John Carter (Review)
John Carter
aka John Carter of Mars
2012
Written by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon
Directed by Andrew Stanton
As you might expect, I’m a rather big fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Barsoom stories. I have the whole series in old out of print volumes culled from bookstores across the country. I have many other Burroughs books and other pulp novels. I have the Guide to Barsoom and some other books where Martians show up, and some of the old Marvel comics. You might say I like this crazy fantasy stuff. So, yes, I was excited that we were finally getting our big screen Barsoom film. Then it got renamed John Carter.
After 100 years, A Princess of Mars is finally coming to the big screen (if you ignore Asylum’s DTV Princess of Mars…) as John Carter. John Carter. No “Of Mars”, no “A Princess of Mars”, no nothing. Add to that all the other abysmal marketing Disney did for the film, and suddenly the rumors that this will be the biggest box office bomb in the history of the planet and the red planet as well started to spring up. “Whatever,” I said, because I’ll let the movie speak for itself. And the movie has finally spoken. And it’s good. Not excellent, but good. Good enough that John Carter (of Mars, dammit!) should be doing better at the box office than it is tracking. Good enough that the naysayers were wrong, even if John Carter (of Mars, dammit!) does lose a lot of money, it is not because John Carter (of Mars, dammit!) failed.
That is not to say there isn’t any problems. There are. Some are pretty big. But I’ll get to most of them. But a simple review like this right after watching on opening night doesn’t do John Carter (of Mars, dammit!) justice, so rest assured there will be another, longer, super detailed, mega-ultra-hyper-giga-supreme-double-secret-comprehensive review once John Carter (of Mars, dammit!) is on DVD and I can screencap and watch a bajillion times to my heart’s content.
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March 10, 2012 at 2:50 am
Categories: Bad, Movie Reviews Tags: Andrew Stanton, Bryan Cranston, Ciarán Hinds, Daryl Sabara, Dominic West, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Purefoy, John Carter, Lynn Collins, Mark Andrews, Mark Strong, Michael Chabon, Polly Walker, Samantha Morton, Taylor Kitsch, Thomas Haden Church, Willem Dafoe
John Carter of Two More High-Res Images
Just when you thought it was safe to not have high-resolution images of John Carter (of Mars, dammit!), here are two more to make it not safe! If you base your safety on having high resolution images of John Carter, you are probably insane and need medication. Please get help after you are done reading more articles on TarsTarkas.NET! We’re almost as good as strong psychological drugs. Almost…
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January 20, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Categories: Movie News Tags: Andrew Stanton, Barsoom, John Carter of Mars, Mark Strong, Taylor Kitsch
John Carter of FULL Trailer!
We had the smaller version of the full trailer for John Carter (of Mars, dammit!) this morning on ABC (because the target demographic is obviously old women…), and now we get the full full trailer, which premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live and IGN, because someone in marketing remembered John Carter should have many males in the audience.
This looks better than that tv clip, so at least it looks like it will be fun. It better be!!!
Also I’m loving the random comments saying this is an Avatar ripoff. Way to know nothing about nothing, buddy!
via IGN
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December 1, 2011 at 12:29 am
Categories: Movie News Tags: Andrew Stanton, Barsoom, Bryan Cranston, Ciarán Hinds, Daryl Sabara, Dominic West, James Purefoy, John Carter of Mars, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Polly Walker, Taylor Kitsch, Thomas Hayden Church, Willem Dafoe
Mark Strong talks John Carter of Mars
If you can’t wait for Asylum’s Princess of Mars to drop later this month, here is a quick interview of Mark Strong about his Matai Shang role in the upcoming Pixar John Carter of Mars film. CinemaBlend has him chatting about being a shapeshifting villain. I don’t remember Matai Shang shapeshifting (or even being in the first book, but, whatever) Mark Strong is also Lord Blackwood in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes film.
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December 16, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Categories: Movie News Tags: Barsoom, John Carter of Mars, Mark Strong
More John Carter of Mars casting
Three new names for John Carter of Mars!
Thomas Haden Church, rumored to be Tars Tarkas not long ago, has been confirmed in Pixar’s John Carter of Mars as Tal Hajus, one of the evil Green Martian Tharks. He was the Jeddak when John carter first came to Mars and is eventually killed by Tars Tarkas. But the synopsis for the character given says he is “an ambitious and vicious Thark warrior who is biding his time to be a ruler.” Does that mean a plot change?
Also joining the cast is Mark Strong as Matai Shang, leader of the Holy Therns (the White Martians) I believe they are only in the second and third books (I don’t remember them in the first, but I could be wrong) so there is either foreshadowing, or they are combining stories and making it way confusing.
The third new name is James Purefoy as Kantos Kan, the Red Martian John Carter befriends while stuck in a gladiator-like event, who is a captain in the Helium (a Red Martian city) army.
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October 1, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Categories: Movie News Tags: Barsoom, James Purefoy, John Carter of Mars, Mark Strong, Thomas Haden Church