LOL. I have not read the books this movie try to portray, but I was so disappointed about the movie as it felt like 80% was missing from it, because they wanted something else. But if that analogy is true, then..... No wonder this movie is horrible.

@@paristo It's supposed to be a sequel to the series, with enough changes to make one wonder if there's more than one Roland, this one from a different layer of the DT multiverse, as the kid would be Jake 3 or 4... Supposedly the worlds "reset" when Original Roland somehow screwed up and failed his quest, so maybe this was the end of a different Roland's quest... And I'm guessing that the writers assumed that just about everyone watching the movie had read the whole series, and would get the idea that this came after, without actually thinking about the others who either didn't know this was supposed to be a sequel or hadn't read the whole DT series, and/or expected the book(s) in movie form.

Corporations don't care about taking risk, honoring source material, and making more money in the long run. Studios would rather make quick money and profit off of existing work. Did you know they originally wanted to make LOTR one movie? The Dark Tower should have been made into a mini series.

Even without that there’s countless issues But it’s pathological, exec influence, must get their whims and ideologies across even if it then doesn’t pay well

I'm on the second third book but took a break to read I Heard You Paint Houses. I heard they are doing a show the director will be the guy who did Fall of The House of Usher, Midnight Club and Midnight Mass on Netflix. Might actually get something great from him.

I agree. A mini series is the way to go for book adaptations I feel. You get more time for character development etc. I never read the books, and had no idea what was going on the entire time or why it mattered haha

Agreed... But if we'd gotten the miniseries, we would have also had him getting his guns... "juicy"... in the town where he has to kill everyone (without an AK-47, I might add!). Part of me can live without having to visualize that scene any more than I have from reading the book a few times!

Facts

How can it be edited and one shot? That contradictory, mate.

@@Promethe3u5 “One shot” as in, one movie and here’s the whole story.

But still slower than Jerry.

This just in: California Governor Gavin Newsom demands a ban on Dark Tower guns.

Wai-what..??

It is said that Roland is capable of reloading his guns so fast that the heat from the previous shells firing singe his finger tips, leaving circular burns from the cylinders.

@@KZfaqIsRetarded689 Arthur?

Someone should write write a better movie.

@@Dunning-Krugereffect I just got that error lol

And the mind of Stephen King!

Why? This movie is actually really good

🤣😂😂😂😂

Right call.

How can he improvise visual effects?

@@didieranastaseleon8146 Im embarassed for you 🤦🏽‍♂️

@@didieranastaseleon8146: He probably talked to the director about a change in the script the seemed more dramatic and awe inspiring. And the the director probably passed it on to the visual artists.

​@@didieranastaseleon8146You got to be kidding.

literally though. didn't they say those guns were forged from his world's Excalibur?

Those guns were forged from the Adamantine blade of that world’s version of Excalibur. When they shoot, it’s basically like firing off a cannon. I think I remember Roland saying something about how they never miss if the welders intent is honorable.

I have thought of this question many times and ironically it was only seeing someone else ask it that caused my brain to tell me the only reasonable and if I am being honest obvious answer. The sorcerer demonstrates the ability to manipulate the motion of objects and is observed catching multiple bullets rapidly, he then returns the bullets at nearly the speed they would be fired from a gun. The logical conclusion is that the sorcerer slows down the bullets in order to catch them. The first bullet which was fired directly at him was slowing down in order to be caught when the second bullet was fired and ricocheted at nearly full speed in order to strike the first bullet and redirect it to hit him in the chest with a portion of the second bullet's momentum to give it back some of the penetrating power it lost from being slowed down. This also explains why the first bullet having struck him in the heart was not a lethal wound but merely caused enough pain to prevent him focusing his powers on the following bullets. So in summation part of the slow motion was an actual effect caused by the sorcerer which gave him time to take a second shot while the first was still in the air.

Your explanation makes perfect sense and is also way more well thought out than anything in the movie, haha@@nicholaskehler9169

The simplest explanation was that the first bullet was an angled shot and Roland times the second, more direct shot but the editor effed up and got the order wrong.

@@nicholaskehler9169 cool theory but the sorceror would've seen and slowed the second one too :(.

@@cend2362 Why it was a missed shot from a badly crippled opponent and he was a cocky a-hole. The second bullet came in from the side after ricocheting while he was focused on catching the one in front of him probably deciding where to return it to cause the most pain without killing. My guess is he was trying to calculate how much force to return it with to take out an eye without penetrating to the brain as he had already pierced both hands.

Nice

Why'd you come back to watch it on KZfaq? There had to be some redeeming value to the movie?

@@mikeis35bro65 no I just wanted to make a formal complaint to the internet.

