Looks pretty cool! First teaser trailer is up.
The first trailer for John Carter, formerly known as John Carter of Mars, has come online, and it's probably not what you're expecting. As I suggested in my edit bay report, it's far moodier and a little slower than you might expect from your usual giant CGI movie set in outer space. But that also makes it a lot more interesting. Boasting a cover of an Arcade Fire song by Peter Gabriel and just a little bit of dialogue from some of the main players, it's the real kind of teaser that gives you a hint but stops far short of giving away the whole thing. Check it out below.
John Carter Trailer 2012 -- Official Movie Trailer | HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rf55GTEZ_E#ws)
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Teaser-Trailer-For-John-Carter-Andrew-Stanton-s-First-Live-Action-Film-25689.html (http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Teaser-Trailer-For-John-Carter-Andrew-Stanton-s-First-Live-Action-Film-25689.html)
looks cool! :)
Ah yes - the cover art of those books always used to catch my eye on the bookshelves. :)
I'm really looking forward to this film. Coming March 9th, 2012
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84597 (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84597)
John Carter - Official Trailer [HD].mp4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddvf-Nssp94#ws)
I have higher hopes for this movie now that I've seen the trailer. I'm sure it'll be at least as good as the one I saw on SYFY... lol
Jeff
Some more photos up at the link below and a new trailer coming next week!
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84625 (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84625)
I hope they do this right so we can get more films. I love the books!
Kevin
New trailer showed up today on GMA. Check it out!
'Friday Night Lights' Star Taylor Kitsch's Shows Official Trailer for New Film 'John Carter' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swf9pVGVW30#noexternalembed-ws)
By the way, the song used in the first trailer is awesome! It's Peter Gabriel singing "My Body is a Cage" (Oxford Temple Version). I just bought it off iTunes.
John Carter - Trailer Music (Peter Gabriel "My Body is a Cage") (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-KwP8581M#ws)
I really loved when the "Kashmir" riff showed up in the trailer. It doesn't get much better than that for kick-ass music.
Movie looks real interesting. I have never read the books so it'll be all new to me.
New international poster for this movie.
Some new pics at the link below:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169503-7-new-photos-from-john-carter-online (http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169503-7-new-photos-from-john-carter-online)
Some new trailers and TV spots popping up now. Here's one:
John Carter TV Spot 6 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBZ8bPoh8Gg#ws)
Looks awesome and Led= Zeppelin baby!
Cool poster.
Yeah, I love it. Always nice to see a poster that's art, not a photoshop mashup.
Great picture. I love alien landscape pictures.
The astronomy fan in me needs to point out the Phobos and Deimos would not appear as represented. Deimos would only be a spec of light. Phobos would appear a third of diameter of the sun from the Martian surface. Phobos appears to rise in the west and set in the east due to it's fast rotation. But stuff like that is boring. :old_bash:
Can't wait to see the movie. Looks like it will be fun.
Quote from: Hal2001 on February 23, 2012, 07:26:32 AM
Great picture. I love alien landscape pictures.
The astronomy fan in me needs to point out the Phobos and Deimos would not appear as represented. Deimos would only be a spec of light. Phobos would appear a third of diameter of the sun from the Martian surface. Phobos appears to rise in the west and set in the east due to it's fast rotation. But stuff like that is boring. :old_bash:
Can't wait to see the movie. Looks like it will be fun.
I think for sure this movie is attempting to capture the feel of the old Burroughs book....which obviously has some inaccuracies. I really hope this is good, I remember loving the book as a kid.
This movie is getting some good early reviews. Going to try and see this tomorrow. Really looking forward to it.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=87586 (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=87586)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XavXWxqZvLY# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XavXWxqZvLY#)
Saw it with my son Eric today and we both really enjoyed it a lot. It has great action, adventure, romance, and some funny moments too. A real, romantic adventure type of film, similar to the first "Star Wars" in a way. Well worth seeing in the theater. I'll talk more about it on the podcast on Sunday.
@Rico: remotely appropriate for a 6 and 10 year old?
Quote from: ricdude on March 09, 2012, 05:24:22 PM
@Rico: remotely appropriate for a 6 and 10 year old?
I think a ten year old - yes. Not sure about 6. Would depend on the kid. There is violence, but no real bad language that I can recall.
That is good, I want to bring my kids to see this one with me.
I was hoping to see this this weekend but it doesn't look like it's going to happen. So next weekend for sure. Then the following weekend it will be the Hunger Games.
Looks like it tanked
Quote from: MARKO on March 11, 2012, 03:46:19 PM
Looks like it tanked
I wouldn't say that. $30 million isn't great - but it isn't tanking either. I liked the movie a lot but rising ticket prices and the cost of seeing this in 3D for some people might be having a negative effect.
