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BARBERSHOP MOVIE REVIEW This week's reviewed movie is: John Carter |
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It's just hard to
care about anything in this sci-fi John Carter
film, which jumps from scene to scene without
building any
real excitement. It is nearly impossible to keep track of who is doing what to whom; and after more than two hours, I didn't come close to knowning who John Carter is, and I don't really care. Even with the largest size popcorn, you couldn't say this is a good popcorn movie. |
100 years ago,
Edgar Rice Burroughs (of Tarzan
fame) wrote Princess
of Mars, in which a Confederate Captain
helps end a civil
war--on another planet! Far ahead of his time, this grandfather of American science fiction penned a series of books that have been copied time and time again; but John Carter is a paradox-- it's too old fashion for modern-day movie audiences and too modern for old fashion readers. With beautiful visuals and an origin plot so complicated that it is hard to follow, it's a movie worth seeing for fans, but will confuse the uninitiated. Despite its flaws, I loved it. |
This
movie is an
inflated fantasy, or space opera epic, about a
19th-century adventurer with a
tough and painful past, who unintentionally
transports himself to Mars, where
he meets in conflict some strange bizarre alien
life and tries to save a
princess from sure death.
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