The Dark Tower movie and film mega-deal!

[Admiral James Kirk]

I read all of the DT books for the first time starting last November and finished in February and I didn't see any decline in quality over the series.

I think it may be possible that some people read the first one in the mid to late 80s, the second once in the late 80s and the third in the early 90s and may possibly have many fond memories of reading those books and thus the nostalgia may make them think the new ones that all came out from 2003 to 2005 are not as good.

I've been a DT fan for twenty years and I have enjoyed all the books to a greater or lesser degree.

The Dark Tower is a spaghetti western with monsters and robots.

Heh. I have to disagree with this statement. I think it's a little more than that. I really liked The Mist. Especially the ending.

By the way, what's this about a new Dark Tower book?

Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Through_the_Keyhole

He did fine with Green Mile and Shawshank but The Mist sucked ass.

The hell it did! It was one of the best sci-fi horrors I've seen since John Carpenter's 'The Thing' and easily one of the best Stephen King adaptations to date. Maybe my opinion was coloured by the fact that I had no idea what I was watching ahead of time but it was still damn effected and that ending had some real stones.

The Mist doesn't come within a country mile of The Thing's brilliance. It was a dark, murky piece of shit that utterly betrayed the source material by taking itself too seriously. Read the original story in Skeleton Crew. King said it himself: "It's The Alamo if it was directed by Bert I. Gordon." It was supposed to be an exploitation movie not a drama with monsters in it! It should have been like Grindhouse NOT Shawshank. And I got a better ending that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more in tune with the story that King wrote. The characters have escaped and are driving down a darkened highway when suddenly they enter a long tunnel and the mists part and the ground falls out beneath them and they all scream and suddenly the camera pulls back like a bat out of hell and we realize that the heroes have just driven down the gullet of some great leviathan! Now THAT'S an ending.

 

[Trent Roman]

Are the DT graphic novels any good?

Not in my opinion; I read the first one and never bothered with the series again. The writer tries too hard to emulate the dialect and just stumbles into parody, while the artist desperately needs for someone to take his black ink away from him.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

I just wanted you guys to know that at Stephen King's official site he has a free online DT game set up called Discordia which focuses on the Tet Corporation and their struggle to take down Sombra.

http://www.stephenking.com/discordia/core.html

 

[JarodRussell]

As of now, every TV movie made from a Stephen King novel has been pure garbage. Maybe they can break that rule, maybe not.

 

[Reverend]

^I remember 'The Stand' and 'IT' being popular adaptations back when they were made. 'IT' I liked for what it was but I could never understand the appeal of the former, not even the novel. I mean it started out OK but then it seams as if he had no idea where it should go after they arrived as the old ladies house and the rest was just...I don't know, not bad exactly, but I had a hard time getting along with it.

 

[LitmusDragon]

As of now, every TV movie made from a Stephen King novel has been pure garbage. Maybe they can break that rule, maybe not.

I enjoyed Storm of the Century, The Langoliers, and The Stand all to a greater or a lesser extent.

Never saw It, and the remake of The Shining was about as unnecessary as one might have expected it to be.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

^I remember 'The Stand' and 'IT' being popular adaptations back when they were made. 'IT' I liked for what it was but I could never understand the appeal of the former, not even the novel. I mean it started out OK but then it seams as if he had no idea where it should go after they arrived as the old ladies house and the rest was just...I don't know, not bad exactly, but I had a hard time getting along with it.

That's hilarious because King himself admits he had no idea what to do after the heroes got to Boulder.

 

[Reverend]

^ Well, clearly is shows.