We’ve already got our hands full with the bizarre alien life forms known as Democrats. Who needs a sci-fi movie?;)
I’ll watch it but I just don’t pay for movies.
I saw how bad things can get when I watched a made for TV movie of the same name on SY FY this morning. It starred an aging Traci Lords and an actor I recognize but could never name.
The chick that’s in it, Lynn Collins, is hot!
It’s sad cause these are great stories, not like the crap they put out today. I read were the critics that liked it said it was nostalgic for the old hollywood adventure movies.
I would rather watch gunga din than any matt damon adventure movie.
Digitization should be reducing the costs of movies not increasing it!!!!!
Disney isn’t Disney any more....
I loved the John Carter series, but I was a bit disappointed when they cast a man-child type in the Carter role. Should be a craggy, get-things-done kid of actor. So, I probably won’t go see the movie. Having read the books, I realize I am in the minority, but still, there was a reason the books were popular.
I’ve seen the ads all over the place. John Carter? I thought it was about a detective or something.
There were people who liked the John Carter books...and I don’t have an issue with them (hell, I used to read the Robert E Howard, Conan books) but the comic book sales from when John Carter was a (Marvell?) series should have been enough to tell anyone that this movie was going to flat-out flop.
Generally speaking, this film has no audience. It’s not scifi, it’s not fantasy, it’s sort of adventure.
Doomed from the start.
Stupid to just name the movie after somebody’s name? I mean if the movie was just called “Indiana Jones” instead of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” who would have seen it?
Who the heck is John Carter? Sure the people who read the books know....but outside of that?
I’m always wary of big budget movies released in cinematic dump months - January and February primarily, but early March isn’t exactly summer blockbuster season.
I think I’ll pass and watch my copy of Blazing Saddles again instead.
I read the John Carter on Mars series about 30 years ago. I absolutely loved them. I always thought it would be wonderful if they could make a movie about them, but I also knew that it would be impossible to do the stories justice at the (then) state of the art effects. So I’ve been waiting 30 years for this to finally happen.
I think Disney did a wonderful job of realizing the first book, Princess of Mars. It might be a little corny, but you have to remember that these stories were written more than 50 years ago and copied many, many times.
The characters and creatures and Barsoomian world were *exactly* like I pictured them from the books. Very well done, in my opinion. Captured the spirit of the books to a T.
But at least it should be good fodder for MST3K.
It’s a real pity. I read all the John Carter books when I was younger, and you could say that I’ve been waiting all these years for someone to make the movie. I’ll probably go see it anyway, mainly because I have enjoyed other movies that were panned by the critics in the past and my grandsons really want to go. Even though I will acknowledge that Dune and Starship Troopers were terrible movies, I have enjoyed watching them both several times.
The ‘bomb’ this weekend was Eddie Murphy’s new movie...0% at Rotten Tomatoes...0%. Carter got 50%, for crying out loud.
I think I’d prefer to watch “Flight to Mars” (1951) instead. Have a VHS tape of it somewhere around here.
Anyway, between the rampant degeneracy and the smug Obama-worship, I’ve become so repelled by Hollyweird that I actually derive enjoyment from news that their products turn out to be financial bombs. God, I hate them with a white-hot passion.
In Burrough’s book, Carter returned to Earth and made a fortune in pharmaceutical sales.
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Saw it last night, it was much better than I had expected from the Dizzy Co.
The length of some of his leaps were a bit too much, and we now know that Mars gravity is not spectacularly less than Earth, but it was nice to see a movie for entertainment without some heavy-handed eco-nut message!
There is a bit of anti-war theme (Post civil-war disgust), but it is balanced by his accepting the necessity of the fight thrust upon him.
It was also nice that the manner in which “he” travelled to Barsoom was explained, something too often left out of newer stories.