The Dark Tower Good Vs Evil Edition Review
The Night Tower (Proficient vs. Evil Edition)
[UPDATE: If yous're here to detect out what the "Expert vs. Evil Edition" actually is, as compared to the movie, I don't know. I did not see the theatrical release. My best judge at this bespeak is that the "Good vs. Evil Edition" includes a backside-the-scenes featurette after the movie, which I did not watch.]
Mere moments ago, I finished watching The Night Tower on FIOS-on-need. This post will probably contain some spoilers for the movie and possibly even the books, only it's not that bad, really.
My expectations were low. Based on one or ii reviews I saw when the movie came out, I did not look a faithful recreation of the books. At all. Merely I kept a completely open listen and gave the filmmakers a take chances to sell me on this new idea.
The lesser line: I didn't hate it. It fifty-fifty had some good scenes. I really paid attention for the vast majority of the running time, and didn't revert to playing a game after five minutes like I normally do when watching movies.
It was far from perfect or even dandy. But I would rate it a solid "not bad" which is somewhere between "meh" and "good" on my rating scale. I didn't regret spending $5.99 on it. (Which is more than I can say for spending $4.49 for the game Necropolis, merely that's another story.)
Did we need a new vision of The Dark Tower story? No, not at all. But did they demand to make significant changes to make a stand-lonely movie based on The Night Tower serial? Unquestionably. Fifty-fifty if they tried to make a moving picture out of only the very starting time book, I don't think information technology would have worked.
This vision of the story, by the way, was based almost entirely around the core thread of Roland'southward and Jake's relationship, and the effect they had on one another. Jake helped Roland return to his former glory, while Roland helped Jake … I don't know, not feel crazy? And besides non get killed. Anyway, in my stance, they could accept done a lot worse than that for a moving picture.
The threads surrounding that core relationship, involving The Man In Blackness and the plot confronting The Nighttime Tower, actually seemed like a distraction to me. I kind of wish there had been less of The Human In Blackness, but, you know, big paid player, so, not much choice at that place.
I'm torn on whether viewers who accept not read the books volition be at an advantage or a disadvantage in terms of enjoying the movie. (Based on reading Roger's review this evening, I guess a disadvantage.)
If you go into the movie expecting the books, you absolutely, positively will exist disappointed. There is a lot more backstory in the books, and the rich civilization and history of Mid-Globe is explored in far greater detail inside the books. Merely to be honest, most of that would accept been wasted on the movie. In fact I would imagine the more fantastical elements that were in the moving-picture show were the most inexplicable to viewers. They didn't make much of effort to establish why The Night Belfry or Mid-Globe mattered, whereas me, every bit an avid reader of the books, immediately understood why it was important to relieve The Dark Tower. (Because there were a bunch of books well-nigh information technology! Duh!)
I had heard beforehand, and information technology was not-so-subtly hinted in the movie, that the events of the books took place prior to the events of the movie as a sort of prequel, which makes sense. It allowed me to utilise the rich setting of the books to fill in additional layers of meaning, without distracting from the picture's extremely obvious deviations from the books.
This movie was essentially an origin story for The Gunslinger. The story of the return of The Gunslinger from the brink of despair, with aid from Jake.
I thought the gunfight sequences were pretty well done. They weren't like the (amazing, but likewise long) gun-fu sequences from John Wick. Instead, they were subtly "enhanced" by the nearly magical qualities that we acquaintance with The Gunslinger.
It collection me crazy whenever he dropped his guns, though. Come on! You'd think the mythical gild of Gunslingers would take come up with some style to protect their hands meliorate in boxing.
I heard a lot of complaints about how short the moving-picture show was, but I didn't even find. Anything that runs more than than 30 minutes is "long" to me. Mayhap this "Good vs. Evil Edition" had some additional scenes, I don't know.
On the more negative side, I take zero memory of any machines that used kids' souls to set on the The Dark Belfry. What was that all about?? I actually have very niggling memory of The Homo In Black as a character from the books at all. Granted it's been a good decade since I last read them. To me it was always a serial about Roland and his ka-tet.
Anyway, if they make a series out of it, I'd watch it. It's got nowhere to go just up. But given the poor showing from the movie, I'1000 non holding my breath. Maybe they will effort to make some other version in a few years. Ka is a bike, yada yada.
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