Well, the movie is being discussed this morning on CNBC as it relates to Disney. They spent a LOT of $ on this movie and all the research analysts are disapointed with the box office. Stock is up though, so in it's entirety it's not being perceived as a net negative for the company but Wall Street is looking at this movie as a big failure. They had a very expensive marketing campaign that really failed to give this film any traction with the mainstream audience they needed. It is, however, doing much better in Asian markets.
This is the type of thing that really bugs me. The movie has been out for three days. For an early March release, $30 million is not too bad. But I HATE all this frakking financial analysis by people who probably haven't even gone to see the film. When did the value of something that's an art form become simply about the money it makes? Or the sole measure of it's success? We just had the Academy Awards a few weeks ago. Most of the nominated films barely made any money. Are they failures?
Here's the biggest thing that bothers me about this. Because many people are drones and can't think for themselves they will hear things like this and read reports and feel - oh, that movie must not be any good. Come on honey, lets take the kids to see something else. One of things I try to do on the podcast just about every week is point out things to people that I feel are worth watching. I talked about "John Carter" for a bit on yesterday's podcast. Of course, these are just my views but at least I have seen the product and if you share the kinds of tastes that I have maybe I can interest you in seeing something you might have not seen before.
And YES - I know movies need to make money as do TV shows, etc. But I have loved and enjoyed many things that were over-looked and didn't do well at all. "Star Trek" comes to mind. All I can say at the end of the day, is if this movie looks appealing to you give it a shot. I really feel you will get a kick out of it. Besides, it has my new favorite movie creature in it: Woola!
John Carter - "Mars' Best Friend" Clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOBGjm2QfzE#ws)
I think it's absolutely insane that some movies have such huge budgets that they have to make 100+ million dollars on its opening weekend to be considered a success. 30 million in three days considered a failure? Something is wrong with the industry. It's like these astronomical figures have lost all meaning to some people. If I think about it too much it makes me sad and crazy that so much money is tossed at these properties. Somebody should have known that 200 million dollars or more to make John Carter of Mars wasn't necessarily the greatest idea.
Quote from: Rico on March 12, 2012, 08:52:58 AM
This is the type of thing that really bugs me. The movie has been out for three days. For an early March release, $30 million is not too bad. But I HATE all this frakking financial analysis by people who probably haven't even gone to see the film. When did the value of something that's an art form become simply about the money it makes? Or the sole measure of it's success? We just had the Academy Awards a few weeks ago. Most of the nominated films barely made any money. Are they failures?
Because that's THEIR JOB. They are not film critics, they are not opining on the quality of the product as far as their own personal prefernece. In fact that's the entire point of analysis, to be subjective and not emotionally influenced. Their responsibility is to gauge and be predictive as to how this perfromance can have an effect on the parent company, not to say it's good or bad art. As to how their analysis may or may not affect box office, que sera. Although $30 million is a decent amount, based on the cost of the film and it's marketing budget, it is well below expectations.
Quote from: Jobydrone on March 12, 2012, 09:15:42 AM
I think it's absolutely insane that some movies have such huge budgets that they have to make 100+ million dollars on its opening weekend to be considered a success. 30 million in three days considered a failure? Something is wrong with the industry. It's like these astronomical figures have lost all meaning to some people. If I think about it too much it makes me sad and crazy that so much money is tossed at these properties. Somebody should have known that 200 million dollars or more to make John Carter of Mars wasn't necessarily the greatest idea.
Scuttle butt is they gree lit the big budget and marketing support to keep up good relations with the Director.
Quote from: Bryancd on March 12, 2012, 09:18:18 AM
Quote from: Jobydrone on March 12, 2012, 09:15:42 AM
I think it's absolutely insane that some movies have such huge budgets that they have to make 100+ million dollars on its opening weekend to be considered a success. 30 million in three days considered a failure? Something is wrong with the industry. It's like these astronomical figures have lost all meaning to some people. If I think about it too much it makes me sad and crazy that so much money is tossed at these properties. Somebody should have known that 200 million dollars or more to make John Carter of Mars wasn't necessarily the greatest idea.
Scuttle butt is they gree lit the big budget and marketing support to keep up good relations with the Director.
I see, so they're like Amazon then, operating at a loss hoping for big future returns, right Bryan ;)
Yeah, he's Disney's version of the Kindle. :) Andrew Stanton made them a LOT of $ with Wall-E.
I went and saw this today with my wife. I enjoyed the movie, reminded me of a lot of other movies which was cool. I guess the original story from 100 years ago influenced a lot of the movie makers like Lucas and Cameron, but also guessing this movie took some influence from them as well. Little confused with some of the plot, and took me a bit to really get a handle of what was happening, but it wrapped up real nice at the end. Saw some stories as well about how it did not meet expectations at the box office, hopefully internationally it does well, as would like to see a followup. Seems sometimes these stories comes out, and like Rico says it sort of just puts the idea out there that the movie is not good, when it is. Guess that is just part of the way the world work these days in movies.
