(08-05-2017, 06:31 PM)rollerjag Wrote: I saw it yesterday, was underwhelmed. I'll try to avoid spoilers, but the previews had me worrying about a CGI-fest, which turned out to be justified. It could have been worse, and some was obviously necessary, but why do they always go overboard. Roland Deschain was bad [BLEEP] enough, no need to make him into a Marvel character.

If you're a fan of the novels, don't go expecting your long awaited desire for a movie version true to them to be finally realized. It is very, VERY, loosely based on the series. It's not even a condensed version.

Idris Eba as Roland was the bright spot, he was very good, especially as a fish out of water in modern day NYC. I found myself strangely wanting Matthew McConaughey to overact a bit more as The Man in Black, but he wasn't bad.

The sad thing is this will likely be the only version of The Dark Tower we'll ever see.

I read a review recently which seemed to confirm all my fears about how they could mess this up.  Kind of the same thing that happened to Dune, which is at least as intricate and epic.  I heard they're going try again with Dune though, so who knows?  I think to do the Dark Tower right, they'd need to give it a treatment like HBO did with "A Song of Ice and Fire", re: many seasons and a lot of money.

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