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Also, with film/tv adaptions, I think people in general have to learn that they're just that, adaptions. Ive never seen a TV/Film adaption where fans of the novel didn't complain that a scene was omitted, or something was added, and how they ruined the novel because they weren't 100% faithful to the material. I personally think it's next to impossible to create a 100% faithful adaption of a book and still have a film that's just as effective, because they're different mediums. There's things you can do on film that you can't do in a book, and there's things you can do in a book that can't translate into film. When it comes to adapting novels, I do think it's almost always best to try to capture the same story, spirit and tone that the original author was going for. There's a few exceptions (such as when you're adapting a rather weak work with a strong high concept idea like Jurassic Park), but most of the time when film/tv adaptors try something completely different it tends to fall on its face.

When you have a massive book like IT, the only way you could get a word for word adaption is with a mini-series. 2 1/2 hours is enough for an effective movie that captures the highlights, tone and spirit of the novel though. Especially if they're just following the kids in this movie.

There's nothing else to talk about until IT comes out though

I'll play devil's advocate and say GoT Season 7 is another pop culture phenomenon from the summer.

At this point Tele's club should succeed rather easily now, there's only a few million left and WW's still having weekends over 1m. She could push to around 407 - 410m

This question sucks!

I'm hoping for next season we can get one of the MVP Thrones directors for each episode 1 - Alan Taylor 2 - Matt Shakman 3 - Alex Graves 4 - David Nutter 5 - Neil Marshall 6 - Miguel Sapochnik

In that case, I hope they never show Ghost again. The dog must live forever. As for the Ocean's Eleven, maybe replace one of them with Gendry, who saw Eastwatch by the Sea in the flames in Season 3 and has been rowing towards it ever since.

Not positive, I don't think it's ever been clarified. I've interpreted them as a hive minded species.

Would that work? With the exception of the one at the Wall in season 1, wights really only seem to come alive from the Walkers (and seem to be controlled by them). The magic seems to require the Walkers intent (almost as if they're warging into hundreds of corpses at one moment).

This is a surprise, The Spoils of War broke first night viewership records for the show (a bit more than Dragonstone), this is despite the episode leaking early http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-sunday-cable-originals-network-finals-8-6-2017.html

How do you prove that there's an army of dead men without actually taking people to see an army of dead men? Sure, you could wop off a wight's head and bring it with you but then it's just going to look like some dead guy's head you wopped off.

I'm curious if there'll be a twist in store for how Season 8 plays out/set up so it's not Good Guys vs Ice Sauron. D&D have said they should arrive to the same destination as GRRM, and it just doesn't seem like GRRM's style to have most of his finale be a Good vs Evil crusade. I feel like something's bound to happen that shakes things up. It's possible Cersei and Daenerys survive the season, and they're stuck having to work together to defeat the White Walkers. That'd leave room for some real arm-twistings to go on.

I swear, I'll be pissed if they don't give Nymeria's wolf pack at least one glorious scene/moment against the White Walkers. You don't re-introduce a Direwolf and her pack into the story if you aren't going to use it (and Ghost should go running with them).

That's looking like a rare case where the RT could recover (or go further).

Maybe since everyone is doing terrible in the preseasons, the weeklies will be the big game changer.

Is Ghost even with Jon right now? I presume he's at Winterfell, but last time we saw him was at the Wall.

At GRRM's pace, there's no guarantee he'll live long enough to finish these last two books. If Winds is taking him this long, imagine how long he'll take with what would be the conclusion of his series (providing he doesn't make it longer).

Lol, nothing is locked yet. Not even Dunkirk, and especially not the Papers or CMBYRN. At best, the three of them are in strong positions.

Next three will make up for it, a 59 minute episode, then a 74 minute episode and a nearly Dunkirk length episode.

I think it's more that it's a poor adaption of the series.

I saw this movie at the Alamo Drafthouse, the little pre-show where they do lists, countdowns and interviews was better than the movie imo. The movie is fine until you realize it's a Dark Tower adaption and the material deserves a movie 1000x better than this manufactured contraption. It's pretty meh and tries to cover way to much plot ground due to the short run time that it leaves no time for actual character or world building.

The movie is fine, the real crime isn't that it's atrocious filmmaking but that it's a waste of truly great potential. It didn't even need to be a direct adaption of the first book, it just should have been an introduction into an awesome universe created by Stephen King. The real flaw with the movie is it feels like it's trying to introduce people to a sprawling 7 novel series, featuring a lifetime rivalry between two characters, while also trying to be the disappointing conclusion/culmination of them at the same time, while also only being 90 minutes. Theres not enough time to even scratch surface level with the characters, and so it comes off as cliche instead of a weird yet epic mashup of the fantasy genre. It's way to tame when it really should have gone wild. It lacks inspiration, which just cannot happen when you're trying to adapt a book series that's full of it. Matthew McConnoughey and Idris Elba are great as the title characters and really give into the nature of their roles. However the filmmakers and actors around them don't, which makes for a wash. The movie's fine when you watch it, but you can't help but just sit back and think how it's a giant heap of missed potential. C-