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Disney has released a new trailer for John Carter, the science-fiction epic based on the series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs that stars Taylor Kitsch as the Confederate veteran and gentleman warrior who finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where he becomes a planetary legend.
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Wow. Some of the worst CGI creatures/aliens I’ve ever seen. Worse than Jar Jar Binks. When are the studios going to figure out that the best CGI creatures were about 18 years ago in JURASSIC PARK? I think we need to get back to the basics.
What exactly is so horrible about the CG in this trailer? If you don’t like the design of the characters, that’s a whole different problem. The anti-CG rant is getting pretty tired. The computer creations in this trailer look every bit as convincing as all the other VFX being produced today.
Sorry, I’ve got to agree with Paul, here. I’ve got nothing against CGI or this movie, but the effects simply looked awful. Maybe they aren’t done, yet. I hope.
So is this the official countdown to Rich Ross following Carney?
With sure fire hits like this, I reckon Ross has no more than 12 months to go.
one last gift from Dick Cook to the Rich Ross regime. one year after mars needs moms. part of this still look like the concept art Cook showed at the first D23.
Not feeling it.
Feels too much like a wannabe avatar.
Simply awful. One of the sure-fire bombs of 2012.
Avatar: The Special Olympics edition!
Why does Hollywood always make the confederate soldier the hero?
@ Peggy — Hollywood makes the Confederate soldier the hero for the same reason it makes every free-spirited woman in a romcom own a quirky bakery or charming flower shop, and every man either a high-powered ad executive or (drumroll please) an architect. I run in varied circles but I don’t know any woman who runs a quirky bakery or flower shop or any guy who’s an architect or an honest-to-goodness advertising executive. Yet you can’t turn on any Hollywood movie without seeing one, or at times all three, of these characters.
It’s shorthand, it’s association — she runs a bakery, therefore she’s free-spirited and creative, you see? Much easier to put her in an apron making quirky cupcakes than try to ACTUALLY SHOW that’s she creative and independent. It’s crap but it’s how Hollywood storytelling works. In the case of the Confederate man, one hundred fifty years of fetishization through literature and folklore and song have made him more interesting and conflicted and soulful and spirited and virile and all that crap than a Yankee soldier. Not saying it’s right, just that’s how it is.
Or it could be that the character was written as a Confederate hero 100 years ago by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Stanton is staying true to the source material… Just sayin’.
+1
@ Peggy: Pick up one of the books and read it. Then you will understand why the hero was a Confederate soldier. It’s what the author had in mind. Why should Hollywood change that feature in a book that’s been around almost a hundred years due to some possible offense to your PC thinking?
Money.
One of the best trailers I’ve seen this year. Can’t wait for this film. Great kick off to the campaign!
Seriously?
Rhys,
What a dry sense of humor as one must assume you are being facetious.
Put some friggin pants on, John.
March 9th gives you three months to redo all that horrible CG
Even with the Led Zeppelin Kashmir soundtrack the martians all look and sound like Jar-Jar Binks and the “action” looks like out-takes from one of the new, bad Star Wars films. Can they just go direct to DVD and write-off the production as a learning experience?
I just hope the editor who threw this trailer together didn’t say something like “I know the perfect background music: that P. Diddy song from Godzilla.”
Literally gave me chills! wow
This movie probably kills one of the better spec scripts to sell in the last fifteen, sixteen years, THE MARTIAN AGENT by Michael Chabon. Too bad.
He’s one of the writers on JC.
wow. looks terrible. What a cgi mess, like outtakes from the second star wars trilogy.
Biggest problem with all these big cg movies like this and Tron is that they can’t find a lead actor with a sense of wit, humor or sarcasm to offset the ridiculous drama. I’m starting to understand how Harrison Ford was the perfect convergence of what Hollywood needed in the 80s as an action star.
Actually Taylor Kitsch is great at bringing a very attractive mixture of humor, sarcasm and charm to the screen – as he demonstrated beautifully on ‘Friday Night Lights’ over a number of seasons. Unfortunately it looks like his talents may have gotten buried in this movie.
I agree. Hollywood really doesn’t know how to find real action stars anymore or figure out what kind of actors are needed to work with all that background cgi green screen they all use. Kitsch looks pasted into every scene and it really isn’t a problem of poor graphics, but poor acting. He is really not interacting with these creatures when they are supposedly standing in the same scene. We need better action actors. We need better action directors, who understand that the casting needs of CGI heavy films need a different type of actor.
