When I was a kid I read the John Carter novels and enjoyed them a lot. I was excited to see them turned into a movie. As the movie grew closer I just kept hearing bad things about it. So I skipped it to watch on DVD.
Last night I watched it ....
If you go into this movie forgetting that its based on the ERB series of books its not a bad sci-fi/fantasy film. the visuals are great, characterization is ok, its got some slow parts but its pretty fun.
But when you try and think of it as John Carter from the books for me it just fails. Rather than take the story from the book and adapt it they have taken plot points from various books and added their own elements. Their version of the story lacks the fun embodied in the original ERB material.
If you like Sci-fi just watch it and don't think about the story from the book and its not 1/2 bad.
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