The Dark Tower: Ending Gun Fight Scene (Idris Elba HD Clip)

[@careyburleson7374]

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.

[@BasicBodThor]

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

[@RevBoose]

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!

[@Robert-sx9mm]

Facts

[@Promethe3u5]

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

[@RevBoose]

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

[@TheEzio1991]

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.

[@paristo]

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.

[@mikeretzlaff8846]

@@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.

[@samuelbekele3601]

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.

[@PJOZeus]

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

[@Sir-Cletus]

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.

[@arforafro5523]

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.

[@giantninja9173]

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

[@TheCorrodedMan]

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.

[@deantaylor5614]

@@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.

[@TheCorrodedMan]

@@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.

[@Ryans_tryin]

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

[@gabrielliu152]

Man, he reloads his revolvers way faster than the automatic rifle's bullet speed.

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

But still slower than Jerry.

[@darylnd]

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

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

Wai-what..??

[@YoutubeIsRetarded689]

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.

@@KZbinIsRetarded689 Arthur?

[@cberg2731]

This movie was a slap to the face of the books.

[@imanoldurango8213]

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

[@karlheder7678]

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

[@T2Runner]

​@@imanoldurango8213Mist was garbage too.

[@VerryJerry90]

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

[@tehagent1321]

Fun fact: Idris Elba actually improvised the ricochet scene; he just thought it would be way cooler to bounce the bullets off each other.

[@MLIrons]

Right call.

[@didieranastaseleon8146]

How can he improvise visual effects?

[@hoh5956]

@@didieranastaseleon8146 Im embarassed for you 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@MLIrons]

@@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.

[@willie9537]

​@@didieranastaseleon8146You got to be kidding.

[@Viele411]

I can appreciate the caring from Idris and Matthew no matter how bad of a movie it was. Those two guys deserve respect no matter how much the fans dislike this movie. They are cool as hell.

[@ericwilson8558]

I don't care what anybody says. This film is still a masterpiece after all these years. Love it.

[@DamienBlade]

He who wrote this movie has forgotten the face of his father.

[@Dunning-Krugereffect]

Someone should write write a better movie.

[@DamienBlade]

@@Dunning-Krugereffect I just got that error lol

[@torvilasulvstle362]

And the mind of Stephen King!

[@BlackYell0w_]

Why? This movie is actually really good

[@Grey_fox12]

🤣😂😂😂😂

[@cosmicinsane516]

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.

[@puk182]

Nice

[@mikeis35bro65]

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

[@cosmicinsane516]

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

[@mikeis35bro65]

@@cosmicinsane516 😂 that's a great reply

[@robertmurry1442]

@@cosmicinsane516 same

[@jcs1025]

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.

[@OkamiSatsujin]

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]

He has the horn, after all

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

@@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.

[@Red-mg4ro]

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

[@CrawDad1131]

​@@Red-mg4ronobody says that

[@phoenixx913]

This movie really needed to be a series but this fight/gun scene was dope.

[@MattThorold-h5c]

Cool 😎

[@redcalx9568]

I aint done either explain ?

[@MrAnaheimification]

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 ♡

[@oolooo]

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 .

[@PhoenixT70]

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.

[@natman2939]

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

[@faidaimaidai]

@@PhoenixT70rolands guns are modified remington 1858 new army

[@michaelroberts7770]

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...

[@dougnoel3745]

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

[@RoseCatMariner]

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.

[@markliddell8944]

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.

[@RoseCatMariner]

@@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 KZbin comment while knowing that there are still plenty of people out there who appreciate what it means.

[@evanabbott2737]

@@RoseCatMariner ka-tet!😁

[@convolutedconcepts]

this would have made such a great tv series

[@drewpatterson8009]

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

[@scrimpmster]

@@drewpatterson8009 I thought The Stand was a prequel.

[@xSirDudex]

My favorite part of this movie was when the gunslinger, having never been to our world asked the kid, "Do they have bullets where you're from?"😂😂oh we got bullets.

[@thefilthelement]

Because the second bullet bounced off something and still traveled faster than the first

[@AlcaturMaethor]

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

[@blueTwl]

@@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.

[@tysons8759]

It’s a movie Snowflake.

