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Just caught the "John Carter" trailer on TV done by Disney Studios. It looks like a cross between Star Wars and Mad Max. Anyone have any inside info on it or opinions ?
They showed it before War Horse, and I heard my dad tell my mom, "Looks like Nifty's kind of movie!" Definitely!
I don't know much about it, except that it's based on a book (or series of books) by Edward Rice Burroughs...the guy who wrote Tarzan. The character is from Earth, but he is able to astral project to other locations...Mars, often. He's considered immortal. He dies sometimes at the end of his various adventures but comes back to life (usually having astrally projected from one location to another) and he's always a youngish man in his prime. In the movie trailer they show him often leaping really high. The explanation is that because he's from Earth, which has far greater gravity than Mars, he's much stronger than the others on Mars. (Or Barsoom, as Burroughs calls it.) So on Mars he has supernatural speed/strength, etc.
I looked all this up after the trailer because I was curious. I had no idea that he's a character that dates back 100 years! I haven't read the books, but I may look into them.
They showed it before War Horse, and I heard my dad tell my mom, "Looks like Nifty's kind of movie!" Definitely!
I don't know much about it, except that it's based on a book (or series of books) by Edward Rice Burroughs...the guy who wrote Tarzan. The character is from Earth, but he is able to astral project to other locations...Mars, often. He's considered immortal. He dies sometimes at the end of his various adventures but comes back to life (usually having astrally projected from one location to another) and he's always a youngish man in his prime. In the movie trailer they show him often leaping really high. The explanation is that because he's from Earth, which has far greater gravity than Mars, he's much stronger than the others on Mars. (Or Barsoom, as Burroughs calls it.) So on Mars he has supernatural speed/strength, etc.
I looked all this up after the trailer because I was curious. I had no idea that he's a character that dates back 100 years! I haven't read the books, but I may look into them.
If Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the book and they stay close to story line, that portends a good movie, IMO. I like his dog.
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