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The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.
Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn't do it. I don't ding JB for it at all but really bad.
There are bad adaptations, and then there's the Dark Tower, which was akin to a full palm-open slap to the fans while desperately hoping they could maybe appeal to some movie goers that were unfamiliar with the books, which it failed to do spectacularly.
Most of Steven King books end up this way. It's pretty much expected at this point.
Hey now, The Mist, The Shining, Salem’s Lot, Storm of the Century, 1408, Rose Red (Depending on your tastes of course, it’s bad, but very watchable) that would like a word. Hell, Silver Bullet and Maximum Overdrive Are also not bad if you enjoy less than great movies.
And Shawshank Redemption! People always forget it's based on a King novella
Yea, but most have been a bust and pretty bad in my experience.
Never read the books because I heard they end badly and that's a hell of a time commitment.
They end fine. Genuinely, read the first book, and read the last chapter of the last book. Ignore everything else.
Imagine actually suggesting missing out on the height of Stephen King's mescaline era.
His cocaine era was his best era. That being said, I did enjoy many of the Dark Tower books, but only as standalone books and not for what they contributed to the series overall, which was a large mess of half thought-out needlessly over-explained medley of what I can only summarize as pure narcissism.
The man managed to insert his own car accident three times in the series. This dude really needs therapy.
He also tried to bind his universe to Harry Potter, Star Wars, and even Spiderman.
Huh, it's one of my favorite endings of all time and I consider it genius. One man's trash I guess
Okay, maybe I will read them.
Not even Idris Elba could save that mess of a movie.
Iris Elbow is the James Bond we deserve.
Autocorrect really did a number on your comment.
Idris Elbow is aware of the effect he has on autocorrect.
Do you think him and Benadryl Cucumbersmash are friends?
Huh? I got it right. Next you're going to say I spelled Belvedere Cummerbund wrong.
I think he would have made a great luchador.
Get back to your ready room and tend to your lizard babies.
Being cast as someone that is a clone of Clint Eastwood is not what I'd call a good casting.
Except if they knew it was just one single movie and Odetta wasn't in it.
They could've had a motherfucking FRANCHISE
Nacho Libre is easily one of my favorite movies of all time, and I specifically avoided watching it because Jack Black was doing just terrible shit at the time. Now, my closest and oldest friends and I quote it at each other all these years later. I am truly sorry you didn't like it!