DARK TOWER RT THREAD It's a disaster >For a movie

>>85822486
>truly incredible source material

>>85822486
>For a movie based on a beloved book series, the writing is sometimes shockingly bad.
Did they not read the source?

>>85822486
Can someone please explain me which of the books did they try to put in this film? I mean, no Eddy, no Susanna, but Dark Tower already shown and kinda breaking, so i couldn't understand shit from the trailers.

>>85822611
Why are you getting assblasted ahead of time?

>>85822486
>The dark tower
>Stars a black man
What did they mean by this?

>>85822655
Supposedly, its a mixture of the first five books that is also both a prequel and a sequel. I can't imagine what could go wrong with that.

>>85822668
>getting assblasted

what? I'm celebrating. We've won. The Dark Tower is a bomb. We're Making Movies Great Again. We're winning so hard. We're winning so big. You've never seen winning like this before.

>>85822611
All of the reviews say Idris Elba is the only good thing about it

>>85822655
It's mostly Gunslinger with elements of others sprinkled in. Eddie and Susannah would have been in the sequel had this not been such a colossal fuck up.

>>85822486
Shame, just started on the books and they're pretty great.
Honestly tried to picture Roland in my head as Elba as I read, and it works for some of it, but it mentions his complexion a fucking lot.

>>85822760
only because they don't want to be vilified as racists. lmao learn how to read between the lines. What movies with terrific lead characters have you seen that have been shit? Don't fall for fake news.

>>85822738
You're assblasted about the election and about casual racism and you aren't hiding it at all

>>85822829
>assblasted about winning

uh???

>>85822738

you can almost smell the tears

>>85822878
tears of joy

The consensus seems to be that all the right elements for a good movie are there, but the end result is just a mess of interesting ideas that never manages to take shape

which basically means studios meddled up the ass because they know what the masses want

>>85822862
You're being obviously sarcastic

>>85822655
>Can someone please explain me which of the books did they try to put in this film?

They kept in Steven King's shameless moneygrubbing and poor writing, mostly.

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You shouldn't have said no, Stephen.

>>85822486
Another terrible movie made by Sony Pictures. Who could have guessed? Probably tries to estabilish a cinematic universe.

>>85822908

Sony once again proving their movies executives know how to do things better than anyone else. Those things being waste ideas and loose record amounts of money.

I wonder how /tv/ would have taken to the Dark Tower movie if the lead wasn't black?

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>>85822655
They put that shit in a blender and hope it stuck to the wall lmao

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>21% on RT
WEW

>>85823591
they would shit on the movie for the giant turd it is rather then blame it on the miscasting of a decent actor

>>85823591
I know I'd still hate it because it's trying to cram an entire series of books into one movie.

Pleb filter

>>85822738
... The movie has been in development for over 10 years now, that's never a good sign

Steven King Cinematic Universe btfo.
Off to about as a good a start as the Universal Monsters universe.

>>85822486
Well, at least this Dark Tower is truly dark. You can't go darker than Idris Elba.

>>85822908
>The consensus seems to be that all the right elements for a good movie are there, but the end result is just a mess of interesting ideas that never manages to take shape
And don't they plan to make 4 films out of this? That's probably what is wrong here, they were counting on a cinematic universe, without bothering to make sure the first film is comprehensible.

>>85824176
The funny part being this was the easiest cinematic universe to start because it would've connected a bunch of already good movies that exist. Sony fucked up a sure thing.

>>85822655
It seems like Jake's story is a mishmash of Gunslinger and Wasteland, and then they just skip to bullet points from the last book, with the Breakers and all that.

>>85824266
>Sony
Well that explains everything

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It's okay, IT will save King adaptions.

>>85822486
The running time was a dead giveaway that it's a shameless quick shitty cashgrab made out of desperation.

Elba and McConagay probably knew what they were going into, it's Sony after all, but they also knew they won't be blamed if it sucks, but get millions of dollars.

>>85824375
i actually feel like the reason they put in elba instead of an actual white actor to fit the books is because everyone knew what a piece of shit it was so they can deflect and cry racism when it does poorly

>>85824586
That was probably one of the reasons, those kind of tactics are not new to Sony, they did it with Ghostbusters.

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RUH ROH

>>85824586
Thats the Sony way, cry foul at some kind of ism or phobia to cover for the fact that they consistently make shit

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If Katheryn Winnick had gotten her tits out it would have been a 10/10

>>85822816
Will Smith and Margot Robbie were bretty good in Suicide Squad

>>85822723
>mixture of the first five books
>also both a prequel and a sequel
>90 minutes

Jesus christ how did anyone expect this to work?

>18%
WEW LAD

>>85822611
Youre like 15 you didnt even fucking vote

I've legit never heard of this movie until this thread.

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>>85822486
"It sucked."
-the one positive review

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>>85822611
I know you're shitting, but Affirmative Action IS shit. It's abused by idiots to hire people based on how dark their skin is, in a form of reverse racism - instead of hiring people based on their actual qualifications. If you want to "fix" the sad amount of minorities who are able to take jobs, then you need to address the root issue instead of trying to bandage and ignore it.

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>>85825476
>mixture of the first five books
>90 minutes
Jesus.

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NAME ONE GOOD STEPHEN KING THEATRICALLY RELEASED ADAPTATION

Is this film about the first book, or the whole series?

