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Tars Tarkas posted:That Brian Henson puppet murder mystery movie The Happytime Murders is actually moving forward with Melissa McCarthy attached! I've been wanting this to get made for years now!
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Jonas Albrecht posted:https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8 As long as it's a fun bad I'm down. Give me the weird poo poo from Dark Tower plus Elba pissing off racists just by existing and you have movie of the year whatever year it finally comes out.
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May 3, 2017 14:02
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I love the DT books, and I don't really care at all that it doesn't seem like it will be anything close to the books... but I'm skeptical it's going to actually be decent, let alone good. That trailer just gave off a lot of "let's try and salvage what we can from this" vibes. This is in contrast to the trailer for the new It movie, which I thought was a pretty good trailer despite me not really liking the book. I'll still see it no matter what.
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May 3, 2017 14:29
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It seems like they're ditching Jake being from the 70s, which I feel is a shame for some reason I can't articulate. I guess I just want to see 70s New York and 80s New York inbetween lobster monsters and Dr. Doom throwing licensed Harry Potter memorabilia.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8 I know nothing about the books but I'm getting a Last Action Hero but serious vibe. AngryBooch fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 17:37
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Frankly I'd watch Idris Elba do gun-fu all day and not give a gently caress about anything else.
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May 3, 2017 18:57
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Look at Malcom McDowell's character name http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4274656/?ref_=m_nm_knf_act_i1
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May 3, 2017 22:15
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Jonas Albrecht posted:https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8 I don't like how small it looks. A lot of the appeal of the book is its weird druggy sense of scale where time and scale have lost all meaning in a world that has moved on and the quest for the Tower is something that involves and effects every world but in the trailer they make it look like Narnia or something. Even in the dialogue, "both our worlds" and "millions of people" instead of "all worlds" and "all people" takes away a lot of the impact and grandioseness of something that was conceived as Lord of the Rings meets The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly on acid. Also framing it as a kid who gets pulled into a fantasy world instead of a mythical cowboy-knight who meets a modern American boy in the middle of the nuclear hellscape seems like a huge misstep, like it's the kind of thing that they're hoping will make it more accessible to non-book readers but instead turns it into, again, Narnia with Guns.
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May 4, 2017 00:49
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Guy Mann posted:Also framing it as a kid who gets pulled into a fantasy world instead of a mythical cowboy-knight who meets a modern American boy in the middle of the nuclear hellscape seems like a huge misstep it's pretty clear the creators have forgotten the face of their father.
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May 4, 2017 01:26
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I haven't read this book but hearing the crazy poo poo you all are talking about this may be the Dune of 2017 and it may be impossible to do the book justice in movie form.
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May 4, 2017 01:46
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The later books have C3PO and Doctor Doom and Stephen King himself in them and it would be the dumbest thing in the world but I'd still like to see them try that stuff.
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May 4, 2017 01:48
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The sixth book has the boy switching minds with his talking dog so they can pass a psychic trap that manifests itself in this case as a scene from a cartoon dinosaur movie.
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May 4, 2017 02:19
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Movies need to get weirder.
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May 4, 2017 02:24
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Stephen King is basically weirdness incarnate. Sometimes it works for him (IT, the first few dark tower books), sometimes it doesn't (Cell, the last few dark tower books) but you really can't fault the guy for just being so out there so many times.
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Which books was King on drugs for?
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GrandpaPants posted:Which books was King on drugs for? Pretty much the first fifteen years or so of his output.
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GrandpaPants posted:Which books was King on drugs for? The good ones.
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Weird differences from the source material I noticed. Spoilered for those who care, but the movie looks like it's going to be so different that I don't think it will matter: -The story seems to take place in modern day rather than the 80's. Which is disappointing since making it a period piece would have been pretty fun. -Jake never went through a portal to go to Roland's world. He was shoved into traffic by the Man in Black and died a pretty gruesome death before waking up there. -Jake never drew pictures of/had visions about Roland as far as I can remember. -Not seeing any of Tull or the railway under the mountain (which was like 2/3rds of the book). Maybe they're having the final confrontation on earth instead? -It looks like Jake is showing up much earlier in the movie. In the books he doesn't show up until like halfway through the first book. -Roland goes to earth at some point. That doesn't happen until book 2 when he gathers his companions. This is a pretty drastic change so it has me worried. -No demonic pregnant women so possibly no demonic abortions. BOOOO! -The trailer presents like a superhero movie but Roland and Jake don't save poo poo by the end of book 1. Roland corners the Man in Black, they talk, he goes to get his three companions, the end. kiimo posted:I haven't read this book but hearing the crazy poo poo you all are talking about this may be the Dune of 2017 and it may be impossible to do the book justice in movie form. It's an incredibly hard book series to adapt. The first one in particular since it's all about world building and mood with most of the story taking place in flashbacks of various kinds. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 02:38 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 02:35
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The second and third points happen in the third book.
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May 4, 2017 02:38
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Baron von Eevl posted:The sixth book has the boy switching minds with his talking dog so they can pass a psychic trap that manifests itself in this case as a scene from a cartoon dinosaur movie. ... You mean We're Back?!
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May 4, 2017 02:50
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Again, any differences from the books is due to the movie being a continuation of the series instead of a straight adaptation.
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Which isn't really important anyways because movies should be different than books
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kiimo posted:I haven't read this book but hearing the crazy poo poo you all are talking about this may be the Dune of 2017 and it may be impossible to do the book justice in movie form. Basically, yeah. Also in one of the last couple books something important is hidden in a locker at the twin towers, implying the man in black was responsible for 9/11, iirc
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May 4, 2017 02:53
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I hope Anthony Hopkins reprises his role from Hearts in Atlantis and that they do the scene with the vampire that eats laughs.
