I should be John Carter's target audience, but all of Disney's marketing has made it look like a sub-par superhero-vs-aliens movie taking place in a vast, boring desert expanse. A bit too similar to Cowboys And Aliens, in other words. The trailers have seemed...respectful, perhaps, to the film, but didn't do much to excite me. I'm not going to claim that the fan trailer above, uploaded a week or so ago by a fan site for the film, necessarily changes my mind, but it at least tells the story of the film in a cogent manner, which is more than most of the official trailers can claim to have done.
Are you looking forward to John Carter? Does the trailer above change your opinions about it in any way?
It's not the trailer that puts me off of this movie. It's just about everything else.
The casting and the snippets of their perfomances shown, the effects, the setting, the costume and character design, what little they did convey of the plot/premise (another old 'outsider saves the natives, gets the girl' type of story dug up and made into a movie). It all just feels...trite. And a bit cheesy to boot.
I actually thought the first John Carter trailer with Peter Gabriel playing in the background looked pretty good. This new trailer was also pretty good and the film itself doesn't look bad. It annoys me that everyone calls John Carter a rip-off of other stuff, but it's based on a book that was written 100 years ago.
As a plebeian who had (And somewhat still has) little to no knowledge about John Carter or the many Edgar Rice Burroughs novels this film is based off, I can safely say that the original trailers did nothing to tell me what the Goddamn hell was going on. Seeing that fan edit trailer on the other hand with the new footage of John Carter on Earth was enough to help clear up a lot of questions I had.
Well hopefully now Disney will start to ramp up the marketing and get this into the public’s eye well before it comes out. When’s the release date again?
This film is doomed.
Was that an epic version of 'Come With Me' in that trailer?
@ryanwho said:
This.
@Bones8677 said:
no, "Kashmir" by Led Zepplin.
@RhombusOfTerror said:
Crap, they're the SAME song!
I didn't really need a good trailer to be interested in this film, but before seeing this, I wouldn't have known that John Carter came from earth at the time of what looks like the industrial era.
So Disney, fire your marketing team and start hiring some talented people.
@ryanwho:
Avatar is John Carter, not the other way around. Get your facts straight.
@selbie said:
Seriously, I had no idea that he was an average man. I assumed he jumped super high because of the gravity difference, but they made him out to be some super hero or something. I am actually interesting in this film now.