It might just be his humanity.

Burroughs had all his main characters (Tarzan, John, Carson, et al) pick up languages superhumanly fast in the book equivalent of a montage or time skip. It's one of the weaker points in his books, but he plays it off gracefully.

@@pills- You gotta take into account these are adventure books which are over a century old designed for a very different audience.

@@Victor-um9ce But is he human? He has been a guy of about 30 for close to a century (at least) and he is fertile with Dejah Thoris...

marcellus robinson Nice that you enjoyed it

same here, really liked it

Same here. I got it on DVD

Saw it in IMAX and loved it. Didn't see the hate it got albeit maybe the length.

Same here

Hunchback isn’t underrated. It’s generally viewed as being in the same group as the lion king, ie a movie every kid has watched. Now Atlantis: the lost empire on the other hand, that movie was great, but nobody watched it.

Carson Napier: cries

James George That seems highly possible.

James George I feel like this is one of those movies like Water World that you can definitely respect for how much they clearly tried to make a good movie and you clearly see every dollar on screen. Somewhere, there’s a universe where Pirates of the Caribbean wasn’t a success (maybe not a bomb, but just didn’t make enough to cover marketing or something) but this was. Granted, that’d also mean, by that same logic, *this* became a sluggish, overhyped mega-franchise with only one objectively good sequel and four shitty ones but take it for what it’s worth I guess.

I really do hope that like those other movies, it found a good second life. I’m pretty sure it sold A LOT of DVDs and blue ray.

All those movies are great examples except Alien. If Alien was a critical and commercial failure then it wouldn't spawn so many sequels. Including Aliens which is also a masterpiece that was a huge success.

Fun fact: It's a Wonderful Life is only a classic now due to it having been cheap to run on TV, and it running all day on Christmas. Familiarity breeds fondness.

In the book no one gets any armour... and not much in the way of clothing. Basically people just have things like belts and bandoliers but are otherwise naked. I don't recall a single character on Mars in A Princess of Mars who is described to be wearing clothing.

@@chrisflanagan7564 and most of the tharks walk around naked, the red martians wear nothing but jewelry and loincloths( think of the spartans/athenians and other Greeks in the 300 comics and movies)

@@henriquebitencourt4280 Do they even have loin cloths? I only remember mentions of belts, harnesses, and bandoleers. The Yellow Men of Mars wear furs and similar. """All were clothed in magnificent furs--the six in the black and yellow striped hide of the orluk, while he who approached alone was resplendent in the pure white skin of an apt.""" """It required but the matter of a few seconds to don the necessary orluk-skin clothing, with the heavy, fur-lined boots that are so essential a part of the garmenture of one who would successfully contend with the frozen trails and the icy winds of the bleak northland.""" Oh, here's the bit in the Gods of Mars, """Among the ornaments of Tars Tarkas' leather harness, which is the only manner of clothing worn by Martians other than silk capes and robes of silk and fur for protection from the cold after dark, was a small mirror, about the bigness of a lady's hand glass, which hung midway between his shoulders and his waist against his broad back.""" Art showing the harnesses tend to show them with a modest cloth posing pouch... which seems fair. I think it would be impractical to be running around with no covering at all... but... *shrug* Certainly when John Carter shows up from on Mars for the first time he is actually naked, and no-one comments on it, so they've clearly no concerns or taboos in that regard. Dejah's first appearance. """She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure. """ And when Dejah and Carter are talking about Earth she calls clothing "strange and unsightly" """"If, then, you are so familiar with earthly things," I asked, "why is it that you do not recognize me as identical with the inhabitants of that planet?" She smiled again as one might in bored indulgence of a questioning child. "Because, John Carter," she replied, "nearly every planet and star having atmospheric conditions at all approaching those of Barsoom, shows forms of animal life almost identical with you and me; and, further, Earth men, almost without exception, cover their bodies with strange, unsightly pieces of cloth, and their heads with hideous contraptions the purpose of which we have been unable to conceive; while you, when found by the Tharkian warriors, were entirely undisfigured and unadorned. "The fact that you wore no ornaments is a strong proof of your un-Barsoomian origin, while the absence of grotesque coverings might cause a doubt as to your earthliness."""" Project Guttenberg has the first few Barsoom books www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62 www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48 I should track down the rest.

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You must have hated all 200 Tarzan movies where the man was exploited by wearing less clothing than the women. I'll file this under "how ignorami figure out if a movie is any good." It's really sad that there are people like you who are incapable of judging anything by the content of it's character and have to rely on judging everything based on physical appearance.

H.D Beird Yup

I remember how fucking lame the marketing made this look. I then saw the movie itself, and was blown away at the time. Its an underrated gem, despite all the issues surrounding its creation.

Yeah, I don’t know why this guy attributes all of these problems to Stanton.

