Tuesday, August 8, 2017

黑塔 The Dark Tower @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1

01.08.2017 Movie
@ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1 (click to Google Map)
The Summit Subang USJ, Persiaran Kewajipan, USJ 1, 47600 Subang Jaya
黑塔 The Dark Tower $15 
Thoughts: The Dark Tower is a Steven King's Novel, all together 7 books. The plots in the book incorporates themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western. The Dark Tower is often describe as Steven King's "magnum opus" (代表作). Maybe reading the book is much more interesting than the movie! Then again, there are a total of 7 or 8 episodes on "The Dark Tower" series by King. This installment played in the cinema is the first one, I guess there could be part 2, 3 ... etc. depending on whether this first one can "sell"! 
"The Dark Tower" Part 1 has a simple story. It is about a young boy who is a "powerful psychic" dismissed by his mother and step father who thinks that he is "crazy". The young boy Jake Chambers (played by Tom Taylor) dreams about a dark tower, gun slinger Roland Deschain (played by Idris Elba), and the villain Walter Padick (played by Matthew McConaughey) is is here to destory earth. It is now a familiar story in cinemas where multiple dimensions of the world exist, and the villain is trying too open a door for monster to come to the "earth" dimension to destroy human kind. The boy then help the gun slinger to kill the villain and stop the portal for the monsters to come over. It seems that by destroying "the dark tower" (which is in the vision of the psychic boy), the portal will open for arrival of the evil monsters. Roland Deschain is the last gun-slingger of his kind who is "feared" by the villain Walter Padick  (also called "Man in Black" in the movie)! Roland has lost his motivation and "touch" as a gun-slingger, he is helped by the psychic boy Jake Chambers to regain his confidence and finally killed the "Man in Black". 
Last scene was Roland the Gun-Slingger and Jake Chamers the Psychic boy walked into a door to another dimension; perhaps signaling a partnering duo to defend the earth or human kind in the next episods of "The Dark Tower"!
Opening hours: 01:50pm - 03:50pm

The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
The Dark Tower $15 @ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
@ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
@ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1
@ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) Summit USJ 1