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.
Idris Alba and Mathew Maconahay are great actors. But to do them real justice the Dark Tower really needed to be a series on any streaming service. Not a terribly HEAVILY edited one shot movie.
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!
@@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.
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.
if you’ve read all 7 books, (SPOILER ALERT) you learn that Roland has always been the protector of the Tower, he just never remembers his past ‘lives’. I liked this movie, and tend to think that while this only minimally lines up with the novels, this is one the many different iterations of him protecting the Tower and all of existence.
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...
@@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.
30 years I read this series this movie is a joke to anyone who actually read the Dark Tower series... No Eddie, No Oy, No Susannah, hell they even wrote Steven king out of his own story...
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 TH-cam comment while knowing that there are still plenty of people out there who appreciate what it means.
I like how they made his gunshots sound really metallic, like the hammer is striking so hard it makes a small "CLONK!" sound every time he shoots because he has fantasy-guns that shoot regular bullets extra hard.
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.
@@TheCorrodedManIs it also the reason why the guys voice doesn’t work against him maybe? Seems plausible that Excalibur might have also offered some protection from magic.
@@deantaylor5614 that bit is hard to know, since Flagg never demonstrated any “voice” abilities in the books: Roland’s guns just wouldn’t fire when he aimed them his way, even if they were fully loaded.
in the books every time Roland fired his guns it was described as a thundering roar. I have always imagined them sounding like a 50 cal with every shot
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.
Being a huge fan of the books this movie was such a colossal pile of excrement. The only reason I even was able to watch the entire thing was because of Idris and Matthew. Both outstanding actors. After I finished it the Blu-ray Disc got blasted out of the air with a shotgun.
@@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 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
I believe the only way to do justice to the book series is like they did the Harry Potter movies but I don't know if there would have been enough interest for 8 books
I wanted to see Roland fanning the hammer like he would in the books. So fast you couldn’t see him move…the double action of his guns isn’t as interesting but I loved the reloads ♡
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.
Haven't seen the movie, but I find it funny how the girl in the red changes into an old guy when seating the kid :D Also the kid just runs through the portal and is not stopped by the myriad of people inside the chamber? Masterful work by the editing
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 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.
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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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?
I was really sad about this movie. Great actors all around but this isn't The Dark Tower this is something that skinned The Dark Tower and put it on like a suit.
Book Roland: Clipped by a car and has his hip permanently fucked up because he's a human being. Film Roland: Falls out of a building through the front of a moving bus, proceeds to have a magic fight with a wizard.
The little “anti bullet Jazz-hands dance” that the the BBEG does in this scene 4:40 never fails to make me laugh at this showdown. Was one of the only smiles I cracked in this entire movie. “Push” showed how to do TK vs bullets way better years before.
its crazy because the boy is so overpowered. he manage to resist the machine, telepathed the gunslinger, and even keep the portal machine opened while being strapped.
I want you to write a screen play for a stephen king series called the dark tower. Oh i suppose i should read it then? No just wing it. Its got a tower i think its important, a guy with guns, and a kid doin some mind shit. And matthew McConaughey is playing an evil guy who wants to... i dont know take down the tower or something. Dont worry just write something about all that
I really want to see Idris Elba play the next 007 James Bond. I know he’s a bit older and the next 007 will most likely be someone a bit younger but I’ve always looked at Idris Elba as someone who deserves to play James Bond. I personally think he would be a absolute badass 007.
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 ?
@@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.
This sucked , nothing like the books, which were my favorite from King, always wished Clint Eastwood would have been cast in a 7 part series , he would have been perfect for the part
Needed to be a mini series - books were way to good - and without the books - this movie made no sense - no lobstrosities on the beach eating off his fingers and toes, no Eddie and Odetta...