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The MSJ posted:Again, any differences from the books is due to the movie being a continuation of the series instead of a straight adaptation. That explains the crazy gunbelt full of loaded cylinders, he's playing on New Game+. Guy Mann fucked around with this message at 03:48 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 03:45
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:Roland points to his headband and smiles coyly to Jake: "Infinite Ammo".
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The MSJ posted:Again, any differences from the books is due to the movie being a continuation of the series instead of a straight adaptation. Guarantee that's going to have to be pounded into everyone's head. New cycle of everything so that hopefully we get more Elba doing gunkata against lobsters and demons and super smart trains.
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Is there a greater theme/idea that ties the whole Dark Tower series together? Because whenever anyone is discussing it, it sounds all over the place. And for such a weird story the trailer seems really... generic, I guess? It gives me the same vibes as something like The Last Witch Hunter, where it looks like some fairly rote fantasy/genre fiction ideas without much visual flair or distinctiveness tying it all together. Child, Narnia portal, some goblins, a cool man, a bad man, and a vaguely post-apocalyptic world. And you guys are talking about living trains and lobster men! That trailer could have used a lobster man.
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Red Bones posted:Is there a greater theme/idea that ties the whole Dark Tower series together? Because whenever anyone is discussing it, it sounds all over the place. And for such a weird story the trailer seems really... generic, I guess? It gives me the same vibes as something like The Last Witch Hunter, where it looks like some fairly rote fantasy/genre fiction ideas without much visual flair or distinctiveness tying it all together. Child, Narnia portal, some goblins, a cool man, a bad man, and a vaguely post-apocalyptic world. And you guys are talking about living trains and lobster men! That trailer could have used a lobster man. Yeah, there is. Basically, there's this Tower at the center of all realities that is being attacked/destroyed somehow. Roland travels through multiple alternate worlds trying to get ther,e gathering a motley crew of sidekicks along the way. There's quite a bit of variety in the universes they travel, from The Stand to a post-apocalyptic city where people murder each other over a ZZ Top song because of the evil super-dimensional monorail asleep under it. It's King trying to do his own weird sci-fi epic and I love it, warts and all.
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I need to get back to that series. I'm midway through book 4 but I find it hard to care about teenage Roland and his list for a farm girl.
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Len posted:I need to get back to that series. I'm midway through book 4 but I find it hard to care about teenage Roland and his list for a farm girl. I dunno I mean, what was on that list?
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CelticPredator posted:I dunno I mean, what was on that list? Top Ten Most Overpowered Anime Weapons.
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Len posted:Guarantee that's going to have to be pounded into everyone's head. New cycle of everything so that hopefully we get more Elba doing gunkata against lobsters and demons and super smart trains. I read a lot of King when I was younger, but never the Dark Tower specific stuff except for 'The Talisman'. I think this movie is for people like me who aren't encased in the minutia.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Top Ten Most Overpowered Anime Weapons. Number Five Will Shock You! (Literally)
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CelticPredator posted:I dunno I mean, what was on that list? Her kiss.
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Guy Mann posted:I don't like how small it looks. A lot of the appeal of the book is its weird druggy sense of scale where time and scale have lost all meaning in a world that has moved on and the quest for the Tower is something that involves and effects every world but in the trailer they make it look like Narnia or something. Even in the dialogue, "both our worlds" and "millions of people" instead of "all worlds" and "all people" takes away a lot of the impact and grandioseness of something that was conceived as Lord of the Rings meets The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly on acid. Don't act like all three Narnia movies wouldn't have been better with guns.
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Every fantasy epic would be better with guns.
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Len posted:Guarantee that's going to have to be pounded into everyone's head. New cycle of everything so that hopefully we get more Elba doing gunkata against lobsters and demons and super smart trains. Hopefully a lot less (Book 2-3 spoilers)"Split personality legless lady distracting an invisible demon by having sex with it and getting pregnant in the process". Because man, I stopped reading after that point and just read spoilers for the rest of the series and was wholly unimpressed. When I got to the spoilers where the scooby gang has to go to Maine and rescue actual self-insert character Stephen King because he was the prophet of the story and his death meant the end of all things or some such was the point that I good and truly realized that Stephen King is kind of a hack.
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Len posted:I need to get back to that series. I'm midway through book 4 but I find it hard to care about teenage Roland and his list for a farm girl. If she's white in the movie then the reactions by awful nerds will entirely justify making the movie.
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Red Bones posted:Is there a greater theme/idea that ties the whole Dark Tower series together? Because whenever anyone is discussing it, it sounds all over the place. And for such a weird story the trailer seems really... generic, I guess? It gives me the same vibes as something like The Last Witch Hunter, where it looks like some fairly rote fantasy/genre fiction ideas without much visual flair or distinctiveness tying it all together. Child, Narnia portal, some goblins, a cool man, a bad man, and a vaguely post-apocalyptic world. And you guys are talking about living trains and lobster men! That trailer could have used a lobster man. The major unifying theme (at least in the books) is one of decay, of things being worn down and falling apart. The narrative reason that all these disparate elements (robot trains, lobster men, goblins, arthurian knights, cowboys, etc) are mixing together is that the boundaries that would have separated them are collapsing. The eponymous tower is (in some worlds, literally) a support beam that keeps each world from collapsing in on itself, and it's weakening.
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