{"id":8698,"date":"2013-06-29T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2013-06-23T18:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T22:54:35","slug":"john-carter-of-mars-2012-andrew-stanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8698","title":{"rendered":"John Carter of Mars (2012, Andrew Stanton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as bad as all that, but certainly not good &#8211; a Martian adventure full of aliens with indistinguishable-sounding names, overexplainy without making us understand or care.  Could&#8217;ve taken a lesson on narrative clarity in unfamiliar worlds from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7726\">Nausicaa<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Muscley Carter grumbles that he&#8217;ll fight for no cause, would rather be locked up by General Malcolm&#8217;s Dad than fight in his dirty Civil War.  Carter finds a cave of gold, guarded by a bald dude who warps him to Mars, which he finds engulfed in a Civil War in which Carter grumbles he will not fight.  But he meets a girl, so he fights for her instead with his amazing strength and jumping abilities, defeating McNutty, who receives orders from multidimensional bald super-alien Mark Strong (sad trailer-home sniper of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7257\">Tinker Tailor<\/a><\/em>, psycho-baddie of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/346\">Sunshine<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, there&#8217;s a simpering frame story in which young Edgar Rice Burroughs (Juni of <em>Spy Kids<\/em>) is supposed to inherit Carter&#8217;s fortune but is actually being entrusted to protect Carter&#8217;s body on Earth while his astral projection makes sweet love to a Martian princess.  Bunch of people in the credits who I never saw turned out to play motion-capture aliens &#8211; bummer.  See ya some other time, Samantha Morton and Willem Dafoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as bad as all that, but certainly not good &#8211; a Martian adventure full of aliens with indistinguishable-sounding names, overexplainy without making us understand or care. Could&#8217;ve taken a lesson on narrative clarity in unfamiliar worlds from Nausicaa. Muscley Carter grumbles that he&#8217;ll fight for no cause, would rather be locked up by General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1710,662,1709],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-andrew-stanton","tag-civil-war","tag-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8727,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}