'Out Of Gas'
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The thing is, an adaptation of the Arthur story transposed into the modern day with the "kingdom" being a British criminal operation could have been a decent new take on an old story. The actual Sixth Century AD legendary characters speaking and acting like modern London thugs, not so much.
What I want to know is who greenlit a $175 million budget for this turkey?
The funniest thing I saw was in the Wikipedia article, where the studio was hoping to launch a six-picture shared Arthurian universe. Guys, c'mon. I know you all want to be Marvel, but there are reasons they succeeded beyond "bunch of movies with many characters, sometimes in common."
Sounds like it'd be a good graphic novel series.
I'm curious how DC's "Screw it, we're skipping straight to the Justice League" gambit is going to pan out. By all rights it should just crash and burn under its own weight but the trailers have been promising.
I'll begrudgingly admit that a Justice League movie with reshoots and rewrites by Joss will be an improvement than a Justice League movie entirely by Zack Snyder.
Probably not a whole lot better.
Definitely better one-liners, though.
I don't have a whole lot of faith in Joss anymore. I'd really rather he stay far the hell away from Diana. (And I'd bet folding money that there's a scene with her barefoot now that he's doing reshoots.)
I don't have a whole lot of faith in Joss anymore.
I don't either, but he's still better than Zack Snyder.
That's definitely true.
I saw Dark Tower today .
Haven't read it so I came to it fresh. I heard it is very different from the books.
It felt condensed. I liked it over all. Mostly Idris Elba.
Matthew McConaughey I don't know. I kept thinking he looked like a skeezy uncle. Also it wasn't scenery chewing but it was...low key over the top....maybe just bad because at times it seemed flat and over acted at the same time.
I recognized Jackie Earle Haley.
I didn't understand the point of thr face/skin stealing . Walter wanted it I guess.
Kid actor seemed decent.
The whole thing felt like the second half should have been a sequel and more story about Roland and Walter
The actual Sixth Century AD legendary characters speaking and acting like modern London thugs, not so much.
We're still watching this (continued from last night), and honestly, who looked at the Arthurian legend and thought, "What this story needs is a bunch of Cockneys"?