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Incidentally, Amazon also has a listing for a Traci Lords movie based on A Princess Of Mars. Anyone seen it? Is it so gloriously awful as to be indispensible viewing?
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It's on Netflix as well. I haven't watched it yet.
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I love this thread.
And the score.
And the truly wonderful film.
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Awesome!
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A fantastic score... one of the best for the year it was released. The movie... well... it is a guilty pleasure, nothing more.
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Saw the film again. Was perfectly entertained again. Still adore this score and cannot understand why this jewel of a film was not a gigantic hit.
Bump.
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I love this movie.
Old-fashioned grand adventure/romance.
Beautifully produced.
And a gorgeous score.
There's a move on the internet to push for a sequel. They even have a logo.
Check it out.
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I love this movie.
Old-fashioned grand adventure/romance.
Beautifully produced.
And a gorgeous score.
There's a move on the internet to push for a sequel. They even have a logo.
Check it out.
I´m already part of it...
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I love this movie.
Old-fashioned grand adventure/romance.
Beautifully produced.
And a gorgeous score.
There's a move on the internet to push for a sequel. They even have a logo.
Check it out.
I'm in the same club. I thought this move was very good. The look of the movie that that mixed late 19th century and futuristic design sensibilities really helped me to buy the storyline. Loved the music too, and have had the soundtrack since it came out.
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Thought this was a very boring movie with a very uncharismatic lead actor.
Not surprised it was a massive flop.
Really liked the score though.
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Feb 6, 2014 - 3:23 PM
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Michael24
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Still [...] cannot understand why this jewel of a film was not a gigantic hit.
From what I've read, part of it is the director's fault. He didn't want the advertising to say anything like "From the director of A Bug's Life/Finding Nemo/WALL-E" or "From Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan;" nothing like that. He seemed convinced that it would perform on the strength of the name "John Carter" alone, but these days more people probably associate that name with E.R. than anything else. It was almost like the director sabotaged his own movie.
Plus, without a reference to it being from the same author who created Tarzan, many probably thought it looked like just a big rip-off of every other sci-fi epic that had come along over the years. It took so long to get a real JC movie made that in that time so many other films had already used various aspects of it, to the point this looked to many like it was just rife with every sci-fi/fantasy cliche. When in reality this was the very story from which all that stuff originally sprang.
In any event, the important thing is that movie was indeed terrific, although I would have liked to seen an extended edition, as reportedly a lot of footage was cut that would have better clarified certain aspects. It's one of the most entertaining and (gasp) FUN movies I've seen in theaters in a long time. I can see it being reevaluated and becoming a cult classic in the future.
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In other words a very expensive "B" movie.
Which, for me, is what made it so much fun. It had no illusions about trying to be "deep" or "serious." It was just a big grand ol' fun time, a B movie aided by A movie effects and production values.
That's a good way to describe it....a very good "B" movie...and yep, that what made it fun!
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Thought this was a very boring movie with a very uncharismatic lead actor.
Not surprised it was a massive flop.
Sure someone else may have been better but I thought he was fine and certainly more charismatic than say Sam Worthington who starred in a very similar movie not much earlier that actually WAS derivative...I am of course talking about Avatar, the highest grossing movie of all time.
So is someone actually going to tell me that John Carter is a B movie with A production values but Avatar is somehow different? Just because it 'takes itself more seriously' or some such? I guess Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars are B movies too...gee I wish we had more B movies like that.
Yavar
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