John Carter (2012)

[Goaty]

Bit too Prince of Perisa??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gKVquj9LgM

[TordelBack]

Bit too many clothes, more like.

Still, I was really not expecting to like that, and I did.  It'd be hard to make the books any sillier, and the tone seems pleasantly focussed.

[JOE SOAP]

Still prefer the O'Neill & Moore rendering of Mars and why are leading men pubescent-ponces these days?

[Richmond Clements]

Never read any of it, so I don't know what to compare this to. Looks like fun. And if I may be superficial for a moment- that lady is bloody gorgeous.

[Professah Byah]

You compare it to this, RAC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsawq3PBMms

I've been waiting 25 years for them to make a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and now my patience is apparantly rewarded.

[Richmond Clements]

You compare it to this, RAC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsawq3PBMms

I've been waiting 25 years for them to make a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and now my patience is apparantly rewarded.

Traci Lords! Bloody hell..!

[Emperor]

I was a big fan of ERB's Mars series (and other Planetary Romances, and the later Swords and Sandals books), so I was a bit wary of this. However, it looks pretty good, I might be giving this a spin, depending on the reviews.

You compare it to this, RAC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsawq3PBMms

I've been waiting 25 years for them to make a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and now my patience is apparantly rewarded.

Traci Lords! Bloody hell..!

And it is worse than you think it'd be, much much worse. I've never wanted to punch an entire company in the face, but The Asylum have managed to annoy me enough with that mockbuster to consider it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_of_Mars

[Professah Byah]

Princess Of Mars is not a good film, but you know what you're getting from the Asylum by now.  If you see it on dvd somewhere for a pound it's worth a punt, but I wouldn't pay more than three quid.  Asylum's version of War of the Worlds is also closer to the novel than the Spielberg movie - still not what I'd call "good", but one can only expect so much from a film that doesn't have Tom Cruise 'forced' to enter a giant anus.

[Emperor]

Princess Of Mars is not a good film, but you know what you're getting from the Asylum by now.  If you see it on dvd somewhere for a pound it's worth a punt, but I wouldn't pay more than three quid.

I watched it for free on the Scifi Channel and still felt like I'd paid too much

[Proudhuff]

why are leading men pubescent-ponces these days?

I blame Twilight and all that guff.


Read these books as a sprog when I had exhausted REH Conan books, I too prefer the O'Neill rendering of Mars

[gurnard]

Is anyone reading Warlord of Mars from Dynamite, the same thing.  Personally I am quite enjoying it as a good kind of traditional sci-fi sort of read.  And its got boobies.

http://www.dynamite.net/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C725130176677

[JOE SOAP]

why are leading men pubescent-ponces these days?

I blame Twilight and all that guff.

Don't think you can really, it was a trend long before Twilight was birthed.

[Proudhuff]

why are leading men pubescent-ponces these days?

I blame Twilight and all that guff.

Don't think you can really, it was a trend long before Twilight was birthed.

But that seems to be the pinnacle of the PP and pretty youth obsession.

Rant mode: Look at Dr Who he seems to have got younger each regen, By the time he reaches Number ten he'll be a fetus.
They will probably use that to re-boot the series as he'll be reborn with ten aging regens to follow

[M.I.K.]

David Tennant was 34 when he became Doctor Who, four or five years older than Peter Davison was. 34 is not very young. 

The lead actor in John Carter is 30. That is not very young either. If you think it is, it means you've gotten old.

Ponciness, however,  is another matter.

[JOE SOAP]

David Tennant was 34 when he became Doctor Who, four or five years older than Peter Davison was. 34 is not very young. 

The lead actor in John Carter is 30. That is not very young either. If you think it is, it means you've gotten old.

Ponciness, however,  is another matter.

Age is not the problem, it's the pampered, never-left-school look a lot of these chaps/studios have cultured, we need more Viggo Mortensen types for these roles.