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John Carter
BY: Renee on 2012-03-09 9:01 AM
Yes, please.
I've always loved sci-fi, though I never read this book. I might have to get the book.
Hope to see the movie this weekend. Willem Dafoe is in it, so I have to see it.
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RE: John Carter
BY: MadMathemagician on 2012-03-09 9:05 AM
I grew up reading reading and devouring everything Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote. John Carter of Barsoom was just as interesting as the Tarzan of the novels.
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RE: John Carter
BY: yarislab on 2012-03-09 10:35 AM
This does look very interesting, think i am going to see it in the theater too.
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RE: John Carter
BY: scorpio516 on 2012-03-09 10:40 AM
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)
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RE: John Carter
BY: asianflava on 2012-03-09 11:27 AM
My wife saw a sneak preview of the movie while we were at Disney World last week (she was running in the Princess ½ Marathon). I was supposed to go to the movie with her but went bass fishing instead (caught 4). She wasn't too crazy about the movie, said that the story was all over the place. I'll probably still see it eventually, I just won't pay full price to see it. -
RE: John Carter
BY: Bigfuzzydoug on 2012-03-09 12:58 PM
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?
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RE: John Carter
BY: mgalanter on 2012-03-10 12:08 AM
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.
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RE: John Carter
BY: bmass on 2012-03-10 11:36 AM
I am taking my 10 y/o son to see it this weekend. I am sure he will like it; me, we'll see. -
RE: John Carter
BY: Fatdoggy on 2012-03-10 2:54 PM
I loved the books as a kid and was psyched ot see it. Went last night and enjoyed it. Wasn't perfect, but lots of fun. Maybe I was just in need of some easy fun after a long week at work. The worst part of the movie IMO was the lead, Kitsch, gave a pretty wooden performance.
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