I thought that this summer, Luc Besson's "Interstellar" , which cost 200 million US dollars to create, should be the most serious rollover in this summer blockbuster .
But as soon as "The Dark Tower" came out, I found that "Interstellar Agent" is really too good-looking, at least "Interstellar Agent" has 200 million US dollars of special effects and eye-catching. ,
The "Dark Tower" series may be unfamiliar to many people. After a little popular science, everyone will understand why the movie was widely anticipated when it came out, and then it was slammed down by everyone.
The "Dark Tower" series of novels is a long science fiction novel by Stephen King, a famous writer integrating popular, science fiction, magic and suspense . It took more than 30 years to create.
If you haven't read Stephen King's novels, but the movies or TV series that his novels are adapted into, you must have contact. The most famous "Shawshank Redemption" is based on his "Four Seasons".
There are more suspenseful thrillers, "The Shining", "Witch Carrie", "Phantom of the Fierce 1408", "The Mist" , etc. are all from Stephen King's hands.
In the novel world, "The Dark Tower" can be as famous as "Game of Thrones" and "The Lord of the Rings". He has a worldview that blends magic and science fiction. It is Stephen King's personal representative work.
Many admirers, how many days and nights they look forward to, want to see the "Dark Tower" novel into a series of movies in their lifetime, which can be compared with "The Lord of the Rings", "Game of Thrones", "Harry Potter", etc. The magic movie series is side by side.
Because the "Dark Tower" series of novels do have this confidence, the entire universe in the novel is supported by the black tower, which is divided into the inner world, the middle world, the end world, and our world (Earth).
Outside these worlds, that is, the universe protected by the black tower, there is a dark world , and the black tower exists to protect the harmony of various worlds.
The character types of the "Dark Tower" series of novels are also very complex. There are gunmen in the middle world , wizard-like men in black , orc-faced people, biochemical robots, the ultimate boss of the Bloody King, and the Shining who can communicate through the mind. human .
It can be said that the "Dark Tower" novel series has a complete world of its own, which is the word commonly used in our country: super IP . This IP can be made into movies, TV series, comics, peripheral products, games, etc., which can attract countless fans.
So the release of the "Dark Tower" movie caused a small sensation. Da Cong also entered the cinema for the first time.
"The following contains a little spoiler, which does not affect the viewing of the movie"
After watching the movie, Da Cong felt that the word rollover was not specific enough .
As of today, the foreign rating has been astonishingly low. (18% on Rotten Tomatoes, 6.1 on IMDB).
Combined with the previous expectations for this movie, rest in peace, the movie just borrowed its name, and everything else becomes unimportant.
95 minutes of movie time, for the Black Tower novel series, is too short. Too long for a movie watcher. The first time I felt so embarrassed about 95 minutes of movie time.
The reason why the movie time is too short is that the Black Tower series of novels have rich raw materials, complex plots, exquisite details and grand imagination. But in 95 minutes of movie time, it became a nutrient-free pile.
There will be a race, and no reason is given, the character will go to an area, and there is no history, and a prop will appear, and there will be no explanation.
The most basic, the ability of some children on earth, why can destroy the black tower, this should be explained in detail. The film does not explain it, and it comes up to catch the child at the beginning, the reason is very simple, destroy the black tower.
This has completely turned into a simple routine where bad guys destroy the world and good guys save the world.
From another point of view, the 95-minute movie time makes the audience feel that it is too long, because the adaptation of the plot is completely unattractive.
To talk about the plot, tell the truth, there is nothing wrong, the main line is clear, the tasks are obvious, the bad guys are very bad, and the good guys are simple. But it is precisely because of the stacking of these cheap plot lines that the complex world view of the Black Tower becomes cheap and popcorn.
The action scenes are also realized in a small-scale green screen keying method, and they are all done in the streets of the city, or in a specific small village, or some short-term single-player fighting scenes.
The best special effect in the whole article is this fight.
Those so-called time-space gates, the so-called bases for attacking the black tower, the scene settings and special effects are all extremely simple, making people feel that the budget is seriously insufficient, and the relatively large cost budget may have been given to the man in black. McConaughey.
In addition, the little boy starred in Tom Taylor, and his performance was mediocre. Even some dialogues at the end of the film were obviously dubbed later. Maybe it was because the little boy changed his voice in the middle of the performance? Need post-dubbing? Or is there another version ending? In short, the late dubbing at the end is really entertaining.
The meaning of the ending is obviously the rhythm of a brand new series to start. It's just that the first part of this series overturned, and how the salted fish turned over later. I really don't know how to write the fate of the "Dark Tower" movie series.
To tell the truth, if "Interstellar Agent" and "Dark Tower" are recommended, don't hesitate to watch "Interstellar Agent" for eye-catching.
And, speaking of sequels, I really wish there was a sequel to Interstellar, not the current Dark Tower.
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