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This review caption made me laugh and cry a little at the same time:
The Dark Tower Review - What The Hell Happened?
Although it's very misleading because the reviewer hasn't even read the books.
So we thinking rental here? I thought all along that it should have gotten the GoT treatment. It took 27 years for IT to recover from that awful miniseries and hit the big screen. Hopefully we don't have to wait as long for this to be done right.
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You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
That "awful miniseries" is one of the main reasons why IT is so iconic in pop culture today and probably why the remake exists in the first place. Can't imagine that Warner Bros would take the plunge on a R-rated 2 part horror film (the first of which is over two hours) about a clown that murders children if the Tim Curry version wasn't as beloved as it is.
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Here's the "swag" the radio station was giving out at the Bangor premiere:
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
I really hope whatever initial failure the film experiences doesn't kill the TV series; the DT world has plenty of slow-burn material that is absolutely perfect for TV (cable).
In the village all the children running home
- they sing hymns that haunt them when they're all alone.
Y'know even as someone who wished Walter had more of a role to play in the series they're really overstating the Roland/Walter conflict. Like after the initial pushing Roland to take his test I think he has one scene in W&G where he shows up with a box to one of Jonas's men. Not even sure what they mean of "how Walter became MIB" given he was fully formed and causing trouble hundreds of years before he encountered Roland.
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The guys on Consequence of Sound make it sound okay. It's not great, but there's enough there to make it good-ish. Certainly a seed for future growth.
The book was difficult to get through. I can't imagine a straight-up adaptation would be all that great. Especially for a wider audience. Anytime I've tried to introduce someone to the DT books, I"ve always mentioned that the story gets better after book 1.
Not to mention the impossibility of finding an actor to play young Roland in the flashback scenes and then have that same actor play the part when they get around to making W&G.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
Bev, your review is excellent.
Bev Vincent's Review.
I'm sometimes guilty of thinking of The Gunslinger as the book where nothing happens, but the truth is that every page is heavy with significance. Give it your attention, and be rewarded. In a sense, it's the deep breath before jumping into the whitewater rapids that much of the series is.
In the village all the children running home
- they sing hymns that haunt them when they're all alone.
For me, it was a hard read the first time around. I had no idea what was going on. I didn't really understand exactly who Roland was or really what he was doing. The whole story within a story in Brown's hut confused me as well.
It wasn't until I read books 2 - 4 and then went back and read the first book again that it really made more sense and I started to like it a bit more.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Dialogue between a huge fan of the books and someone who hasn't read them, both of them have been anticipating the film on their youtube channel for months.
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
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