The Dark Tower

[BanzaiCat]

So have any of you read the Dark Tower/Gunslinger series? I have not. I had the movie on earlier this morning and it wasn't bad at all. Then again I've never read any of the books pertaining to this so I imagine if I did now, I'd see the complaints.

Matthew McConaughey looks like a dude erring on the dark side of 40 trying out Just For Men for the first time and overdoing it on the black hair. He's intense enough for the role but he just looks like a sad guy trying not to look old.

[Nefaro]

So have any of you read the Dark Tower/Gunslinger series? I have not. I had the movie on earlier this morning and it wasn't bad at all. Then again I've never read any of the books pertaining to this so I imagine if I did now, I'd see the complaints.

Matthew McConaughey looks like a dude erring on the dark side of 40 trying out Just For Men for the first time and overdoing it on the black hair. He's intense enough for the role but he just looks like a sad guy trying not to look old.

I read the first few books many years ago.  Back in my teens.

Recall really enjoying the dark weirdness of the first one, at the least.  Don't really remember details anymore, it's been so long, but I recall the tone and the setting to some extent.


When I read that the movie wouldn't be based on the first book, or any of them at all, I just expected I wouldn't like the movie.  Even if I don't remember much of the story, I just imagined it would receive a full injection of Hollywood junk writing that misses what made the original good.  Never went to see it because the reviews didn't convince me otherwise, unfortunately.

[BanzaiCat]

Idris Elba is a badass, though, and anyone else I don't think would have been fun to watch. At all.

I'd be totally behind Idris being the next James Bond, which I thought was a thing that was rumored for a while.

[mirth]

Idris Elba is a badass, though, and anyone else I don't think would have been fun to watch. At all.

I'd be totally behind Idris being the next James Bond, which I thought was a thing that was rumored for a while.

It was rumored, but Daniel Craig is coming back for another one.

[BanzaiCat]

That's a shame. The last Bond movie was crap and he looked totally over it, not just in front of the camera but off camera, too. They must have thrown a load of cash at him.

[mirth]

That's a shame. The last Bond movie was crap and he looked totally over it, not just in front of the camera but off camera, too. They must have thrown a load of cash at him.

$65 mil for Spectre and possibly offered $150 mil for two more

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/16/daniel-craig-confirms-he-will-play-james-bond-again

[BanzaiCat]

Can't say I blame him for swallowing his pride.

[mirth]

I don't think he enjoys making them, but it's kinda hard to argue with that kind of moola.

[BanzaiCat]

Thing is, if he's not into it, it doesn't matter how much cash they throw at him; it's going to show on the screen.

[mirth]

I haven't much cared for any of the Craig Bond movies since Casino Royale. I like him fine, but the movies have been convoluted and boring.

[BanzaiCat]

I liked them, but they're not Bond films I'd go back and watch again. Except Casino Royale.

[mirth]

I fell asleep while watching Quantum of Solace and never bothered finishing it. Skyfall was okay, but it really didn't grab me. I watched maybe 15 minutes of Spectre and gave up.

[Sir Slash]

In the last one he reminded me of Roger Moore after he got too old to play Bond anymore. Tom Hardy could do a good Bond I bet.

[mirth]

Tom Hardy is one of the names routinely mentioned as a next Bond.