We're just wired that way. John Carter is worth a early bird matinee show at least.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
My Favorite Martians
So, saw John Carter this weekend, and I have to say it was pretty impressive for a Disney action flick. Edgar Rice Burroughs's world comes to CGI life and it's a hell of a ride. Carter, played by Friday Night Lights Taylor Kitsch, is a brooding Confederate vet, tired of war after it cost him his family. In the Arizona Territory the US Government wants him to fight for the country against the Apache nation and he resists (violently). His escape leads him into a series of events that put him on Mars, smack in the middle of a civil war between a moving city-state crawling across the blasted landscape and the last free city-state left.
Things get a hell of a lot more complicated when Carter discovers that a group of powerful Barsoomians with advanced technology are behind this civil war and their leader Matai Shang (played by Mark Strong) is pulling the strings. It's a fun film, high on adventure and not terribly preachy about the horrors of war, but the entire movie shows that even when Burroughs was writing these stories a hundred years ago that the horrors of war will always be a rich source of material for entertainment.
We're just wired that way. John Carter is worth a early bird matinee show at least.
We're just wired that way. John Carter is worth a early bird matinee show at least.
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