[ecramer]

40 years ago I  read book and fell in love. Now its coming to the big screen.
between John Carter, tarzan, and Conan ive spent many happy hours. Hope they get it right. Cant wait. The trailer got me excited

[ecramer]

Went to see John Carter on  Saturday with my dad and my grandson. we all agreed it was good. they spent a lot of time having JC leap around when they could have something  more interesting once u have seen him leap from one building to the next u sen it. this story has the same basic premise as superman  high gravity to low gravity means ur stronger. i felt there was inconsistency in JC's abilities the cgi was great. the story line could used a little fleshing out. ERB wrote this in installments in  All-Story Magazine starting in February 1912  what a visionary. for that i love it. If u like sci-fi u need to see it on t he big screen

[wilsynet]

I liked it much more than I thought I would.  Not bad, probably one of the better movies out there right now.

[kip_]

It looks like an interesting movie, and I'll certainly buy or netflix it on Bluray, but it's going to be one of the biggest money losers in disney history.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/03/john-carter-could-lose-165-million-analyst-projects.html

[Barry_NJ]

It looks like an interesting movie, and I'll certainly buy or netflix it on Bluray, but it's going to be one of the biggest money losers in disney history.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/03/john-carter-could-lose-165-million-analyst-projects.html

I think many more people, like me, are doing their movie viewing on disks theses days, and those $s aren't calculated during a movie's initial run at the BO. It'll be interesting to see hw it does once those $s are factored in.

[Rob Babcock]

I agree with you 100%, Barry.  For starters, ticket sales in the rest of the world will surely kick in many millions more.  Video really is huge.  I have to wonder how long it will be before the studios are simulcasting films to theaters and homes.  It seems inevitable, and the window between the theatrical release and the DVD/BR is getting shorter all the time.

I'm really eager to see the movie!  Maybe I can catch a late showing after class on Thurs.

[ptmconsulting]

The press is calling this the modern day Ishtar. Not sure how much is really added by video sales when you can rent it from Redbox for a dollar once it comes out.

[Rob Babcock]

I've never rented a DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, not once in my life.

[Airborn]

I've never rented a DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, not once in my life.
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[Rob Babcock]

If something looked good I usually bought it.  At the peak of my DVD collecting I had maybe 700 or so although if I kept every one I've ever bought the number would be twice that.  Since returning to school I don't watch movies very often; I just don't have nearly so much time as I used to and I'm allotting that time for different things.  But I am slowly building up a collection of Blu-Ray discs.

Another answer is that I also watch some stuff that's streamed.

[thunderbrick]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/business/disney-writedown-john-carter/index.html?hpt=hp_t3   

[ctviggen]

If something looked good I usually bought it.  At the peak of my DVD collecting I had maybe 700 or so although if I kept every one I've ever bought the number would be twice that.  Since returning to school I don't watch movies very often; I just don't have nearly so much time as I used to and I'm allotting that time for different things.  But I am slowly building up a collection of Blu-Ray discs.

Another answer is that I also watch some stuff that's streamed.

I used to do that, but then I realized that I watched many of them once, then never again.  Either the movie is complete garbage, or it's great but I have no desire to sit through it twice (Slumdog Millionaire comes to mind).  Now, I rent until I find something I want to buy.

[Barry_NJ]

I used to be adverse to renting when a rental about 30% of the cost of ownership, now that I can rent a movie on BD for under $2, I'll usually do that before I buy.

As for RedBox hurting revenues, they have to buy every disk they rent out, and I wouldn't be surprised if a percentage of each rental was also kicked back to the studios...

[eclein]

John Carter was an awesome scifi adventure, I got it yesterday and watched it twice...LOL. I only buy good sci-fi or incredible special effect movies....I also rent Blu-rays from Netflix- 2 at a time/plus Streaming at $25ish a month. I figured it out once because I get one, watch it, send it back everyday almost as I'm here at home most days and watch movies all the time. Its like 4 or 5 a week plus streaming so it costs me pennies to watch a film- new ones are in my ques and old stuff I stream through my PS3.

 Now my situation is not typical obviously, for me its a no brainer.

[JohnR]

I rented JC of Mars for the second time this week. At one level, the SFX are obviously awesome. I actually missed this the first time, perhaps we are so accustomed now to awesome SFX that we don't see it unless the story supports it... and I suppose that's it, I couldn't understand why I just went Meh the first time and returned the disc. The second time around I tried to "gel" with the movie and did some reading around and inevitably the comparisons with Avatar came up. As cheesy as some elements of Avatar are, the fact is that you could have (in the movie) killed any of the Tharc and it would have been ho-hum and that would not have been the same for A. And who was fighting who? It was hard to identify with any of the "sides" in JC, whereas in A it was basically impossible to avoid. So, gee, one for the history books again. Not that I didn't enjoy watching it and reading up on the background story to it, and that's perhaps the most interesting part.

[ss397]

I really enjoyed this movie and have watched it 3 times. I may buy it. I can see watching it more. This was widely reported to be a box office bomb and I am sorry it failed. It may mean they won't make more movies this good and stick to the comic book themes that dominate these days.

[wushuliu]

Interesting. I got it from Netflix and turned it off after 10min. The editing and acting was so awful I gave up. Maybe I'll give it another go down the road.

[Rob Babcock]

I will try to see it eventually, when I have time.  I like the cast at least.