Pretty sure the newly acquired Marvel and Star Wars team had something to do with it.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers that episode of the Tarzan show.

@@masteroftheassassins Indeed, fellow fan. Such an underrated show.

@@Alejandroigarabide Yeah. And I really wish they would put it on Disney+ already

@@masteroftheassassins Yeah. What's up with that? They have the original movie, Tarzan 2, Tarzan and Jane (wich is the whole season 2 of the show) but not the show? To my knowledge it doesn't have any problematic stuff nor is tied to any other streaming service or channel. The same with the Aladdin series. My wife and I had to acquire them elsewhere in order to marathon both shows.

If that's the case then, I want a time machine.

Thunder Goku maybe

Thunder Goku mabey

Or a TV series. There's a table top RPG out that seems really fun. :-)

William Sullivan An anime series would be great. This is an Isekai after all.

@@TheFLAMEXD My brother really wants it as an isekai, but he's bummed it isn't a harem.

nigel le maitre SAME!!

I think Disney wanted to use the property as their next big Sci Fi franchise, so it made sense to do it live action.

crazymaner2003 disney keeps pushing ruined remake after live action ruined remake, but what if they did the reverse and made an animated remake of this? Then the technical limitations would no longer be an issue

Its a prestige thing. And its a issue with what animated action is perceived as. The idea was to take John Carter of Mars, and make it into something as big as Star Wars, since it already has a huge footprint. The Crux is that a gory 19th century New World novel can't freely just be a Pixar project, for no reason other than perception. It worked wonders for Gantz.

He didn't do anything wrong. It's great.

And then go read Burrough's Carson Napier books. If you can find them. They're probably some of ERB's best but most overlooked books.

Hey, I love a lot of bad movies too. I just don't feel the need to defend and instead just accept that sometimes, I find awful movies entertaining. 13th warrior for example.

@@RandomPlaceHolderName but it's really not a bad movie tho

Ezelion the Ironclad captain marvel or shazam?

Actually, flight was added for the 1942 Fleischer Studios Superman shorts. It was easier to animate flight, and much cooler to see than him jumping over buildings.

Frank Bowman captain marvel was his original name. Shazam was the wizard and calling the hero that makes him look stupid. Though i do know national (dc at the time) and fawcett had several lawsuits over it, fawcett won multiple times, but went bankrupt from the lawsuits and was absorbed by dc.

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I rarely do anymore. Except on the dceu (minus shazam and wonder woman), those are mostly right though maybe should be lower

Wizard of Oz and Princess Bride were sleeper hits

Finally someone who feel the same way I do! John Carter is also my favourite movie. The other critical and box office disaster by Disney The Lone Ranger is my second favourite film.

General audiences were not given the proper chance with the shitty marketing.

Yeah, audiences loved it. Corporate, media and critics didn't.

Hmmm, i need to look that up on TvTropes...

@@pills- Hero With A Thousand Faces. It's kind of the holy grail of stories. So long as you don't misread it and think it's about structure.

Will Lyon The bizarre fan theory expands!

BanditIncorporated BANDIT!!!

I would love for Rogue to do an Ender's Game review!

Yeah I saw that, I can't wait for him to do that. I feel the book was grossly inaccurate, I mean it left out the f***ing Locke and Demosthenes plot line!

Supreme Leader Smeagol ikr! I loved the Locke and Demosthenes story, and I was disappointed when I saw the movie that it wasn't included :(! ( Great username btw lol!)

Seamus Malloy hahaha thanks!

If your looking for an adaptation reviewer who did that I suggest the Dom

BennysBenz Yeah since Andrew Stanton was a Pixar guy, why not make it a Pixar film? Many people would've watched it in theaters just cause it was pixar!

They actually tried multiple times. One actually predates Snow White but was cut off mid production because the animator wasn’t a fan of the result. ERB even tried funding animation a second time but it didn’t get picked up. The Barsoom series has struggled to get a Hollywood adaptation live action or animated for such a long time. There’s a great book by a former Hollywood exec called John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood. It’s really sad because it’s so clear that even with the film’s failure, the actors and the production team really enjoyed working on it and that’s also why I fell in love with this film. It’s also how (at least up until the Martian) Mars is associated with movie flops with the failure of Mars Needs Moms just a year earlier.

Jack D That would be interesting

I think he has. Dante’s inferno had the game adaptation and the book and movie.

I agree. This movie could've gotten away with ignoring it because the books themselves were action/adventure stories, not hard science stories. Logical explanations were of little concern.

I hope the film. I still mostly like the film in spite of it being a kinda bad adaptation. The netflix series is mostly ok, but i hate,hate, haaaaaaate how much they force more down your throat how fake the disguised are than they ever did in the book to the point that the villains look half incompetent