The Movie John Carter?

thothguard51 said:

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I'm guessing it was not an MPAA-approved distribution...

J.S.F. said:

Yes, we can berate anyone. It's the INTERNETZ!

Read John Carter--love the initials, don't you?--as a kid and enjoyed it. Read Tarzan as well. (Different eras, don't'cha know...).

Saw the flick on the Net and it was okay but nothing special. As a guy, I don't go for leading men but the lead actress was hot enough for me. Still, all 'teh hotness' in the world doesn't matter if the script isn't good enough or the direction/editing aren't good enough. And it wasn't, in this case. My personal verdict is I'd watch it on TV but would not buy the DVD.

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There's a slightly older adaptation done by the SciFi channel that has an ex-porn star as Dejah Thoris, FWIW. I'm really hoping that's the one you're referring to, and not the one that's still in theaters now.

Disney comes down like a load of anvils on people who do that kind of stuff.

thothguard51 said:

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Seconded.

Finally, was well enough to get to the theater and see this.

Fangirl squee!

It was Awesome.

I can die happy now.

Finally ERB gets some justice in this world...and, Mars, of course.

I loved everything about it.

If you're thinking about going I would get to the theater before it's gone...

thebloodfiend said:

Desert sci-fi battles and loin cloths don't interest me...

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I completely respect your opinion and defend your right to it, but this statment made me laugh out loud. I see movies JUST BECAUSE of these things.

We were the only two people in the theater...

I enjoyed the movie. Not as good as the book but still entertaining. I'm saddened that there is little chance of seeing a sequel. Oh, and I wish they'd left the therns out of it and just stuck with the original story. Ah well. Woola was great!

Diana Hignutt said:

We were the only two people in the theater...

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We went to a 3D showing in the middle of the week and were two of four people in the theater. The other couple was older (considering Housemate & I are in our 50's, it's notable) and sat near us. We chatted a bit before and after the movie. They'd never heard of Barsoom, but their grandsons had raved about the movie so they decided to go see it. They liked it fine and were surprised to discover that ERB had written anything else but Tarzan.

Seems to be a reoccurring theme, y'know?

I am so bummed this film flopped so bad at the box office.

They were lined up to do two more sequels...

Everyone was onboard.

Heck, just two days ago, TK said he do another one...tomorrow...

Please, oh please, movie gods...

It's such a good movie...

I haven't seen this movie yet, but can anyone tell me why this exists???

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1423165586/?tag=absowrit-20

Why did they need to make a novelization of a movie that's already based on a book? Or was the movie more of general telling of the whole series and they were trying to narrow it down here?

J.S.F. said:

Saw the flick on the Net and it was okay but nothing special. As a guy, I don't go for leading men but the lead actress was hot enough for me. Still, all 'teh hotness' in the world doesn't matter if the script isn't good enough or the direction/editing aren't good enough. And it wasn't, in this case. My personal verdict is I'd watch it on TV but would not buy the DVD.

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Um, if you watched it on Netflix, that is NOT the one in the theaters. That one was SyFy channel's horrible adaptation which came out a few years ago. The one in the theater is head and shoulders above that one.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Um, if you watched it on Netflix, that is NOT the one in the theaters. That one was SyFy channel's horrible adaptation which came out a few years ago. The one in the theater is head and shoulders above that one.

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The site(s) he gave me isn't the Netflix or other legit options, Ed. It's a site that's not above pirating theatrical films.

I've run into that kind of site before when talking with other teens and college students.

Grrarrgh said:

Why did they need to make a novelization of a movie that's already based on a book?

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I have in my collection a paperback novelization of the Roger Corman version of The Pit and the Pendulum, with Vincent Price and Barbara Steele, which, incidentally, was the first horror movie I ever saw in a theater. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

DeleyanLee said:

The site(s) he gave me isn't the Netflix or other legit options, Ed. It's a site that's not above pirating theatrical films.

I've run into that kind of site before when talking with other teens and college students.

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Sorry. I guess I "read" Netflix when he just said "on the Net."

I'm not up on my pirate sites. I view them as vile and pernicious.

Grrarrgh said:

I haven't seen this movie yet, but can anyone tell me why this exists???

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1423165586/?tag=absowrit-20

Why did they need to make a novelization of a movie that's already based on a book? Or was the movie more of general telling of the whole series and they were trying to narrow it down here?

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Because they can make money off it. Plain and simple.

Personally, I'd rather have a Woola doll.

DeleyanLee said:

Because they can make money off it. Plain and simple.

Personally, I'd rather have a Woola doll.

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Weird. The book contains the novelization PLUS the original ERB Princess of Mars.

And yeah, a Woola doll would be so cool!

thothguard51 said:

Why did they make the movie, Twilight?
Why did they make the movie, Harry Potter?
Why did they make the movie, The Hunger Games?

Have you never watched a movie based on a book? Ever?

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His question wasn't about the movie, it was about a novelization OF the movie.

At least that's how I read his question.

thothguard51 said:

I think Disney killed any hopes for future ERB films. Thank you Disney...

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IMO, Disney's really good at that. That's why they PR so hard that they don't.

Curse you, Disney!!!

But, ERB ain't easy to film. As evidence...no one has yet to make a decent Tarzan film, I'll also offer the badish Doug McClure Pellucidar and Caspak films.

But, I'm telling you. Imagine Tarzan at the Earth's Core with today's special effects...

The PR for John Carter is a crime and should be prosecuted.

The horror. I decided to reread A Princess of Mars and found that my circa 1980 Balantine Barsoom collection is missing the first three books. Who did I loan them to and when? So, I bought one of the new trilogy editions... My Tarzans are still complete, though.

thothguard51 said:

All three movies I listed are novelizations, of a book series that already exist. So why did they make those movies?

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Wait. Someone wrote a novelization based on the Harry Potter movie?

A novelization of Twilight?

Really? Who wrote them? I still think it's odd to create a novel based on a movie based on a novel.

To me, a novelization is done for movies that have no novel from which to be based. Alan Dean Foster has made a living writing novelizations of movies that had no book from which to base the movie. He ghostwrote the novelization for the first Star Wars movie, for instance. Also for "The Black Hole," "The Thing," and "Clash of the Titans" to name just a few.

Go see John Carter....

thothguard51 said:

All three movies I listed are novelizations, of a book series that already exist. So why did they make those movies?

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Yeeeeeah, I'm not sure "novelization" means what you think it means.

You listed book series that have been adapted into film. The John Carter novelization Shadow_Ferret's talking about is a book adapted from the film's screenplay.

As far as I know, no such similar "novelization" exists for any of the series you mentioned. Movie adaptions, yes, Novelizations--no.