John Carter reviews

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, April 1, 2012 14:03
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CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:25 AM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Charming, fantastical stuff.

No more of that, we want explosions & shooting only.
When's the next rutting GI JOE movie coming out already????

The Mal-like Chrisisall

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:57 AM

So we went on Sat. my dad was pretty excited about it. He thought it was fantastic. I thought it was allright, in the middle I was getting a little bored because too much was going on and I was getting confused. But the ending redeemed it for me, I really liked the ending. So I thought it was fairly good. We got trading cards with our tickets, anyone else? And my dad has been looking at his Dejah Thoris card a lot the last couple of days. :)

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

TWO

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:16 PM

The director hated the trailers: “We shouldn’t be selling sci-fi and battles—I hate it when you’re selling a movie you don’t have. This feels just like ‘The Terminator,’ because every other action hero comes from this story. So our progenitor story feels derivative.” The director planned to emphasize the romance between John Carter and Princess Dejah Thoris of Mars: “It’s the ultimate Heathcliff and Cathy, because they’re even from different planets.” Disney's marketing wouldn't do it.

That sell never happened because it’s impossible for Disney to spend so much on toys—to lavishly and painstakingly build C.G.I. Tharks and Thoats and alien hovercraft—and then lay them aside and pitch their film as “The Notebook.”

The scope of what Disney thinks it can sell becomes narrower all the time. Less human, more comic-book and action heroic.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:13 PM

Two - He may have hated the trailers they wanted to release, but they might have actually gotten people to show up. As it stands, he personally approved all the existing trailers, which scuttled the movie.

Note to self: Come up with some pity-baiting sig line so everyone sees how persecuted poor wittle me is. Then I can be just like Rappy!

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:15 PM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Yeah, I'm so pissed about the dumbass marketing for this movie. All they had to do--ALL THEY HAD TO DO--was flash one word across the screen as often as possible in every trailer: PIXAR. Pixar director, Pixar writer, Pixar effects, Pixar, Pixar, Pixar! It's a Pixar movie, in terms of quality, storytelling, originality.

Turns out Stanton personally forbade them to mention Pixar.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/03/john-carter-doomed-by-first-trailer.htm
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It's really sounding like he killed the movie with adoration - he just assumed that everyone in the world was clamoring for a John Carter movie, and refused to actually "sell" the thing.

Note to self: Come up with some pity-baiting sig line so everyone sees how persecuted poor wittle me is. Then I can be just like Rappy!

CLJOHNSTON108

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:50 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Yeah, I'll admit to liking that. It' like bad pizza- it's still pizza IMO.

Reminds me of one of Bill Maher's jokes from his stand-up days...

"Sex is like pizza: When it's good, it's very good, and when it's bad, it's... still pretty good."

TWO

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:07 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Two - He may have hated the trailers they wanted to release, but they might have actually gotten people to show up.

In Burroughs’s version all the Martian creatures communicated telepathically—that is, silently. Now add another masterstroke from Burroughs’s fevered brain: all the Martians were naked. How could that not work on billboards? “Nude. Silent. Mars. Coming soon from those nice people who brought you ‘The Little Mermaid.’ ”

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:09 PM

Was that supposed to make sense?

It didn't.

Note to self: Come up with some pity-baiting sig line so everyone sees how persecuted poor wittle me is. Then I can be just like Rappy!

TWO

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:32 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Was that supposed to make sense?

It didn't.

Storymark, write to the New Yorker and tell them you don't understand and would they please explain their big city ways to you, a backward villager. Nude. Silent. Mars. How John Carter Could Have Triumphed - www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/03/nude-silent-marshow-the
-john-carter-debacle-could-have-been-avoided.html

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:40 PM

....Jesus, I forgot what its like trying to talk to you.

I meant - WTF is YOUR point??

Do you really think even the writer of that article was totally serious? In what universe would ANY studio put that much money into a movie where everyone was nude? Much less Disney. Its idiotic.

Note to self: Come up with some pity-baiting sig line so everyone sees how persecuted poor wittle me is. Then I can be just like Rappy!

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