Alternate headline: "Disney: PLEASE PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO OUR MOVIE"

The script is, ah...

Oh, hell. The script is fucking terrible.

Really weird editing, too.

Oh Disney, how you make me laugh.

The early reviews I've read have not been positive, which is quite unfortunate. I loved, loved, loved Finding Nemo and Wall-E, and was thus hoping Andrew Stanton would be able to make the leap to live-action as effortlessly as Brad Bird did (not to say the blame for this will fall solely on his direction). Of course, I'll wait until I see it before I pass any actual judgment, but any optimism I held has dissipated. And this snippet does nothing to help reassure me. It looks achingly mediocre.

edit: Okay, since I last checked, there have been a fair amount of positive reviews posted, so early word isn't all bad I guess.

damn Carter looks like the Gieco caveman

@SM5240 said:

The early reviews I've read have not been positive, which is quite unfortunate. I loved, loved, loved Finding Nemo and Wall-E, and was thus hoping Andrew Stanton would be able to make the leap to live-action as effortlessly as Brad Bird did (not to say the blame for this will fall solely on his direction). Of course, I'll wait until I see it before I pass any actual judgment, but any optimism I held has dissipated. And this snippet does nothing to help reassure me. It looks achingly mediocre.

It's weird, I've heard some "this is an epic disaster" kind of reviews, but then a lot of the genre writers, e.g. the AICN people, have been really positive. Hoping it's good, but there's going to be some heads rolling on the marketing team that has been supporting this film.

I feel bad for this movie.

It makes me sad, thinking of all the good things that could have been done with that kind of money. Not just in film, in general.

@damnitsted said:

damn Carter looks like the Gieco caveman

Also, this is true.

@Rorie said:

@SM5240 said:

The early reviews I've read have not been positive, which is quite unfortunate. I loved, loved, loved Finding Nemo and Wall-E, and was thus hoping Andrew Stanton would be able to make the leap to live-action as effortlessly as Brad Bird did (not to say the blame for this will fall solely on his direction). Of course, I'll wait until I see it before I pass any actual judgment, but any optimism I held has dissipated. And this snippet does nothing to help reassure me. It looks achingly mediocre.

It's weird, I've heard some "this is an epic disaster" kind of reviews, but then a lot of the genre writers, e.g. the AICN people, have been really positive. Hoping it's good, but there's going to be some heads rolling on the marketing team that has been supporting this film.

Yeah, just saw some of those more positive reviews you mentioned and I had to amend my earlier comment. I'm with you in that I hope it's good. The word of mouth will need to be pretty ecstatic to help make up for the faults of its marketing.

This movie will be an absolute failure at the box office.

Bryan Cranston is in everything,

Somehow Disney read my thoughts and figured out I was disinterested.

GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!

I have to admit, I didn't think it was bad. I was entertained for the most part, and I thought the initial interactions between John Carter and Bryan Cranston were quite amusing.

As much shit this film is getting, I kinda hope it surprises people this weekend.

Why did they chose those 10 minuets? That was probably the worse 10 minutes of the film. Show us the fucking aliens and sci-fi stuff we would actually be interested in seeing.

That was about on the level I was expecting it to be, e.g aggressively mediocre.

Strange that Disney would spend so much on this only to let it flail thanks to some catastrophic marketing. These first ten minutes certainly didn't look that great, but at the same time it seems as if there's plenty of material here to spice up the trailers, had the marketing team had a bit more savvy.

Is that Daryl Sabara?

Fuck, I can't watch this movie now. I won't be able to stop thinking of World's Greatest Dad.

@ahgunsillyo said:

I have to admit, I didn't think it was bad. I was entertained for the most part, and I thought the initial interactions between John Carter and Bryan Cranston were quite amusing.

I agree. The quick cuts of Carter continuously trying to escape was fun.

Took me a little while to figure out that the colonel is Bryan Cranston! Might go see this!