John Carter

[BB]

This is a great poster, but why, if they dropped Mars from the title, do they still have the M in the logo?

And why are they still showcasing the Mars setting in promotional materials?

[Sleepless]

It's not Mars. It's Arizona. No martians. Hell, no Hispanics either.

[diggler]

Damn the ads for this are dumb.

"Before there was Star Wars,  before there was Avatar" ...you kind of covered that when you said "before Star Wars".

[Pubrick]

Haha, they assume kids these days only know Star Wars from this year's 3D re-release.

They must be aiming this at 5 year olds.

My p-rediction: this will be a good movie that has been butchered through studio interference and market research, why else get rid of "mars". It will appear pretty bad but with glimmers of what could have been. There is no way they will get a franchise out of this.

[Sleepless]

^ Good companion piece to Lynch's Dune then?

[polkablues]

The only good companion piece to Dune is a bottle of Absinthe.

[Ravi]

My p-rediction: this will be a good movie that has been butchered through studio interference and market research, why else get rid of "mars". It will appear pretty bad but with glimmers of what could have been.

Dear Disney,

Give Andrew Stanton $250 million dollars, then BACK THE FUCK AWAY.

Thank you.

[AntiDumbFrogQuestion]

Damn the ads for this are dumb.

"Before there was Star Wars,  before there was Avatar"

Honestly, they tried to use that to sell "Beowulf", saying it was the beginning of all adventure tales.  Still doesn't make me want to see it a few years after the fact.

[Sleepless]

I caught that TV spot last night. They're definitely hoping to ride Avatar's coattails given the closing shot is John Carter painted blue with his black hair down. It's just a shame they're probably too late to ride Avatar's coattails.

[pete]

there's no coattail for avatar to ride on; it was its own backlash, and no one, either for nor against Avatar, had any interest in movies like it.

[Pubrick]

He's saying avatar was a hit and therefore it has coattails.

Whether anyone even cares about that movie anymore is another thing, but since it was released there has definitely been a trend of films trying to emulate its success.

The only reason to mention avatar in relation to this movie would be in their similar plots. I was going to make a post about this archetype actually but it doesn't look like this movie will be worth that much discussion.

[pete]

i thought the first 10 minute thing they released looked really good. it was beautifully shot and that whole sequence of him trying to escape and getting pinned was good.

[Sleepless]

[Reel]

Will John Carter see his own movie?

[polkablues]

I saw this today. I'll try and write more on it later (I liked it), but for now I just want to state that it has a surprise twist ending, and the surprise twist is that the movie really was titled "John Carter of Mars" all along! I am actually not kidding about this.