[@thefilthelement]

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

[@tysons8759]

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

[@КонстантинШапкин-т4ч]

Dark Tower isn't a summer 90min action movie. It's a TV show with lots of exposition and at least 10 seasons.

[@IRMentat]

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.

[@Zurtle1]

I don’t understand how getting hit by a bus would make a fall from a ten story building survivable.

[@Zurtle1]

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.

[@michaelpacheco6549]

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

[@ifragpsn6431]

He used Rorschach as a Taheen shield.

[@paristo]

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.

[@ericv-kj3du]

Minus x minus = bonus

[@aqn01]

First movie I've seen with Idris Elba and I fell in love with that actor.

[@calebsoria1777]

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.

[@Davuf]

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

[@quadphonics]

One of thecWORST film adaptios of a SK film EVER.

[@baneblackguard584]

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

[@quadphonics]

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

[@samuelfawell9159]

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.

[@matthewferguson6524]

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..........

[@jaredgalarza]

This movie had so much potential 😭 it was just too short

[@leonarduskrisna4588]

i love how fragile Randall is when he feel the pain once again

[@freshprince374]

It’s Walter.

[@adriankoh4859]

It's both 😊

[@CoyoteDuster68]

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

[@GingerGuy93]

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.

[@potterj09]

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 ?

[@MarvNARK]

He's black😊. You forgot

[@GingerGuy93]

@@MarvNARK color of his skin has nothing to do with it.

[@Night_Bandit]

@@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.

[@GingerGuy93]

@@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.

[@johnlime1469]

This Harry Potter reboot looks pretty unique! They brought guns into magic duels.

[@sriley064]

I wonder if you know

[@lumendelsol]

@@sriley064 nope she dont know

[@goldbyrd3667]

​@@sriley064 sneetches ;)

[@DarknessOfRedbone]

You clearly haven’t seen Bright

[@samkofford113]

Matthew Maconahay as the man in black was awesome

[@ryanwolf2229]

Glass blocking the bullets from magical guns really upset me

[@spiffyc9248]

Magical glass

[@jetmanjayjay4604]

@@spiffyc9248 You got it man

[@KageNoTenshi]

Magic glass

[@vitcher3507]

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

[@peposo7]

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

[@AlyssMa7rin]

This short movie did earthbending *leagues* better than The Last Airbender.

[@SammersM]

Never could figure out how the second bullet caught up with the first 😂😂

[@nicholaskehler9169]

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.

[@jackhussey6334]

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

[@addisontaylor5979]

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]

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

[@nicholaskehler9169]

@@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.

[@davidpowell6098]

He saves the planet, and those are the thanks he gets!

[@YoutubeIsRetarded689]

He gets a hotdog...

[@Kampgris]

he saves the universe over and over again in the books

[@Sloptopgettingdrop]

This should have been an hbo max series, McConaughey and Idris were great for the roles.

[@johanstinson]

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

[@Sloptopgettingdrop]

@@johanstinson racist

[@valentinov901]

@@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]

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

[@johanstinson]

@@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?

[@giotispaok2167]

Idris Elba bro!One of a kind Man!One of a kind actor.

[@Just-Ice262]

The pov of the guy getting hit through his own scope is such a badass shot

[@LarryBullock67]

A lot of people are sleep on this movie. I wish it could’ve been a sequel. This was a great movie two of the best actors delivered great story plots, and also great action

[@lucasvidana8236]

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.

[@jrreedve2825]

Roland: “I remember the face of my father… allow me to demonstrate”

[@potterj09]

Imagine this badass in Red Dead Redemption 2 hahhaha

[@UnseenSpartan]

Revolver Ocelot: You’re pretty good

[@OldMate94]

Excellent use of the force

[@buddymartin7923]

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

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

2:10 A friendly reminder that Roland's guns are forged from Excalibur.

[@superimposedtab]

For those of us who read and loved the books, this movie is blasphemy!

[@MrFunkhauser]

It wasn't even a good movie regardless if you read the books or not.

[@jameszabinski3558]

THANK you-!!!

[@Oo-zp2wm]

I liked the movie t was better then a lot other movies

[@Oo-zp2wm]

Whats blasphemy is Sam Gamegi kicking the spider Shelob as if it was some small dog

[@michaelroberts7770]

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...

