![]() The other nifty thing about Runaways is that all the super-powered elements are really, really cool. The Marvel Universe stands out when everyday problems (such as teenage homelessness) run smack-bang into impossible things (such as The Incredible Hulk). The kids argue, make-up and inevitably bond, becoming not simply a team of heroes but a family 2. Runaways is a rites-of-passage tale with a heavy focus on emotional journeys and personal revelation. Original, fun and refreshing, but still very Marvel. With any luck, she’ll team up with Mulan and kick the arses of the rest of them, drilling some self-reliance, confidence and self respect into Ariel, Belle and the rest. Asylum got there first.Ĥ: Hey, this is a Disney movie? With a princess? I demand that Dejah Thoris be added to the list of Disney Princesses. ![]() #BARSOOM AND FLASH GORDON MOVIE#Thing is, that would also be misleading, as the movie is broadly based on the first Barsoom book, Princess of Mars.ģ: It’s worth pointing out that this isn’t the first time the book has been adapted. Flat can be fun, if the rest of the world is vivid and interesting.Ģ: Much has been made of the fact that the movie is not called John Carter of Mars. Critics pan the Twilight novels for a rather flat female lead whilst conveniently forgetting the vast army of near-perfect male heroes in all sorts of fiction aimed for boys. The sad fact is that by making a movie that would appeal to a larger market, they’ve cut away the true strangeness of the original work (which is just under a 100-years old), and we are left with a movie that fails to excite the average non-geek and merely teases the truly nerdy amongst it with a vision of what was almost great.ġ: Lot’s of pulp-action heroes are relatively simply drawn. This is a true fantasy movie, and the books that inspired it have been huge influence on more familar films elements of the Barsoom books can be found in big chunks of American Fantasy and Sci-Fi stories from Superman to Flash Gordon, from Star Trek to Star Wars.ĭoes John Carter does its legacy justice? Yes, just about. He’s eye candy and carries the story forward the way he’s supposed to, by being a proxy for the viewer. Sadly, the actress cast for the role is pretty rather than strange-looking, but the performance is powerful and the character is strong and independent, as it should be.Īs for John Carter himself? Meh. The martian princess 4, who is essentially the central character, is interesting and engaging. The four-armed, green skinned Tharks, on which much of the original story revolves, are interesting and likeable. He story reads like a pulp magazine yarn mixing space travel and classic swashbuckling themes, to the point where the characters even fight with swords, bringing to mind the adventures of Flash Gordon, or the Barsoom stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs.Brought to you by the man who invented Tarzan. ![]() However, in the last line it is revealed to be anything but that. #BARSOOM AND FLASH GORDON DOWNLOAD#Download cover art Download CD case insert Despoilers of the Golden EmpireĪ handful of men, and an incredible adventure-a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! The story appears to be about an expedition through space to a planet inhabited by a civilized but technologically backward people, whom the expedition conquer. ![]()
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