{"id":10178,"date":"2012-03-12T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2012-03-14T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:47:25","slug":"john-carter-worth-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2012\/03\/12\/john-carter-worth-seeing\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carter<\/i>: Worth Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By now, many of you have probably seen the reviews, mostly negative,\u00a0because Carter<\/em> has been cursed with a schadenfreude<\/em> vibe from the SCLM long before its release. I think they’ve been missing the point unlike this writer<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (not me). Who gives a crap how much money was spent making this or how John Favreau bailed as the director. Is this any good? Seems rather secondary or tertiary in the reviews\/stories.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for me, I feel they nailed it for a 21st Century audience which is rampant with some major obstacles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The source material: Burroughs’ writing is clunky and tinged with White Male Supremacy. Also, why are the heroes\/anti-heroes in the 1880s never Civil War vets from the Union side?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Audiences already saw this movie a few years ago, it’s called Avatar<\/em>. Back in the Eighties I remember calling it Dune<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Most people have a hard time suspending their disbelief regarding any life on Mars thanks to 50 years of probes, David Bowie’s semi-retirement and the uber-boring Red Planet<\/em> starring chief dullard Val Kilmer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Any money spent on it in 3-D is a waste. There wasn’t one moment when my brain, eyes and stomach disconnected over the airships or vast Martian canyons, as they do in simulators; ask Somara how much I panic in Vegas at Star Trek the Experience<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The plot? No need to ask, trailers have it covered despite the truncated title which I think won’t attract more women, it will just fool Michael Caine fans hoping it’s a sequel to the great Seventies action flick\u00a0Get Carter<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Other than griping about the 3-D being underwhelming and making cheap jokes I couldn’t resist (see above), I do endorse John Carter<\/em> with the addition of taking it in at the Alamo. Somara knows I generally hate Event Movies (what I call them, others call them Popcorn Movies; Hollywood-speak for crappy), especially when they’re derived from mediocre novels or uninteresting franchises. Yet I end up seeing probably around a third of them, I never learn. However, I wasn’t bored nor disappointed like a certain May evening in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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