![]() ![]() There are also far worse, such as 'Children of the Corn' (2009), 'Sleepwalkers', 'Tommyknockers', 'Thinner', 'Dreamcatcher' and 'The Langoliers' (of the ones seen, there's some to go yet). There are much better adaptations of King's work, especially 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'Stand By Me', 'Misery', 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Carrie' (1976), 'Salem's Lot', 'The Shining' (Kubrick) and 'The Green Mile'. Considering the track record for Stephen King adaptations, it was useless expecting a straight up adaptation on my part and the film was seen with no aim to compare the different mediums and instead judge it on its own. There are merits with 'The Dark Tower', but it has a lot of problems that cannot be ignored, no matter how hard people try. The complaints however are understandable and valid, contrary to what those vehemently and in some cases condescendingly say those who found problems with the film do know what they're talking about. After seeing it, 'The Dark Tower' to me wasn't as bad as reputed to be and could have been far worse. Also because of the reception the film received, being critically panned but the audience reaction being much more mixed. ![]() Hearing that there was going to be a film, part of me was a little excited but there was even more apprehension considering the scale and length of the series on the whole. Made up of eight books, 'The Dark Tower' book series is simply spectacular, with wildly entertaining and imaginative stories, a deft mix of genres, unparalleled attention to detail and conflict and with characters that are far more than standard clichés. ![]() Which is why film/television adaptations are such a mixed bag. Stephen King is notoriously difficult to adapt, some of his work near-unfilmable or at least with parts that are (i.e. ![]()
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