@@cosmicinsane516 😂 that's a great reply

@@cosmicinsane516 same

You absolutely nailed it with this explanation. Love the novels, comics, and all the wonderful tie in's to the Dark Tower itself throughout kings work. I will say, that they missed a golden opportunity to properly introduce The Man in Black as the Walking Dude though. Matthew's swagger is so right for the roll. Idris as Roland was/is a brilliant casting choice, I was curios to see if they would introduce some crippled old white lady as Detta and some young kid from Co Op city as Eddie...Just mentioning their names makes me want to read it all over again...

He has the horn, after all

@@shadowsonge Exactly. He's carrying the Horn of Eld, which means it's a sequel to the books. So the movie's story is yet another life protecting the Tower that Roland will once again forget, and we all say thankee.

You know what they say: "Multiverse theory is a bitch."

​@@Red-mg4ronobody says that

I was really hoping they would do it justice, more of a loseley based

With all due respect, my dude…every installment in that series following Wizard and Glass was also a joke to the series. When I reached the finale with the Crimson King, I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

I love the series and have been through it about 3 times. I totally get why a lot of people think the same you do. With that being said, this movie is ok for a popcorn movie, but man it doesn't come close to capturing the series at all. Despite the complaints about King's endings on a lot of things the man can world build. There is a lot of rich lore and material where even though it SHOULD be a long movie series, they would have done it more justice making it a trilogy and not omitting so many things trying to compress everything into one movie.

@@markliddell8944 You’re absolutely on point, and I couldn’t agree with you more. IMO, I think the best way that they could have adapted King’s Dark Tower opus to the screen would have been to begin with Roland’s past as narrated through Wizard and Glass, since there’s so much lore bound within Gunslinger that unfamiliar audiences would be lost from the start. W&G would be perfect for a standalone film, and give the producers an idea as to whether additional projects could do well going forward. I don’t think the actual events that elapsed throughout Dark Tower (directly to the ka-tet, as it were) have a wealth of potential for a television series, rather than cinematically. On an unrelated note, it’s incredibly refreshing to reference “ka-tet” in a KZfaq comment while knowing that there are still plenty of people out there who appreciate what it means.

@@RoseCatMariner ka-tet!😁

Technically the sequel of this story is. It's called The Stand

Never mind, I kept watching and saw Mathew pick up rocks with his mind, we clearly aren’t fallowing the laws of physics with this one.

@@Zurtle1 lol I was going to say but they do make a point of saying Roland is tougher than pretty much any normal dude

He used Rorschach as a Taheen shield.

Physics. If you want to survive from something hitting hard, you need to slow down as much as possible the time it takes to stop. This is example what airbags does in cars, they slow down the energy transfer from moving human body to stationary car. The kinetic energy that human body has as a mass, is way greater than the bus glass windshield and it holding support beams. So human body goes through, and windshield in exchange slow down the impact. Of course human body bones would go likely pieces, but you would have change of survive. This has happened in reality too. Couple times a human has fallen from airliner incident, without parachute. IIRC one was from 10 km altitude when stuart lost conscious and drop on pine trees, that branches slowed down the impact on ground. The other was soldier that fell about 7 km and hit the hill snow slope that slowed down the impact. The women IIRC wanted to get back to work, but airline declined because she was famous and her political views as activist were unacceptable for the airline. This is as well in case with the bullets impacting the human body. A bullet that fly through is not as effective as one that stops inside the body. Because the energy is the factor that matters, and bullet that fly through has more energy left in it, than bullet that stops as energy it has, is been released to the body. This is as well why getting hit when wearing bullet proof vest is not causing any impact that would throw person around, as the vest slows down the bullet slowly, and it is transferred to way that spread energy to larger area. But this is still vests that has something hard, instead just couple layers of fabric that is loose, and can be penetrated in body.

Minus x minus = bonus

Bro , if you are going to convert a Remington New Model Army to be Double Action and have a Swing-Out Cylinder , just buy a Smith and Wesson N-Frame .

Yeah, they’re not even double action guns either. Those appear to be Colt Single Action Army revolvers. That rate of fire is not mechanically possible on a single action gun, and it’s very, very difficult on a double action revolver.

I think the first bullet was being stopped, before the black clad man would catch it, thus it ended up travelling slowly.

@@AlcaturMaethor dude this is the best explanation i've heard. i kinda liked the movie even though it wasn't really good but this scene really bugged me. now at least i can be a bit more comfortable with this movie.

It’s a movie Snowflake.

@@tysons8759 I guess it's easier for people who think an election was "stolen" to suspend reality

@@thefilthelement the reality is you’re delusional. Crying about bullets in a fake movie. You need to see a shrink.

