Stephen King's Epic "The Dark Tower" - Part 2

[DarthSkywalker]

Have you forgotten IT?

Read the last sentence again Marv.

 

[Marvolo]

Edit: I thought he meant he has hope for it as in hope for The Dark Tower.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Completely understandable.

 

[FunkMiller]

95 minute run time confirmed. So at least it'll be a short turd.

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/the-dark-tower/48091/the-dark-tower-movie-is-95-minutes-long

 

[DarthSkywalker]

3 books in 95 mins. Sounds like they really tried here.

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

95 minute run time confirmed. So at least it'll be a short turd.

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/the-dark-tower/48091/the-dark-tower-movie-is-95-minutes-long

This is perplexing on so many levels.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

95 minute run time confirmed. So at least it'll be a short turd.

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/the-dark-tower/48091/the-dark-tower-movie-is-95-minutes-long

Wow, just wow. Rothman special that run time

 

[Mysteryman]

Wow, just wow. Rothman special that run time

Does Rothman prefer to release films with short run times?

 

[Lily Adler]

The movie going public have shorter attention spans. That's why Dunkirk is shorter than usual for a Nolan film, sillyheads.

 

[Kane52630]

3 books in 95 mins. Sounds like they really tried here.

 

[FunkMiller]

3 books in 95 mins. Sounds like they really tried here.

Here's the entire plot of this piece of garbage. I bet I'm not going to be far off at all with this:

1. Man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
2. Jake Chambers has counselling in NY for nightmares.
3. Nightmares and visions take Jake to Dutch Hill.
4. Jake falls into Mid-World having avoided doorway demon and meets Roland.
5. Roland and Jake trek across Mid-World, see thinny.
6. Roland and Jake get to Manni village. Jake nearly kidnapped by Taheen.
7. Jake takes Roland to NY with help of Manni.
8. They track Taheen to Dixie Pig.
9. Big fight with Walter.
10. Back to Mid-world.

No Tull. No palaver. No way station. No speaking ring demon. No slow mutants. No 'go then, there are other worlds than these'.

 

[StormC]

95 minutes quickly killed any interest in this movie. Lordy.

 

[Marvolo]

95 minute run time confirmed. So at least it'll be a short turd.

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/the-dark-tower/48091/the-dark-tower-movie-is-95-minutes-long

*looks at 95 runtime*

*Looks at Sony Motion Picture Studios*

Maybe at some point in the not too distant future we'll get a proper adaption on Cable or on Netflix.

 

[Kane52630]

Let's hope once HBO is done with Westworld they can pick this as their next big thing.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Go then, there are other turds than this.

 

[TheVileOne]

Definitely a lot of red flags popping up here. I feel bad for Idris Elba. He always falls short when it comes to these big franchise films.

I mean yeah, he's Heimdall in Thor, but to be perfectly honest, I maintain that Heimdall is a waste of his talents. He's OK in the role, but it's a role I think a lot of lesser talents could play and do rather well in actually. Elba IMHO is an acting giant and would've been a worthy candidate to play someone like T'Challa/Black Panther. And no, I have no issues at all with Boseman. I think he's a great casting choice, but that's just an example that I would've preferred a bigger role for Elba. Heck John Stewart in Green Lantern.

 

[StormC]

I think Idris Elba was born to play villains. I would have cast him as the DCEU Lex Luthor.

 

[TheVileOne]

Hell, would've been preferable change from Eisenberg Luthor.

 

[OfficerK]

holy crap, that runtime... no way they could tell a story like that in a decent way with that time. This has been a pretty dire year for movies so far...few good ones here n there but man this year has to have some redeeming movies later on..I hope.

 

[FunkMiller]

I think Idris Elba was born to play villains. I would have cast him as the DCEU Lex Luthor.

Oh hell. That's brilliant casting.

holy crap, that runtime... no way they could tell a story like that in a decent way with that time. This has been a pretty dire year for movies so far...few good ones here n there but man this year has to have some redeeming movies later on..I hope.

You really think? Logan, Wonder Woman, Spider-man, War For Planet Of Apes, Baby Driver, Dunkirk.....

 

[Iceman]

There's been a fair share of both great and crap films.

 

[Marvolo]

I think Idris Elba was born to play villains. I would have cast him as the DCEU Lex Luthor.

That's some great fan casting! Imagine him playing opposite Ben Afflek's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman.

 

[Iceman]

I'd have loved to have seen that.

 

[Marvolo]

Does Rothman prefer to release films with short run times?

Oh yeah he is a total hack and loves to maximize the number of daily screenings a film can have regardless of how butchered a film has to be to get the runtime down. Check out this thread for some of his more well known "crimes" against cinema:

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=350055

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Does Rothman prefer to release films with short run times?

Yep, see the run times of the majority of Fox blockbusters from about 2004-2010.

Off the top of my head there is X3, both FF movies, Eragon, Wolverine Origins, Predators, both AvP movies and many more.

Fox have put out some great blockbusters since he left.