'John Carter,' aka the Edgar Rice Burroughs 'A Princess of Mars' adaptation

Treasure Planet? No, it was really by the numbers.

lol a friend of mine did some of the CGI shots for Zodiac (specifically the Transamerica pyramid going up + the aerial shot that goes over the ferry building) - easily the best thing he was ever involved in, nice to see that work get some love

actually i guess out of the silent planet would have been called ELWIN RANSOM, which sounds like an ealing heist.

Shakey - Mr Veg lived in SF for abt 15 years through college etc, late 80's-late 90's, and he STILL talks about the Transamerica sequence and the aerial shots in Zodiac. I think those sequences were almost 100% of why he loved the movie! Well, those and the SF TV station/Melvyn Belli footage, he said it looked exactly the way he remembered it. Pretty sure your friend contributed to the adoring nostalgia of a lot of 40-something & older San Franciscans :)

david denby review in the new yorker is ugh. he is so ugh. he says that nobody could possibly understand what is going on in the movie. actually, i'll quote the line cuz i can't find the whole thing online:

"I wouldn't trust the sanity of any critic who claimed to understand what goes on in this movie."

i also think this line is actually racist somehow:

"The Therns, the Tharks, Dejah Thoris? You can't speak the names aloud without sounding like Daffy Duck."

David Denby is an interplanetary racist. There, I said it.

they're all color-coded!

yeah the civil war parallels are REALLY hard to pick up on. wtf.

i hope he never has to review a bollywood movie. those CRAZY character names! how do they come up with them? american movie critic in stupid-ass stupid face shocker.

(sorry i hate that guy. not like i wish him harm or anything many blessings to him and his just his writing and his thoughts. and his stupid-ass stupid faceness.)

no, no, it's good. denby's sole purpose at the new yorker afaict is to make all the other writers look good by comparison. he's like the dero of movie writers.

I would fight denby tbh

he's like the derpy of movie writers

http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/7/73/Derpy_id.png

this movie was very easy to understand, btw

There's CGI in Zodiac? Must watch it again.

Once again, tried to see John Carter tonight, and the showtimes were totally inhospitable. Like, 6:20 or 9:40. Fuck that noise. It's almost like they're trying to bury this cat turd. Oh well. Saw "21 Jump Street" instead. Was funny.

There's CGI in Zodiac? Must watch it again.

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every shot in fincher's recent movies is like a composite of several takes, using CGI. it's insane.

AV Club loved it, though they point out that a fully faithful version would have to be made by Paul Verhoeven and unreleasable in the US.

Vulture has an interesting story about how it was massively mishandled partly because the director made Finding Nemo and Wall-E and was basically made of gold to Disney.

Also read somewhere that Disney's films department is now making a loss for the fourth year in a row after betting bad on Mars Needs Moms, The Sorceror's Apprentice, and Prince of Persia.

Also what's really really weird is that the 'logo' for the film has a very visible J C and M - it looks like they took 'of Mars' recently - except that it's been called John Carter for as long as I've been aware of it.

A lot riding on The Avengers then

I'm finally seeing this today! 11am, y'all! Set expectations on ... low.

he's like the derpy of movie writers

How dare you insult derpy like that, at least she is funny and cute.

In comparison to denby, anyway.

Mars Needs Moms, The Sorceror's Apprentice, and Prince of Persia
man I can't believe they lost money on these.
National Treasure 3, The Search For Revenue set for release Summer 2013.

I tried to watch Sorceror's. First 15 minutes were too painful to bear. Seemed like some committee's idea of what kids want to watch.

Maybe it was just the version I saw but the very end had JOHN CARTER OF MARS before the credits. (Just 'JOHN CARTER' at the start)

"wait a minute, that was all taking place on Mars?"

haha

Put that at the end of Jerry Maguire and see how it plays...

Mildred Pierce OF MARS

Michael Clayton OF MARS

Nixon OF MARS

wait that might make more sense

Carter's of mars, Nixon's of Venus

John, Carter of Mars

Of Mice and Men of Mars

Anne of Green Gables of Mars

Mars Needs Moms of Mars

The Rise of the Planet (Mars) of the Apes

Disney Needs Money of Mars

I Don't Know How She Does It On Mars

Sex and The City On Mars

Mars Attacks On Mars

John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars On Mars

Mask of Mars

Star Wars Of Mars

Delta of Venus of Mars

To Live and Die in L.A. of Mars

Freddy vs. Jason of Mars

The Passion of the Christ of Mars

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil of Mars

Holes of Mars

A Trip to the Moon of Mars