Movie report: John Carter (2012)
Movie report: John Carter (2012) I watched the science fiction movie “John Carter” last night. Don’t ask me why. It got terrible reviews. I guess I wanted to keep my geek credentials current. This movie reminded me of the Green Lantern movie. Not in its content, but because it had such a massive budget for special effects, yet is laid low by very simple problems that make it difficult to follow. They spent a quarter of a billion dollars making this movie. Billion, with a B. So, let’s get right to the problems, shall we? Scene 1… The first scene is of the planet Mars, with a voice telling us that this is the planet Mars, and how the evil warlike Zodanga city is pretty close to conquering the nice city of Helium, and then the entire planet. Next, we see an aerial battle between blue flying things and red flying things, where a handsome, ripped young man is desperately giving orders and his plucky crew is striving to carry them out. Yay! We want him to win! Oh, wait. He’