{"id":42606,"date":"2024-09-05T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42606"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:15:42","slug":"the-dark-tower-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/05\/the-dark-tower-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Tower (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d spends ninety minutes telling a story while doing almost nothing but dumping exposition on the audience. And yet, when the movie was over I knew as little about this world coming out than I did going in to it. With films like \u201cLord of the Rings,\u201d and \u201cStar Wars,\u201d the creators manage to disseminate information and world build while also giving audiences an experience. \u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d feels so under-developed and poorly developed, almost feeling like a truncated idea of what kind of movie series \u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d was intended to be. I still don\u2019t know what the Dark Tower is. I still don\u2019t know who Roland Deschain is.<\/p>\n

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I still don\u2019t know why The Man in Black wants to destroy the Dark Tower. Why are bullets rare in Roland\u2019s land? Why did they mold bullets from Excalibur? What does Arthur of Eld have to do with the Man in Black? Why are bullets rare in Roland\u2019s land? If only the bullets from Excalibur can affect the Man in Black, why does Roland steal normal bullets in our world? What\u2019s the parallels of cell towers to the dark tower? If The Man in Black destroys the Dark Tower, then what happens? Can only Gunslingers kill the Man in Black? Does Roland have the Shine, too?<\/p>\n

Finally, if all of King\u2019s works are tied together, was the monster that lured young Jake away the same breed of monster that Pennywise is? Is Roland Deschain a human being or some kind of humanoid from another universe? For what it\u2019s worth, Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey give very good performances and I imagine in a better made movie, they might have even delivered excellent performances. The movie feels so confused and imbalanced most of the time with so much of the mythology seemingly left on the cutting room floor in favor of world jumping and gun fights galore.<\/p>\n

We only visit Roland\u2019s world for about thirty minutes until we\u2019re given a silly fish out of water narrative with Roland adjusting to our wacky world. He even learns about hot dogs. That\u2019s wacky. \u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d feels so much like it should have at least given us ninety more minutes to ease in to this world, but even folks that have read the entire \u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d saga might have a tough time getting acclimated to the events that unfold here. It\u2019s never made clear is the studio were just intimidated by Stephen King\u2019s source material, or were embarrassed by it. In either case, I don\u2019t know much about \u201cThe Dark Tower,\u201d but I know enough to understand that this isn\u2019t it.<\/p>\n

I left it wanting more. Knowing there\u2019 is<\/strong><\/em> so much more left a bad after taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d spends ninety minutes telling a story while doing almost nothing but dumping exposition on the audience. And yet, when the movie was over I knew as little about this world coming out than I did going in to it. With films like \u201cLord of the Rings,\u201d and \u201cStar Wars,\u201d the creators manage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,349,477,906,982,1087,1185],"class_list":["post-42606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-science-fiction","tag-stephen-king","tag-thriller","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43451,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42606\/revisions\/43451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}