>>85825890
Carrie. The Dead Zone. Misery. The Green Mile. The Shawshank Redemption.

That's five.

>>85825890
The Mist
Shawkshank Redemption
Pet Semetary (not great, but ok)

>>85825944
It's the first five books AND it takes place after the end of book 7.
90 minutes. PG-13

>>85825890
>NAME ONE GOOD STEPHEN KING THEATRICALLY RELEASED ADAPTATION
Carrie
Shawshank
Christine

>>85825972
>>85825890
>>85825947

Stand By Me

>>85825947
I'll add Christine, Apt Pupil, Stand By Me.

>>85825947
Also Stand By Me.

>>85825947
>The Shawshank Redemption
>Stand By Me
>The Green Mile

It's weird how these are King movies. I don't get why he writers so many shitty books. he doesn't need the money.
It's like if you found out your favorite smutty greentext writer was a famous author.

>/tv/pol/ hates idris alba now
Since when?

He's usually the only good thing about most of the SHIT movies he's in

>>85826066
He cranks out every plot that comes to mind, good or bad. After all, somebody'll like it.

>>85826111
For what I can tell they can't handle the fact it's a shit movie on its own merits, so they're going to scapegoat him instead

>>85826111
He's only been in shit movies lately. Fuck him.

>>85822486
>>85822486
You know what? I'm pretty sure they switched the races of Roland and Suzanna for a very specific reason.

In the book, Suzanna is a bitter old black woman who comes to realize most of her bitterness is silly because most white people aren't the pieces of subhuman hateful shit that she thinks. That is not the type of commentary on racism that the cinema currently favors.

The US film industry wants to make it out like anyone brown has every right to be furious but if white people have the smallest inkling of racial solidarity, they're no better than Hitler.

So they'll have Suzanna be white and Roland be black. Suzanna will hate Roland because she's not a big fan of black people but she will learn her racism is silly and unnecessary because black people are great....

>>85826066
The Green Mile is a good book. Wtf?

>>85826066
>I don't get why he writers so many shitty books
Have you honestly never had a hobby anon? Especially one where plebs will throw money at you for it?

>>85826185
>In the book, Suzanna is a bitter old black woman who comes to realize most of her bitterness is silly because most white people aren't the pieces of subhuman hateful shit that she thinks. That is not the type of commentary on racism that the cinema currently favors.

Reminds me of Sam Jackson's characters in Die Hard 3 and Amos & Andrew. Movies like that won't happen these days.

>>85822486
>The dark tower
>shows a white tower on the poster

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>>85826422

Good. Unnecessary race-swapping needs to stop.

>>85822486
>beloved book series
yeah, no, nobody cares about it

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"Intended to launch a film and television franchise, the first installment combines elements from several novels in the eight-volume series, taking place in both modern-day New York City and in Mid-World, Roland's Old West-style parallel universe. Arcel has said that fans will know the film is a sequel to the books' events."

>8 BOOKS IN 88 MINUTES
>88 MINUTES
>NOT EVEN 1.5 HRS

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAH

>>85826422
>the DARK tower
>starring a nignog

really makes you think

>people surprised by this

Name one decent Steven King novel adaptation

>>85825213
when the fuck will she get them out? all i have is that blurry nip slip from instagram

>>85826489
see
>>85825947
>>85825972
>>85826009

>>85826489
The Shining.

>>85826533
Nostalgia lensed glasses. Its really not good

>>85826528
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdcjJoXeEY

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>90 fucking minutes
People need to be fired for htis

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>>85826489
Misery
The Green Mile
Carrie
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
The Dead Zone

>>85826528
Gee whiz, I can't imagine why a PG-13 Dark Tower movie would be such a disaster!

>>85826674
As if that's really the summation of all the problems with this dead on arrival abortion

>>85826693
Honestly it is. If you're making a Dark Tower movie with a mindset of having it be PG-13 you've already fucked up beyond belief.

>>85826693
It doesn't hurt. The first thing we see Roland do in the books is mow down an entire village, kids and all, before shoving one of his guns up a crazy fat woman's cunt.

>>85826489
thinner

>>85822486
>truly incredible source material.

Wat. Is the world building Godly or something? Cuz King's prose has always been shit from what I've seen.

>>85826747
huh, maybe casting him as black was the right choice after all

>>85826598
Fuck off, it's one of the best horror films ever made.

>>85822486
Well, I think the real mistake is they had a goofy idea for a sci fi screenplay involving multiple worlds and a gunslinger like hero.... then they bought the rights to the Dark Tower and shoehorned in a script that was originally NOT intended to be the Dark Tower.

So since it wasn't any real adaptation of the original works, they declared it a sequel to the books.

Every time Hollywood has done this, they had a script floating around the studios, they bought the rights to an intellectual property, and shoehorned the characters from said property into it; it fails dramatically. The Super Mario Brothers movie and Max Payne movie are great examples of this.

This is the same thing yet again, I'm pretty sure. When they pull this stunt it shows little resemblance to the source material and keeps neither the flavor, the tone, or even a semblance of the original characters or universe. It shows the most disrespect to the source material possible.

>>85826789
kek

>>85826151
B-but he had nothing to do with this movie being shit.

Fucking retards

t. /pol/
>>85826162
Seems like its more his agents fault than his own desu chan

>>85826819
While you're not wrong, that was not the case with this movie in particular.