Man…I was so bummed when I read that part. Roland with his “reloading trick”, having his fingers eaten off, after killing an entire town by himself, THAT needed to be in a movie, that whole first book. But it was cool how he taught himself how to load again.👍
I have read The Dark Tower series 5 times. The series is so expansive. In my eye Roland would of been played by the likes of someone that looked like Clint Eastwood in the movie.
In the books he has the two revolvers an a 1911 colt and can shoot all three at the same time. While carrying a Billy bumbler. And jamming out to some Velcro fly
My brothers and sisters. Imagine if we could of created the Dixie Pig. With real old monster vampyres from Salem's Lot, of our travel companions Susannaha, Eddie Dean, Roland... These people are friends, no, family that we traveled with, cried and fought with. Watched every step, every adventure, the heartbreak. Even the man in black is in our hearts. The darkness that hides from the light.
You could see that the gunslinger squeezed the trigger much slower on the first shot, and squeezed it at double speed on the second shot, which changed the speed of the second round enabling it to catch the first round.
They filmed that badly but what makes sense to me is that Roland fired the ricochet first and the straight ahead second, using the ricochet to bank off of. Which means the straight ahead travelled a shorter distance enough for it to work.
Yeah. Bullet muzzle velocity being same, and suddenly first bullet fly slower than latter and can be intercepted.... Would have worked if shooter would have been moving at high speed after first shot and after the range when first bullet velocity has dropped considerably. Like from 3200 fps to 1500 fps at 500 yards range. Then second bullet fired 500 ft closer, would intercept first one.
@@paristo except MiB was "force-slowing" the first bullet so he could catch it and throw it back, allowing the "unexpected" ricochet shot to catch & hit it...
@@mikeretzlaff8846 With "force-slowing" you mean that he used a prepared special cartridge, with he have loaded that cartridge with less powder to have slower muzzle velocity?
in the books I think his gun hold 12 shots each and he gave one to Susannah before she left in the 6th book and he also dropped a special horn that Cuthbert would blow and when he restarts he has in it his possession signaling he needed more artifacts to finish his ka wheel
I remember watching this movie, then I heard it was adapted into a book I was like “Oh that’s cool, let me see-“ after I saw the books I laughed in pain.
Never watched the movie because it was obvious it would be a big budget adaptation instead of the slow methodical script it should have been. Tull and David are the scenes I want to see.
“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.” ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Maybe in 10 or 15 years, they'll do this right and create a multi-season streaming series. Too many good books and stories in the Dark Tower Saga to cram into one movie, or even 3.
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This movie is like if they had done the LOTR in one film, cut out most of the fellowship, and make Saruman the main villain.
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.
He who wrote this movie has forgotten the face of his father.
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
🤣😂😂😂😂
Idris Alba and Mathew Maconahay are great actors. But to do them real justice the Dark Tower really needed to be a series on any streaming service. Not a terribly HEAVILY edited one shot movie.
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.
Fun fact: Idris Elba actually improvised the ricochet scene; he just thought it would be way cooler to bounce the bullets off each other.
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.
Man, he reloads his revolvers way faster than the automatic rifle's bullet speed.
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.
@@TH-camIsRetarded689 Arthur?
if you’ve read all 7 books, (SPOILER ALERT) you learn that Roland has always been the protector of the Tower, he just never remembers his past ‘lives’. I liked this movie, and tend to think that while this only minimally lines up with the novels, this is one the many different iterations of him protecting the Tower and all of existence.
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
30 years I read this series this movie is a joke to anyone who actually read the Dark Tower series... No Eddie, No Oy, No Susannah, hell they even wrote Steven king out of his own story...
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 TH-cam comment while knowing that there are still plenty of people out there who appreciate what it means.
@@RoseCatMariner ka-tet!😁
I like how they made his gunshots sound really metallic, like the hammer is striking so hard it makes a small "CLONK!" sound every time he shoots because he has fantasy-guns that shoot regular bullets extra hard.
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.
@@TheCorrodedManIs it also the reason why the guys voice doesn’t work against him maybe? Seems plausible that Excalibur might have also offered some protection from magic.
