Princess of Mars
(2009)
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Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a US soldier finds himself inexplicably transported to Mars in the midst of a war between two alien races.
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CinemaSerf
⭐ 5/10April 22, 2024
Now I did quite enjoy "John Carter" with Taylor Kitsch from 2012 but yikes what have they done to the story here? Antonio Sabato Jr in the "Carter" role makes Kitsch look like Marlon Brando. He's just dreadful. To be fair, the third-rate CGI doesn't help, nor does the pretty awful script or the fact that he is clearly there (shirt off) to complement the even less glorious talents of the eponymous character (Dejah Thoris) who seems to have based h… read the rest.
Wuchak
⭐ 6/10March 6, 2025
**_The ‘B’ version of “John Carter”_**
When a “jarhead” is injured in Afghanistan (Antonio Sabato Jr), he is used in a teleportation experiment and transferred to a planet in the Alpha Centauri stellar system. Due to the lower gravity, he has the ability to leap great distances and earns the respect of his captors, the Tharks. After meeting a human-like princess (Traci Lords), she leads them to an air-purifying station that keeps the planet ho…
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Sierbahnn
⭐ 3/10May 27, 2026
Asylum tries, poorly
I love the books by REB. I do. The Disney version (John Carter) isn't a good visual representation of that story. This is worse. So much worse. It is cheap, tacky (not just the way it looks, but how it focuses on gross stuff for a cheap laugh, uses a Leia Slave costume for our female protagonist, and so on) and just a bit soulless.
It is HARD to transform these stories into cinema. REB had a very lovely imagination, and h…
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