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• Gordon Cameron says:

  March 6, 2012 at 7:05 pm

  Well, this is encour­aging. As an adoles­cent I devoured about a half-dozen of the John Carter books, and though I doubt I could get through one today, I respect the series as one of the ur-texts of pulp sci-fi/fantasy. I’ve wanted to see a JCOM movie for as long as I can remem­ber, and if it’s true that they actu­ally kinda got it right, no one will be hap­pi­er than me.

• Shane Dobbie says:

  March 7, 2012 at 8:14 am

  Really Glenn? Found the whole thing for­get­tably mediocre across the board. Not bad by any means, just not … well, good.

• David Ehrenstein says:

  March 7, 2012 at 9:21 am

  I think you’re a tad harsh, Shane. While by no means a fan­boy – or inter­ested in this area of sci-fi alto­geth­er – it seems to me that the film cer­tainly deliv­ers in terms of action spctacle. While it’s hard to fig­ure our who’s fight­ing who and why after awhile it’s plain that “all the money is up there on the screen.” Taylor Kitsch’s pale skin is rather dis­tract­ing. Everything supp­soedly takes place in blaz­ing sulight but it’s obvi­ous from his epidemis he’s indoors in front of a green screen for vir­tu­ally every second.
  I kept expect­ing Maria Montez to show up any moment – and I must say the film could have used her.
  But it’s not bad.

• Elizabeth says:

  March 7, 2012 at 9:43 am

  I loved Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights…and I love John Carter! Great review, Glenn. And, fun headline…

• sweets says:

  March 9, 2012 at 10:41 am

  Wahoo!!! John Carter is my favor­ite star. I almost love his action role. Thanks for MSN movie scene indeed. 🙂

• Steve says:

  March 9, 2012 at 11:46 am

  I’m about to turn 70, so let’s not leave this all to young boys. I’ve read the series and thought the books were great. If you like to pic­ture what you’re read­ing, these books are a treas­ure house! And, most import­antly, I think I now know where the concept for Superman came from–he is merely John Carter come to earth.

• Dan says:

  March 9, 2012 at 12:43 pm

  You for­got to men­tion that the names of the people of Barsoom (Dejah Thoris et al) and the extra limbs on some of the Barsoomians are the actu­al cre­ations of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

• Randy Byers says:

  March 10, 2012 at 10:40 pm

  Okay, I really enjoyed this movie, but I’ve gotta admit that the idea of Maria Montez as Dejah Thoris is pretty much geni­us. Which of course makes Jon Hall John Carter, which is ridicu­lously per­fect. I want to see that ver­sion too.

• Oliver_C says:

  March 12, 2012 at 7:28 am

  Man, fuck Andrew Stanton. He cri­ti­cises ‘The Lion King’ for “wuss­ing out” when it comes to depict­ing pred­a­tion and death, then goes and dir­ects ‘Finding Nemo’… in which a par­ent’s death occurs both off-screen and early on, nev­er to be dwelt on again, and get­ting chased by raven­ous sharks is played for laughs.

• Kevyn Knox says:

  March 14, 2012 at 11:01 pm

  John Carter is a sol­id, albeit quite campy sci-fi adven­ture flick. Pure pop­corn, as they say (they do say, right?) and prob­ably the most expens­ive B‑Picture ever made – and a glor­i­ously fun B‑Picture at that.