@@deantaylor5614 that bit is hard to know, since Flagg never demonstrated any “voice” abilities in the books: Roland’s guns just wouldn’t fire when he aimed them his way, even if they were fully loaded.
in the books every time Roland fired his guns it was described as a thundering roar. I have always imagined them sounding like a 50 cal with every shot
I don’t understand how getting hit by a bus would make a fall from a ten story building survivable.
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
Being a huge fan of the books this movie was such a colossal pile of excrement. The only reason I even was able to watch the entire thing was because of Idris and Matthew. Both outstanding actors. After I finished it the Blu-ray Disc got blasted out of the air with a shotgun.
Nice
Why'd you come back to watch it on TH-cam? 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
Because the second bullet bounced off something and still traveled faster than the first
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.
This movie was a slap to the face of the books.
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
I believe the only way to do justice to the book series is like they did the Harry Potter movies but I don't know if there would have been enough interest for 8 books
@@imanoldurango8213Mist was garbage too.
This happens after the books so I didn’t mind it that much. It could have been more for sure and it could have sure used an extra 30 minutes
I wanted to see Roland fanning the hammer like he would in the books. So fast you couldn’t see him move…the double action of his guns isn’t as interesting but I loved the reloads ♡
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.
The only bad thing about the reloads is that his belt never seems to have an empty slot. It’s like he’s a video game character
this would have made such a great tv series
Technically the sequel of this story is. It's called The Stand
Imagine this badass in Red Dead Redemption 2 hahhaha
For those of us who read and loved the books, this movie is blasphemy!
It wasn't even a good movie regardless if you read the books or not.
THANK you-!!!
I liked the movie t was better then a lot other movies
Whats blasphemy is Sam Gamegi kicking the spider Shelob as if it was some small dog
They even wrote King out of his own story... Although the end of the series pissed me off, to rest of the story was great...
Dark Tower isn't a summer 90min action movie. It's a TV show with lots of exposition and at least 10 seasons.
This short movie did earthbending *leagues* better than The Last Airbender.
This movie really needed to be a series but this fight/gun scene was dope.
Cool 😎
Haven't seen the movie, but I find it funny how the girl in the red changes into an old guy when seating the kid :D
Also the kid just runs through the portal and is not stopped by the myriad of people inside the chamber? Masterful work by the editing
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..........
Never could figure out how the second bullet caught up with the first 😂😂
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.
IF disney made this movie ppl would be filming them on the bus while they could die..
This Harry Potter reboot looks pretty unique! They brought guns into magic duels.
I wonder if you know
@@sriley064 nope she dont know
@@sriley064 sneetches ;)
You clearly haven’t seen Bright
Best book series ever, but of course, holly wank had to fuck it up💁🤦🏼♂️
Glass blocking the bullets from magical guns really upset me
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.
4:30 Walter arrived and start the battle with roland
This should have been an hbo max series, McConaughey and Idris were great for the roles.
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?
What a massive disapointment this all was.
I was really sad about this movie. Great actors all around but this isn't The Dark Tower this is something that skinned The Dark Tower and put it on like a suit.
Book Roland: Clipped by a car and has his hip permanently fucked up because he's a human being.
Film Roland: Falls out of a building through the front of a moving bus, proceeds to have a magic fight with a wizard.
He is not dead.
I yhink he os the villain of the Stand.
He is a warlock or something. He is still allive...
Where's Suzanne and Eddie? Where's Oy :(
The little “anti bullet Jazz-hands dance” that the the BBEG does in this scene 4:40 never fails to make me laugh at this showdown. Was one of the only smiles I cracked in this entire movie.
“Push” showed how to do TK vs bullets way better years before.
If you read the books. The movie was a letdown. The only thing it got right is the bond between Roland and Jake!
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!
its crazy because the boy is so overpowered. he manage to resist the machine, telepathed the gunslinger, and even keep the portal machine opened while being strapped.