Glad you and your wife enjoyed it too Jeff. I really think it's a fun, adventure movie and good for most kids too.
Hey, there's some great concept art for the film at the link below. I will attach an example.
http://michaelkutsche.deviantart.com/ (http://michaelkutsche.deviantart.com/)
Saw this this past weekend with a big group.. majority of them enjoyed it.. biggest complaint was the pacing was a bit slow. I enjoyed it very much.. the action, the special effects and the story were all top notch. And I think it's a really good movie you can take the entire family too.
Hopefully seeing this today! Can't wait.
Well I didn't see this yesterday but I did take the wife and my Mom to this earlier today. They had great movie previews before it started and even though I had seen the Avengers one it looked AWESOME on the big screen. And yes I clapped.
My mom and I both enjoyed the movie but the wife didn't really care for it. I give the movie an 8 out of 10. And mom said she wanted the movie when it came out on dvd. I thought the special effects were very well done and like Rico we all liked the dog like creature. And boy is Lynn Collins good looking or what! I hope I got her name right. I also would like to see a sequel to this movie but I went to IMBD and the showed an estimated budget of 250 million!! So far this has only made around 35 million. That sure wont get us a sequel. I also would like to check out some of the books now since I have never read any of them. I do have 2 graphic novels i found at the library that im going to read. One is a prequel to the movie called "World of Mars" written by Peter David. And the 2nd one is called "John Carter - A Princess of Mars." They were both put out by Marvel.
Go see this if you have a chance. It will be worth your time and effort!
Oh, me and my Mom clapped at the end of the movie. Very well done so go see it.
Glad some of you are getting out to see this fun movie too and enjoying it like I did. :)
Saw JCM this weekend with my wife. Must of been good, she didn't fall asleep!
I enjoyed the movie. It was about time someone did John Carter as a movie.
I went to the 3D version. The 3D was OK. Most scenes were bright (I don't like wearing sun glasses in a dark room). The story kept my interest and the content was refreshingly different from most of the Scifi (super hero movies?) today. I was familiar with the Star Wars connection with the John Carter stories and enjoyed noting scenes George Lucas borrowed from. I have read some of the comments as to the movie being a "bomb". I hope is does well over time.
Disney just declared a $200M loss for the film the their earning release just now.
Quote from: Bryancd on March 19, 2012, 01:40:01 PM
Disney just declared a $200M loss for the film the their earning release just now.
Ouch!
Still a good, fun movie - as others who have seen it are finding.
Quote from: Rico on March 19, 2012, 03:04:38 PM
Still a good, fun movie - as others who have seen it are finding.
Yeah, I'm not being critical of the film as I haven't seen it, just saw that go across the news wires.
An interesting article on the BBC about the performance of the movie at the box office:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17442613 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17442613)
I saw the movie at the weekend and enjoyed it. :D
I plan on taking my family to see the movie - based on the opinions I have heard here on TiSF.
Quote from: Bromptonboy on March 20, 2012, 12:18:16 PM
I plan on taking my family to see the movie - based on the opinions I have heard here on TiSF.
It's a good movie, did drag a bit at points (was about 2 and a half hours in duration), but enjoyable! Make sure that any child you may take has plenty of popcorn, etc, and you shouldn't have any trouble.
Posting that message makes me miss Gummy Bears!! ;D
I just got back from seeing John Carter and I liked it.
Cool! Glad you liked it too. :)
Quote from: Hal2001 on March 19, 2012, 11:52:49 AM
I enjoyed the movie. It was about time someone did John Carter as a movie.
Actually the John Carter story has been done before in 2009 but was kind of a flop although it's not as bad a movie as some might think. It retained the Edgar Rice Burroughs title "Princess of Mars" and starred Antonio Sabato Jr. and Traci Lords.
As for the current film I'll be waiting for the Blu-Ray to come out. I rarely go to films at the theater anymore. I prefer the privacy of my home and surround sound stereo. I will be going to see Batman, The Avengers and James Bond when they come out.
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Kevin
This hits stores on June 5. I want it for my collection!
Just watched this on demand. I enjoyed it. Great special effects, and I was familiar with the story already. Pity that Disney took such a bath on this one.
Finally saw this last week and I'm going to buy it now. I really enjoyed this film.
Yeah, I think most everyone on the forum here will enjoy it when they see it. There are some great moments in it and some amazing visual sequences too. The aliens/Martians are very well done I thought. The film deserved to do much better. I think it just wasn't marketed quite right.
Surprised that Disney didn't have the ability to spin the negative press this movie got, which I think totally killed it. I saw it recently and really enjoyed it, alot. So much that I'm bummed there'll probably not be a sequel which was clearly set up in this film.
