Dark Tower

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Just saw the movie. I have never read the books and have no idea how close the movie was to the books. I thought the movie was fairly good though. I wouldn’t classify it as horror by any means it was more of a classic good vs evil type of story more on the adventure end.
 
Love the first few books. The quality eventually peters off, although they’re still decent.

No interest in seeing the movie. From what I’ve seen, it looks like they made it into a fairly safe, generic, teen adventure kind of thing. For what it’s worth, the books are very dark and trippy. The first book, the Gunslinger, was written when Stephen King was on a mountain of cocaine. It’s a very weird, philosophical book. There are very few action movie type sequences.
 
I haven’t seen the movie, but from what I’ve heard, it sounds like they mainly took elements from the first and seventh books. Left out major characters and plot elements. I’ll probably be passing on this.
 
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I haven’t seen the movie, but from what I’ve heard, it sounds like they mainly took elements from the first and seventh books. Left out major characters and plot elements. I’ll probably be passing on this.
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I’ve read the books. Me too.
 
What a poor adaptation… Avoid.Even the great actors can’t save it
 
I thought the movie was ok. Of course not having read the books I can’t be disappointed about the translation to the screen but I did enjoy all the references and easter eggs in the movie to other Stephen King stories. I also thought the actors did a good job. 🤷
 
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I thought the movie was ok. Of course not having read the books I can’t be disappointed about the translation to the screen but I did enjoy all the references and easter eggs in the movie to other Stephen King stories. I also thought the actors did a good job. 🤷
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Just FTR, the references to other King stories (as well as his near-fatal accident) were in the books.
 
I saw it. It was okay. The actors were good. It was nowhere near the books, but the movie is supposed to be the “last time around”, occurring “after” the cycle depicted in the books (it’s a big time loop). I liked the Man in Black the most. Fun fact: he’s supposed to be the same character as Randall Flagg from “The Stand”.
 
The character of Walter Paddick/Walter O’Dim/Randall Flagg was pretty close to how he’s portrayed in Stephen King’s novels. They managed to bring out his truly sadistic personality, like telling a dying gunslinger that the afterlife is a lie before burning him to death.
 
I did enjoy the gunfight at the Dixie Pig and being able to point out all the references to Stephen King’s other works.
 
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