>>85822723
I don't get why they fucked this up like this. The problem with most adaptations is that they try to make a film out of material that's either to sparse to turn into a film or just plain difficult to adapt to screen. This series already had a shitton of books and from what I know, the first one, Gunslinger, wouldn't have been all that expensive to film if they'd done it right. Why not actually build a cinematic brand by making a cheap and accurate adaptation of the first book. It's the most low-risk high-reward scenario you could expect from a property you're looking to adapt, Hollywood fuckery notwithstanding.

>>85826788
World building is literally all King is good at. I read Salem's Lot when I was a teenager and found it reasonably effective because King invests so much time in building up the town and its inhabitants in the reader's imagination. Taken in isolation the vampire element of that novel is laughably bad.

>>85826857
You have a shit agent you fire him and find another one.

>>85825769
He actually praises the fact that this decidedly non-experimental non-fringe film has no emotional resonance. In other words he's praising it for being similar to Transformers.

>>85826859
>>85826859
You never know if it is, until long long after the fact when they've milked every cent they can get from it. But it matches all the symptoms.

>>85826893
Its really bizarre because both westerns and horror films are pretty hot right now. An R-Rated Gunslinger movie would be fantastic, and you could even work in some of the backstory from Wizard and Glass if you wanted to world build a bit more.

>>85826989
Can I ask, have you read any of the original book?

>>85826990
Wizard and Glass should be a standalone sequel, its one of the only great things King ever did. Hell you could do it standalone without doing anything else in the Dark Tower universe to set it up or follow up

>>85825890
Carrie
The Shining
The Green Mile
Stand By Me
Shawshank Redemption
The Mist
Creepshow (not based on a book, but King wrote it)

>"Fuck you, I liked it"-Tier
The Running Man
Cat's Eye
Maximum Overdrive

>>85827002
>>85827002
The first 4.... after that it went sharply down hill and I gave up.

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>>85826947
It's a fair comparison. It has the same tagline.

>>85825890
Technically speaking, The Shining (fuck off contrarianfags), Shawshank, Green Mile, Misery are good films. But these are also the ones that feel like King had the least to do with them, so idk if he deserves as much credit. He's just a fucking weirdo. Good premises, shit prose. For some reason got memed into popularity because apparently the wild mental ramblings of a depressive drugged out psycho are what resonate really well with the degenerate society we live in.

>>85827039
The Running Man is pure kino, though.

It tells the same story as the entire Hunger Games series far more effectively in less than 90 minutes.

>>85827086
Legit some of his prose is greentext tier but I guess that's what you should expect when you're shitting outtwo books a minute.

>>85827086
Have you even read any of King's books? It's full of very crass dialogue and action.
There was one book, that described in detail, some zombie possessed sheriff who unzips his pants and pulls out his rotting puss dripping dick and starts to rape a character randomly.

>>85822486
>writing sucks
>pacing sucks
>editing sucks
>directing sucks
>blame a black guy who had nothing to do with any of that for the fuck ups of white people

Stay classy, /pol/.

>>85826904
Same with Cujo. For being a book about a rabid dog, the dog is really only being crazy in the last third of the book or so. The majority is about the husband's last-ditch effort to salvage his advertising contract, and about his wife cheating on him.

>>85822611
>>85825843

Why did this even need affirmative action. The original story has an international couple and one of them is crippled. What more could you possibly want?

>>85827157
>/pol/ is going to blame the movie's failure on a black lead
>SJWs are going to blame racists for not seeing the movie
>meanwhile everyone with a brain will realize this was a fucking mess ruined by Sony's incompetence
I wish people didn't have to attach political agendas to movies, this is just a fucking tragic waste of a good source material.

>>85827176
To be fair, we know about the dog getting rabies and slowly going mad before that. The book is largely about trust, which works pretty well imo.

King has more misses than hits, but when he hits, he hits.

>>85826066

Because he just likes to write. Yeah most of it is shit but that's true of most creative people

I have a chance to watch this for $3 tomorrow since it's playing on a military base near me. Should I?

>>85827196
I'm still going to see it tomorrow opening night.
I really don't care what people or critics think, and I usually find that what's popular I don't like anyway, with the inverse of that usually being true too.

>>85827157
There is not a single post in this thread blaming the nigger lead for this flopping you stupid fucking faggot. Muh /pol/ boogeyman!!!!

>>85827266
YesSteal the ice cream codes while you're at it too.

>>85827266
Absolutely not

>>85827275
I was considering seeing it, but 90 minutes? PG-13? Fuck that, honestly. I don't want to give Hollywood money for this.

>>85827147
what in the everloving fuck. He's like the writer equivalent of those fucked up Patreon degenerates that try to get paid for drawing fucked up shit and then bitch about kinkshaming. Like I'm not against art discussing fucked up shit but it blows my mind that he's fucking mainstream despite having written so many fucked up things without any apparent understanding or any solid point (the few times I've heard him discuss the fucked up shit he's written the reasoning he gives is so damn cringey and immature, like iwth the gangbang scene from IT, legit read the defenses and you can tell the ppl defending it are degenerates "OMG IT'S NOT ABOUT SEX UGH" well "sex=growing up" for like ten fucking pages is something you'd expect a fucking child to come up with in the smut fiction they wrote for their crush). Makes me think that 99% of people just know his name and not really the content of his work. But hey what the hell do I know.