I wonder if you know

@@sriley064 nope she dont know

​@@sriley064 sneetches ;)

You clearly haven’t seen Bright

switch them and you would be right. Rolan isn't black

@@johanstinson racist

@@johanstinson Meh,idris elba acts well the part of the stoic,full of tradition and duty bound gunslinger I usually find annoying race changes But not in this case,elba does a good job but is limited by how rushed the movie is

@@johanstinson color has nothing to do with the failure of this abomination,Elba does the part justice,however the script does neither justice

@@sriley064 when you start everything off with some race swapping stupidity it's dead in the water. Roland isn't black and casting a black dude was idiotic. It completely changes the entire dynamic between Roland and The old black lady in the wheelchair, Susannah. But yeah I guess eliminating one of the most important and awesome character interactions in the entire series isn't a big deal hey?

It’s Walter.

It's both 😊

It's Gaunter O'Dim...I mean Walter O'Dim...I mean Ranndall Flagg...I mean, why do I keep repeating myself? 🤔

It’s okay. Stephen king thinks the shining movie is shiet. Sooooo it just goes to show nothing will ever make him happy except the ending of the mist movie

One of thecWORST film adaptios of a SK film EVER.

​@@quadphonics I dunno, graveyard shift was pretty bad.

@@baneblackguard584 Yes BUIT it was the 80's everything was bad then we have WAY better directors and sfx now.

Yes apparent this group of loyal Apocalyptic grunts just run away at the drop of a hat. I would have liked to see them at least… react to their Boss dying.

In the books Roland would have killed every last one of them. Then again in the books falling through a bus or getting crushed by a girder would have killed Roland..........

I'd pay too see that too. Lol the older Bonds going back to Moore & Connery at the time were almost embrassingly too old. Timothy Dalton did a good example of a younger bond in The Living Daylights and License to Kill. Outside of that, Daniel Craig is a solid Bond, but for how long ?

He's black😊. You forgot

@@user-pm6nx1fs2w color of his skin has nothing to do with it.

@@GingerGuy93 Yes it does, I'm not white and even I know James Bond is WHITE, 007/James Bond are both the same. Just like white Bruce Wayne is Batman. That whole, "Oh it's just a designation, the race doesn't matter", excuse is bulls***. Idris even said so himself that 007 should stay a white man. Maybe he could be like 006 or some crap but not 007/James Bond. Henry Cavill is the perfect choice and should've been bond a long time ago but unfortunately he was too young in 2005 when he first auditioned. Even the Casino Royale director said so recently regarding Cavill.

@@Night_Bandit all I’m saying is that I think Idris Elba would make a badass Bond. I’ve always wanted him to play the role not because he’s black but because of how much I respect him and how good of an actor he is. The race thing isn’t what I’m trying to argue I’m just saying I believe he would make a badass 007.

Magical glass

@@spiffyc9248 You got it man

Magic glass

he didn't even needed that glass to block bullet :P

that's nothing. It can be done with toilet paper.

He gets a hotdog...

he saves the universe over and over again in the books

I agree. They butchered this book series

Absolutely. Should be an prime series like reacher or halo.

@@prestochange-oh9243 or LOTR 🙄

I read the books. This trainwreck of a movie was nothing like the books

@@craigwhiting777 Facts!

She left in the 7th book and they were both six-shooters.

12 bullets for that kind of revolver is little too much :P

This movie was excrement.

I don't believe anything you said.

nope.

Dukes up.

The book came first

And Accuracy

​@Dc0sby That'd be perception. Also add the Lord Death of Murder Mountain perk to make the ultimate Fallout NV Gunslinger. 😁

Should have been a series

The movie basically has nothing to do with the books. It's very long and sometimes hard to follow but many consider it King's magnum opus. I'm not among them but it is still excellent. One thing you add is that there are many references to kings previous famous books, but you can enjoy it without knowing.

The books are way better. This movie is a strange sort of exhibition of what could be in another world, but it fits nicely in a side-universe style canon. Watch out for the first book, it's pretty wild but by the end most people fall off because it's wild, abstract and meandering - the 2nd book opens and it immediately snaps to being more grounded in a good way, and you appreciate what the first book really was more in hindsight. I read the first book then waited 10 years to start the 2nd, after reading the 2nd I read the whole series. But they're awe inspiring. If I'd never read the books this movie would've been "ok" but it's a letdown only because of what the source material is and how they sort of teased that in the trailers - they didn't "get it" likely until the end of the film, when they realized that rapid spill load earlier in the film was the most Roland thing in the entire film. They went too over the top without earning it. By the time you see characters wielding guns in the books, you know not only what they can do - but what forces steady their hand, and why... and it adds a lot more. Good luck with the books, they're a great read.

I always thought that the first bullet was being slowed down by the man clad in black for him to catch it, which is why the 2nd bullet travelled faster than the first.