I saw the Doorkeeper Demon in the trailer, though.

edit

Yeah, those guys are probably can-toi. I would've used Walter's backstory from the last novel to write his character and motives for the movie adaption. And have those can-toi dressed like the Big Coffin Hunters from Wizard and Glass.

 

[Rowsdower!]

The doorway looks like something from North Central Positronics. I think I saw the Doorkeeper Demon in the trailer, though.

Yeah, I think I saw that too. One of the few interesting images in the trailer.