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Is Luther (britbox) (Original Post) 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

AltairIV

(387 posts)
6. Agreed.
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 05:18 PM
Jul 2023

Absolutely agree with you on both your points. I would highly recommend the series but I've not yet seen the follow up film.

Ocelot II

(115,748 posts)
8. The series is excellent but the movie sucked.
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 05:19 PM
Jul 2023

I don't know how a fine actor like Idris Elba allowed himself to be dragged into that hot mess.

happybird

(4,608 posts)
10. He was also in the mess that was The Dark Tower movie
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 05:29 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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