John Carter: the new Blade Runner...
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 17:12
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Ahhh The Rocketeer. I do so love that film. I honestly think two/three years earlier and this film would have been a huge success, but it came just a bit too late. The 80's naiveté was no longer tolerable with movie audiences and I fear it was just a little too charming for it's time. It was after the darkness of Burton's BATMAN and folk now wanted their heroes to be brooding and severe. The Rocketeer was just too simple a chap really.... That said it's one of my rainy day films. Along with
Tron
Starman
Mysterious Island
Big Trouble in Little China
Inner Space
Gremlins II
& now
John Carter.
:D
As for the Tron Legacy while I concur about the misguided use of Tron this film did encourage non sic-fi fans to enjoy sic-fi. So I have to congratulate it for that. The reason I say this is I pretty much dragged my girlfriend and her girlfriends to go and see it and to my great delight they all loved it! And prior to that they were pretty defiant anti-sic-fi chicks. So I was very impressed by that.
So John Carter. I think you've nailed it really Shiny. There were moments of head scratching you're right, and it was a touch ambiguous at times whom we should be routing for, but I actually don't mind this. Just means I'll have another reason to watch it again :D I have that same vibe from City of the Lost Children
°...Well here I am.°
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And I loved it on DVD too. Damn movie has me in tears every time when he remembers you know what.
Chrisisall, wearing a frilly Mal thing on his head, and ready to shoot unarmed, full-body armoured Tharks
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
And I loved it on DVD too.
Even better on Blu-Ray!
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Quote:Whaddya think Ec, the last movie of its kind? Takin' its time, old fashioned (albeit state of the art tech)...
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Even better on Blu-Ray!
Chrisisall, wearing a frilly Mal thing on his head, and ready to shoot unarmed, full-body armoured shakey cams
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Whaddya think Ec, the last movie of its kind?
Extremely difficult to say anything like that without waiting to see the thousands of other movies that will be made while I'm still alive and kicking.
I think it's safe to say it will be unlikely we'll get a sequel anytime soon, and definitely not from Disney.
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I saw John Carter at a theater that's still using that archaic technology—"film", I believe it's called—with the scratches & dust, and it was slightly out-of-focus, and the sound was cranked too high, so much of the dialogue was unintelligible.
Thank the Great Maker for DVD! Ever so much more enjoyable with headphones and subtitles (for the more mumbly bits)!
@Zeek: I hear ya! I went to see Blade Runner the first show on opening day here in Hollywood, and while I loved some of the visuals, it didn't really do much for me.
My Dad, however, who was a set designer for TV, had a religious experience when he saw it, and he was about ready to disown me when I pointed out some of the goofs I noticed (Which, BTW, were all corrected digitally for the Final Cut, but my Dad died in '95, so vindication was not mine).
I've watched the whole movie straight through maybe twice on DVD, but that first 10 minutes I've watched about 57 times!
Doug Trumbull is my favorite Visual Effects artist.
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