Bryan Cranston on "John Carter", echoing alot of the comments in this thread:
AVC: Speaking of movies about Mars: Just about everyone else has weighed in on this, but as a cast member in John Carter, what did you think about the way it was received at the box office?
Bryan Cranston: I thought it was unwarranted. I enjoyed the film; perhaps I'm too close to it, but I really did. I thought it was a fun family adventure. You know, I think... [Hesitates.] Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station—I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports. What movie came in at No. 1, making how much money in just a week, and No. 2 made this much money, and No. 3, and they go down and do the top five in 20 seconds of time, when they should be giving a review.
Give a review! Give an informative, intelligent review of a film that actually helps people decide what movies they'd like to see. "Hey, here's what I recommend for the family, and if you're an adult, here's what I recommend for you. It's a little out-there, but it's a fun adventure, blah blah blah..." In the same amount of time, you can actually give some informative news to someone, as opposed to... Why is it all of a sudden important for average Americans to know how much money a movie made at the box office? Once again, that equates in their mind with "This is what is good." "If it makes money, it is good. If it doesn't make money, it is not good, don't waste your time." And it's killing art. It's the same thing Ronny Cox was saying: There's dozens of dollars to be made out there in folk music... [Laughs.] But does that mean don't go see folk music, just because it doesn't pull in multi-millions of dollars on concert tours? So we just have to get away from that.
I kept hearing, "It's not tracking. John Carter is not tracking well." I was like, "What do you mean it's not tracking?" "Oh, it's only going to make $18 million this weekend. That's not good. It's going to collapse, it's going to be a flop." And this is before anyone had even seen it, before any reviews had come out. I think it's totally legitimate for someone to take it to task and say, "Artistically, I think this was good and this was not so good." That's fine. I have no problem with someone doing that. I just have this problem with someone looking at it from a strictly financial standpoint and determining worth by that component. An opinion, even if you hated it, I can't argue that point, because, okay, if that's how you felt. But you say, "Well, it only made $37 million, it can't be any good," well, I have a problem with that. "Did you see it?" "Well, no..." Sorry to get up on my high horse there. [Laughs.] But there are people who just hold on the money and treat it as a review of the film. And it's not.
I love Bryan Cranston even more now. He is exactly on the mark and what I have been saying for years. Don't watch the box office and use that to decide to see a film or not. If it looks like something you would enjoy - go see it!
I agree 100%. John Carter was a much better movie than just about everyone gave it credit for. I think, and it's unfortunate, that Disney was the victim of over hype. They did what they do, and plastered it everywhere and really promoted it. That typically works for Disney but, and I do believe many have stated this already, John Carter of Mars isn't a well known main stream story at all. It's 100 years old and not as popular as many of the other Rice-Burroughs stories. I think if people just stopped listening to what "critics" say, and stop repeating what they "hear" about the movie and give it a chance, they'll find what we found: it's actually a really good film! My 2 cents.
I have this on Blu-Ray now. When things like this come up, I always mention that the original "Star Trek" did badly in the ratings when it first was shown too. Later on through reruns when people actually took the time to watch it they realized how great it was.
More and more I have found I can't trust the ratings or the critics. I mostly depend on you guys to tell me what's worth seeing or owning. I think our tastes run counter to the critics circle in most instances these days.
Kevin
Quote from: Rico on July 12, 2012, 08:32:06 AM
I have this on Blu-Ray now. When things like this come up, I always mention that the original "Star Trek" did badly in the ratings when it first was shown too. Later on through reruns when people actually took the time to watch it they realized how great it was.
Awesome point Rico.
I still need to get this and it must be on Blu-Ray!
I watched this with Amy the other night, ok, maybe a few weeks ago now, on our anniversary.. and fell asleep. I didn't like it at all. Isn't that weird? The special effects were ok, but I found it dull. go figure! LOL!
Quote from: moyer777 on July 12, 2012, 08:25:50 PM
I watched this with Amy the other night, ok, maybe a few weeks ago now, on our anniversary.. and fell asleep. I didn't like it at all. Isn't that weird? The special effects were ok, but I found it dull. go figure! LOL!
No, it's not weird. You have to consider the age of the source material and it's pretty old. I went in expecting more story and less random acts of explosions.
What I did get out of it was a light bulb moment that made me go "Wow, this is the same exact person as the original superman. Now I see where they got the idea for superman's powers."
X, that's actually a good point. I never thought of that but I can see John Carter perhaps being the inspiration for Superman! Nice pick...BUT...you ARE wrong about one thing: Rick IS weird! :) LOL
John Carter got really wound up tight in the beginning of the movie with the death of his family and personal injustice.
Guess this is a pretty old Hollywood formula.
Didn't care much for the Thurks, but I liked the random effects and like you guys said it had a 'turn-of-the-century' sci fi vibe to it.