Out of 7 books, they used maybe 3% of the content? They completely got rid of 2 of the main characters (3 if you count Oy) and a ton of great side characters. They turned what was an awesome journey through space/time Epic with some of the most rewarding character development of all time, into some generic one-off young adult plot about saving the world from a big bad lazer.
The books are a great example of 'it's not about the destination, it's about the journey there' but the movie got rid of the journey part. So disappointing.
Isaiah Cox
I liked that it was so short. 2 hours and longer should be reserved for good cinema, but these every capeshit and action flick lasts 2 hours and it's a snorefest. Dark Tower ended early enough to be an enjoyable flick.
Lincoln Harris
I'm not exaggerating when I say they used 3% of the books. I'm not saying I expected 100% or even 90%, I just did not expect them to scrap 97% of it. So, why bother? It's just brand name recognition, but now they basically already butchered the franchise beyond repair...
Jose Miller
They're making a TV show
Jason White
I doubt it.
Parker Fisher
I didn't read the books so for me it was an alright fiction-action flick that didn't drag on too long. If the books are actually good and have depth I can imagine how disappointing the movie though.
Jacob Rivera
They basically could have made that movie by changing a few details and not even get sued by Stephen King. So the fact that they used the name The Dark Tower just ruins any future for the franchise.
Parker Gray
wait a second, this is not just about the first book? they actually reach the tower in this film? WHAT THE FUCK
Aaron Barnes
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Carter Rivera
They don't reach the Tower per se, but they save it and kill Walter. The first book is broken down to the first 5 or 10 minutes of the movie.
Sebastian Perez
wow what a shit
Isaiah James
So is this film set after the books? do they do anything meaningful with this being Rolands last cycle?
Matthew Baker
Nope. The plot is basically: >Jake has dreams of the Dark Tower and Roland >he finds a portal to mid world and finds Roland >They take a portal back to New York and get guns >Walter hooks Jake up to a wrist clampy brain chair that shoots lazers are the tower >Roland kills Walter
They don't mention a single thing about Roland's cycles or pretty much any background to anything
Jack Morales
So it doesnt follow the books, pointlessly makes Roland black and doesnt add anything to the universe. Quintessentialy Sony
Christopher Foster
Books?? I liked it. 6/10
Carson Wood
I didn't watch or read much about it before watching. I was wondering how they would handle Susannah with Roland being black. Solution: they just got rid of her completely...
Wyatt Hill
They are. A bomb isnt stoping them from doing a story of black male with blonde girl
Ayden James
>nigger shoots at matthew >matthew catches his bullets >picrelated Is that 2017 and hollywood still doesn't know how bullets work? This movie is the trashiest thing I watched this year.
Sebastian Howard
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Ian Moore
They got it right the first time Matt catches the one bullet that was going for the back of his neck
Michael Green
They actually do mention the cycle you dummy. Walter even suggests he knows it's the final cycle.
Jeremiah Lewis
Am about to watch this and haven't read the books. Will I enjoy this?
Connor Sullivan
It's short enough to be a decent 6/10 flick.
Isaac Brown
you will find it average and maybe too long and boring-ish. Anyone who red the books should stay miles away from this colossal insult
Mason Turner
it's possible but not likely
imagine Harry Potter. In one movie, a dude tells him he's a wizard and takes him to Hogwarts. There he learns how to use a wand and learns about an evil dark wizard. He runs through the forest, escapes getting killed by some creatures, and then destroys the wizard. The End.
Jordan Mitchell
>"so we'll just have to see"
Yep, sounds unlikely. So, like I said, I doubt it.
Hunter Morris
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Brody Ortiz
Not surprising. King has a history of some of the worst adaptations ever. At this point I'm pretty sure he just fucking hates television and movies and is trolling everyone.
Brayden Perez
>franchise stop this shit, nobody cares. Muricunts and their shit tier need to make a franchise of everything.
Movie was fine, if you read the books, think of it as one of the many times everything has happened.
John Parker
is a bit far fetched to consider this movie just as one of the cycles. Too many differences. And no i'm not talking about the nig lead But i agree, there's this frenzy in trying to turn everything into a franchise of sorts.