I want you to write a screen play for a stephen king series called the dark tower.
Oh i suppose i should read it then?
No just wing it. Its got a tower i think its important, a guy with guns, and a kid doin some mind shit. And matthew McConaughey is playing an evil guy who wants to... i dont know take down the tower or something. Dont worry just write something about all that
Roland: “I remember the face of my father… allow me to demonstrate”
And this, dear friends, is how you destroy a fine tale with a crappy movie.
Crimson king: YOU FAILURES
GAN: You Did this
I really want to see Idris Elba play the next 007 James Bond. I know he’s a bit older and the next 007 will most likely be someone a bit younger but I’ve always looked at Idris Elba as someone who deserves to play James Bond. I personally think he would be a absolute badass 007.
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
@@MarvNARK 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.
You have both forgotten the faces of your fathers
Excellent use of the force
It's impossible to pack 4250 pages into a 1h 35m movie.
He saves the planet, and those are the thanks he gets!
He gets a hotdog...
he saves the universe over and over again in the books
This sucked , nothing like the books, which were my favorite from King, always wished Clint Eastwood would have been cast in a 7 part series , he would have been perfect for the part
Needed to be a mini series - books were way to good - and without the books - this movie made no sense - no lobstrosities on the beach eating off his fingers and toes, no Eddie and Odetta...
Man…I was so bummed when I read that part. Roland with his “reloading trick”, having his fingers eaten off, after killing an entire town by himself, THAT needed to be in a movie, that whole first book. But it was cool how he taught himself how to load again.👍
I like the part where he shoots someone…
I have no words for how disrespectful it is to suggest this is The Dark Tower.
Is this a bloodsport prequel aka origin story before he got arrested by amanda Waller?
I have read The Dark Tower series 5 times. The series is so expansive. In my eye Roland would of been played by the likes of someone that looked like Clint Eastwood in the movie.
First movie I've seen with Idris Elba and I fell in love with that actor.
i love how fragile Randall is when he feel the pain once again
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? 🤔
Gunfight coordinator: Legendary.
Actual movie/plot writers: Garbage.
Revolver Ocelot: You’re pretty good
I love how they tried to stuff 7 books worth of material into 90 minutes. How could it turn out anything other than trash?
In the books he has the two revolvers an a 1911 colt and can shoot all three at the same time. While carrying a Billy bumbler. And jamming out to some Velcro fly
Hell of a good series. Been long enough could be a good movie.
Nice shootin', Tex. 😎
WHY IS THIS MAN NOT THE NEW BLADE!!!!!!! COME ON...
IT WOULD BE PERFECT..
2:10 A friendly reminder that Roland's guns are forged from Excalibur.
If you haven't seen this movie it's a must👍👍👍 excellent
Movie was such a let down and such a missed opportunity to actually be a great adaptation of a magnificent story...
Next!
My brothers and sisters. Imagine if we could of created the Dixie Pig. With real old monster vampyres from Salem's Lot, of our travel companions Susannaha, Eddie Dean, Roland... These people are friends, no, family that we traveled with, cried and fought with. Watched every step, every adventure, the heartbreak. Even the man in black is in our hearts. The darkness that hides from the light.
Brixton Lore was a MI6 soldier looking for the Snowflake
7:22 I'm sorry, but how the hell did that second bullet catch up with the first one?
movie physics
Gunslinger, it's fiction🤦🏾♂️👑
Man in Black was slowing the first down with his powers, so the second could catch up
You could see that the gunslinger squeezed the trigger much slower on the first shot, and squeezed it at double speed on the second shot, which changed the speed of the second round enabling it to catch the first round.
They filmed that badly but what makes sense to me is that Roland fired the ricochet first and the straight ahead second, using the ricochet to bank off of. Which means the straight ahead travelled a shorter distance enough for it to work.
