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John Carter reaches for the stars and manages to even grab some.
By now it's probably impossible for anyone reading this not to have an opinion about John Carter. The incredibly lengthy gestation project decades in the making, an albatross of Disney's continually bloated budget, some trailers that were frankly really terrible, and the lamest title change ever. But I'm going to ... |
4 out of 6 found this review helpful.
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Doesn't quite reach the stars
As I left the 3D screening of John Carter (for which I won a free ticket) I heard a kid who I presume was between 11 and 14 years old saying “That reminded a lot of Prince of Persia”. The comment immediately clicked on me, I now realized why the ... |
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John Carter and the weight of wait
I was just six years old when Jaws changed the way movies were released by ushering in the epoch of the summer blockbuster. Two years later in 1977 when Star Wars permanenently changed the face of cinema as we knew it, I was in the audience with everybody else, mind ... |
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John Carter (B)
John Carter is overstuffed and thus underdeveloped, but the harmless action flick manages to accomplish at least one thing: Amaze us with the excitement of seeing a whole new fantasy world that we really want to explore.The movie starts with Edgar Rice Burroughs (a real author who wrote the book ... |
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John - ah - ah - Saviour of the Universe!
In a day an age where we are getting daily photos back from Mars, one is left to wonder why Disney even decided to make this movie. O.K., it's not been 100 years, yet, since A Princess of Mars hit the bookshelves, only a mere 95!Well they did, and it ... |
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Here's The First Ten Minutes Of John Carter
Disney's movie is doing poorly in tracking, so they release a ten-minute clip that has no aliens or Mars or hot princesses in it. Um, ok! |
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Trailer 3: John Carter
Disney apparently took the challenge of that actually-decent fan trailer seriously, and decided to beef up this last trailer with...dubstep? Oh, Disney! |
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Trailer 2: John Carter
This looks like some ridiculous mashup of Attack of the Clones, Stargate, and Wild Wild West. Will it be good? We'll find out in March! |
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Trailer: John Carter
Dune meets Cowboys and Aliens? This live-action debut of Pixar director Andrew Stanton is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter Of Mars. |
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| Name | John Carter |
| US Release | March 9, 2012 |
| UK Release | March 9, 2012 |
| AUS Release | March 8, 2012 |
| Runtime | 132 |
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| Rating | PG-13 |
| Alias(es) | John Carter of Mars |
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Box Office
Domestic $73,078,100 Foreign +$209,700,000 - = total worldwide gross $282,778,100
- - a reported budget of $250,000,000
- = a 13.1% net profit of $32,778,100
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In today's dollars
Domestic $73,078,100 Foreign +209,700,000 - = total worldwide gross $282,778,100
- - a reported budget of $250,000,000
- = a 13.1% net profit of $32,778,100
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- Moviemaniac 255 points
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- Daemon 108 points
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