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Sound on Sight Podcast #311: Get your ass to Mars! (‘John Carter’ / ‘Total Recall’)
Mars. The Red Planet. It hasn’t inspired as many memorable movies as you might assume, but it is the indirect inspiration for Wall-E director Andrew Stanton’s first live-action feature John Carter, which sort of tanked at the box office this past weekend amidst much discussion of its questionable marketing and supposedly insane budget. Ricky D, Julian Carrington and Simon Howell are here to parse the space junk, as well as dredge up Paul Verhoeven’s awesomely sleazy Total Recall, which everyone is more or less required to agree is the best Mars-set movie ever made.
Video Of The Day: How Pixar Helped in Creating ‘John Carter’s Animation Effects
Infographic: A closer look at Woola from John Carter
Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 37: ‘John Carter’ - the Disney Podcast
Travel with Josh and Michael this week to the mysterious red planet that we call Mars, as they discuss the latest film from Walt Disney Pictures, John Carter. This science-fiction epic has been talked about for a lot of reasons–its bad marketing, its 3D post-conversion, its title change–but Josh and Michael are here to resolve the most important question of all to any moviegoer: is this movie any good? Is it worth your time? What does Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol have to do with this movie? Those questions and many more are answered on this life-changing trip to Barsoom on the new Mousterpiece Cinema!
Sound on Sight Podcast #311: Get your ass to Mars! (‘John Carter’ / ‘Total Recall’)
Mars. The Red Planet. It hasn’t inspired as many memorable movies as you might assume, but it is the indirect inspiration for Wall-E director Andrew Stanton’s first live-action feature John Carter, which sort of tanked at the box office this past weekend amidst much discussion of its questionable marketing and supposedly insane budget. Ricky D, Julian Carrington and Simon Howell are here to parse the space junk, as well as dredge up Paul Verhoeven’s awesomely sleazy Total Recall, which everyone is more or less required to agree is the best Mars-set movie ever made.
Four Most Interesting Films Set On The Planet Mars
Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century and with good reason. Apart from the beauty of the planet’s dramatic red colour, early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, have often inspired writers to take on either the possibility that Mars could be colonized by humans or would be incapable of sustaining human life – thus the idea that Martians would one day invade our planet. With the release of Andrew Stanton’s sweeping action-adventure John Carter (a film based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs and set on Mars), I’ve decided to list a few films which also revolve around the mysterious and exotic planet that might be worthy of your time
‘John Carter’ both battles and plays host to reams of genre clichés
John Carter
Written by Andrew Stanton, Michael Chabon, and Mark Andrews
Directed by Andrew Stanton
USA, 2012
Stop if you’ve heard this one before. A man of humble origin is plucked from his surroundings and thrust into a central role in a massive, age-old conflict on another world, wherein it becomes clear that he is a fierce warrior, a capable leader, and a dashing romantic prospect for a wayward (but headstrong) princess. If that brief synopsis rings as overly familiar, then you understand the difficult position the makers of John Carter have found themselves: despite the fact that their Edgar Rice Burroughs-penned source material is a century old, having already served as the template for any number of sci-fi/action epics in the interim, contemporary viewers can’t help but feel the sting of overfamiliarity. That places the onus on director Andrew Stanton (Wall-E) and his fellow screenwriters, including novelist Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys) to transcend that sense of been-there-done-that and craft an experience worthy of distinction. The most charitable response possible to the question of whether or not they’ve succeeded is: sort of.
Hopko Designs: ‘John Carter of Mars’ poster
2 TV Spots and New Images from JOHN CARTER Starring Taylor Kitsch
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We’ve already seen a disappointing teaser, and later, a mildly satisfying trailer (that came with a feeling of deja vu), for Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton‘s 3D mega-budget fantasy John Carter. Now a few new TV spots have come on line, showing us new footage of the epic scale battles and actions sequence from the film. Hit the jump to check out the TV spots and images.
From Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes “John Carter”–a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). “John Carter” is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
First Look At The Trailer For ‘John Carter’
New ‘John Carter’ Poster
