Editing John Carter of Mars (section)

=That Movie=
The whole Barsoom series languished in development-hell because the special-effects weren't there for true live-action and also because, we suppose, nobody had consulted [[Ralph Bakshi]] who normally would be first in line to crap all over someone's IP with badly rotoscoped animation. Finally Andrew Stanton nagged and nagged and, at last, got his dream into theatres: ''A Princess of Mars'', which we saw in 2012 as ''John Carter''.

For pity, nobody outside 1d4chan saw it.

Disney's marketing was terrible: the trailers selected the more-boring parts of the movie, there was no care to cite the century-old lore (everybody thought it "ripped off" Star Wars and Dune when... er... other-way-'round, bro), and the title made it sound like a biopic about another of President Carter's drunken half brothers. It didn't help that there weren't any movie-stars in here; although if it had sold, Taylor Kitsch would assuredly have become one. We leave to others to speculate upon [[Star Wars|Disney's motivations]] for tanking their own movie.

As for the movie itself, it was actually... good. The CGI does its job, all the actors did much better than anyone expected them to, the script was fine.

But it was a massive flop. The CGI (which was necessary) cost so much that Disney took a write-off. It is unlikely we're getting more kino in this series until Elon himself builds a film-studio on this planet.

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