“Come Monday…” is a
weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television
shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be
generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come
Monday.” This is subject to change,
however. In fact, I would be most
derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel
universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
Link: [John Carter]
Although
most of the messages we receive from Mediacom on our cable box are summarily
dismissed after curiosity gets the best of me and I just have to see what the
message is about, there are the occasional ones that pique my interest. Well, the one about three days of free access
to HBO over the weekend certainly applied, and while perusing through their
list of movies, I spotted [John Carter].
Yeah,
that John Carter, and I have wondered why it proved to be such a huge [box office bomb]. After watching it, I am
still wondering. For I did not find it
to be a bad movie at all. Now, it is not
one that I look forward to seeing again—let alone again and again, but…
No,
I really don’t get it. For it had
everything that a science fiction and fantasy fan should love—from ties to
realistic events here on earth to mind-boggling stuff that was literally out of
this world. Granted, it required a great
stretch of the imagination, but is this not true of all science fiction and
fantasy films/shows?
It
even had a domesticated tadpole acting like a dog! Okay, I am not sure if it really was a very
large tadpole that evidently could not swim, but it sure looked like one to me.
Oh,
and that tadpole was really, really fast, which helped with him keeping up with
John Carter. For on Mars, Carter could
jump hundreds of feet with a single bound because of the gravity on Mars not
quite being the same as here on Earth.
The
one really disappointing thing about the movie to me was that [Dominic West]
played the bad guy. For this is the
third movie I have seen him in since [The Wire], and he has played a bad guy
each time. Of course, he was kinda,
sorta a bad good guy in The Wire, but there has not been very many clearly
apparent redeeming qualities about Sab Than in John Carter, Jigsaw in [The Punisher: War Zone] and Theron in [300].
Anyway,
if you have a couple of hours to kill, you might find John Carter worth a
look-see. How was that for a ringing
endorsement?
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Not much in to sci-fi but I bet one of the girls I work with would like this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! Ah, but could you get into very large tadpoles?
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