Haven’t read the books, is this story very kid centric? Nothing ruins a good story more than a kid so I hope not.
Jake is a major character, but not the major character in the books. He doesn’t act like a kid much of the time, either.
You’re not familiar with Stephen King kids, are you?
No.
The series really picks up and starts getting better during book 2, The Drawing of the Three.
And to go a little bit further, for me it got super interesting at the tail end of book 1.
I want to like this movie, and I think I’d feel better if this was more of a reimagining of book 1, The Gunslinger, knowing they’re gonna roll right into book 2, and Roland would be drawing the ka-tet for the sequel. But now I’m not sure we’ll get that. But if it is, I’ll probably love it. If for no other reason than the first book is slow, and King didn’t truly find the story until The Drawing of the Three. Oh, and seeing him find three doors on the beach at the end of the film would be a thrill knowing who’s behind them.
Being a deadly fighter isn’t the same as being an action hero. It’s just that stylish slow motion moves, choreography and the like, to me, doesn’t fit the character. An action hero generally looks cool, stylish, or whatever doing what he does; that’s not the sort of thing I associate with Roland.
I tend to agree, in the same way you wouldn’t consider someone like Josey Wales an action hero.
I don’t see how that’s possible. By the end of the books
Jake, Oy, and Eddie are dead, and Susannah has moved to a parallel universe from her New York, where she meets the doppelgangers of Jake, Eddie, and Oy. Roland continues to the tower alone with Patrick’s help.
Ka is a wheel, as we were told so many times.
At the end of the books:
Roland ascends the Tower, steps through a door at the top and finds himself back at the beginning of Book 1, having to repeat the whole adventure (that’s what they make you do in Hell). He probably remembers everything but can’t change it, seeing as he’s not in charge (Ka runs it all). That could be where this movie picks up. But, maybe not.
Don’t all kids throw down on you and threaten to blow your head off if you don’t apologize to their bumbler?
Naughty, naughty.
I think this is great, and the best approach. Who wants a predictable retelling?
I love Susannah, but the last thing I want to see in a movie is Stephen King’s Odetta-style black dialect. So I hope they include her without all the cringy backstory.
For those who won’t give the tale a chance, well, you’ve obviously forgotten the faces of your fathers.
And then continues on with “The man in black fled across the Desert…”, but this time, Roland has the horn of Eld. He’s saying he thinks this is a continuation from there.
Nope - it’s now a fully contained movie using elements from many of the books .
I got a different take on the ending
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I don’t thing Roland remembers anything and he is, sort of, in charge. IMO He has to relive it because he hasn’t learned enough yet. His quest for the Tower STILL supersedes all else. [/SPOILER]
That was pretty much my take as well.
But now he has Arthur’s Horn.
If anyone cares on MY take…I always saw Roland as an antibody of the Tower.
My interpretation was that things change slightly with each cycle, and on some subconscious level learns from certain decisions or mistakes from the previous one, but it’s gonna take zillions of trips to get it “right”.
So…he has to romance Andie McDowell?