I actually liked it a lot fam
first off, fukk the critics. this was a good movie.
I was a big fan of the books and while this flick wasn't overly faithful to the source material, the whole point of the book series is that there are different realities. Stephen King actually went back and edited them shyts and made some changes to the original story mad years after the fact.
second of all, Idris Elba was amazing, my mans really did his thing.
Matthew McConaghey was good too.
third of all, I think a lot of the critics and others hating on the movie are hating because they casted Idris as Roland. I bet they wouldn't have said shyt if he was cast as the bad guy.
but hey, what do I know.
however I would like to say that it's possible for a Black actor to play a character in which their Blackness is not integral to who the character is. It's really okay Hollywood and assembled white people. Idris was the best possible Roland there could be in my opinion. I know in the books Roland is kind of this Clint Eastwood type character but Idris was a better Roland than Clint in his prime could ever be.
anyways I'm looking forward to the next installment.
