WooHoo, my wife got me a copy today on B-Ray. Supposed to wait until Fathers Day to watch, but I don't think that I can.
John Carter (Of Mars): The Movie
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 12:51 AM
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 04:33 PM
Well, I didn't wait to watch it. I can see why this movie wasn't a big hit in theaters. The CGI was excellent, but everything else didn't seem up to par for a big movie like this. I just didn't get the right feel for it.
I think they did there best to stick with the original story, but it didn't come off right.
Even with low expectations I'm still a little bit disappointed.
My favorite characters were the Tharks and that 6-legged dog. He was cool.
I think they did there best to stick with the original story, but it didn't come off right.
Even with low expectations I'm still a little bit disappointed.
My favorite characters were the Tharks and that 6-legged dog. He was cool.
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 08:44 PM
I was rereading The Moon Maid the other day and noticed ERB stated that June 10th (1953, I think) was "Mars Day". That was supposedly when Earth and Barsoom first made radio contact. Anyway, if any of y'all wanna get together with family/friends on the 10th and celebrate "Mars Day" by watching John Carter, be my guest!
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Posted 07 June 2012 - 04:48 AM
I'm buying mine on Friday, since I have no time to watch it before then.
On a related note, I finished the Sword & Planet short story I started writing when John Carter first hit the theatres. It's called "A Thunder From The Stars" and it contains a few nods to the work of Burroughs (and Leigh Brackett, and Poul Anderson too).
On a related note, I finished the Sword & Planet short story I started writing when John Carter first hit the theatres. It's called "A Thunder From The Stars" and it contains a few nods to the work of Burroughs (and Leigh Brackett, and Poul Anderson too).
"It is more than a mortal sea. Your hands are red with blood and you follow a red sea-path, yet the fault is not wholly with you. Almighty God, when will the reign of blood cease?"
Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
--- The Dark Man, by Robert E. Howard
Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
--- The Dark Man, by Robert E. Howard
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 12:20 AM
Does the 2 disk blue ray/ dvd version have the extra making of etc features or is that only in the 4 pak?
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Posted 09 June 2012 - 05:20 AM
I would like to see how they made Tharks.Does the 2 disk blue ray/ dvd version have the extra making of etc features or is that only in the 4 pak?
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
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"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 08:10 PM
the 2-disc shows
Disney 2nd screen - JC journal
360 degrees of JC - every aspect of film making
Deleted scenes
Barsoom bloopers
100 years in the making
Audio commentary with filmmakers.
I have not watched any of the extra though
Disney 2nd screen - JC journal
360 degrees of JC - every aspect of film making
Deleted scenes
Barsoom bloopers
100 years in the making
Audio commentary with filmmakers.
I have not watched any of the extra though
Craig Halloran
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Check out my books and blog!
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Favorite Conan Stories: The Black Stranger, Queen of the Black Coast ... (i'm going back and re-reading REH Conan) It's long over due.
Favorite Conan Artist: Ernie Chan
author of The Darkslayer
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http://www.thedarkslayer.com
Favorite Conan Stories: The Black Stranger, Queen of the Black Coast ... (i'm going back and re-reading REH Conan) It's long over due.
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 08:58 PM
the 2-disc shows
Disney 2nd screen - JC journal
360 degrees of JC - every aspect of film making
Deleted scenes
Barsoom bloopers
100 years in the making
Audio commentary with filmmakers.
I have not watched any of the extra though
Thanks for the info, that's the version I need to get.
" He was a man...I drink to his shade. The heads of ten Picts will pay for his, and seven heads for the dog who was a better warrior than many a man."
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 11:23 PM
the 2-disc shows
Disney 2nd screen - JC journal
360 degrees of JC - every aspect of film making
Deleted scenes
Barsoom bloopers
100 years in the making
Audio commentary with filmmakers.
I have not watched any of the extra though
I watched the 100 years short and the deleted scenes. There's nothing really necessary that was cut. I might have left the one where Carter steals Tars' thoat in just as a bookend to the earlier scene on Earth. The extra assassins at the end reminded me of the executioner of Krypton in Superman that got cut, the scene worked fine without them. Might watch the film later tonight, almost exactly three months from seeing it in the theater.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 09:15 AM
The double disc version is on the shelves at WalMart, for about $25.