I hate how they made Roland into this screwball action hero. He's got a fucking arthritic hip lol
Great actors,why the screenplay had to be so terrible😔
Sry but the Movie are so Bad , unworthy to represent the books
Idris Elba bro!One of a kind Man!One of a kind actor.
Dark tower needs to be remade, and done properly, this was just awful.
Fun fact: Matthew McConaghuey chose this role over playing star lord in the MCU 😢
And thats good cause Chris is the best star lord! :)
I don't think he would have been good character in it. He is "too stiff" for such character.
Better stoned lord than star lord
This guy played Bloodsport on s icide squad?
I waited 29 fuckin years for the ending of this story. T books didnt let me down. I dont know this stupid shit is, but it's not the story I read.
Best book ever. WORST MOVIE EVER
And Wow look at that no arrests or cops in the end, Just save the day and go home sleep. How convenient!
This story reminds me of howard the duck🤔
The movie is iconic because of Idris Elba, this man cool
1 vs 1000 gun fight ok its ridiculous
7:16 Bollywood physics has entered the chat
Yeah.
Bullet muzzle velocity being same, and suddenly first bullet fly slower than latter and can be intercepted....
Would have worked if shooter would have been moving at high speed after first shot and after the range when first bullet velocity has dropped considerably. Like from 3200 fps to 1500 fps at 500 yards range. Then second bullet fired 500 ft closer, would intercept first one.
@@paristo except MiB was "force-slowing" the first bullet so he could catch it and throw it back, allowing the "unexpected" ricochet shot to catch & hit it...
@@mikeretzlaff8846 With "force-slowing" you mean that he used a prepared special cartridge, with he have loaded that cartridge with less powder to have slower muzzle velocity?
@@paristo no, I meant telekinesis, magic, psy-powers, whatever they call it in the series that Matthew was using...
Meanwhile the guy In Dark Tower
in the books I think his gun hold 12 shots each and he gave one to Susannah before she left in the 6th book and he also dropped a special horn that Cuthbert would blow and when he restarts he has in it his possession signaling he needed more artifacts to finish his ka wheel
She left in the 7th book and they were both six-shooters.
12 bullets for that kind of revolver is little too much :P
What nonsense I can't shoot him but it works to shoot him
As a huge fan of the book series, this movie was a great and wildly entertaining adaptation of the story. Fight me
This movie was excrement.
I don't believe anything you said.
nope.
Dukes up.
The matrix,max payne was ahead of its time and now the dark tower
I remember watching this movie, then I heard it was adapted into a book I was like “Oh that’s cool, let me see-“ after I saw the books I laughed in pain.
The book came first
Never watched the movie because it was obvious it would be a big budget adaptation instead of the slow methodical script it should have been. Tull and David are the scenes I want to see.
This movie wasn't good. But damn, these gunfight scenes were extremely epic.
An absolute disgrace. Poor casting, poor storytelling. One of my favorite book series of all time and they ruined it.
The casting was just fine. It was the screenplay which was poor.
@@Angel9932 nope. casting was garbage too
Behold The Turtle
Wrong movie
@@StanvilleBrown my bad....See The Turtle....
@@christrotter3052 that was a much better movie.
0:55 - obvious editing
I had no idea that the same architect designed the Dark Tower _and_ the Death Star (both have one-shot fatal weaknesses)
My favorite actor Idris Elba from Zootopia as Chief Bogo and Brixton Lore in Fast and Furious Hobbs and Shaw.
“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.
I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.
I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
So bad by comparison to the books. Otherwise an adequate movie in the technical sense.
loved this movie
Maybe in 10 or 15 years, they'll do this right and create a multi-season streaming series. Too many good books and stories in the Dark Tower Saga to cram into one movie, or even 3.
Don't you love it when you can watch something that's imposible like John Wick and this and enjoy it.
3:40 did he try blocking the bullets with his arm?
This is why I read books instead of going to movies!
She went from red dress and putting him into the chair to hairy man arms in a green jacket haha