The Dark Tower movie

[Perrin Aybara]

The verdicts are coming in and reviews aren't looking good. Maybe I won't even go watch it and just wait for Redbox. Seems the King book to movie slump will continue

They had a 7:19pm (19:19) showing last night. I'm going to see it tonight and I'll let you all know.

 

[tenpoundsleft]

The verdicts are coming in and reviews aren't looking good. Maybe I won't even go watch it and just wait for Redbox. Seems the King book to movie slump will continue

Damn.... how is possible to screw them up? Especially this one, which allegedly is King's legacy series, something he's really proud of.

Shining was good. The Stand as well. And of course Shawshank. Misery. The green mile. What else survived the pulp to celluloid conversion?

 

[XKawN]

Read some of the reviews. Quite a few, actually. I'm excited to say it sounds like it sucked. I actually hope it's worse than the reviews suggest. Stephen king can go suck a fat one. This is "not" the dark tower.

 

[XKawN]

Lets go over some reviews.


"None of the characters click, nothing feels innovative or interesting, and the story is in no way compelling."

Minneapolis Star Tribune

 

[XKawN]

Director Nikolaj Arcel's version of King's magnum opus is slight, a skin 'n bones adaptation that teases a greater mythology but depicts little of it.


Punch Drunk Critics

 

[XKawN]

The Dark Tower is a shot-to-the-heart of cinematic intrigue, as Stephen King's beloved story loses all magic in its big-screen adaptation.


We Got This Covered

 

[XKawN]

"The Dark Tower" could have been a better movie - not good, but better - had McConaughey and Elba switched roles


San Francisco Chronicle

 

[XKawN]

Though I'm generally not one to complain about a movie being too short, this adaptation seems to have achieved its brevity by eliminating most of what was good about the books and leaving in most of what wasn't.


Philadelphia Daily News

 

[XKawN]

This campy, stripped-down summary of or sequel to Stephen King's cross-dimensional fantasy western is a late-summer bummer.


Film Journal International

 

[XKawN]

"The Dark Tower" is a near-total whiff, a mess of a movie that took forever to get made and by the look of things should have taken about twice that long. Or maybe just never have been made at all.


Arizona Republic

 

[XKawN]

This isn't "The Dark Tower." This is a small, sad pile of rubble - the foundation to a franchise you can only hope is never built


Newark Star-Ledger

 

[XKawN]

It's more than obvious Sony wasn't looking to really make a movie for the fans of the books - which is just plain bizarre.


Business Insider

 

[XKawN]

This movie just made every wrong decision about what it wanted to be when it grew up.


Consequence of Sound

 

[XKawN]

The 95-minute culmination of years-long efforts to bring The Dark Tower to the big screen is a complete disaster, a limp, barely coherent shell of a movie.


TheWrap

 

[XKawN]

At a mere ninety minutes, it feels like one of those YouTube fan edits of an entire series.


JoBlo's Movie Emporium

 

[XKawN]

Astoundingly awful


Uproxx

 

[XKawN]

It falls because it's too embarrassed to stand


Collider

 

[tenpoundsleft]

Love some of the quotes, that's fine writing

 

[grey]

ninety minutes

90 minutes? WTF?

 

[Perrin Aybara]

Alright, so i saw the movie earlier. It was entertaining, but if you changed the names of the characters and places it wouldn't even be recognizable as the dark tower. Pretty much everything that happened was not in the book.