John Carter; Disney movie

[rrebo]

Just saw a pre-screening of "John Carter", a new Disney movie scheduled to open on March 9. It pretty much followed the Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian books. We saw it in 3D and it was quite good. Action all the way. Pretty sure there will be sequels by the way it ended.

[BenLurkin]

"The incomprable Dejah Thoris"

[Ransomed]

If I remember, those are the ground hog sized multi-limbed Barsoomian rats.

Another thing is these books had some of the best imagery ever, and Frazetta and Mike Whelan captured that in the art they did for the various paperback editions. The trailers makes it look like some Earth desert—it has been years since I read them though, so maybe that is the way it was in the books, but man that is not what I have been picturing all these years. Maybe because of the artwork I’ve seen. The director is the guy who did Wall-E so I am thinking it might be pretty good.

Freegards

[BenLurkin]

not

[BenLurkin]

[JRandomFreeper]

Yes. Indeed. This will be a somewhat unsettled night. I am a celibate these days.

So that.... really.... doesn't matter. Deep breaths....

/johnny

[cripplecreek]

Burroughs was an artist in his own right.

There were four of us aboard the flier I had stolen from the hangar at Kamtol to effect our escape from The Valley of the First Born: Llana of Gathol; Pan Dan Chee of Horz; Jad-han, the brother of Janai of Amhor; and I, John Carter, Prince of Helium and Warlord of Barsoom.

It was one of those startlingly gorgeous Martian nights that fairly take one`s breath away. In the thin air of the dying planet, every star stands out in scintillant magnificence against the velvet blackness of the firmament in splendor inconceivable to an inhabitant of Earth.

As we rose above the great rift valley, both of Mars` moons were visible, and Earth and Venus were in conjunction, affording us a spectacle of incomparable beauty. Cluros, the farther moon, moved in stately dignity across the vault of heaven but fourteen thousand miles away, while Thuria, but four thousand miles distant, hurtled through the night from horizon to horizon in less than four hours, casting ever changing shadows on the ground below us which produced the illusion of constant movement, as though the surface of Mars was covered by countless myriads of creeping, crawling things. I wish that I might convey to you some conception of the weird and startling strangeness of the scene and of its beauty; but, unfortunately, my powers of description are wholly inadequate.

But perhaps some day you, too, will visit Mars.

[BenLurkin]

“maybe that is the way it was in the books”

No, it wasn’t. I sense a huge disappointment coming in this movie.

[BenLurkin]

[The Cajun]

Ahem, I'll pick the babe with the messed up Bowie knife.

Remember reading those as a kid, cover illustrations were a teen magnet :^)

[steelyourfaith]

Not exactly the way I envisioned Tars Tarkas the four-metre-high fierce green fighting man.

[Rebelbase]

Saw the preview for it in a theater last night. Looks like a cross between Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian.

[BenLurkin]

Soory..here...this is better...

[KevinDavis]

[napscoordinator]

Go see The Lorax this weekend. It was so great. Took the entire family. There is six of us and we all enjoyed it. It is going to be the number one movie this weekend (Made 70 million on Friday). For the second weekend, a great movie has been number one. Things are getting better in Hollywood. Now we have this John Smith movie to look forward too. Life is good movie wise. Hopefully Hollywood will continue this trend.

[BenLurkin]

Bump!

[Jack Hydrazine]

You can see the trailer here.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/john-carter/

[Ransomed]

“...he wrote an average of three novels a year.”

Someone once told me ERB could write 30,000 words of prose a day. The begining of his various series always seemed for me to be much stronger than the later ones, which is understandable.

Freegards

[Ransomed]

Jack Vance, who for my money is one of the best ever and just turned 95 last year, has said that one of the best descriptions for mood ever was from the first description of Mars in ‘Princess.

Freegards

[BenLurkin]

30,000 words of prose a day

That would indeed be Promethean!

[Tijeras_Slim]

After 40 years I’m re-reading the first three Mars books.

I tell ya’ florid prose works better on a 13 year old than a curmudgeon.

Still fun though.