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‘Ishtar’ Lands on Mars ('John Carter' a colossal bomb for Disney, $165M writeoff, layoffs...)
NY Times ^
| 3/11/12
| BROOKS BARNES
Posted on 03/11/2012 1:32:54 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: The Antiyuppie
I think that special effects tend to eclipse a good story to its detriment.
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posted on
03/11/2012 2:49:08 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: Twinkie
Nice body “but her face” is bad...
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posted on
03/11/2012 2:49:42 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: dfwgator; JediJones
John Connor's Parents
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posted on
03/11/2012 2:50:22 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Paparazzi mob senior citizen mistaking her for Lindsay Lohan (True Story))
To: pjd
I read the John Carter on Mars series about 30 years ago. I absolutely loved them. I'm with you ... I'm sure I'll greatly enjoy this movie ... flop or not! :)
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posted on
03/11/2012 2:50:50 PM PDT
by
The Duke
To: The Duke
I’m the same way, I’ll enjoy it but I won’t pay theater prices for it.
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posted on
03/11/2012 2:59:23 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: jimbo123
Too bad. I loved the books when I was young.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:00:08 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: cripplecreek
To: cripplecreek
Ah. Found it. Thanks, mate.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:03:20 PM PDT
by
Utilizer
(What does not kill you... -can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
To: longfellow
Ok, well, I'll pi$$ off some Freepers, but I saw "Act of Valor," and thought it was sadly lacking in story. Camera work was great, and the Seals were pretty good actors. But there was no story. Rescuing a hostage is a scene, not a story.
The gunboats with the miniguns were cool as heck, though.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:03:31 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
To: jimbo123
Sad that people choose to propagandize their children with environmentalist pap like ‘The Lorax’...
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:04:34 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: Fee
Actually the opposite is true.
Digital effects, especially with digitally animated movies like Toy Story or movies like John Carter that have so many effects that they might as well be an animated movie, require huge investments of cash. You have to pay a very large number of extremely talented people large amounts of money to design very time consuming effects using very expensive machines and technology. The process from start to finish is several years, not months like shooting a traditional film.
Also, if you're using top voice talent as well like most animated and effects driven movies do, you have to fork over big bucks to them too. It's exponentially cheaper to pay Willem Dafoe to stand in front of the camera in a costume and act than to pay him to voice act for a digital character that takes dozens of people months to design and days per second of film to render and complete.
Digital effects take much longer hence their greater cost. Digital effects require a lot of very gifted people working for long periods of time, and they don't come cheap.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:05:02 PM PDT
by
GunRunner
(***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
To: who knows what evil?
Sad that people choose to propagandize their children with environmentalist pap like The Lorax... "Happy Feet" was even worse.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:05:53 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: who knows what evil?; DManA
In watching the “Iron Sky” trailer I noted the “Sarah Palin-US President”-esque character, and couldn’t help thinking that although the Euros probably viewed her derisively, when the movie makes it to the US that character may turn out to be the best thing in the whole movie... /g
To: jimbo123
Part of the problem is that since so many people have borrowed from it, from Conan the Barbarian and Superman, through Star Wars and Dune, everything looks familiar. Viewing the movie is an exercise in Dejah Vu.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:09:23 PM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: jimbo123
My biggest problem with this flick is that, unless you want to go at 10 O’Clock (AM or PM), you gotta go to either the 3D or the XD version, each of which has a $3-$4 “up charge” attached to it.
For matinee or Costco prices ($7.50), it might be worth it. “Regular price” ($11-$15), not so much.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:10:37 PM PDT
by
ssaftler
(Obama 2008: "Hope and Change" Obama 2012: "Excuses and Blame")
To: jimbo123
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:10:49 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: SuzyQue
I went and saw the 2D version last night. I knew I had to go see it after the critics panned it.
The first bit on earth I was not impressed with. But man it picked up right after he woke up on Mars.
If you’re a fan of the books then you know they condensed the first three books into the Movie - Princess, Gods and Warlord of Mars.
If you’re not too picky about that you’ll see they did a pretty good job.
I’ll give it a thumbs up as a popcorn cruncher and will purchase the DVD when it comes out.
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:10:57 PM PDT
by
PeteB570
( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
To: LS
To: jimbo123
Watched the trailer. Dejah Thoris appeared to be overdressed... /g
To: jimbo123
I'm seeing pretty good user reviews on Yahoo. If I had been picking a movie, I usually trust their user reviews, they almost always go against what the hollywood type say about a flick.
OTOH, the poor numbers may be just an extension of Barry's "vision" of "America is back" (to the 1930's.)
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posted on
03/11/2012 3:15:15 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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