There are merits with 'The Dark Tower', but it has a lot of problems that cannot be ignored, no matter how hard people try. The complaints however are understandable and valid, contrary to what those vehemently and in some cases condescendingly say those who found problems with the film do know what they're talking about. After seeing it, 'The Dark Tower' to me wasn't as bad as reputed to be and could have been far worse. Also because of the reception the film received, being critically panned but the audience reaction being much more mixed. Hearing that there was going to be a film, part of me was a little excited but there was even more apprehension considering the scale and length of the series on the whole. Made up of eight books, 'The Dark Tower' book series is simply spectacular, with wildly entertaining and imaginative stories, a deft mix of genres, unparalleled attention to detail and conflict and with characters that are far more than standard clichés. Which is why film/television adaptations are such a mixed bag. Stephen King is notoriously difficult to adapt, some of his work near-unfilmable or at least with parts that are (i.e. The good guy is protecting a child who is key to everything and the bad guy has lots of generic monstrous minions to do his bidding? Sound even remotely original? Top that off with all your usual clichés, Hollywood tropes and 90 minute runtime and you have a seven book epic compacted beyond belief and smeared with cinematic "Magic" I wanted to like this, I wanted to be proved wrong but this is the biggest mess since Death Note (2017) The Good: McConaughey is great The Bad: Not even remotely loyal to the books Too "Hollywood" Very anti-climatic We have the dark brooding hero (Who wields Excalibur no less) versus a charismatic villain. Not only is The Dark Tower not loyal but I've never seen something encapsulate Hollywood so fiercely. My expectations crumbled and I felt so bad for any real fans of the franchise. Upon hearing that The Dark Tower was being turned into a feature movie however I was quite excited, until I heard the casting.until I saw the writer.and until I saw the trailer. Truth be told though not terrible I've never been a fan of The Dark Tower books, I've read 5/7 and though being a huge Stephen King fan I could never seem to get into them. One of the laziest and Hollywood productions of all-time. It would be difficult for even the best in the business to adequately bring the story to life through cinema but these clowns didn't even try. I love the Dark Tower novels and would recommend them to anybody. Idris Elba manages to salvage some artistic integrity from the ruins with a reasonable performance but there is not much one can do with such a godforsaken script. As for Matthew McConaughey, I've never been much of a fan and this tragic performance confirms my suspicions that he is one of the most one-dimensional and overrated actors in the business. it manages to achieve the double whammy of being completely incomprehensible to non-book readers whilst also being highly insulting to fans of the novels. I'm not sure what was going through the heads of the people involved with this limp mess of a movie. Strip away the names and recognizable book elements, and The Dark Tower is a fun sci-fi adventure.Stephen King's Dark Tower novels may have their flaws but they are nonetheless a highly creative juggernaut that deserved either a fully committed TV adaptation or to be simply left alone. The new fans likely felt like they were watching the last movie of a trilogy whose first installments they didn't see. However, the book fans who'd be most receptive to such an idea couldn't get over how different it was. Rather than retread what King already covered so well in prose, he, writer Akiva Goldsman and others wanted to build something new. A series, especially one with The Rings of Power-like support from the studio, can fully explore this take on a multiverse story.ĭirector Nikolaj Arcel had the right impulse in approaching the story like a sequel. The Dark Tower movie tried to fit elements of all seven books into one film. The story is so dense with character, worldbuilding and plot that even one movie per book is not nearly enough to do the story justice. Yet, far more than the weird world of Westeros, King's story hops different dimensions and features characters from his other stories and the author himself in an extended sequence. Like Game of Thrones, Stephen King's seven-book fantasy series features many tangents, side-quests and divergent narratives.
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