The last 2 book series i had left in my heart were the Dark Tower and Dune and they are gonna butcher Frank Herbert as well. It's disheartening
Jace Green
>britbong thinks his opinion matters
Isaac Lee
Wait, so this is a kids movie? Is this based on a children's book?
Parker Walker
Nope. The books are not children's books. The movie feels like The Hunger Games.
Easton Sanders
I'm with you user, but to be honest the movie wasn't a huge turd, just incomprehensible for someone who has never read anything about the series. Has a shit ton of small easter eggs and a decent plot for an hour and a half. The only way is a series, movies don't work for this and it's always the same, some parts get butchered.
I really want to see what they will do with Dune, the movie and the mini series weren't that bad overall and I do hope they bring new things to the table.
Samuel Diaz
in the books there's a demon that shifts into a female to be fucked by the MC and later swifts into a male to impregnate (with the previously acquired semen) another member of the party, a woman, susannah. So i'd say no, it's not a children's book but now i'm getting the feeling your question was retorical
Dominic Sanders
>doesn't have a clue there are a shitton of other countries on this fucking planet >tries to be sarcastic using a picture of a movie that turned into a shit tier franchise because of burgerjews squeezing every single last drop of cash out of yet another SNL comedian
try harder
Zachary Richardson
Well it seems to star a kid as the main character
Zachary Carter
>comparing source material with movies based on them
Don't do that. You should have known instantly it was going to be shit when you learned who was going to be the gunslinger.
Joshua Clark
I'm saying that they stripped a long story that was spread out over 7 books down to a simplified skeleton story told in 90 minutes
it seems like they were trying to take it in that direction, but having the 13 year old kid carrying and firing a gun would prove to be problamatic. The whole thing is a complete mess
Oliver Bailey
Occasionally he hits just the right tone of ridiculousness and entertaining. I think the tv movie hinderances work out better in his case.
Jack Smith
>he thinks other countries matter
Elijah Allen
and yet you keep failing
William Jackson
>waaahhh Trump is a big meanie >waaaahhh I wish all these Muslims would stop fucking my wife
that's you right now
Jose Lewis
>13 year old kid carrying and firing a gun not to mention: -a bipolar, BLACK, woman who's the most racist character. and crippled - a whiter than snow junkie who gets to fuck her etc The original plot was a huge NO from the beginning, by CURRENT YEAR (tm) standards
Jaxon Young
how juvenile
Austin Allen
dude, you can't follow regular shitposting? You are not making any sense. We were talking about the movie being or not shit, why they could never make a decent adaptation of a gazillion books, the need of muritards to make franchises out of everything (specially after the marvel crap). Keep up, try to be somewhat coherent with your replies stupid.
Christian Mitchell
Do the books also center around a kid?
Christopher Rogers
No. Roland is the main character.
Alexander Roberts
He's a main character but he isn't "the chosen one"
Andrew Collins
>try to be somewhat coherent with your replies stupid That's a pretty stupid sentence, user. You sound pretty stupid. Try to use some commas, user.
>We were talking about the movie being or not shit Oh no, he's literally retarded.
>britbong education system
Jason Moore
yes and no, the 4 main characters are equally represented, Maybe a bit more towards Roland but the other 3 are not side characters, each and every one of them is very important and their past, present and future is deeply scrutinized. It's a team effort, not a story with "the big guy" plus 3 ads there are entire sections dedicated to one or the other
but that's kind of a given, when you have 7 8relatively) big books you get to explore every single detail and interaction
Mason Walker
Fuck this shit then. This already says everything to know about the movie then.
Jacob Nelson
I still couldve gotten into it if they had try to make this the current year HP or Twinklight, or Hunger Games or whatever by cleaning up the less palatable parts of the story, but this movie was just a pile of shit. I will forever believe it's just a money laundering scheme
Christian Edwards
>it's just a money laundering scheme I believe romantic comedies were the ones used for that
Logan Robinson
Which also star Matthew McConaughey. It really makes you think...
