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I think you just described The Langoliers. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Didn't care for it. For me, it isn't so much that the story seems considerably altered, which, sure, can be justified when it's presented in a new medium, but rather the Matrix-like action choreography and, as well, the casting that, sure, seemed a little off when announced but now -- to me -- looks way off on film. Nothing about it is clicking with me...looks like I'll wait until it hits Netflix. If even then. | |||
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More spoiler talk: | | | | | | | | | Didn't the man in black die in the books? | |||
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thin skin can't win |
As noted in the quoted part, it's a wheel, so he's back? You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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He who reloads with CGI has forgotten the face of his father. “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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In Odin we trust |
No, he wasn't/isn't in the books. However, if you'll recall Book 1 (The Gunslinger), the very first part is called "Resumption". Additionally there are dozens of references scattered through the 7 books to this not being the first time Roland has been here/questing for the Tower. Couple that with the idea (also expressed throughout the story) that there are countless universes stacked on top of one another, all connected by the Tower (and the Beams), it's not unreasonable to consider that the Roland seen in the movie is in a different universe, or perhaps this quest is one of the other countless attempts at gaining the Tower. Personally, I was unsure about the movie when I first heard about it, because in my mind (and SK's as well) Roland was/is basically Clint Eastwood. However I think the movie will be good, just different from the books. I'm excited about it. _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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Didn't the man in black die in the books?[/QUOTE] As noted in the quoted part, it's a wheel, so he's back?[/QUOTE] Yes he's back. He's back. Well he's baaaaaack. Baaaaaack! Back in black! YES HE'S BACK IN BLACK! Yaaaaaaah kaaaaah caaaaah faaaaaah daaaah yaaaaaaaaa! | |||
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| thin skin can't win |
This is exactly how we've decided to watch it. Simple entertainment and hopefully good, don't try to tie to book(s). IOW, it ain't Harry Potter! You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
<---- Wonders where the ignorant and disinterested group is meeting  _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
I'm ignorant but not disinterested. Where's my group, huh? "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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| thin skin can't win |
The Lounge? You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
How about ignorant and mildly intrigued? Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
Despite everything, I think we can nearly all agree that Stephen King hasn't had much in the way of good film adaptations of his novels save The Green Mile, The Shining, Stand By Me, and Misery. Maybe Christine. All his other novels have been turned into pure garbage. So with The Dark Tower, I'm going into this with the expectation that it'll be great up until the last 20 minutes, where it turns into utter shit and I leave the theater wondering why I wasted my money. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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| Do the next right thing  |
The Shawshank Redemption stands out. | |||
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It looks incredibly different than what I imagined when reading the books. | |||
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| Do the next right thing |
It looks to be an entirely different plot from the books. It's based on the universe, but that's about it. For example, in the book, Jake enters the Gunslinger's world in an entirely different manner, and they don't return to his world. | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
To be quite honest, that's a pretty good string of good adaptations. I've seen a LOT of stinkers over the years, to the point where I hardly ever watch a movie if I have previously read the book. JK Rowling and Tolkien both got away pretty well in the grand scheme of things. ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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I have not read the series. Does king conclude it, or is it left unfinished like Kafka's Castle? God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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| The Quiet Man |
Yes. And yes... SPOILERS The first chapter of the first book is titled Resumption. The reason becomes clear at the end of the last book. Ka is a wheel, and it rolls on and on... | |||
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It's been awhile since I read the books but I seem to remember him getting his hand or at least his fingers bit off by some sort of giant crab or something while he was injured and lying on a beach. Because of that, he could only shoot with one hand and ended up giving the other gun to the lady in the wheelchair. If this movie takes place after the books, he shouldn't be shooting with both hands. | |||
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