Wasn’t really my point, but I agree with yours as well. I think directors like Cameron are successful with green screen and actors because they have exhaustive time and experience dealing with actors and real practical sets, so they know when shooting a scene if the acting is working with its “environment.” A lot of these directors coming from CG and animation bkgds do not know if the acting is authentic or not when dealing with real humans in a fake environment, just look at these movies like Priest and Tron.
Also, visual effects have been getting worse since Jurassic Park. The reason being that everything you see now has been handled not by craftsmen putting in thousands of hours into creating an effect but today effects are “made” by the thousands of filters and plugins that have been created to simplify, cut hours and costs. So the studios alter their “visions” so the CG companies spend less time crafting and more time using premade filters and effects in order to save money. That’s why everything you see these days looks the same and feels the same. Instead of CG artists we have companies developing the latest filters, plugins, and textures, so the CG companies can hire the next talentless graduate.
But what I meant about the actors was that back in the 80s and 90s we had action stars that delivered the actions with a sense of humor and charm, like Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis, even Arnold. Now we get these actors like from Tron and this movie and the one in Number Four who just look mopey always glaring their eyes, but they have no charm or style. The only one that Hollywood is trying to fit in this mold is the actor who played Green Lantern and he almost seems like a joke because he has no screen presence.
You base this theory by looking at the one second snippets in which he is almost always interacting with something behind the camera?
We also need characters with a personality. I know Kitsch is a good actor and can be charming as hell because I’ve seen him on Friday Night Lights. But there is a sense of him looking lost, and dull, in this trailer.
I mean, c’mon. The movie is named after the character and all we get are a handful of one-syllable grunts coming out of his mouth.
I couldn’t agree more. Casting for blockbusters has become so fear-based over the last several years. Everyone is so…well…fine and safe. The bar needs to be raised back up to where it was before to really make these movies work.
Look, it’s Avatar as directed by George Lucas with the Clone Wars vfx team from ILM. With Taylor Laut-, I mean, Kitch? And the Disney brand assures no teens will see it.
Big bomb. Big.
Thus the March 9 release date. If they really believed in it, it would be in May.
Oooh, the Disney plants will come after you hard for this comment! Watch yourself!
I’ve already seen Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.
This looks STARSHIP TROOPERS bad.
Is anyone more boring and overused as a bad guy than Mark Strong? Even his real name is lame.
The only reason the horrible lead has blue paint on him at times is so audiences will confuse this with AVATAR 2. As much as I didn’t love AVATAR (good but not worth the billion $ hype), James Cameron directs legions around this schmoe.
I guess directing a great animated film doesn’t translate into even a decent live action film.
You know it’s bad when Lucas had better monsters 30 years ago in RETURN OF THE JEDI than these lame creatures.
Is that alien dude in the beginning a Jar Jar reincarnation?
Don’t go hating Starship Troopers. Where else do you see NPH dressed like a Nazi?
Ouch. Looks like a cross between “Green Lantern” and “Mars Needs Moms.” Edgar Rice Burroughs is turning over in his grave. And Walt is probably turning over in his, too.
Oh sick, they remade Phantom Menace.
Holy leapin’ turtle people/bastard son of Avatar what the hell is this?
Led Zeppelin track, ‘Kashmir’, was used in Godzilla and countless other films, trailers and commercials. The flyer reminds me of the tedious pod racer in Star Wars. The aliens look a little like Jar Jar Binks. The speeches sound like Optimus Prime’s turgid monologues in Transformers. The natives against a higher, more powerful technology has been done in Avatar and countless other films. The whole desert setting and political intrigue has a Dune vibe. Looks like they’re riding Banthas. Someone should have told Disney that John Carter of Mars has been extensively ripped over the years so that the film is going to feel very familiar, even though it was one of the original sci-fi epics when the Barsoom stories first appeared.
another stinker for Disney. Taylor Kitch is the jar jar binks in this film. That supposedly stimulating the troops speech only stimulated my sphincter. Could Hollywood please find leading men somewhere else besides the Cigar Store Indian Shop
Now THIS is podracing.
ooh – that looks terrible. just terrible.
Personally, I prefer John Carter of “ER.”
LOL! Yes. This is what I think of every time I see that stupid title.
Ok, that made me laugh out loud. Here here.
Disney really needs to hire better creative people. Unfortunately for audiences and fortunately for Disney, this will probably end up doing ok, as the masses like a spectacle.
But maybe there’s a glimmer of hope this will bomb big on the level of BATTLEFIELD EARTH.
Jinx. You owe me a Coke.