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John Carter!
« Thread Started on Jul 14, 2011, 11:45am »

In a word: AWESOME.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #1 on Jul 14, 2011, 11:57am »

It looks good to me! My only thought, and I've never been one for gratuitous nudity, but ... Deja Thoris is wearing clothes! :'(

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #2 on Jul 14, 2011, 12:09pm »

Well, if you filmed it the way the book is written, you'd only be able to watch it in Europe...

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« Reply #3 on Jul 14, 2011, 12:17pm »

LOL! Good point but I think it would kind of cool to see a Disney film with boobies.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #4 on Jul 14, 2011, 12:53pm »

Awesome trailer.. I can't wait for it.

Jul 14, 2011, 12:17pm, Cameron DuBeers wrote:

LOL! Good point but I think it would kind of cool to see a Disney film with boobies.

It already exists: Mickey Mouse's Fantasia.

In that 1940 animation movie, Chernabog - aka Satan - summons different naked female spirits/monsters, like harpies with clearly exposed nipples.

Also, in 1989's The Little Mermaid there's a tower in Neptune's underwater castle reminding Ron Jeremy a lot.

So, if Disney is not porn..

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #5 on Jul 14, 2011, 12:58pm »

The preview was interesting, although not quite as close to the original stories as I'd hoped. Still, some John Carter is probably better than no John Carter, right?

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #6 on Jul 14, 2011, 1:12pm »

I dunno, this looks to me like it's going to be a pretty faithful adaptation (stressing, of course, the word "adaptation"...)

Even from that trailer, I got a sense of love for the source material.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #7 on Jul 14, 2011, 1:31pm »

*groan*
Another abomination.
I have to put up with a Faux-nan trailer on TV and an ersatz Princess of Mars. What a sad time we live in.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #8 on Jul 14, 2011, 1:48pm »

Okay, my friend, don't just groan--explain the groan! I mean, "abomination" is a pretty strong word.

IMO, that trailer is anything BUT ersatz.

(I'm not trying to start a fight here, I just want to understand your objections...)

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #9 on Jul 14, 2011, 2:48pm »

I **HATE** unfaithful adaptations (i.e. LotR), but I don’t see anything objectionable so far in this vague trailer. It looks good to me.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #10 on Jul 14, 2011, 4:50pm »

Jul 14, 2011, 2:48pm, Falconer wrote:

I don’t see anything objectionable so far in this vague trailer.

Maybe it's the way I've seen the old book covers, but the flying ships just looked creepy and not at all like I imagined them to be.

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Kind of creepy. Just my two cents.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #11 on Jul 14, 2011, 5:28pm »

I like the airships, their "wings" look like the streaming banners described in the books. There are plenty of logical arguments against Martians running around nekkid too. The Green Martians aren't dead on, but that's a REALLY hard look to sustain in a film. It all looks really great to me and about as faithful as a Walt Disney (or Hollywood for that matter) production could ever be.
I can't WAIT to subject my GF to this

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #12 on Jul 14, 2011, 6:12pm »

I've been a bit worried at the prospect of this film, but after seeing the trail I'm a little revealed. The Thark jarred by a little. But the visuals aren't too important to me. It's the spirit of the film that'll be the deciding factor for me.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #13 on Jul 14, 2011, 9:12pm »

Like anyone else I have my quibbles with this, but it looks like they're sticking pretty close to the story, which is a big deal for me. So I'm excited for now.

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Re: John Carter!
« Reply #14 on Jul 14, 2011, 10:35pm »

Looks pretty cool to me!. Sure Hollyweird never gets anything 100% right, but at least they are trying fairly hard not to completely f.u.b.a.r. the thing.

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