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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| August 4th, 2017 at 6:18:16 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18756 |
I think the movie would have gotten a lot more promotion had it really captured the books well. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| August 4th, 2017 at 6:22:28 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
The character is written in the movie without race. You could put a white, asian or latino in just as easily. There is a spiritual quality to the character as he chants a mantra of sorts. He is supposed to represent good, while Matthew McConaughy is evil. Did the gunman's race matter in the books? There was a trailer for "Black Panther" before the movie. That's a film where race matters. |
| August 4th, 2017 at 6:28:16 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
What was the last Stephen King book done well as a movie? The only ones I really liked weren't even books: "Stand By Me" and "The Green Mile" were both short stories. |
| August 4th, 2017 at 7:12:08 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12509 |
Don't forget The Shawshank Redemption! Frank Darabont (director of Shawshank. The Green Mile, and The Mist) seems to be the best at adapting Stephen King stuff... “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| August 4th, 2017 at 7:36:45 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | For what it's worth, Rotten Tomatoes ranking of the Stephen King adaptions in order of year and by percentage.. 1976 93% Carrie 1980 87% Shining 1982 69% Creepshow 1983 68% Christine 1983 60% Cujo 1984 39% Firestarter 1984 38% Children of the Corn 1985 69% Cat’s Eye 1985 47% Silver Bullet 1986 91% Stand By Me 1986 17% Maximum Overdrive 1987 63% The Running Man 1989 46% Pet Semetary 1990 89% Misery 1990 13% Graveyard Shift 1992 37% The Lawnmower Man 1993 57% The Dark Half 1993 26% Needful Things 1994 91% The Shawshank Redemption 1994 27% The Mangler 1995 82% Dolores Claiborne 1996 16% Thinner 1998 53% Apt Pupil 1998 33% The Night Flier 1999 80% The Green Mile 2001 49% Hearts in Atlantis 2003 30% Dreamcatcher 2004 46% Secret Window 2004 27% Riding the Bullet 2007 72% The Mist 2013 48% Carrie 2014 35% A Good Marriage 2016 11% Cell 93% 1976 Carrie 91% 1986 Stand By Me 91% 1994 The Shawshank Redemption 89% 1990 Misery 87% 1980 Shining 82% 1995 Dolores Claiborne 80% 1999 The Green Mile 72% 2007 The Mist 69% 1982 Creepshow 69% 1985 Cat’s Eye 68% 1983 Christine 63% 1987 The Running Man 60% 1983 Cujo 57% 1993 The Dark Half 53% 1998 Apt Pupil 49% 2001 Hearts in Atlantis 48% 2013 Carrie 47% 1985 Silver Bullet 46% 1989 Pet Semetary 46% 2004 Secret Window 39% 1984 Firestarter 38% 1984 Children of the Corn 37% 1992 The Lawnmower Man 35% 2014 A Good Marriage 33% 1998 The Night Flier 30% 2003 Dreamcatcher 27% 1994 The Mangler 27% 2004 Riding the Bullet 26% 1993 Needful Things 17% 1986 Maximum Overdrive 16% 1996 Thinner 13% 1990 Graveyard Shift 11% 2016 Cell |
| August 4th, 2017 at 4:18:57 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I love it when people think race doesn't matter. Try having whites portray American Indians in movies today and see what happens. Or having all white martial arts people in a karate movie. Race always matters, no matter what people say. In the original DT book there were illustrations and the gunslinger was white. It only 'doesn't matter' when a white is replaced with a different race. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| August 4th, 2017 at 4:53:03 PM permalink | |
| Mosca Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 22 Posts: 730 |
That is the "fog of war". It isn't an expression, it is a description. Visit Gettysburg, and look from Seminary Ridge down Chambersburg Pike. Then imagine it completely filled with the smoke of thousands of discharged muskets. The fog of war. |
| August 4th, 2017 at 6:12:05 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Go to a CW re-inactment, it's a wall of black powder smoke. It's a wonder they hit anything in the real war, they couldn't have aimed at anything. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| August 4th, 2017 at 6:55:06 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18756 |
Whites as Indians --is as dumb as making all the Southern plantation slave owners of the blacks as black people disguised as Whites. Although the idea makes for interesting satire. But I don't recall gunslinger being a race either way, so I don't think it matters. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| August 4th, 2017 at 7:32:24 PM permalink | |
| zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 | I didn't read the book, haven't seen the movie, but who cares if the Gunslinger is black? Gunslingers can't be black?? C'mon Bob! There was a black gunslinger in Django Unchained too...did you complain about that? At least that took place in slavery times, so it mattered, but in Dark Tower...does it matter at all? |