John Carter
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Did anyone watch this movie?
I saw it last night and found it enjoyable. On the technical side, I thought the CG was pretty well done, especially the 4-armed green guys. Was enough variation between them that they felt like actual people.
I'm curious as to you guys' opinions. Especially if someone has read the books and can do a comparison.
I saw it last night and found it enjoyable. On the technical side, I thought the CG was pretty well done, especially the 4-armed green guys. Was enough variation between them that they felt like actual people.
I'm curious as to you guys' opinions. Especially if someone has read the books and can do a comparison.
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Peoples biggest problem with it was of course the forced love story but i didn't care. I thought the Tharks were done FLawlessly! The models looked incredible. The scene where tars tarkas is in the prison on his back and you can see his adams apple movie under the skin, rediculous. I will be happy if I'm ever even half as good as that haha.
I really got a great sense of adventure and wanderlust while watching this movie. Which is for me all i require out of a film.
I haven't read the books but my coworker went with me and read the books as a child. He said the biggest difference was John carters relationship with the tharks. They of course had more time to develop that relationship in the books over the movies.
All in all this movie was great for me. I loved it, it really had an old 80's adventure movie vibe to it in my opinion. There were some problems but never anything to detract from the fun-ness of the movie.
Yeah, that's what I'm most curious about. I don't know enough about the books to be able to tell the difference. Please do come back and let us know what you think.
The most common criticism I hear is along the lines of "There's no way any of that shit was in the books", but of course none of those people had actually read it.
BTW, anyone knows of any game coming up for it? I would think they would have signed some kind of deal.
Well, it's considered a commercial failure so I doubt it
Still haven't gone out to see it though. Maybe this next weekend. I've heard it isn't perfect but still pretty awesome.
There were a couple of shots that were noticeably badly framed, even for someone like me who has zero film or photography experience, I didn't actually care about any of the human (or human/Martian/whatever you want to call them) characters because I simply had no reason to, the bad guys seemed like they were only being bad to, well, be bad, and the number of times I actually winced at crap dialogue was way too damn high for a single movie.
There were also plot holes galore, such as how and why the moving city was sucking Mars dry, why the Tharks thought John Carter was any different from the human-looking Martians aside from his jumping ability and strength, and why the actual bad dudes were manipulating McNulty* when they could've just taken his shape and the shape of the princess and king and done whatever the hell they wanted. There are even more plot holes and useless devices that were never explained, even with a single line of dialogue, but fuck it; I don't care enough to list them.
The entire thing was a clusterfuck aside from the very solid character work by the effects people.
*I honestly can't remember the guy's name, so he's McNulty from the Wire.
Honestly, this is the type of movie you enjoy with aliens.
it had its moments though, and the cg/creature work was amazing
I loved when he first arrived there and met all the different species/learned how to walk
Going to see this on Wednesday when it's half price. I've heard unanimously from my friends that it's utterly terrible, yet you guys seem to unanimously enjoy it. Since I'm pretty much in it for the CG (same with Avatar really) Hope it'll be good
Carter was white while the rest of the human marsians were red marsians(the tharks are known as the green marsians I think). Only the bald monk guys were white like Carter. As for not manipulating Mcnulty I think the leader of the monks said something about wanting to have things a certain way and they had picked Mcnulty to be the leader or whatever. They were being very vague about it, I guess we'll find out in a sequel or whatever.
To the guys who've read the books; Are the creatures on mars described as cute looking as they look in the movie? That quick dog looked like something out of a kids story, is it described as cute and round in the books?
"It waddled in on its ten short legs, and squatted down before the girl like an obedient puppy. The thing was about the size of a Shetland pony, but its head bore a slight resemblance to that of a frog, except that the jaws were equipped with three rows of long, sharp tusks."
A Princess of Mars is in the public domain so you can get it for free here at Project Gutenberg.
I was thinking about it being in the public domain too, was wondering if that was the case. And if so, that means that anyone can make a game off of it.