John Carter

I had no interest, until I found out it was from a Burroughs book.  It's supposed to be based just on A Princess of Mars.  Which, by the way, is available for the kindle and nook for free, like all Burroughs books (expired copyright)

I've read and enjoyed just about all of the Burroughs books.  I'm nervous to go see it for fear that they will have butchered the story.  I'll probably wait for it to come out on DVD and spring the buck on the ol' Red Box.

Seriously... $9.50 up to $14.50 for 3D movies for an adult?!  These days if the 4 of us go to see a 3D flick, we're talking $48 just for movie tickets.  ALMOST FIFTY BUCKS!!!

Seriously?

Whether it's piracy or greed, it's just getting too ridiculously expensive to go out to the movies anymore.  Like I wrote earlier, we can rent a flick for a buck and watch it on the 60" HDTV with 5:1 surround and get about as good an experience.  Plus the popcorn and snacks are only abotu 1,000 times cheaper at home as well.

I would say drop the prices back down to the $7 range and throw in some product-placement advertising into the flicks.  That doesn't bother me one bit.  Does anyone really care that the hosts of American Idol turn their glasses to the camera so that the Coca-Cola logo is facing it?  Sometimes it's fun to spot one.  My wife and I watched Nurse Jackie on DVD and in one scene she puts the bottle of beer for her husband down on the table wrong and he subtly turns it so that the Heineken label faces the camera.  If they can make extra money that way and it doesn't take away from the show/movie - why not?

Saw it last night. The movie sucked. No development of charters and its plot all over the place. The book might be good, but the film will be available in Walmart bargain bins by thanksgiving.