Just came back from watching John Carter of Mars!

And for the record, if you are the sort of person who would be interested in seeing a movie about John Carter of Mars, you will probably enjoy the bejeezus out of that movie.

If you are the sort of person who would not be interested in seeing a movie about John Carter of Mars, well... that was very definitely a movie about John Carter of Mars.

(If you can't tell yet, I am definitely the sort of person who would enjoy that movie.

...I even dug out my John Carter and Dejah Thoris action figures to take with me!

...yes I own John Carter and Dejah Thoris action figures.

And a first edition 1918 copy of The Gods of Mars, passed down from my fangirl ancestresses.

Yes, I know you're jealous.)

It's been ages and ages since I read any Barsoom books*, though, so I am shaky on a few of the details, but I think that, as part of coming up with a plot that would work for a movie without deviating too much from the spirit of the books, they folded bits of the first two books together, and they seem to have given bits of Thuvia's characterization to Dejah Thoris. Which means loss of awesome femslash potential, alas. (Sola is still my favorite though!)


We went mostly because a friend had free movie tickets to use up, and, well, John Carter of Mars. But I have to say, dear movie industry, if you want people to keep going to see movies, you might want to put a little more effort in making sure the picture quality at the theater is better than they can get at home. I mean, maybe it's just every singe theater I've been to in the past ten years, but if I go to see a movie in the theater, it's because I want a big sweeping clear view of the scenery, not because I want to be able to see every bit of dust on the projector and random lines and circles on the screen. They're lucky I've gotten used to consuming my media as downloaded files on a tiny laptop with a cracked LCD, or I might have even gone to complain about the GIANT GREEN SQUIGGLE on the screen for about half an hour of the movie.

(It's possible we would have had better projection quality if we'd gone to a 3D showing, but why would we want to do that? Actually it was amusing, the person selling tickets was apparently instructed to ask people buying tickets to 2D showings of 3D movies if they'd rather see 3D instead, and every single person ahead of us in line told her um, no thanks, they deliberately avoided 3D whenever possible.)

Notes on the previews:

Has anyone written Fury/Loki based on the new Avengers preview yet? And if not, why not?

Battleship is going to be really really gloriously bad. It looks like they might even have managed to figure out how to come up with a 'plot' in which they actually have to play battleship with real battleships, guys.

Anybody heard anything about the new Pixar movie "Brave"? It looked interesting. And the 3D animation of the archery was really, really cool; somebody did their physics homework.


*Unless you count The Number of the Beast and A Wizard of Mars, obviously. ...I still want to write that crossover.