tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906175084642883213.post8749603303284751195..comments2024-01-25T21:39:34.678-08:00Comments on Jcomreader-News and reviews from Barsoom, Mongo and other planets!: John Carter Japanese Trailer (And Some Ranting)MCRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02043292153708944609noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906175084642883213.post-87310854841213273452012-02-18T16:55:55.749-08:002012-02-18T16:55:55.749-08:00Why oh why can film makers not stick to a script?
...Why oh why can film makers not stick to a script?<br />My father tried to introduce me to ERB from about 10, if not before. Finally having failed with Tarzan I picked up POM, much to his surprise and loved it. I've read the series several times over the last 1/4 century and discussed with my dad how it would be great to see it on the big screen with today's effects. Sadly I won't be able to keep my promise of taking him as it's nearly 4 years too late.<br /><br />Like Howard we both saw LOTR (we did see the cartoon when it came out), and like Howard it felt right. Although I'm looking forward to seeing what then produce, I'm having more reservations as time goes by.<br /><br />Why combine Gods with Princess? There's more than enough in each book to make a huge film.<br />Why the needless additions to the back story, isn't years of war enough to weary anyone? <br />Why drop the immortality of JC?<br />Tattoos? Give me them over changed story line any day.<br /><br />I guess we'll see soon enough now. Has anyone noticed the timing of the release (in the UK)? The Friday after the Mars opposition...planned or coincidence?SPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01893105624120819863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906175084642883213.post-89828096376197504182012-01-10T22:51:25.612-08:002012-01-10T22:51:25.612-08:00Yes, and it would have been so much better if Pete...Yes, and it would have been so much better if Peter Jackson had given Legolas the same blue contact lenses in the LOTR Movies, because Tolkien never explicitly described that the eyes of the elves were identical to humans...<br /><br />/sarcasm off.<br /><br />I think that "emphasizing" thing in the movies for "good" visuals is a slippery slope... Pretty soon it becomes ANDREW STANTON'S JOHN CARTER OF MARS instead of ERB's.<br /><br />And quite frankly, I have read all 11 of the Barsoom novels (starting when I was 11 back in 1975), and loved them. I have been waiting to see ERB's Barsoom on the big screen since then.<br /><br />I am a huge Tolkien and Burroughs fan. I re-read all of ERB's and Tolkien's works every couple of years or so.<br /><br />Waiting for this movie has been the different from the LOTR movies. I was waiting for them since I was 12 or so also. And when I saw the trailers and promotional items for Peter Jackson's Films, I mostly had a feeling that "this feels right"... <br /><br />(A few of the liberty's taken in that series bug me. But they were only noticed later. NOT during the initial viewing of the trailers/press releases...)<br /><br />I am NOT getting the same feel for the JC movie. Some things are just jarringly "wrong" in the JC information, images and storyline that has been released.<br /><br />Stanton may surprise me. But I am not going into this with the same "warm fuzzy" that I had going into LOTR:FOTR.Howard C. Beamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991642881947480976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906175084642883213.post-45856569879435961802012-01-10T22:40:24.891-08:002012-01-10T22:40:24.891-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Howard C. Beamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991642881947480976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906175084642883213.post-48488846476264310362012-01-02T23:16:15.035-08:002012-01-02T23:16:15.035-08:00Dude . . . they arent fucking glowing in the trail...Dude . . . they arent fucking glowing in the trailer, the sclera is is blue and there is no discernable pupil . . . that isnt the same as glowing<br /><br />What does it matter . . . it isnt even something that is usually brought up or necessary to the progression of the story<br /><br />You will probably point out john carter ten seconds where he disguised himself as a Thern but those moments dont make much sesne in context of the books because John Carter still has eyebrows (black eyebrows for that matter) and grey eyes<br /><br />You are nitpicking on something insignificant from the books that was emphasized in the movie to create good visualsJohn R. Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18420003577191648833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906175084642883213.post-27475556912096410522012-01-02T04:21:39.254-08:002012-01-02T04:21:39.254-08:00I forgot to add the word "glowing" to th...I forgot to add the word "glowing" to that description. In none of the books are Therns described as having glowing blue eyes. Sorry for the confusion.MCRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043292153708944609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906175084642883213.post-37128072758541465932011-12-30T13:23:22.681-08:002011-12-30T13:23:22.681-08:00The story should have worked just fine without the...The story should have worked just fine without the deceased family. If they wanted to deepen the characterization for JC by giving him some sort of troubled past why not go towards the lone wolf hero? Somebody who has perhaps been disillusioned by the war but is still willing to fight for money, just not for ideals, and then changes his mind once he falls in love with a woman whose people are in trouble. That would have stayed closer to the original, I think. And it would not have been any more of a stereotype than the man who has lost his family is.<br /><br />And it could have kept the first love, true love idea.pohjanakkanoreply@blogger.com