[@glenmallory9982]

Maybe in a few more years Netflix will do this book series justice and this movie will just be one of Rolands nightmares.

[@FrostekFerenczy]

Or they'll cancel it at the end of the second book.

[@sebastiangriffin375]

Hell of a good series. Been long enough could be a good movie.

[@StanvilleBrown]

If you read the books. The movie was a letdown. The only thing it got right is the bond between Roland and Jake!

[@libramoon9968]

I agree. They butchered this book series

[@prestochange-oh9243]

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

[@starwarsroo2448]

@@prestochange-oh9243 or LOTR 🙄

[@craigwhiting777]

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

[@StanvilleBrown]

@@craigwhiting777 Facts!

[@JamaniTJohnson]

It's been a long time since I was a teenager. When I was 17, I usually watched the movie. I've never seen it until now, so I'm 24 years old.

[@kelleycondon6504]

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

[@Cpt_JohnRackham]

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

[@vitcher3507]

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

[@YanT141]

That gunshot deflection thing single handedly destroyed all of logic and mathematics

[@sonofrockandroll2500]

As a huge fan of the book series, this movie was a great and wildly entertaining adaptation of the story. Fight me

[@benjaminmadrid5466]

This movie was excrement.

[@terrycrichton]

I don't believe anything you said.

[@thomasmartin7524]

nope.

[@matthewferguson6524]

Dukes up.

[@MrCrazykwesi]

That shot through the scope was mad disrespectful

[@Nicholas3030-y1n]

4:30 Walter arrived and start the battle with roland

[@vibeslide]

Maconahay makes for a really good villain.

[@patrickcahill4862]

If you haven't seen this movie it's a must👍👍👍 excellent

[@edthacow]

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.

[@crazyman8472]

Nice shootin', Tex. 😎

[@concrete-d5v]

I done care how bad thar movie was McConaughey and Elba ate up these roles and it was fun watching em

[@fallshown7070]

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.

[@juneangel7221]

The book came first

[@TOXTHEWOLVERINE]

Crimson king: YOU FAILURES GAN: You Did this

[@jerishigan6567]

I have no words for how disrespectful it is to suggest this is The Dark Tower.

[@vardellsfolly5200]

He is not dead. I think he is the villain of the Stand. He is a warlock or something. He is still allive...

[@zancrus9629]

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.

[@Chowchow12-v3w]

Knuckles doing his thing

[@jthreefingers8445]

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.

[@xenodarsh3475]

This movie was such a slap in the face of fans and the actual series. Idris Elba was the only good part of it.

[@Marcelooooo_86]

WHY IS THIS MAN NOT THE NEW BLADE!!!!!!! COME ON... IT WOULD BE PERFECT..

[@grumpysorc3744]

It's impossible to pack 4250 pages into a 1h 35m movie.

[@Xenophon1]

“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

[@JQualin]

Fun fact: They did the books dirty.

[@descent1234567890]

7:22 I'm sorry, but how the hell did that second bullet catch up with the first one?

[@monkeytown1239]

movie physics

[@DArtmanreignz]

Gunslinger, it's fiction🤦🏾‍♂️👑

[@GretSeat]

Man in Black was slowing the first down with his powers, so the second could catch up

[@bigd7696]

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.

[@routergray7041]

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.

[@SylviaPapyrus]

Idris Elba is perfect for this role, I love every moment 😍

[@money_fight_339]

3:40 did he try blocking the bullets with his arm?

[@ryanr9299]

IF disney made this movie ppl would be filming them on the bus while they could die..

[@Ryans_tryin]

2:10 this movie had so much potential to be great and it just fell short so much. This was a perfect opprotunity to call back to the fact that Roland's guns were originally created by melting down Artur Eld's sword into them. I really hope The Dark Tower finally gets a chance to be realized fully on the big screen

[@shisuiuchia6409]

Idris Elba awesome actor....best scene in Matthew McConaugheys acting career. When the bullet nailed him🤭 and he just had to lay there.

[@FrostekFerenczy]

> best scene in Matthew McConaugheys acting career. Clearly you're unfamiliar with True Detective season 1.

[@tyjohnston8573]

The casting here wasn't necessarily bad, but the writing was sub-par (at best), as was the directing. The editing was ... hmm, okay, I suppose. The big problem was trying to boil down more than a million words of story into a 2-hour movie.

