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happybird

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10. He was also in the mess that was The Dark Tower movie

Wed Jul 12, 2023, 04:29 PM

Jul 2023

I love Idris and was psyched to see him as Roland and Matthew McConnehey as Flagg but… they tried to jam random bits from the entire series of 7 looong books into one movie, made the kid the central character in order to make the definitely R rated source material into a PG13 movie for teenagers, and totally removed three extremely important characters, among numerous other disastrous changes to that epic story. Ugh.

I often wonder why those two fine actors decided to be involved in that mess.

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Is Luther (britbox) [View all] XanaDUer2 Jul 2023 OP

The series is very good. The movie they put out recently is awful. Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #1

What movie? CurtEastPoint Jul 2023 #2

There's a Luther movie. It's an insult to the excellence of the series. Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #4

clueless! Glad I missed it. I AM loving him in Hijack on Apple. Non-detective role CurtEastPoint Jul 2023 #11

I think they might be playing it down because it's so bad. Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #12

Luther is a great series. Idris is a fantastic actor. CurtEastPoint Jul 2023 #3

Agreed. AltairIV Jul 2023 #6

Elba? XanaDUer2 Jul 2023 #7

I know it was on Netflix at one point. RandySF Jul 2023 #5

The series is excellent but the movie sucked. Ocelot II Jul 2023 #8

He was also in the mess that was The Dark Tower movie happybird Jul 2023 #10

Plus 1 - series good, movie terrible StopTheNeoCons Jul 2023 #9

Alice Morgan! IrishAfricanAmerican Jul 2023 #13