>>85827086

We're talking horror fiction here friendo. I don't get why people always compare him to classic literature and start complaining about things like "prose". He himself admitted reading his works is like eating a hamburger. Do you shit on Zombi 2 as well for intellectually stimulating, you dumb piece of shit?

Reminder to all the freshcunts that /pol/ runs this board.

>>85827296
I have no idea what codes you're talking about.
>>85827307
That's what I was thinking. The film seems to just butcher the source material. I don't even think it would be one of those 'so bad it's good' movies.

>>85827336

*for not being

>>85827339
>freshcunts
Reminder that /antipol/ derail threads and speed out over the word nigger.

>>85822486
I knew it was going to be a terrible adaptation but goddammit I thought at the very least it would be a passable movie. Fucking shit

>>85827263
I think this explains it. He's like a fanfic writer whose name gained popularity because of some old adaptations of some his less degenerate works and now he's been coasting off of that. Somehow he's avoided any kind of review at the hands of the public at large, and his name is still out there.

What's worse, Voldemort or your average neckbearded /pol/tard?

>>85827396

>hurrr horror is degenerate

You're talking like a soccer mom from /pol/

>>85827266
My vote would be don't pay a dime to go and see this turd. Download a free version or, at best, pay get it for free with your netlix or something.

You really vote for the kind of cinema you want to see with your dollars. If they butcher a beloved book series with a shitty movie adaptation and you pay to go see it you support them doing this.

Also, I'm not racist, but I really don't support the blackwashing of established white characters either. It's done for political reasons. It basically says anything that belongs to whites should be taken from them, but god forbid whites take an established minority role....

>>85822486
i've never trusted this piece of shit RT site

>>85827477
Go to bed, TJ.

*sigh*

and the white man marches on

you couldn't give us PoC this one victory could ya?

PoC are brutalized in the streets everyday and it's too much to ask for yall to not trash our movie the one time we get the leading role?

you see a big beautiful chocolate man and feel intimidated by his superiority so you seek to destroy him

one day we'll come for you, just you wait.

>>85827416
I know this is a trick question, because you're not one of the options.

>>85827477
It depends. If you wish not to trust their film critic reviews, that makes perfect sense as most of them have a distinct political slant these days.

But the aggregate of user reviews really does hold a lot of weight. But even then, there's a great many movies that were fantastic that were overwhelmingly panned by the people that saw them... but I'd say, at least 75% of the time, I find myself agreeing with the viewer consensus.

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>>85827535
Deal with it nigger

https://youtu.be/bSqTpORimKQ

>>85827535
>men fight and die so that their brothers and sisters don't have to be talked down to as "colored" people
>modern day leftards won't stop calling themselves and everyone else that isn't white a colored person

Makes you like retarded to be quite honest senpai

>>85822611
John "cast more English Africans in American movies" Boyaga on suiside watch

>>85827457
I honestly didn't attach that label to him until I read him trying to explain some of the shit he wrote. Until I read his explanations I just took it as a "oh I guess it's just not my thing" and I still don't mind there being rape, pedophilia, necrophilia, drugs, etc., in a book. It's just that hearing his rationalizations made me realize he's p retarded.

>>85827157
Go back to bed John Boyaga

>>85822486
All I want to know is, was the original main character described as a black guy in the books? If not, then I'm glad this shit is failing.

This has nothing to do with me being a racist btw, believe it or not lib fags.

>>85827714
You type like a retarded faggot yourself.

>t. King

>>85827157
>>85827196
Please. Casting Elba may have been one of many many mistakes, but it was still a mistake.

>>85827714
>oh no, DRUGS in a book
What a stick in the mud you are

>>85822816
Will Smith has a lot of duds. So has Cruise, De Caprio, every actor in movie 47. Fuck I dare you to find me an ocasr winner in the last 15 years without some shit performance.

>>85827758
That's not racist. It's just whiny

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>>85827758
No. The most specific description came from Eddie, a colleague of the main character's, thinking the main could've been Clint Eastwood's father. He was also often described with his sharp blue eyes.
I personally saw Franco Nero.

>>85823591
/tv/ despises sony

>>85823591
It would still have been a pile of shit. That politically charged race swapping is going to suffer for this is a silver lining.

>>85827758
he is the ultimate spaghetti western hero, so he is described somewhat as Clint Eastwood.

If Hollywood wants to agenda push they have to stop hiring actors that aren't the same race as source material in films that aren't guaranteed to make money.

Like how did anyone think a 90 minute multi-book adaptation would be anything less than shit?

>>85822486
Waiting for Armond's review

>>85826857
>>85826943
>>85826111
This. It's like saying Nic Cage has a bad agent. Even if that's true at some point he has to have been doing it on purpose.

I thought this movie was supposed to be set after the books, so that's why there are elements of some books mashed together

Seeing as he has already reached the Tower in the books, and it's clearly implied in the books that he's reached the Tower more than once? And also that when he does reach the Tower, there are subtle differences when he starts his quest again (eg. having the Horn of Eld at the end of the last book after he reaches the Tower

>>85823591
There would be one or two threads about it sucking, but because it has a minority lead, its failure means it needs to be made political. Everything does, because without politics, many people would realize how empty they are as human beings. They scraped out their humanity and filled it with something they need to be true.

