MelissaBaby
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A Wrinkle In Time
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Call me a pessimist...
But I predict another shitty movie that soils the name of a good book.
I guess you can always try judging it by thy train wreck of a TV movie they tried.
But I predict another shitty movie that soils the name of a good book.
I guess you can always try judging it by thy train wreck of a TV movie they tried.
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It had better be out in 3D.
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Wow. To be watched surely.
I do hope not all the claims or underlying assumptions in the movie will be as the conclusion of this trailer.
Darkness is not faster than light, and the only thing potentially faster than light, is thought.
Potentially.
I do hope not all the claims or underlying assumptions in the movie will be as the conclusion of this trailer.
Darkness is not faster than light, and the only thing potentially faster than light, is thought.
Potentially.
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Rarely does Hollywood get anything right. Odds that they get this and Dark Tower right are slim to none.
If I had to guess which one they get right based on cast it is no contest. Dark Tower.
If I had to guess which one they get right based on cast it is no contest. Dark Tower.
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U read them?
Why did studios engage, then pass on it so many times since 10 years?
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Female black lead.
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We're talking about Dark Tower.
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Are you a Stephen King fan? I'm not trying to sound bitchy when I say this but I'm guessing no since you haven't read the books. Some might say they are a culmination of many of his other works (The Stand, Salem's Lot, It, etc....). There are so many references to other books, but it wouldn't really 100% exclude a non-King reader. The setting of the novels is quite complex too though - western, post-apocalyptic at times, dystopia. It's very expansive and I can easily see how it would be hard to make such a movie (hence the large level of pessimism among the fan base). It would also likely take at least a handful of movies to cover the series in its entirety.
I am honestly very excited about it though. Not every adaptation is a huge flop (The recent series The Handmaid's Tale was amazing.). I just think sometimes the purists expect it the adaptation to be adhered to in every aspect when it's not always possible. I actually haven't read A Wrinkle in Time, but I am looking forward to The Dark Tower and am just going in knowing it isn't going to be 100% like the book.
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It is a female black lead in the books.
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I suppose I may enjoy it more without the potential disappointment from not being a good adaptation. Since a good adaptation is rarely the case.
I read none. actually, I don't read books... I know i should, I suppose.
Post-apocalyptic dystopia.. wow. Thanks for the nice summary. I'm sure you're correct.
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Winkle in Time is Oprah too; hence my assumption.
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With a western twist - I thought I had read years ago King wrote the Gunslinger with Clint Eastwood in mind. And you can certainly picture a younger Eastwood - stoic, lean and wiry, tough but conflicted. Idris Elba makes it an interesting twist (and I am an Elba fan).
And reading isn't everyone's passion. Look at it this way, you will get to go into it without all the baggage of "well, in the books....." and just enjoy it or hate it.
I'm a terrible person - I never follow Oprah's book picks. She picked a romance-y book one year and I just couldn't take it serious anymore.
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It looks good! I'm optimistic!
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Yep.
Probably because it is huge, will take a few movies at least, and the setting are so diverse.
They did make a wrinkle in time about 17 years ago I belive. Not sure if it was made for TV or movies but is was simply terrible.
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I read Wrinkle in Time in middle school, long before Oprah pimped books. It was among the few assigned reading selections that I loved.
Fun fact: my mom had to go to a parent/teacher conference because the teacher was concerned that I was reading Stephen King at my young age (12).
Fun fact: my mom had to go to a parent/teacher conference because the teacher was concerned that I was reading Stephen King at my young age (12).
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I read Wrinkle in Time in middle school, long before Oprah pimped books. It was among the few assigned reading selections that I loved.
Fun fact: my mom had to go to a parent/teacher conference because the teacher was concerned that I was reading Stephen King at my young age (12).
Lol - I read Misery probably about that same age (it was middle school). Oddly enough, despite living in Indiana, I was lucky to have teachers who never censored reading. I'm pretty sure my senior year teacher hated men: Madam Bovary, Hedda Gabler, Oedipus, etc.
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I read Wrinkle in Time in middle school, long before Oprah pimped books. It was among the few assigned reading selections that I loved.
Fun fact: my mom had to go to a parent/teacher conference because the teacher was concerned that I was reading Stephen King at my young age (12).
The it was the first book that scared the duck out of me. Not sure what age but it was Elementary
Still haven't seen the remake but want to.
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They used to have a bus in Bangor that did Stephen King tours. They stopped for a while, but may have brought it back.
It goes around town and shows you his house, then some of the locations that he used in his books.(Especially IT.) For the big finale, they go across the river to Orrington to where he lived when he wrote Pet Sematary. You used to be able to go back in the woods to where the actual pet cemetery that inspired him was located. I believe there are new owners now, and it's not open to the public anymore.
It goes around town and shows you his house, then some of the locations that he used in his books.(Especially IT.) For the big finale, they go across the river to Orrington to where he lived when he wrote Pet Sematary. You used to be able to go back in the woods to where the actual pet cemetery that inspired him was located. I believe there are new owners now, and it's not open to the public anymore.
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My kind of tour.
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For a while, I lived a few blocks from his house, and walked by it all the time.
http://www.acadiamagic.com/bangor-maine/images/stephen-king-1873b.jpg
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I read Anna Karenina in the womb.
This movie looks good. But I'm not jaded having never read the book as a child.
This movie looks good. But I'm not jaded having never read the book as a child.
