-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Dark Tower: Clashing Visions, Brutal Test Screenings Plagued Journey to Big Screen
- Thread starter LordOfLore
- Start date
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
And it genuinely looks good... watch King shit on it
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I have no idea what they were thinking saying this is a sequel to the books. I understand that makes sense if you've read the novels, but why say that? If it was just straight adapting, book fans are going to go. And hopefully new people too. But if you say it's a sequel you've scared away all the new people, who you need. And for what? To attract people who were going to go anyway?
It never made sense. Just sounded like damage control to justify all the messy changes they probably made.
Ugh, absolutely gutted. I've been hoping the trailers were just being misleading as I love the books, they tail off towards the end but I still enjoy them, however in my heart I knew they wouldn't make a good film out of the books. Sony getting it should have been warning enough.
Sigh.
I hope this doesn't torpedo the tv series based on Wizard and Glass but it probably will. At least I still have the fantastic audio books.
I'll still probably go and see it though, on my own as my missus has no interest and neither do my mates. That's not too sad right? Right?!
Sigh.
I hope this doesn't torpedo the tv series based on Wizard and Glass but it probably will. At least I still have the fantastic audio books.
I'll still probably go and see it though, on my own as my missus has no interest and neither do my mates. That's not too sad right? Right?!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
IT is apparently one hungry motherfucker of a horror movie.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Skinny Pete
Banned
This movie is going to be a huge flop. I expect it to make only $18 million opening weekend.
sixteen-bit
Member
Bomba incoming.
I posted it in the most recent box office thread the other day.
When test screening after test screening was coming back with awful scores it was decided that what the film needed was a positive ending.
They shot one and stuck it in the film, tested it and it came back with even worse scores. At this point an exasperated Sony just said 'Fuck it!' and just decided to put it out as is.
We shall see how this pans out.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Hahahaahahaha
Bobby Roberts
Banned
When you said Scooby Doo I was anticipating them running back-and-forth in a chase through different portals until Roland pulls the mask off of mean old farmer Flagg
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Thank God. I mean the trailers have been FIRE so far, so I am banking on it being amazing.
WordAssassin
Member
That's a legit reason to like them and a touching story so I hope you don't take my earlier joke seriously, I have a friend who suffered through a brain tumor and had similar books/movies/comics/etc anchor him through his recovery.
It could be that reading all the books at once has given you a different outlook on the story as a whole, but I've found that people who read them as they were written, or even just at any point before he shit out the last three, find his ending to be extremely insulting. I mean he literally shit them out. He wrote the first 4 books over the course of many years and then got distracted with other stuff and people kept asking him about it and he kept saying "I'm working on it I'm working on it" and then one day he got into a car wreck and went "Oh fuck I could die at any moment I better finish that magnum opus of mine before I die" and rushed them out the door just to end it before his death. And here he is decades later still kicking around so he totally could have taken his time with it but hindsight is 20/20. But when you've been reading his books for decades, and stories upon stories are filled with connections to this series, and you're waiting and waiting for the end only to get something that even he admits was rushed out due to fear, that fucking sucks.
A chase sequence through different worlds would literally be a dream come true, and what was promised for decades, over what we actually got at the end of the series.
At the end of the Variety article it says it's tracking in the mid-20's. I think you're right, but the short running time means more screenings, so you never know!
randomengine
Banned
If they do a TV series of The Running Man, they need to make it a reality show.
TemplaerDude
Member
It's almost as if Sony doesn't want to make movies anymore.
Sarcastic Poster
Member
Nikolaj Arcel was originally supposed to do the Fables movie. Instead he's making this POS.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Once word gets out about the tacked on ending and the bad reviews start coming in, that figure is about to go down. This is the internet age, you can't hide turkeys anymore.
Actually I think I'm just going to be pleased to see it on film. I don't really have any expectations and I'm not burning a friday or saturday night on this. If this was the first of four movies to translate the books into film, lord of the rings style, then yeah I'd be more invested.
Comics have been decent at least.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Theres still The Nut Job 2 : Nutty By Nature which will probably make more money
When is Ragnarok?
November.
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
I'm so bummed. There aren't other words for it. Just bummed.
Has anyone said how Pennywise was in the movie?
sankt-Antonio
Banned
The sad thing is, this movie bombing (it will) is going to tarnish the Dark Tower saga for a long time. They should just rename it, sell the rights to Disney/WB/Marvel and have them make movies about the actual books 
Im just mad...
Im just mad...
In the Dark Tower? Because it is all connected. Basically it is the Kingverse.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I haven't heard anything specific about his performance, but I'd imagine if the film works as well as it seems to based on reaction to early screenings, that Pennywise is scary enough, considering he's the source of about 80% of the story's malevolence.
He was asking about IT's adaptation, specifically
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Nah. King would have a laugh about it and give us more shit.
It's more likely Tom Rothman
Anton Sugar
Member
I had to google and make sure this was a real movie. I don't even remember there being a first The Nut Job.
I can't tell you how depressing this is for me. The Dark Tower is my favorite property of all time-I've read it my entire life and it means so much to me. To see it get this fate is just gutwrenching.
Very true. I went from a maybe to a no a while back, I can't imagine the many people it will lose when the first screenings start Thursday night.
The sad thing is, this movie bombing (it will) is going to tarnish the Dark Tower saga for a long time. They should just rename it, sell the rights to Disney/WB/Marvel and have them make movies about the actual books
Im just mad...
Heck marvel did a decentish job with the comics, the gunslinger born is pretty good though I think they tailed off towards the end too, then again I stopped reading them halfway through The Drawing of the Three.
Mortimer Brewster
Member
I'll believe a successful adaptation of Dune when I see it. The only thing that gives me a semblance of hope is Villenueve's story telling sensibilities might gel with the source material.
BobTheFork
Member
But this movie was constructed in a way that could never lead to a CU, right?
The very nature of the movie concept is closing a loop on a story from books most possible audience members never read.
That might appeal to book readers but not with re-telling the whole thing in 90 minutes.
This movie reeks of misreading the dedication of a vocal minority.
CopperPuppy
Member
Good thing you decided to finally jump in and share some positivity.
One for the poster.
(Dark Tower) is going to be...amazing... --NeoGAF's Bobby Roberts
I think the book's reputation for being complex is exaggerated. The story itself is pretty doable. The sets and locations were bigger challenges and Lynch did a pretty good job artistically.
I have some faith.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Hollywood keeps trying to capture that Peter Jackson LOTR magic but all anyone has in them is Peter Jackson The Hobbit magic.
Real shame, I figured this wouldn't be very good but it would have been rad if it was.
Real shame, I figured this wouldn't be very good but it would have been rad if it was.
captjohnboyd
Member
Well that is exciting news. This last trailer looked especially good. Hopefully it will wash away some of the bad taste when I begrudgingly see The Dark Tower. Any idea how much of the story was left over from Cary?
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Nah. Stephen gives no fucks about these movies. He casheh that check, and probably gets a nice bump in book sales.
TetraGenesis
Member
One success is letting Edgar Wright just do his thing, the other is letting Marvel do theirs.
Sony Pictures is a disaster. They need someone who knows what they're doing. Kaz needs to take action.