John Carter : A Princess of Mars - Part 4

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^It was his first live action movie, he was bound to make mistakes, but i'll bet he has learned the necessary lessons from them.

He will most likely be a better director now than he was on JC.

 

[Project862006]

his biggest mistake was his approach to reshoots in live action

he approached it like he did in animation where he'd get animators to reanimate a shot he didn't like which is a big reason the budget got so bloated

 

[747]

Saw this one a couple of weeks ago, thought it was terribly boring and uninspired.

 

[rogue trooper]

Its a shame as he directed a good sci-fi movie in the mould of SW, but he wont get that chance. Stanton was actually my choice for Guardians Of The Galaxy before Gunn got the job, I am delighted with Gunn but would have loved Stanton to get the gig as well.

He would have been a very good choice indeed!

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

He would have been a very good choice indeed!

He definately would have been, although Gunn is a great choice also.

 

[terry78]

Basically you need a guy that's kind of a weirdo to do GotG right. Stanton got kind of weird on Nemo, but Gunn is insanely so.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Yeah as I said Gunn is a great choice, but Stanton getting the job wouldnt have bothered me one bit, think he would have done well, but cant wait to see what Gunn gives us.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

watched this film for the 1st time on STARZ on demand and this movie did not deserve the bad rap it got this was no way a bad movie could of been better but i really loved this film very entertaining epic imo

this is by far my fav .scene in the movie

Agreed 100 %

 

[x-fan]

I don't watch many movies on the big screen simply because I can't afford to see all the movies I want to, that said i watched it on stars and found it to be a really good film, in fact I have watched it twice and enjoyed it both times, I simply don't get the bad rep it got, and for those that thought it was hard to follow, how so it opened at the past, then jumped to the time after mars then went and showed what happened on mars, then it showed him getting back to mars , not hard to follow I got it on the first viewing.

 

[Project862006]

recently re-listening to OST and it will be a damn shame if Michael Giacchino's JC Score is not nominated

it's my favorite score of the year still

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I don't watch many movies on the big screen simply because I can't afford to see all the movies I want to, that said i watched it on stars and found it to be a really good film, in fact I have watched it twice and enjoyed it both times, I simply don't get the bad rep it got, and for those that thought it was hard to follow, how so it opened at the past, then jumped to the time after mars then went and showed what happened on mars, then it showed him getting back to mars , not hard to follow I got it on the first viewing.

It is a movie thats gets better with repeat viewings I have found, watched it a few times now and enjoy it more everytime.

 

[Fives]

I watched this finally a week or two back when in premiered on Starz, and I liked it. I thought it was a pretty good movie, but it wasn't perfect. Actually a lot better then I thought it was going to be. I liked the woman who played Dejah t:

 

[ChickenScratch]

Yeah, I actually liked it. I didnt watch it in the theaters because I didnt want to, but I got the DVD. It's a Disney movie so it's a bit by numbers, but it looks amazing like all their movies.

 

[Destructus86]

I still don't get the hate for the film honestly. It's a fantastic pulp action style film that harkens back to the classic sci-fi days of old in many ways.

 

[Baramos]

This movie is okay, but it definitely has something wrong with it. It's hard to pin down. It's the same problem that has plagued these live-action Disney action movies since Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Just jamming too many things into a 2 and a half hour movie. Bad fight choreography. Cliche story. We're supposed to be impressed by the visuals but then all the scenes are badly edited, a lot of the dialogue is corny...

Anyway, just saw it the other day. No, it doesn't deserve hate, but it does kind of deserve ambivalence. I think the hate comes from the fact that the film is pretty mediocre fare and yet cost 250 million dollars. Of course, The Amazing Spider-Man is not much better: I only enjoyed it slightly more than John Carter (mostly for the fact that it's half-an-hour shorter, and the fact that it involves Spider-Man), and it cost 230 million.

 

[terry78]

Basically Disney has been trying to place their animated sensibilities into their live action flicks. Dead Man's Chest feels like it should have been a Disney animated flick almost. While it sometimes works, having everything be all manic doesn't fly in live action all the time. I don't think JC falls in that category though.

 

[x-fan]

it, sticks pretty close to the book it comes from, so I can't complain about some of the dialog being cheesy, but edgar rice bouroughs (sp?) wrote along time ago and is probably why it has an old time scifi feel.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^The old sci-fi feel gives it a charm though thats lacking in other films in the same genre, you cant help but be fascinated by whats going on in JC, especially when you re-watch it.

Its a shame we wont get to see more of the world that was created.

 

[Baramos]

Yeah that was one thing I really liked, the airships and the monster designs. Visually the movie was impressive.

 

[Quasimod0]

The CG on the martians was some of the best ive seen

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Yeah a lot of the CGI was great, its a shame people focus on the few bad points, which were only really some of the backgrounds in certain scenes.

 

[rogue trooper]

This should book should be quite a read: http://www.amazon.com/John-Carter-Hollywood-Michael-Sellers/dp/0615682316/ref=cm_rdp_product

 

[Lobo]

Watched it again recently. Still enjoyed the hell out of it.

 

[ChickenScratch]

This should book should be quite a read: http://www.amazon.com/John-Carter-Hollywood-Michael-Sellers/dp/0615682316/ref=cm_rdp_product

I should get that.

 

[Doc Ock]

This should book should be quite a read: http://www.amazon.com/John-Carter-Hollywood-Michael-Sellers/dp/0615682316/ref=cm_rdp_product

Very intriguing! Sounds like a book that would just give me rage at Disney.

Watched it again recently. Still enjoyed the hell out of it.

Its a great film. Vastly underrated.