#FRANK FRAZETTA BARSOOM MOVIE#
I’ve read a lot of reviews saying the movie is badly designed, which I don’t wholly agree with. “My name isn’t a problem as I shall appear only in the most classy. I think it’s the only choice of any integrity available to him, but it doesn’t help the film the way some good bad-guy business would. That’s all the script has given him, so he just goes for it. What West, a thoughtful actor, does, is play his character for all he’s worth as a man promoted hopelessly beyond his range of competence. You can’t judge the characters by the same standards you’d apply to the people at your local Tesco. I mean, he kills lots of people, but so does everybody in this film.
Also, he doesn’t get to do anything really nasty. Dominic West is almost positioned as the main bad guy, but his character is so outclassed by Strong’s that he can’t register. There are some very good actors in this - Mark Strong seizes his moments too, and Ciaran Hinds does his angst-ridden gravitas thing that earns him the big bucks. Then, a long way in, James Purefoy comes in with a better-drawn character and breathes so much life into his moments of screen time that you realize what’s been missing. It had me almost convinced that the improbably-named Taylor Kitsch is a leading man, and slightly more convinced by Lynn Collins. What’s the movie like? Imperfect, but fun. So the movie emerged sheened in flop sweat, before a skeptical rather than an enthused populace.īut I think they should have thrown subtlety to the winds, like Frazetta. The decision reeks of stupidity not just because it miss-sells the product (I guess the ads made most of us aware what kind of film this really was) but because it gave off a whiff of panic, and the press bloodhounds were all over that. So, JOHN CARTER, a movie which is underperforming ENTIRELY, I submit, because some halfwit at Disney decided to omit the words “OF MARS” from their $250 million epic, thereby making it sound like MICHAEL CLAYTON or JACKIE BROWN. …and then I remembered this Tim White paperback cover, BUT… Excessive scale can be alarming to her - for instance, she has a morbid fear of the Eiffel Tower. When the snowslide hit the camera lens, as rendered on a screen the size of Burt Lancaster’s grin, I jumped - something 3D pretty much never makes me do (except in Joe Dante’s THE HOLE)… I didn’t experience such an extreme reaction this time, maybe because we sat further back, in deference to Fiona’s nerves. When our local hydraplex first got an Imax screen, all they had to show was a couple documentaries.
JOHN CARTER in 3D and Imax - I never actually saw an Imax feature before. I was trying to recall what the poster reminded me of…
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