Movie still sucks regardless.

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>>85827535
>one day we'll come for you, just you wait.
Whenever you're ready Rufus

>>85828016
Nic Cage was known to have a bad money problem and was also known as a previously-excellent actor. Idris Elba is a passable tv actor, only held to any esteem because the other, much better, Black leading men like Denzel and Forrest Whitaker were getting older. If this was the nineties he would have been typecast as a smooth criminal for the rest of his life.

>>85822611
this totally isn't a buttblased libtard falseflagging

>>85827850
>>85827922

Knew it.

>>85827826

Nah. Casting black guys for the sake of diversity is just obnoxious.

>>85822738
>The Dark Tower is a bomb. We're Making Movies Great Again. We're winning so hard. We're winning so big.

When you come here to false flag next time, try not going overboard like this.

"Hurr the diversity movie lost, sieg heil praise Trump 1488 my fellow whites!"

>>85828156
>tfw the only tell is that last line
Guy went a little overboard but otherwise a believable post.

>>85823591
>I wonder how /tv/ would have taken to the Dark Tower movie if the lead wasn't black?

If they'd cast a young Clint Eastwood we would have said it's god tier casting. Then lamented that the grubby kikes ruined it by making a 90 minute adaptation that sucked donkey balls because they were afraid to go full western.

>>85828180
As someone who frequents /pol/, these /pol/ boogeyman memes are blown way out of proportion.

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>rt
>legitimate
>not journalist cabal rigging entire movie industry for failure and pushing marxist ideals they were preached to during low rent colleges

What has the King of /tv/ said about it?

>>85828242
Good job using a movie from the same studio as Dark Tower, dumbass.

They should give the rights back to Marvel.

ITS NOT FAIR

ITS NOT FUCKING FAIR

THE DARK TOWER WAS MY FAVORITE BOOK SERIES EVER

NOW THE WORLD WILL NEVER READ THEM

AND I CANT TELL ANYONE I ENJOY THEM ANYMORE OUT OF EMBARASSMENT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>85828285
Don't worry. They'll fix it in the sequel :^)

>>85827157
>>blame a black guy

That's not even happening, people are blaming Sony Pictures for being complete retards as evidenced in their email leak. These are people who can't type a proper sentence running these things. They titter and backstab people like it's highschool, they know nothing about the movies or genres they're producing.

It's apparently a legitimate diversion and blow softening marketing move now to focus 100% on gender and race wars. Ghostbusters tried to make out like failure was due to misogyny. Other diversity failures try to sell it as evil racists sabotaging the movie.

As long as the blame isn't pinned on the studio for making a shitty movie. They even selectively remove comments to leave only racist crap, while criticism with any sense gets baleeted.
This is by design.

>>85828141
>If this was the nineties he would have been typecast as a smooth criminal for the rest of his life.
theres nothing wrong with that outside of the wire he doesnt have much range

>>85828285
Its mine too. I'm glad it fell on its face. Roland deserved better than getting BLACKED

>>85828285

I tried to read the books, but they were painstakingly boring to me. I got to The Drawing of the Three before I said fuck it.

>>85828332
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I'm saying there's something wrong with how people keep trying to make him the next Denzel or Forrest Whitaker when he is not nearly talented enough.

What happened Progressivebros? I thought we were winning.... I thought we were on the right side of history...........................................

>>85827758
No, he was supposed to be exactly Clint Eastwood.
There's even a scene where they're on Earth and someone passes by a movie poster and they remark about how it's Roland on the poster.
There were also comparisons to JFK, but that was more of a personality thing, what with him being a natural diplomat.

>>85828388
>I thought we were on the right side of history
You're in the wrong timeline. This is the good one.

>>85822926
Your face is sarcastic.

>>85827850
One of the main characters was a crippled black woman with a split personality. One of those personalities absolutely despised white people. She spent a lot of her introduction calling Roland a honky motherfucker.
Made it even funnier when King said decades later that he was never clear on Roland's race.

>>85828339
Eh, they start to suck after the fourth one.
The last bit of the last book was perfect though.

If my memory of what King said in the book is correct, there was a first draft of a thousand pages or so that he hammered out in a few days while high on shrooms. It was supposed to be his LOTR.
Then he lost it and had to try to recreate it from memory.

>>85828285
The trailer actually made me interested and I've had them on my backlog for years. Probably will get to them after I finish my current series.

>>85827797
Are you mentally handicapped? I'm literally saying there's nothing wrong with writing about drugs, in case that's what the guy to whom I was replying thought I was saying.

someone already leaked it on youtube

>>85806695
>>85806695

Thing is the baboons at Sony wanted to make it YA franchise focusing on kids visiting other dimensions with Roland being a mere guardian not protagonist.

>>85828669
10/10

Somewhere, the screams of white people rise like music, then fall into silence forever. That place is the future, and we cannot get there soon enough, as this thread will attest.

>>85827023
It was a complete and absolute waste of time, killed my interest in the Dark Tower.

>>85828669
heh

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>>85822486
>truly incredible source material

Just as expected, here come the excuses why it wasn't a failure because of the nigger who should never have been cast.

>>85828805
oh you're an idiot with no taste, good to know

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>>85828669
>Anon does this as a joke
>There's videos linked in it that I actually want to watch

>>85828507
>Made it even funnier when King said decades later that he was never clear on Roland's race.

