John Carter (2012)

Just went through my list of ratings and surprisingly found that community and critics ratings are still low for this movie , and I still don't know why this happen , since it has the plot , design , graphics of a solid movie Maybe someone can help me with this mystery?

I wasn't crazy about this when I saw it in the theater, but I liked it better on second viewing. It's about 3/4 light, pulpy fun, and then a very long tedious action sequence and a lengthy completely unnecessary coda. That last sequence has a tendency to undo the good will the film has built up.

This movie could have been the start of a very successful franchise. Unfortunately, the writers and the director seem to have decided that their ad lib on the original story by Burroughs would be better. They added a nonsensical magic priest cult that has nothing to do with the original story to make it more believable... This is a work of fiction! Believable? I've read the books so many times and was looking so much forward to seeing it made into a movie. The writer/director destroyed Burroughs carefully crafted story. I doubt that he was a fan of Burroughs or even heard of the Mars series until he was hired as a last resort for this project. Read the books! It is so much better than this movie. I wish someone who loved these books by Burroughs, someone like Peter Jackson and how he materialized Tolkien's works, would redo this movie right. "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" also had a bunch of flops made before Peter Jackson. One can only hope.

I can't imagine why the reviews for Disney's John Carter were mixed at the time of it's release. It really is a great science fiction movie with great characters. Taylor Kitsch does a wonderful job playing the role of the civil war commander who accidentally gets transported to Mars and becomes enthralled in a war on the planet. The princess of Mars, played very well by Lynn Collins, is the princess of helium who is being forced to marry Dominic West (a man who has been given immense power by mark strong, a holy man, to overtake the entire planet of Mars). John Carter really is a great, very layered/detailed character and so are all the rest of the characters involved in the film. I love the chemistry between all the characters, especially the romantic chemistry between John Carter and Dejah Thoris. The action sequences are also very well done and I loved the special effects, I didn't think they had an overload on CGI either. I didn't get to see it in IMAX, but I wish I would have because the action and effects would've been great to see in that format. I thought the movie might would be a cookie cutter action movie, I especially thought that with the mixed reviews. But once I got into it I realized that this was not going to be that, but that Disney had outdone themselves once again. The ending is especially touching and you can feel that "Disney feeling", anyone who's seen Disney films knows what I'm talking about. 9/10. Great film!