See, Stephen King movies are a good example here with this convo, because they can be hit or miss.
We’ll take the remake of “It” for example. I actually loved this remake, even though they reset the kids whole timeline to the 80’s. It didn’t follow the story perfectly, but it kept the feeling of the novel in it. Even Pennywise was more scary.
Even the Warcraft film at least felt like the WoW universe.
Then you have movies like “The Dark Tower” where all they did was took bits and pieces of a 7 novel series, left out 3 very key characters (even Oy, the billybumbler was a key character), took out any of the actual relevant storyline (Charlie the Choo-choo, again 3 MAIN characters), and used a very bad script.
At this point, Idris was the only redeeming part of those movies. I don’t think he would have taken the role had he actually read the novels though. There’s conflict between his character and another character later in the series.
They could have EASILY adapted the Gunslinger and part of Drawing of the Three into one (longer) movie (and they would have had a strong black, female DISABLED actress in the role of Detta/Odetta/Susahnah). But, no, they didn’t do that.
I never expected them to do it absolutely perfect, but what we Dark Tower fans got was just horrible.
Again, this had been in production hell since the 90’s. That’s why people were so angry about it.
Even the new version of The Stand was better (and that was a horrible remake).
Warcraft kept the feel of the Horde vs Alliance. The CGI was pretty decent on the Orcs (they actually LOOK like Warcraft Orcs). I still love the Gryphon and at least the Orcs didn’t look like some goofy CGI from the early Harry Potter movies. I also enjoyed the costumes of the Alliance, and while the story wasn’t perfect, you could tell they attempted to keep it cohesive and cohersive.
Yes, I know they changed up Guldan. From my impression in the novels, he was kind of a wuss and expected his underlings to do a majority of the actual hard work. I mean, even Megamind didn’t make his minions do all the work. Medivh was always a weird character even in the WC lore.
I enjoyed the movie for what it was. Even went to see it in the theater.
I’m just sore they left it at baby Thrall and seem to not want to try again.
At least they’re talking about rectifying what they did to The Dark Tower. I still wonder if Ron Howard would have gotten it close (he originally owned the rights).
, he played Lothar very similar to the way he played Ragnar, with a somewhat awkward brilliance.