John Carter

[okietool]

I rented this expecting to be under whelmed. It was actually pretty good. I read the book about 30 years ago, and this seemed fairly true to the book. I give it 6.5 stars.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/

 

[Verdigris]

I enjoyed the movie a great deal more, simply because I thought it was true to the book. Think it was probably about 25 years since I read it. The main problem I think is that John Carter was writen in the dawning age of sci-fi, so some of the ideas seemed to have been done. From my perspective, the ideas were done because of things like the original book though, so when you look at this as the starting point instead of the most recent big budget flick, it was cool.

And I like that it didn't piss all over my childhood. *glaresatLucasforeps1and2* I give the movie about a 7.5. Worth the watch IMNSHO.

 

[OKC_Jim]

'They' said it was a flop. In my opinion, the movie was good and the marketing was a flop.