John Carter really wasn't so bad

[JCMach1]

saw it on the way over to Paris.

The critics can go stuff themselves...

Anyone else see it?

[Bucky]

1. If they soften the imperialistic Aryan supremecist angle, I'm not interested.

The most exciting element of John Carter is the notion of a superpowered, immortal white man giving those green and blue heathens what-for in a similar fashion to how the British Empire tamed all those brown, black, and yellow Earth savages. I'm surprised any time I can find a used paperback edition of the John Carter books where the pages can still be pried open.

[retread]

2. Tarzan of Mars.

[cynatnite]

3. Wow. I feel guilty for liking it now. n/t

[Bucky]

4. You're welcome

[sarge43]

5. In 1912 it was possible to accept civilizations, albeit dying, on Mars

In 2012 impossible to suspend that much disbelief. Now if the writers had factored in some time travel, say Carter gets sent back a million years, maybe then.

And one more time director, if you're going to stage a sword fight (1) have the actors trained to at least look like they know the pointy end goes in the other guy (it's a sword, not a club) and stop with the camera has a bad case of ADD affect. We'd like to see the deadly dance, not get motion sick.

[cynatnite]

8. I thought they should have changed it from Mars to some other distant planet. n/t

[Zorro]

6. I saw it

I thought it overblown and overlong.

It had good production values, and I liked the beginning and the ending, but the Mars stuff was just like some turgid Victorian melodrama.

[alphafemale]

7. I thought it was awful.

We saw it at the drive-in. It had a lead in of The Avengers and the Drive-in was a full...lot if you will. They probably had to turn people away.

Probably about a quarter to a third of the autos left right after The Avengers, but some did stay to give John Carter a shot.

By the end we were the only car left in the lot.