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
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"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:12 PM
Celebrated "Mars Day" last night by watching JC with my cousin, his mom and his stepdad. The two guys really enjoyed it. The mom thought Dejah's jewelry was really cool. Two more converts.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 04:33 AM
"It is more than a mortal sea. Your hands are red with blood and you follow a red sea-path, yet the fault is not wholly with you. Almighty God, when will the reign of blood cease?"
Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
--- The Dark Man, by Robert E. Howard
Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
--- The Dark Man, by Robert E. Howard
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 11:19 AM
Some good news: John Carter debuts at #1 in DVD sales:
http://www.homemedia...es-charts-27529
It's been doing well on amazon's streaming site too. So there's at least some interest in it. I've just loaded it onto my computer and soon onto the iPod so I can give people a look and do my own commentary tracks to them.
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Posted 22 October 2012 - 11:31 PM
An idiotic (I can't call it anything else) blog post calling for a boycott of JC due to its "racist" content:
http://www.halfsigma...g-in-march.html
The best thing about it is the comments. Just about every commentor calls shenanigans on the entire premise. "Half Sigma" never even replied. He/she/it just "closed comments".
Carter (an "illegal alien" to the Nth degree) leads another species (not "race"!) to save Red Men (who are the result of millennia of "miscegenation"). If THAT is racist, what hope does any other work by ERB have to escape being tarred with the PC "racist" brush?
http://www.halfsigma...g-in-march.html
The best thing about it is the comments. Just about every commentor calls shenanigans on the entire premise. "Half Sigma" never even replied. He/she/it just "closed comments".
Carter (an "illegal alien" to the Nth degree) leads another species (not "race"!) to save Red Men (who are the result of millennia of "miscegenation"). If THAT is racist, what hope does any other work by ERB have to escape being tarred with the PC "racist" brush?
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Posted 03 November 2012 - 05:33 AM
I finally came across a series of "vinylmation" dolls that Disney is marketing based on the JC movie. Here is the Tars Tarkas doll.
http://www.disneysto...316305/1000284/
I don't know why it has Mickey Mouse ears.
http://www.disneysto...316305/1000284/
I don't know why it has Mickey Mouse ears.
Edited by Ironhand, 03 November 2012 - 05:36 AM.
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
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Posted 03 November 2012 - 01:08 PM
I finally came across a series of "vinylmation" dolls that Disney is marketing based on the JC movie. Here is the Tars Tarkas doll.
http://www.disneysto...316305/1000284/
I don't know why it has Mickey Mouse ears.
Wow, three dolls! Disney's vaunted marketing arm finally swings into action...8 months AFTER the film comes out. It's like somebody said "Quick, spray paint a bunch of those Mickey dolls! And no, don't take the ears off, you'll rip 'em." Sad.
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Posted 03 November 2012 - 09:46 PM
Note that the Tars Tarkas doll does have 4 arms.
I finally came across a series of "vinylmation" dolls that Disney is marketing based on the JC movie. Here is the Tars Tarkas doll.
http://www.disneysto...316305/1000284/
I don't know why it has Mickey Mouse ears.
Wow, three dolls! Disney's vaunted marketing arm finally swings into action...8 months AFTER the film comes out. It's like somebody said "Quick, spray paint a bunch of those Mickey dolls! And no, don't take the ears off, you'll rip 'em." Sad.
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 01:28 AM
For those who have Starz, JC makes its debut this Saturday at 9P EST. It'll end up on the "more likely to be in a tier package" Encore Channel in around 4-6 months.
Edited by johnnypt, 17 November 2012 - 01:28 AM.
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 02:01 AM
I enjoyed John Carter.
Thought it was a whole lot better than the lukewarm critical response seemed to suggest.
Really think the marketing people dropped the ball on this one. They should have called it Warlord of Mars.
Thought the Tharks and Woola were cool - but the highlight for me was Lynn Collins as warrior princess Dejah - could easily go for a sequel with more of LC as Dejah cutting a fightin' swathe across the screen.
Some nice airships too.
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Thought it was a whole lot better than the lukewarm critical response seemed to suggest.
Really think the marketing people dropped the ball on this one. They should have called it Warlord of Mars.
Thought the Tharks and Woola were cool - but the highlight for me was Lynn Collins as warrior princess Dejah - could easily go for a sequel with more of LC as Dejah cutting a fightin' swathe across the screen.
Some nice airships too.
Von K
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Posted 13 December 2012 - 11:03 PM
I revisited the film with She Who Must Be Obeyed. Though not a fantasy fan she loved it. Unhappy with the 3D conversion I thought it looked much better in 2D.
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