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I think this is going to be my favorite "How would I fix it" hypothetical to talk about at the bar now. So there's that.
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Indubitable Leg posted:So the AV Club wrote up a pretty thorough take down, laying the majority of the blame with Akiva Goldsman. My favorite part from the article: It's a fair write up of Goldman's questionable filmography but I'd take issue with the continued insistence on ripping into Batman & Robin. That movie deserves some re-evaluation as a camp piece and the gay interpretation of the characters courtesy Schumaker. It's an intentional film, which the usual critiques miss either absently or willfully.
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Aug 8, 2017 19:59
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Stephen King magnetic poetry
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Aug 10, 2017 15:23
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Blazing Ownager posted:I think once you get a story that's more than like 3 books (esp 9 books) it's time to stop with the movie aspirations - It's worked precisely ONCE with Harry Potter and that's it - and start looking for Netflix, HBO, Starz, etc. to make it into a series. Structurally, cinema has more in common with short stories than it does with novels. Novels are sprawling things that talk about all sorts of stuff, but well executed short stories have a thesis (or not) and do just that. The Gunslinger would have worked as a movie, because its basically an inflated short story. It has very few characters and is pretty much just a collection of scenes. Prestige Format television is so in right now, I have to believe that The Dark Tower got a rush job for licencing reasons, at least in part.
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I think I get why Goldsman continues to be employed on projects as high profile as those he's had a turn at. He makes things that, on paper, look presentable. I, Robot (or the script it was before the studio found out it had a random Asimov license kicking around), I am Legend, and now Dark Tower were all well known but also known for being full of weird ideas. So if you're speculating on movies to back, the Goldsman comes to you with a treatment for a a AAA property and a script that turns it into something that can run on TBS for my parents after its theater run.
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