Jesus, I didn't know that. I get that the guys writes a lot, so he likely doesn't remember specific texts, but Roland is clearly described as being white throughout the series. I find it funny that they even picked "Behind Blue Eyes" as the song for the movie trailer, clearly referencing Roland's piercing blue eyes in the book.

>>85829219
>>85828507

What a load of shit. I swear he described Roland as looking like himself just grizzled as fuck when he wrote himself into that shitshow

>>85828970
What was it's significance? I did not like any of the irrelevant characters from this prequel novel. Teen romance dragged it down and there was too much filler.

>>85827189
You obviously have no idea what affirmative action is.

>>85822611
Are you the same guy who makes all those female Doctor Who false flag threads? Genuinely curious, the shitposting is hilarious

>>85829358
I remember there to be some info about MiB and such but honestly all that book could be condensed into a chapter or two.

>blatant /pol/ falseflag second response in
>brainlets attacking it like they think it was made in seriousness

really activates my autism

>>85829580
How do we solve the redditor problem? 4chan used to be racist all the time but now if you say a naughty word a billion butthurt leftists will attack you

Someone spoonfeed me on why are the books so popular, the series sounds lackluster from what I've heard, like a mishmash of different unrelated ideas a thirteen year old would consider cool.

>>85822486
There is too much story for anything but a deluxe mini-series format.

This should have been HBO's next big thing.

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/tv/:
THEY RUINED IT BY CASTING A NIGGER FOR A WHITE MAN'S ROLE

also /tv/:
Shawshank Redemption is a truly wonderful film


Red is a potato nigger in the book.

>>85830243
Nobody complains when the actor is upgraded to a better race.

>>85822908
>Studios still listen to screening feedback
Why don't they learn that people are retarded and need to stop being pandered to?

>>85829645
Are you fucking serious? Who gives a fuck about those low t faggots. Just keep saying that shit nigguh. Either they get tired of it or leave, or eventually get used to people saying things like that.

>>85828339
this. the drawing of the three is where i dropped off.
i liked the ending of the gunslinger but that's it
>>85828285
>we probably wont get roland and the man in black sitting next to a campfire with roland going into a mind fuck of a dream and waking up to see 10 years have passed and the man in black is just a skeleton
it was so good. but now we'll probably get the whole
>END OF THE WORLD
>YOU HAVE TO SAVE THE WORLD ROLAND
>SLOW MOTION GUNSHOOTING

Looks like a fun summer blockbuster desu. Don't care if it doesn't follow muh source because I never read whatever King book it's based on and I doubt the integrity of "beloved". Don't see any correlation between running time and quality. 90 minutes is good, nobody wants to spend 2+ hours in a stuffy cinema.

>>85830022
HBO has made nothing but garbage since Rome and Deadwood.

>>85822611
10/10 copy/past

Here's a (you)

>>85831080
I agree. This could have been a ray of hope.

>>85822486
Stephen King Universe deader than the dark Universe.

>>85831080
Sadly, this. Well except for Veep.
>inb4 also GoT
Neck yourself

was the book written to look like a video game?

>>85822908
They THINK they know, and a lot of the time they game their test screenings to get the result they already want.

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Why are mostly jewish liberal reviewers bashing a movie that has a black protaganist, why did they also hate on the emoji movie when it's blatant sjw propoganda?

They are more than willing to give high scores to shitty movies if they fit their political agenda normally, see ghostbuters and force awakens. What changed all of a sudden?

Is this the review industry checking if low review scores make people go see films or what? (cause high review scores sure as hell don't)

There is no way these people changed their whole political outlook over a few months.

>>85831080
>HBO has made nothing but garbage since Oz.

ftfy

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>>85831857
>emoji movie has a 0% rating
>made 25 million in the US at the weekend

>>85831857
They realized that the public weren't buying it, and accepted that Trump won the election.

>>85822796
Wait til it explicitly mentions that he's a honkey Mofo.

Don't get too invested. The quality is going to take a nose dive at the end of book 4 and never recover.

>>85822936
Also his senility and liberal cuckoldry.

>>85830686
like ghost in the shell?

>>85825890
Misery
Dolores Claiborne
Stand by Me
The Shawshank Redemption
Carrie
The Mist
The Dead Zone
The Shining (Kubrick)

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>>85831969
>emoji movie will make money
>we'll get an emoji cinematic universe, books and tv shows for the next 10 years

Nuke this planet

>>85827086
>But these are also the ones that feel like King had the least to do with them

Shawshank is an nearly an exact copy of the book.

>>85827339

Reminder that nigger lovers aren't welcome on /tv/

>>85822486
Wait, they got Idris Elba to play the gunslinger?
Top fucking kek, how did this casting go down exactly?
There is a major character that has half her dialogue be racial slurs against the white cracker gunslinger. Did they make her white?

