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This flick was way too safe, bereft of tension, and, like mikecl said, utterly souless. The setting was bland and unispiring.
Would I have enjoyed this if I were still a kid? No. Because when I was a kid I loved good movies like Blade Runner, Excalibur, Road Warrior, The Thing, and Alien. Is it fair to compare JC to stuff like that? Yeah.
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Hex Sinister wrote: I hate being a party pooper but can't think of anything positive to say about John Carter...
This flick was way too safe, bereft of tension, and, like mikecl said, utterly souless. The setting was bland and unispiring.
Would I have enjoyed this if I were still a kid? No. Because when I was a kid I loved good movies like Blade Runner, Excalibur, Road Warrior, The Thing, and Alien. Is it fair to compare JC to stuff like that? Yeah.
You guys saw a different film from me, since the one I saw was full of character and heart. If anything I didn't think it had much in terms of 'spectical' - there wasn't much action and the action scenes were all pretty short. It was more a a talky film, which I enjoyed.
Marketing in Australia was as shit as it was in the US. No one knows what the film is about. It just looks like a conan ripoff. The ape scene is WAY over-emphasised. And they don't market the princess at all, which was the biggest fuckup - she was one of the best elements of the film. In the US chick attendence was way down, which is a shame as the film has big chick appeal for a nerd-flick. I saw it with 2 mothers who ended up enjoying it more than the kids. It's a cheesy romance story at it's heart (especially the ending) and the marketing should have honed in on this.
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Mr Skeletor wrote: the film has big chick appeal for a nerd-flick. I saw it with 2 mothers who ended up enjoying it more than the kids. It's a cheesy romance story at it's heart
hallelujah! I just may be able to get my other half to see this with me after all.
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Hatchling wrote:
Mr Skeletor wrote: the film has big chick appeal for a nerd-flick. I saw it with 2 mothers who ended up enjoying it more than the kids. It's a cheesy romance story at it's heart
hallelujah! I just may be able to get my other half to see this with me after all.
My wife loved it (especially the space-doggy-thingy), and she's as far from being a sci-fi fan as possible.
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Mr Skeletor wrote: You guys saw a different film from me, since the one I saw was full of character and heart. If anything I didn't think it had much in terms of 'spectical' - there wasn't much action and the action scenes were all pretty short. It was more a a talky film, which I enjoyed.
Marketing in Australia was as shit as it was in the US. No one knows what the film is about. It just looks like a conan ripoff. The ape scene is WAY over-emphasised. And they don't market the princess at all, which was the biggest fuckup - she was one of the best elements of the film. In the US chick attendence was way down, which is a shame as the film has big chick appeal for a nerd-flick. I saw it with 2 mothers who ended up enjoying it more than the kids. It's a cheesy romance story at it's heart (especially the ending) and the marketing should have honed in on this.
Personally, I think they could have built up the romance between the two characters a little bit better, but it's still far from being soulless. I'm a cynical bastard in general, but at two points of the film (when Carter attacks a whole army with the doggy-thingy on his side, and they cut to his memories, and at the very end) I was -->this<-- close to shed some (of course, very masculine) man-tears.
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" I would guess that modern audiences have no idea who John Carter is. I mean, the only folks reading/have read Princess of Mars are old people (_really_ old)"
We could test that theory if only Southernman were still here.
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1) The Princess is by far the BEST thing about this movie. Her shocking blue eyes have been amped up by special effects no doubt but she is a beautiful women and did a fine job playing the part. I will IMDB her to find out what else if anything she has been in.
2) I agree that it lacked some soul. Perhaps I have seen too many of these so called blockbusters but so very few of them have the heart to be great movies.
3) Visual effects were well done with the exception of some of the jumping shots which looked like crap.
4) Overall, it was ok. Not great. Not horrible. Middle of the road.
5) Wice is either completely insane or things are REALLY different where he's from because I have NEVER chosen which movie to see by walking into a theater and looking at the posters. They may give me ideas for the next time I go but I always know what I want to see before I arrive.
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repoman wrote: 5) Wice is either completely insane or things are REALLY different where he's from because I have NEVER chosen which movie to see by walking into a theater and looking at the posters. They may give me ideas for the next time I go but I always know what I want to see before I arrive.
I wasn't talking about you. It's like saying that "I have NEVER gone to a toy store, and buy the first Monopoly-variant that looked slightly interesting". You are a geek. I am a geek. Most people aren't. The majority of people go to the cinema in the closest shopping center after they finished shopping for clothes, had a fine dinner in the McDonalds, and still don't feel like going home.
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