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[Rob Pegler]

Then again, Avatar proved me wrong in my predictions so what do I know. I mean, I *STILL* don't understand how that movie dethroned Titanic but it did.

3D.

And these sad fuckers.

[Charles Phipps]

Well spoken.

It's not going to help, also that Avatar was a planetary romance and people are going to draw immediate comparisons.

Plus, it'll be impossible to top the 1980s Flash Gordon, "interrupt the wedding to the bad guy."

 

[Lord Anubis]

Well spoken.

It's not going to help, also that Avatar was a planetary romance and people are going to draw immediate comparisons.

Plus, it'll be impossible to top the 1980s Flash Gordon, "interrupt the wedding to the bad guy."

The irony, of course, being that all those things are actually copying this story, not the other way around.   

[Charles Phipps]

The irony, of course, being that all those things are actually copying this story, not the other way around.   

Yep. Want to make a drinking game, Anubis?

* take a shot every time someone compares it to the Star Wars prequels, Avatar, or Flash Gordon.

[Lord Anubis]

Yep. Want to make a drinking game, Anubis?

* take a shot every time someone compares it to the Star Wars prequels, Avatar, or Flash Gordon.

Peter Clines, found dead of liver failure two days after the premier of John Carter.

 

[Charles Phipps]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1_dLJEFZI&feature=player_embedded#!

I'm more optimistic now as the scene in the arena has actual tension versus Attack of the Clones.

I'm also surprised at how much inflection the Green Martians have.

[Rakie]

i once overheard someone in all honesty say that Lord of the Rings was a total rip-off of Harry Potter...

[Lord Anubis]

I can't remember who it was, but someone was bitching about  Peter Jackson and King Kong and pointed out that Jackson was so lame he even took the name of the boat from Jurassic Park II.

 

[zombiemutts]

i once overheard someone in all honesty say that Lord of the Rings was a total rip-off of Harry Potter...

That's painful

[Lane Adamson]

I can't remember who it was, but someone was bitching about  Peter Jackson and King Kong and pointed out that Jackson was so lame he even took the name of the boat from Jurassic Park II.

Ridiculous.  It was obviously highly-compensated product placement for the Capitol One Venture credit card.

[Snell]

This is why I think mentioning Tarzan in the marketing would only conjure up images of, well...

[Lane Adamson]

I rather liked the Christopher Lambert incarnation of Tarzan (he said, tangentially).  The script played out like a classic tragedy (almost everyone who loved or was loved by the poor foundling died), and Lambert had the requisite physique and stature for the role along with decent acting chops.

[Matthew]

I liked Greystoke too. The thing that strck me as really odd about it, though was Andie MacDowal as Jane. Andie is an American with a southern accent so a British actress dbbed her dalogue. The irony is that Jane was an American from Baltimore and would have had a southern accent.

[Charles Phipps]

I liked Greystoke too. The thing that strck me as really odd about it, though was Andie MacDowal as Jane. Andie is an American with a southern accent so a British actress dbbed her dalogue. The irony is that Jane was an American from Baltimore and would have had a southern accent.

Tarzan is a victim of his own success, I think, much like the Western. He'd be a bit harder sell nowadays because everyone did their own version at some point when they didn't flat out use him.

[Charles Phipps]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/john-carter-early-tracking-shockingly-soft-could-be-biggest-writeoff-of-all-time/

Disney isn't very impressed with John Carter, it seemed.