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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 18:27:59 GMT
This film really gets a bad rap. Sure it was a major box office bomb for Disney and received a bunch of rotten reviews by critics but I thought it was highly entertaining through out (featuring some really cool action sequences and memorable sci fi moments as well) Taylor Kitsch did a good enough job as the lead for me to care about him . And I thought Lynn Collins rocked in her role as the princess warrior . I mean , what's not to like? (lord have mercy!)   also thought the space dog named Woola was great (always following Carter around ). Wish I had one of those things as a pet haha.  |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 20, 2019 19:02:50 GMT
Nope. Was pretty bad.
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Post by wmcclain on Jan 20, 2019 19:27:37 GMT
It wasn't what I had always hoped for; I'd been a fan of the books (just the first 3, actually) when young but I did like it and wish they had made more.
The bit where he fights the swarm of Warhoon green Martians: pure ERB.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 19:40:49 GMT
Oh yeah. I saw in theaters. It was pretty bad. I liked it. It ended kind of clumsily but I'm willing to forgive a lot because I like the premise and the bit. At a couple of points, I thought it was so bad it was ridiculous. But I liked what I saw too much to care.
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 20, 2019 21:13:21 GMT
It needs a rewatch, but I thought it was relatively good.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 20, 2019 21:21:22 GMT
I liked it better than the Avengers.
I can see why Disney management hated it and wanted it to die with bad marketing--even though they brought in Chabon for rewrites-- the basic idea is a soldiering white guy who goes to another society and becomes a savior and that ain't what Disney wants to peddle.
The casting could have been better--the lead actor was kind of bland, and I got tired of Defoe's alien saying Jeddak every other sentence.
Ultimately it came too late--there's been so many other space fantasy things inspired by it that it doesn't seem so fresh.
It was definitely slammed because of the while male hero plot.
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze suffered similar treatment in the 1970s.
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Post by moviemouth on Jan 20, 2019 21:32:47 GMT
No.
Pretty cgi, but otherwise poorly made and poorly written and a cast of completely forgettable characters and performances.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 20, 2019 22:07:10 GMT
I enjoyed it a lot. Never read the books.
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