[@labtob]

Where's Suzanne and Eddie? Where's Oy :(

[@jackorami2557]

i've seen this movie and i have literally no memory of any of this

[@randybugger3006]

I had no idea that the same architect designed the Dark Tower _and_ the Death Star (both have one-shot fatal weaknesses)

[@calebsoria1777]

You have both forgotten the faces of your fathers

[@thaddeuscalvin5196]

To everybody saying this is unfaithful, this movie is NOT meant to be an adaptation of the books, it is supposed to be a sequel to them that takes place after Roland had already been to the tower and got transported back to the Mohaine Desert with the Horn of Eld. Granted, it is not a very well thought out sequel but that is why there is no Eddie, Susannah, and things are otherwise pretty different because the premise of the movie is that Roland is making different choices this time around.

[@johanstinson]

revisionist nonsense

[@M0butu]

I don't care. The movie is shit anyway, I don't need to know the books.

[@thaddeuscalvin5196]

@@M0butu Books are really great, much better than this crappy movie and worth a read.

[@iantierney6905]

This should have been a series of movies.not one single movie.

[@zweigackroyd7301]

Because such abject failure and awfulness shouldn't be concentrated in a single movie?

[@thesurvivalist.]

This is why I read books instead of going to movies!

[@frankcuoco1501]

Idris is a powerful presence in anything he has been in😅

[@jasonwhite5125]

Best book series ever, but of course, holly wank had to fuck it up💁🤦🏼‍♂️

[@beefish00]

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[@willie9537]

Don't you love it when you can watch something that's imposible like John Wick and this and enjoy it.

[@markymark7247]

I have no attachment to the Dark Tower series, I wanted to watch this movie because I wanted to see Idris Elba be a cowboy. Sorry to everyone who was hoping for a good adaptation of Dark Tower, but I got exactly what I wanted to see.

[@brianbrave]

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...

[@evanabbott2737]

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.👍

[@slaydstoner8520]

Idris Elba is very nice shooter!

[@josephyoung6749]

loved this movie

[@mmclaurin8035]

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.

[@soccerboss7924]

Haven’t seen this movie in a long time and haven’t read the books but as a kid, I loved this movie. Apparently this was a let down so I’ll read the books next

[@Supersquigi]

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.

[@BigMac8000]

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.

[@nightgoon_0_0]

After reading the books I knew I couldn't watch this. It would have pissed me off. I love Idris for the role, but it should have been a series.

[@web-headsassemble9415]

Fun fact: Matthew McConaghuey chose this role over playing star lord in the MCU 😢

[@berserk6984]

And thats good cause Chris is the best star lord! :)

[@paristo]

I don't think he would have been good character in it. He is "too stiff" for such character.

[@debanjanbhattacharjee6410]

Better stoned lord than star lord

[@robertkeating6036]

Didn't know I was black. Gan it, my voice you heard. The speaker of the dead.

[@thecowboyofoklahoma5866]

I know there are more books from the series this is based on. I'm curious how the evil would deal with one of its key components actively fighting against them with the same training as the gunmen. The kid has the actual power to hold back the evil, and then add on the skills of the gunman, for a time, he'd be unbeatable.

[@mikeretzlaff8846]

This movie is supposed to take place sometime after the last book, after the worlds "reset" due to Roland somehow once again screwing up in his quest. Supposedly part of the series continuity, while having enough changes to leave you wondering if the worlds' reboot changes the questor; as Clint Eastwood was the inspiration for Roland, and him being white was a major plot point in a couple of the books and in his relations with Susannaha/Detta, casting Idris Elba meant having to either set it after the books or as an "alternate timeline" version. It's stated that Jake has died more than once, implying that there's more than one world/timeline where the inhabitants are involved, in addition to the author confirming that other books he's written are part of the larger Dark Tower continuity, so there being more than one Roland is a possibility as well, maybe Elba-Roland is from a world closer to the core of the multiverse "onion"...

[@akashverma5756]

Now, Hollywood has forgotten how to make action movies like this.

[@upland77]

This was the best movie of all time.

[@kirillkouznetsov997]

first time watching cinema?

[@upland77]

Yes this is the only film I have ever watched.

[@freshprince374]

I watched it in theatres too.