Yes, God forbid they cast a man who is attractive to women.
Looks good to me, but I don’t have a childhood ideal that it has to live up to, nor do I expect a movie full of naked women to be made for a general audience.
It ain’t the part. John Carter is invincible. That’s his thing. If he’s beautiful, the books never mention it.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I won’t be nitpicking anything watching it.
John Carter was never described as a giant muscleman. He occasionally tinted his Jasoomian skin red, called himself Dotar Sojac, and passed as a normal Barsoomian.
In addition to this, Frank E. Schoonover’s original illustrations for A Princess Of Mars depict Carter as far from some musclebound hulk:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Princess_of_Mars_large.jpg.
and here for the interior plates:
http://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0421.html
I wonder if the original readers complained about the abundance of clothes in these illustrations as well.
I could be wrong, but it looks like the art direction of the movie has taken at least a little inspiration from these original illustrations.
OB
Well whether they complained or not, the original text made it clear that Martians of both sexes often ran around in a state Earth people would describe as “pretty much nekkid.” We get to deal with the fact that Disney and quite a few others ignore that part of the text, you get to deal with the fact that the book calls for nudity. Nobody wins!
Even recognizing that the movie would never get made (or at least not widely distributed) with actual nudity like is described in the book, there’s still a lot more room for bare skin short of the danger line. A lot of the illustrators for the book covers have designed filigree jewelry for Deejah Thoris that just happens to barely cover her nipples, or weapon harnesses for John with built-in jock straps.
nitpick: Dotar Sojat.
and once he claimed to be the Sultan Of Swat 
Ok, I only read the first book, but I thought his speed and strength on Mars was due to the lower gravity? He might have been in above average physical condition for a human but this “greatest warrior in Earth history and quite literally an immortal god” seems a bit exaggerated. Maybe Burroughs went that way in the later books, but in the first one he’s pretty clearly a normal human.
You are absolutely right, and this would be an awesome solution to the nudity issue. In fact, Princess Leia’s PG rated outfit was pretty darned skimpy in certain respects, but I see no sign that this particular movie has taken this simple and obvious path.
I’ve never read the books, but Wikipedia says that the character is 6’2" tall, and the IMDB bio says the actor is six-foot tall. So why the complaints?
Edited to add, I’m just glad that Tim Riggins got out of Texas.
No, what distinguishes Carter is that he is immortal. He does not age. He has no pre-adult memories. I am remembering wrong or coloring in my own perceptions WRT to his size; but:
Not a natural man, whatever he is.
:rolleyes: Whaddaya expect. Disney.
And 6’2", BTW, is exactly Schwarzenegger’s height.
They managed to give Ariel a clamshell bra, and that under the Disney label. Aren’t they doing this under one of their more adult labels?
I thought the Little Mermaid wore an algebra?
No, she’s an Irish mermaid (you can tell by the hair), she wears an eringobragh.
You have to sleep someitme…
You just made me snort Dr. Pepper over my keyboard!
I have faith in Andrew Stanton.
But the trailer is awful. If at the end if it they’d shown the title card for the Conan the Barbarian remake I wouldn’t have had reason to disagree.