John Carter - two thumbs up
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:23 pm
Wife and I saw it today in 3D.
Bottom line: we both loved it. Beautiful cinematography, good script, good acting. I thought it was a pretty darn good adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's original vision.
CONS: The 3D version is a waste of money. Wish we'd seen it in 2D. I officially give up on 3D. This was just about the worst example of 3D. It added nothing to the movie. It was pretty obvious the movie wasn't actually shot in 3D.
Not a real con, but I can tell why some critics had an issue with the movie, and it's the way John Carter can jump. At first it looks stupid, compounded by the fact that when he first jumps he's fully clothed and the flying wire riggers did a bad job of hiding where the wires puckered up his clothes.
Later on when he's mostly topless, the effect is MUCH better, and you also get used to it. It's not something they could eliminate or write around since it's central to the story. Earthmen have denser bones and stonger muscles, and thus they can jump in Mars' lighter gravity. It's not scientific, so suspend your reasoning because he can jump farther than a human could jump on Earth's moon, but that's how the original novel was written.
Overall it's a great movie. I was never bored and was on the edge of my seat most of the time.
I'd definitely recommend seeing it in a theater. Just pass on the 3D.
Bottom line: we both loved it. Beautiful cinematography, good script, good acting. I thought it was a pretty darn good adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's original vision.
CONS: The 3D version is a waste of money. Wish we'd seen it in 2D. I officially give up on 3D. This was just about the worst example of 3D. It added nothing to the movie. It was pretty obvious the movie wasn't actually shot in 3D.
Not a real con, but I can tell why some critics had an issue with the movie, and it's the way John Carter can jump. At first it looks stupid, compounded by the fact that when he first jumps he's fully clothed and the flying wire riggers did a bad job of hiding where the wires puckered up his clothes.
Later on when he's mostly topless, the effect is MUCH better, and you also get used to it. It's not something they could eliminate or write around since it's central to the story. Earthmen have denser bones and stonger muscles, and thus they can jump in Mars' lighter gravity. It's not scientific, so suspend your reasoning because he can jump farther than a human could jump on Earth's moon, but that's how the original novel was written.
Overall it's a great movie. I was never bored and was on the edge of my seat most of the time.
I'd definitely recommend seeing it in a theater. Just pass on the 3D.
