• ganksy@lemmy.world
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    10 个月前

    The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.

    Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn’t do it. I don’t ding JB for it at all but really bad.

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      10 个月前

      There are bad adaptations, and then there’s the Dark Tower, which was akin to a full palm-open slap to the fans while desperately hoping they could maybe appeal to some movie goers that were unfamiliar with the books, which it failed to do spectacularly.

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        10 个月前

        Most of Steven King books end up this way. It’s pretty much expected at this point.

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          Hey now, The Mist, The Shining, Salem’s Lot, Storm of the Century, 1408, Rose Red (Depending on your tastes of course, it’s bad, but very watchable) that would like a word. Hell, Silver Bullet and Maximum Overdrive Are also not bad if you enjoy less than great movies.

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          They end fine. Genuinely, read the first book, and read the last chapter of the last book. Ignore everything else.

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              10 个月前

              His cocaine era was his best era. That being said, I did enjoy many of the Dark Tower books, but only as standalone books and not for what they contributed to the series overall, which was a large mess of half thought-out needlessly over-explained medley of what I can only summarize as pure narcissism.

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                The man managed to insert his own car accident three times in the series. This dude really needs therapy.

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                  He also tried to bind his universe to Harry Potter, Star Wars, and even Spiderman.

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      10 个月前

      Nacho Libre is easily one of my favorite movies of all time, and I specifically avoided watching it because Jack Black was doing just terrible shit at the time. Now, my closest and oldest friends and I quote it at each other all these years later. I am truly sorry you didn’t like it!