>>85824375
>Elba and McConagay probably knew what they were going into

fucking this, if you watch their interviews with Fallon and Colbert they basically just name drop the Dark Tower once then start rambling on about Elba's DJ career and Lincoln man's obsession with a sketch show Colbert did in the 90's

>>85833074
>we know the movie is shit
>let's raceswap the mc so people will talk about it
here's the whole thought process

>>85822486
/Our girl/ already disaproves of this film, fucking (((Goldsman)))

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THE FRESH REVIEW CALLS IT FRESH BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A VIDEO GAME

t's a highly competent and watchable paranoid metaphysical video game

Haahahahahahaah what A FUCKING JOKE

FUCKING HELL

GET YOUR NINTENDO SWITCH BOYS AND LETS VROOMM VROOOM TELEPORT INTO DARK TOWER -WORLD 3 HAHAH FUCK THIS MOVIE

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>state of Sony pictures now

>>85823304
Motherfucking this.
The guy makes Stephen King's works into kino.
Why wouldn't they give him TDT?

>>85825890
Christine

>>85833495
Yeah, I really don't get why he'd turn Darabont down. The man directed two of the best adaptations King's work has ever gotten, three if you count that short about the boogeyman he did years and years ago.

>>85833431
They can keep afloat for decades just selling IPs.

>>85833495
>>85834551
Because Darabont wouldn't want to do it fast and cheap, like Sony aparently did.

>open word document
>copypaste Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet
>copypaste Action/Superhero Movies Template to Beat Sheet
>had Star Wars EU/OT/PT references to characters, places and events, but never go deeper than surface level and never be explicit
>make sure all the social justice boxes have been ticked
>leave many untold things so that they can be explained in tie-in comics/games/books
>Print

>>85831969

Emoji movie will not be making money, all the money it made opening weekend came from friday, then due to bad word of mouth the audience dropped quickly, this weekend it won't make anything.

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I hope the niggerfest will soon end and either stop making everyone a negro for virtue signaling or delegate them back to designated black characters movies like Book of Eli or Django

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>negative reviews
straight to the point - the movie sucks

>positive reviews
movie is good because buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords

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>>85823591

Reminder that Viggo Mortensen was first cast as Roland, but since he had the balls to speak out about Israel's occupation of Palestine, (((Hollywood))) blacklisted him and then we ended up with a black Roland...

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What are some films about fellow white people?

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>>85827535
I am literally shaking

>>85834596
>They can keep afloat for decades just selling IPs.
What IPs?

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>>85827757

>>85822486
>stephen the hack king book gets turned into a movie
>it's shit
wooow didn't see that coming

>>85822486
>colt single action army
>colt navy 1861
is this explained in the books, why not just have two of the same pistols

The Come, Come, Commala scene is just ridiculous in this movie.

Roland "shuks and jives" to a rap version of the farmers folk tune

>>85828210
>If they'd cast a young Clint Eastwood we would have said it's god tier casting.
Scott Eastwood. Cast Idris Elba as the man in black.

>>85835390
Hope you're joking

>>85822486
>the writing is sometimes shockingly bad

looks like they stayed faithful to Stephen King's style

>>85829580
>>85829645
Samefag.

>>85822738
you have to go back

>>85826066

I don't get why you guys say everything is shitty. Do you feel better now that you've called one of the best fiction authors on the planet "shitty"? He's a good writer.

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>>85836690
Go to /lit/ and say that.

>>85835299
The universe Roland comes from is post-apocalyptic and his guns are hand-me-downs from his father and his fathers father and so on.

>>85834973
>Viggo as Gunslinger
Do FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKING want

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>>85828113
Yes it is, but the book states the limitations of the sequels (because the book itself is a sequel).

Sony, SK and all the shillers shitted all over these limitations just to have this black dude as a lead cast and make this mess of a film.

Somehow this only cost 60 million dollars, so at least it won't be a total disaster. What that budget also tells me is no one gave a shit from the start so why the fuck did they make this movie.

>>85836901
maybe needed credible tax deductions?

>>85822486
>nigger
>guns
>magic
>lovecraftian lore from Hang the Pakis Lovecraft

dropped

>>85834973
fuck viggo would be perfect

>>85825476
But it's "diverse"! We all know that is the solution to everything.

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>>85831969

>Jude Terror

>>85823591
it's ghostbusters all over again

face it, these are shit movies, and the gender/race baiting is there in a pathetic attempt to make it seem like criticism is unreasonable, when in fact it is just about the most reliable signal that a movie is in fact shit

>>85826819
I would care if I thought Stephen Kangs deserved any respect but basically he's been shit since Pet Semetary and it's only by the grace of a select bunch of jews that his stories are made into good films.

>>85826893
>I don't get why they fucked up like this
Especially when we have Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings to show how it is done. I swear for a moment there I thought they actually fucking learned something. Shows that HP and LotR were just lucky accidents. No one knows anything and no one learned anything.

Written and produced by Akiva Goldsman, who wrote Transformers V, King Arthur, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Why the fuck is this man allowed anywhere near any film?

>>85838339
>Especially when we have Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings to show how it is done. I swear for a moment there I thought they actually fucking learned something. Shows that HP and LotR were just lucky accidents. No one knows anything and no one learned anything.
HP AND LotR is by Warner. What does Warner's successes have anything to do with Sony Picture's failures?

You think just because Warner made some good films, that it would magically teach Sony anything?

>>85838427

(((Akiva Goldsman)))

>it's a mystery

>>85838427
>Written and produced by Akiva Goldsman, who wrote Transformers V, King Arthur, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Why the fuck is this man allowed anywhere near any film?
Sony Pictures is KNOWN to be the worst of the major studios. He is working for Sony because Sony couldn't get anyone better.

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>>85834973
Gas the kikes RICHT F U C K I N G NOW

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How will /our guy/ find a way to praise it?

