The Dark Tower (Post-release)

[MooCriket]

Re: I know there are other Dark Tower fans here

Wow...it tested so poorly that Sony considered replacing the Director:
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/08/the-dark-tower-test-screenings-replace-director-1201862374/amp/

 

[matty matt]

16% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a disaster.

 

[Axlotl]

I think they went too far in the opposite direction and it's turning people off.
I like Idris Elba, but he's literally the exact opposite of the Gunslinger I pictured in my mind when reading the first book.
I've only read the first 2 books, btw, and part of the third. Loved the first book, but it started going off the rails for me in book 2, and by 3 I'd had enough of that nonsense.

 

[cayman shen]

So glad this is tanking. I worship this series. Adapt it respectfully or gtfo. Marvel's comic series did a lovely job. Surely if Marvel can do it, Sony can. Oh wait...

 

[Betamin]

The speed loader mid air crap made me shake my head. Unnecessary "I'm the cool good guy and don't mess with loading like other men. I have STYLE!!" moves. Might as well give him .45 1911's with compensators, led sights, full auto firing, etc. etc. etc.

 

[firesprite]

I had bought tickets to a showing this morning because my husband has expressed interest in seeing the movie, but wound up exchanging them for Atomic Blonde once I heard that Jake is the focus of the film, not Roland and Walter. Fail.

 

[Apollo]

...and this surprises anyone? :lol

16% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a disaster.

 

[mikid]

Well I haven't read the books so as for me and my wife We enjoyed the movie and will look to see where it goes in the future. I hate to compair Books to Movies there will always be people dealing with conflict

 

[karmajay]

The books are all over the place. I have no idea how any movie can follow them.

 

[SmilingOtter]

Haven't read the books.

Enjoyed the movie.

 

[MooCriket]

$19 Million for the weekend. Seems overwhelmingly, most could smell this failure and avoided it.

 

[Apollo]

Yeah Man did it bomb!

I'm still laughing at a few of my friends who went to see it friday night! :lol

 

[Peace Hunter]

I enjoyed it for what it was. Nothing spectacular but not bad for a Monday night movie.

 

[NeoRutty]

$19 Million for the weekend. Seems overwhelmingly, most could smell this failure and avoided it.

19!!!

Ka.

 

[PeteVenkman]

Ka ka.


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[serv63]

This movie is just a joke
It's not even an adaptation.
The book is better than the movie

I don't understand Stephen King about this movie...
Why he does accept.

I look forward to the next adaptation....IT "they're float too" ah ah

 

[Apollo]

Simple, King sold out a LONG time ago :unsure

I don't understand Stephen King about this movie...
Why he does accept.

 

[serv63]

Simple, King sold out a LONG time ago :unsure

I think he's crazy
He was angry that Kubrick had adapted Shinning but he has agreed to this movie.

 

[PeteVenkman]

King is not a sell out or crazy. You don't roll out a new product and advertise it as crap even if it is. It's just business 101. Give it some time. After a few years, or he is no longer contractually obligated to speak nice, we may get his true opinion. Besides, Dark Tower means a lot to him, he could just be glad to see it getting any kind of treatment. When I talk to people who tell me they read a lot of Stephen King I find very few have read the DT books.

 

[firesprite]

King is not a sell out or crazy. You don't roll out a new product and advertise it as crap even if it is. It's just business 101. Give it some time. After a few years, or he is no longer contractually obligated to speak nice, we may get his true opinion. Besides, Dark Tower means a lot to him, he could just be glad to see it getting any kind of treatment. When I talk to people who tell me they read a lot of Stephen King I find very few have read the DT books.

King has NEVER let that stop him from talking mad **** about adaptations he didn't like. Kubrick's version of the Shining was still in theaters when he started making his displeasure known.