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ozza posted:I haven't read the books, but the trailer looks oddly Young Adult-y. Do the books also have a hip teenager tagging along for the wild ride? Yes, a preteen with a talking dog raccoon
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Hodgepodge posted:I hope they keep that detail. This movie is going to go down in marketing history by figuring out that the trick to silence the "it was different in the book" crowd was to show some random still of a horn and then have every book hipster go "heh, if you actually had read the book you'd know it was different because _______"
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May 22, 2017 17:14
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Lets all agree to explain all the differences in the movie as the fact that the book we read was in universe written by an unreliable narrator stephen king having the story leak into his brain instead of explaining the differences as the time loop stuff.
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May 26, 2017 02:00
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Why is no one talking about the fact they replaced oy with a literal car insurance commercial. Because that was the only clever part of the entire adaptation.
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Aug 6, 2017 02:08
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ZorajitZorajit posted:
The gunslinger would have worked as a movie because it's just literally "what if the man with no name from those cowboy movies was in the desert from canticle for leibowitz instead of the desert from historical texas"
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Aug 15, 2017 15:03
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Dark tower seems like an inherently doomed property. Like say you recreate the first 3 scene for scene and everyone loves them. What do you do next? actually film the weird harry potter and doctor doom stuff that made up the second half of the story?
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Feb 26, 2018 14:22
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It really just does seem like the thing everyone would want is the first few books faithfully adapted very close to the books and then the second half just basically totally rewritten. Like I think I like the later books more than some people but they are meh stories that would make the worst movies imaginable. It feels like a project that was a movie series that had two phases like that would be really hard to sell. Like pitching "I got this movie series, the first half is all really good but most people hate the second half! "
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Feb 26, 2018 15:48
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I honestly feel like a good writer could mash wolves into a reasonable movie and "the dark tower" could get stripped down to an outline and rewritten better but that it still leaves "song" hanging out. I can not imagine any possible way that even one second of song could get filmed that made anything resembling a movie anyone would watch. wolves and tower have a lot of work to make them good but at least have some seeds where you can see what they could work from to fix things, song just seems like there is not one single story beat that could even remotely make it into a film. Like you can cut out the lightsabers in wolves and say "well the loop part is cool and there is an IT spider" in dark tower but there is no conceivable thing you could do to song that makes any of it filmable.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:36
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