>>85823591
It's still sony garbage

BLACK PEOPLE MOVIES FAIL
BLACK PEOPLE MOVIES FAIL
BLACK PEOPLE MOVIES FAIL

>>85839320
Something about race relations and the decline of morality in the age of social media I imagine

>cast niggers for no reason
>movies flop

Taking a hint yet Hollywood?

>>85839559
>Idris Elba
>no reason
Go away /pol/tard

>>85839744

Triggered libcuck for 8 years huh

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>>85839789
(you)

>>85827157

where ITT has anyone done that, you race baiting cum guzzler ?,

>>85839827

Awww, you mad. :)

>>85839928
Not really, I just find you boring and repetitive.

>>85823591
It'd still be shit, because what shitposters like you are failing to realise is that while casting a black guy was a mistake, it's not the be all end all.

>>85823286
Why are Roland's revolvers glowing? Jesus fuck this looks like shite

>>85823591

surprised sony isn't shilling this like ghostbusters.

the film looks embarrassingly bad, idris is probably the only good thing about this wreck

>>85828123
t. someone who just finished watching True Detective and is now le pessimist :^)

>>85826009
The ending to Apt Pupil (the story, not the movie) still fucks me up to this day

>>85840241
>surprised sony isn't shilling this like ghostbusters.
What do you mean shilling? The film is only 60 million, GB2016 is 144 million. If you mean marketing, the film is too cheap to worth market that much. Most of the marketing goes to Emoji.

Did the Cuckman like it?

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>16%

>>85822486
This is what happens when you give the main character role to an over-memed, one dimensional, ugly negroid.

Divine justice for blackwashing.

>>85841985
Yes anon, the acclaimed negro actor who hurts your feelings is the reason the movie is a blatant failure.

You can't properly condense a book series like The Dark Tower into a movie. Contemporary TV and Netflix/Hulu/Amazon shows have proven that mini-series are the best medium for visual media. You have more time to flesh out characters and plot.

I seriously hope Sony's CEO actually sells off Sony Pictures like Matsushita did with Universal Pictures. The Japanese shouldn't have gotten involved with Hollywood and allowed those studios to choke in the early 90's.

>>85842192
I agree. Mini-series are a kino form of media.

>>85842380
It pisses me off that every studio wants to create their own "Cinematic Universe" because they desperately want the kind of cash that Disney is making from Marvel and Star Wars.

For fuck's sake, just focus on making good movies. I understand that studios need to make profit, but don't overreach yourselves and think that Spider-Man and Sinister Six would bring in 12 billion bucks. Scale back and make films that bring in a couple hundred million bucks on budgets that aren't over-the-top.

Does the movie show Susan Delgado getting BLACKED?

>>85826598
You are a twit.

>>85827535
"We iz y'allz superiors"
"WHITE SUPREMACISTS!!! HOW DAAAREEE YOUUUUUUU!!!!"

>>85834930
>all white """men"""
now theres a surprise

>>85827196
>I wish people didn't have to attach political agendas to movies

Me too, when is Hollywood gonna stop doing this shit?

>>85842558
>Scale back and make films that bring in a couple hundred million bucks on budgets that aren't over-the-top.
Technically Dark Tower is already low budget with 60 million dollars. But it sucked anyway because they STILL worry too much about future movies rather than focusing on getting the current film off the ground.

>>85843041
Yeah I noticed. I was actually surprised that it under 100 mill.

>But it sucked anyway because they STILL worry too much about future movies rather than focusing on getting the current film off the ground.
I have no pity for Sony Pictures. They ran themselves into the ground with their retarded short-sighted actions.

>>85834973
Fuck me as much as he's supposed to have blue eyes Viggo would've been fucking God tier

>>85843139
>I have no pity for Sony Pictures. They ran themselves into the ground with their retarded short-sighted actions.
The entire movie watching community is sick of them at this point. There are plenty of people defending every other studio, but Sony Pictures is basically being outright shamed in public by everyone recently. It doesn't help that Dark Tower came straight after Emoji, so the bashing basically continues non-stop.

>>85843221
After reading all those leaked e-mails, it made me realize that studio execs are just as retarded as anyone else.

>>85838427
>Goldman

>>85823591
>Sony
Nothing would have changed

>>85822486
Anime adaptations doesn't sell well nowadays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roDxYsFSSXU

>>85836690
I didn't. I asked why a clearly talented writer (because he has created great works of literature) forces himself to churn out mediocrity. For every good King book there are at least 10 if not more meh to shit ones. It can't be a money thing, hence the question, why spread yourself so thin when you could release a masterpiece every 5 years or so?

>>85844186
He spent half of his career a druggie workaholic to keep him self occupied during and between benders and the second half of his career a teetotaler workaholic to keep himself busy so he doesn't relapse.

>>85838468
Yes in a wide variety of fields people learn from other people. Apparently not (((my fellow white people))) though.

>>85822688
the tower is his penis

>>85844457
>Yes in a wide variety of fields people learn from other people.
If Sony know what they were doing, they wouldn't have become so bad at their jobs. Retards exist in every industry.

>>85822738
look at all the (You)s you got from crybaby libs pretending you're the assblasted one, they're mad that people dont give a shit about their "RACIST NAZI" labels, just shitting a fit in their powerlessness.