![]() I plan on going to see it a second time with my daughter. Because the way the movie treated him was just right. This worked for me.Īnd I hope ERB is looking down from heaven with approval. Especially with some big, dumb, 3D action movie. I felt hopeful for John Carter, I hated the villains, I loved the heroine.īottom line, the movie hooked me, and it’s getting harder and harder to get to my old, jaded heart. In the movie, I cried when I was supposed to cry. And I was eight years old, and my dad’s friend gave me books that changed his life, and would change mine. Until we got back to the Arizona Territory. And the opening nearly threw me off the horse. I also needed a little more of why Dejah Thoris thought Barsoom would be destroyed if she got married. ![]() I mean, part of me dug it-they had that vibe of The X-Files’ smoking man but with more tech and less Camel cigarettes. They should look like how Michael Whelan drew them and how I imagined them for decades.Īnd the motivation of the Therns was kinda iffy. Look at the Michael Whelan covers for how Barsoomian weaponry looks. But the movie did a great job bringing the Tharks, men, women, and children, to life. I wanna wake up with baby Tharks crawling all over me. And don’t stop, don’t stop, don’t stop, Willem Dafoe as Tars Tarkas. Right there, that raises this movie up to the heavens. In Andrew Stanton’s story, John Carter is a good man with a troubled soul who has a character arc, who changes, who is heroic, but that heroism came at an awful price.Īnd dude, they had McNulty from The Wire as the bad guy. And John Carter? He’s not a cookie-cutter-white-guy-hero coming to save the day. But hey, in the movie, Dejah Thoris is a real woman, with strengths and weaknesses. And forgive me, ERB, forgive me, but I liked the movie better than the book. And I don’t know what the zeitgeist is on the movie, but I will give you my opinion. The movie was wholly and completely satisfying. I went with hope in my heart, but fear in my wallet. ![]() Which I still can’t talk about without getting weepy. Then I heard Andrew Stanton was going to help write and direct, and that guy, that guy brought us Wall-E. So I figured the John Carter movie was going to be a lot of fighting, and no rabbits and taters for supper. To fly across the dying world, a radium pistol at my side, a long sword, short sword, and dagger on my harness. I dreamed of sleeping in the towers of Helium on my dais of silks and furs. I adored Dejah Thoris and Thuvia, Maid of Mars. I grew up on Barsoom books, ever since I was an eight-year-old, and I’d get in trouble for bringing the books to school because in my editions, they had half-naked women on the cover. And I knew Hollywood was going to try and kill my beloved John Carter. So I am very sensitive about books being translated into movies. You have to have them eating the rabbit and the taters. However, he lost me in The Two Towers, because Sam, Frodo and Smeagol were about to sit down to eat a supper of rabbit and taters, and they were interrupted. I loved Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Maybe not to the actual books, but to the spirit behind the books. ![]() I can’t imagine another movie so lovingly done, so respectful of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and so faithful to the world of Barsoom. I saw the movie, John Carter, and while I went in afraid it was going to suck like a Hoover-demon, I left overjoyed.
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