"John Carter" - movie

[Bryancd]

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.

[Jobydrone]

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

[Bryancd]

Yeah, he's Disney's version of the Kindle. Andrew Stanton made them a LOT of $ with Wall-E.

[jedijeff]

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.

[Rico]

Glad you and your wife enjoyed it too Jeff.  I really think it's a fun, adventure movie and good for most kids too.

[Rico]

Hey, there's some great concept art for the film at the link below.  I will attach an example.

http://michaelkutsche.deviantart.com/

[Geekyfanboy]

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.

[WillEagle]

Hopefully seeing this today! Can't wait.

[WillEagle]

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.

[Rico]

Glad some of you are getting out to see this fun movie too and enjoying it like I did. 

[Hal2001]

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.

[Bryancd]

Disney just declared a $200M loss for the film the their earning release just now.

[Bromptonboy]

Disney just declared a $200M loss for the film the their earning release just now.

Ouch!

[Rico]

Still a good, fun movie - as others who have seen it are finding.

[Bryancd]

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.