Jeremiah Smith
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Owen Jenkins
The point is Stephen King is a talentless pseudokike hack
Caleb Green
you are unto something there user
William Reed
That was marketing bs. The movie is a soulless Sony pictures cash grab.
Adam Wright
So I'm guessing in the books the Gunslinger guy has more and other motivations than just kill the guy named Walter?
Henry Perry
>have Roland wearing a hat What did he mean by this
Easton Watson
that's a different can of worms. King just started writing the books open ended. His motivation is to get to the dark tower because he needs to get to the dark tower because reasons
Camden James
Which actually isn't terrible when the tower is properly explained. It's the center of everything and everything is pulled towards it. Roland has honor and blah blah blah mixed in with his motivations, but he is not immune to the pull.
Robert Thomas
Well its clearly more progressive to make a white character black than to include an already black character in your film.
Carson Miller
So question over here: Since this movie is about 'shine' and all - Is this the same concept as in The Shining then? And am I led to believe that this and the Shining are the same universe?
Jeremiah Gutierrez
it is. it was just thrown in there tho
Adam Harris
Yep. In fact there's an entire plot in the book where the main characters must save Stephen King from getting run over so he can finish writing The Dark Tower. I'm not joking.
Thomas Sanders
I haven't watched it yet. On a scale of 1 - 10, just how disappointed will I be?
Gabriel Hall
How is this called in literary theory?
Josiah Hernandez
Read the books? 11/10 disappointment. Haven't read the books? Just 5/10 typical bad movie disappointment.
Jacob Roberts
wasnt that bad of a movie desu senpai, but it felt really rushed. also, the kid actor was surprisingly not annoying.
Levi Moore
More NYC tourism propaganda. It doesn't take a degree in neuroscience to see this.
Carter Roberts
>11/10 disappointment. Should've been a mini-series
Isaiah Cook
this movie was shit. no pacing. cluttered story. shitty casting. shitty production design. shitty dialogues. only 95 minutes but still full of filler shit.
completely forgettable. the books deserve a miniseries.
Camden Kelly
Honestly would have been fine. I in no way expected them to fit everything from the books, King is a rambler and often gives a little too much information. But he did a fantastic job creating a fun universe. 45-50 minute episodes, maybe 1 episode per book would have worked. Maybe 2 for the last one. Roland as a kid backstory optional.
Hunter Wood
Lazy writing.
Gavin Allen
What? Are you saying that whole shine-shit isn't even in the books?
Bentley Reed
Shlock
Tyler Edwards
>am I led to believe that this and the Shining are the same universe?
The Dark Tower takes place in a universe where Stephen King is writing The Dark Tower and has written everything he's written before, including The Shining. So, many of the things in his previous books take form in some way in The Dark Tower.
Leo Gray
Nevermind. Asked on /lit/ and they were very helpful.
Brandon Anderson
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Ryan Miller
Lol
Brandon Wright
The fun part is they even tried to preemptively race-shame everyone into seeing this piece of shit
Jack Hill
So I just watched this and I thoroughly enjoyed the gunslinger action. Now I want a Trigun movie starring a young Matthew McConaughey.
Gabriel Garcia
>That short manlet mexican with the hoodie and earbuds.
Daniel Rodriguez
just watch John wick and pretend they're wearing cowboy hats. You ain't getting anything closer in this day and age
Nathan Cruz
>The movie feels like The Hunger Games But features WAY better actors.
Chase Jenkins
I hated John Wick. Absolutely retarded premise. Incredibly overrated here
Nolan King
Is there a torrent for this?
Angel Reed
yep
Joseph White
then don't even bother with the sequel because it's worse. I didn't mind the first, it's one of those movies you can watch when you don't wanna think. I agree that Sup Forums tends to blow it up out of proportion
At least there were some scenes with Bridget Regan
Kayden Perez
Thanks bro. I loved these books when I was a kid. Now it's time to see them butchered all to hell!
Asher Ross
You are right, the look and the fantasy/tech mix of this combined with the gunslinging actually gave off a decent Trigun vibe